Best War and Action movies.
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I really like
Where Eagles Dare
Guns of Navarone
Enemy at the gates
Where Eagles Dare
Guns of Navarone
Enemy at the gates
Small Lady
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Top Gun.
Too many to list. My wife thinks I'm a war movie junkie. She's correct.
Top few would be:
Saving Private Ryan
We Were Soldiers
American Sniper
Top few would be:
Saving Private Ryan
We Were Soldiers
American Sniper
birddog 68
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crashlanding
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Another good watch on Netflix is "the outpost"
Hugnot
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Thanks for this thread!
My favorite movie is - Trading Places.
Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd , Ralph Bellamy, Jamie Lee Curtis - lots of action without bombs & bullets but gets into financial & class warfare.
A somewhat convoluted story. Winthrop (Dan Aykroyd) is defamed by the Dukes brothers (Ralph Bellamy & Don Ameche) & reduced to human rubble & replaced by Valentine, a black street guy (Eddie Murphie). Ophelia, a nice hooker lady (Jamie Lee Curtis) restores Winthrop, enabling him to fight (war) the Dukes brothers on the stock exchange.
This now gets into "short sales". The Dukes, using disinformation, create an impression that orange juice values will drop to new lows and borrow $ to buy huge amounts of OJ futures. Winthrop, a real smart guy despite being an elite, sees thru all this and scrounges up enough cash to buy large amount of OJ futures. Finally, the orange harvest is better than normal, OJ values are high, & the Dukes are forced to pay up their loan at ending high values. The Dukes cannot pay up & are kicked out of the stock exchange in disgrace. Winthrop pays back his group's futures loan by low value futures & reaps a huge harvest$.
This gets into my family's situation. My aged mother bought a large amount of shares in her brother in-law's company. I, having some insight into the company's doings had suspicions. I am no Winthrop in all aspects, but I smelled bad stuff. I read a glowing company report produced at year end & smelled bad stuff & sold out the whole works, taking a minor capital gain tax hit. Sure enough, the following year, the company's stock fell to record lows, the worst drop in Nasdaq history. Imagine the $ harvested, stock future loans paid back in shares bought at some 12% of ending low values (share to share pay back). Imagine the damage done to unwary investors -$$$$. These company guys would make the Duke brothers look like inept fools. The stock exchange kicked the company out, but the damage was done. My mom's brother in-law quit the company & was bought out with $$$ before this. Very sly operators took control.
I liked Trading Places, the good guys won.
I usually avoid war movies, but I sat thru American Sniper. One scene sticks into my mind is when our guy shoots an enemy under the engagement rules - enemy armed & a threat. Don't know for sure, but I'm guessing the bad guy was killed with a .300WM shooting 190 Si MK's with closed tips. Big blood splash on masonry behind the enemy.
My favorite movie is - Trading Places.
Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd , Ralph Bellamy, Jamie Lee Curtis - lots of action without bombs & bullets but gets into financial & class warfare.
A somewhat convoluted story. Winthrop (Dan Aykroyd) is defamed by the Dukes brothers (Ralph Bellamy & Don Ameche) & reduced to human rubble & replaced by Valentine, a black street guy (Eddie Murphie). Ophelia, a nice hooker lady (Jamie Lee Curtis) restores Winthrop, enabling him to fight (war) the Dukes brothers on the stock exchange.
This now gets into "short sales". The Dukes, using disinformation, create an impression that orange juice values will drop to new lows and borrow $ to buy huge amounts of OJ futures. Winthrop, a real smart guy despite being an elite, sees thru all this and scrounges up enough cash to buy large amount of OJ futures. Finally, the orange harvest is better than normal, OJ values are high, & the Dukes are forced to pay up their loan at ending high values. The Dukes cannot pay up & are kicked out of the stock exchange in disgrace. Winthrop pays back his group's futures loan by low value futures & reaps a huge harvest$.
This gets into my family's situation. My aged mother bought a large amount of shares in her brother in-law's company. I, having some insight into the company's doings had suspicions. I am no Winthrop in all aspects, but I smelled bad stuff. I read a glowing company report produced at year end & smelled bad stuff & sold out the whole works, taking a minor capital gain tax hit. Sure enough, the following year, the company's stock fell to record lows, the worst drop in Nasdaq history. Imagine the $ harvested, stock future loans paid back in shares bought at some 12% of ending low values (share to share pay back). Imagine the damage done to unwary investors -$$$$. These company guys would make the Duke brothers look like inept fools. The stock exchange kicked the company out, but the damage was done. My mom's brother in-law quit the company & was bought out with $$$ before this. Very sly operators took control.
I liked Trading Places, the good guys won.
I usually avoid war movies, but I sat thru American Sniper. One scene sticks into my mind is when our guy shoots an enemy under the engagement rules - enemy armed & a threat. Don't know for sure, but I'm guessing the bad guy was killed with a .300WM shooting 190 Si MK's with closed tips. Big blood splash on masonry behind the enemy.
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Hugnot
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I liked Patton, he was a talented, well educated, bi-lingual, smart warrior of the highest order.
In Harms Way.
Outdrmn
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The horse soldiers and Mars attacks
Bob Wright
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Red Dawn gets an honorable mention. Many of the above mentioned are outstanding.
41Magnum
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The Dirty Dozen
Patton
The Guns of Navarone
In Harms Way
Stalag 17
Retreat Hell ( Korean War)
to name a few…
Patton
The Guns of Navarone
In Harms Way
Stalag 17
Retreat Hell ( Korean War)
to name a few…
crashlanding
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This is walking down memory lane, so many great movies
