Anyone here prefer to watch more realistic war movies

[Ganger]

Just took the idea of making this thread from another thread. Anyway, I have reached a stage in life were I prefer to watch more realistic films over movies that are just unbelievable to a the point I will switch off.

Some examples of realistic movies im talking about are films such as 'saving private ryan', 'dunkirk', '1917', 'platoon', 'soldier sailor tinker spy', 'das boot', 'letters from Iwo jima', these type of films.

Clearly these movies like most are made up and there are many inaccurate scenes but in general they feel more real to me personally than say other war movies such as 'pearl harbor', 'U-571', 'Battle of the bulge' or 'behind enemy lines'. I can't even watch these films anymore because they just hurt my brain.

As for 80's macho man one man army films such as rambo or commando don't even deserve to be called war movies.

[Fake]

Forward Unto Dawn was a pretty good war film about a group of trainees being thrust into war.

[Electric Cupcake]

Don't ever speak of that offensive Pearl Harbor abomination.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0n4piGt_VU is in my top 10 of all time.

[Electric Cupcake]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd0bqLQrtdE Needs more love. Even if it's equal parts historical and legend. Top movie of the 00s. Nolan Batman aint got crap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26EivpCPHnQ

[AdahnGorion]

No such thing as a realistic war movie out there.
They are all biased.

War.. War is gritty.. its not just,unjust, its not good/evil,.. its just.. war.. a struggle for survival

[L1qu1dator]

I don't mind both.
Stalingrad being favourite.

[L1qu1dator]

Postat inițial de Darkie:

No such thing as a realistic war movie out there.
They are all biased.

War.. War is gritty.. its not just,unjust, its not good/evil,.. its just.. war.. a struggle for survival

I don't think Stalingrad was biased.

[Radene]

If you want realistic, you don't movie, you book. A particular book, to be exact.

Colin Forbes: Tramp in Armour.

[Ganger]

Postat inițial de Radene:

If you want realistic, you don't movie, you book. A particular book, to be exact.

Colin Forbes: Tramp in Armour.

I read one book many years ago about a german soldier who served on the eastern front and who later became a luftwaffe pilot (don't have a clue on the book name). One detail was when he was a infantry soldier on the eastern front, he noted that he always had too walked to and from the front lines and that the USSR was just endless.

Another chapter talks about the weeks of boredom of just sitting there waiting for the soviets to attack or to attack them and that another point he mention that movies never show is that when a battle starts, not all soldiers are fighting at the same time.

May be hard too grasp from movies but he also mentions that he was about 600 metres away from a group of soldiers who were fighting the soviets while his squad was just sat there doing nothing all battle, just smoking and chatting.

What stuck out for me was when the squad was bombed and half of them were buried alive including himself, it described the terror in such detail that no film can.

[Grendalcat]

OP I like all the movies you mentioned in the second paragraph. And I feel pretty much the same way, regarding not wasting my time watching less realistic movies. For example, it disappoints me greatly when an incorrect tank or airplane is portrayed. Such as German soldiers using American type tanks with black + painted on the sides.

In general, I think war movies should at least make an attempt to portray the horror of war.
Otherwise it just becomes glamorizing propaganda.

[Introverted Gamer]

Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence was a pretty cool war movie.

[Ganger]

Postat inițial de Grendalcat:

For example, it disappoints me greatly when an incorrect tank or airplane is portrayed. Such as German soldiers using American type tanks with black + painted on the sides.

check this out... cursed movie tanks in movies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OL4CBFl99k

[Emilio]

If you can tolerate watching a movie in Danish then A War (Kriget) is a great movie about war crime. Highly recommended if you like more realistic types of war movies.

[agu]

I'd rather watch documentaries

[Grendalcat]

Postat inițial de Ganger:

Postat inițial de Grendalcat:

For example, it disappoints me greatly when an incorrect tank or airplane is portrayed. Such as German soldiers using American type tanks with black + painted on the sides.

check this out... cursed movie tanks in movies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OL4CBFl99k

Yes that is exactly what I mean. I don't mind if the filmmakers used a fake that looks authentic,
but when they don't try very hard to conceal what the vehicle actually is, meh.

Such as this American Patton tank masquerading as a Tiger II, from The Battle of the Bulge.

http://pics.imcdb.org/0is208/tankbgyv0.3812.jpg

[Radene]

Postat inițial de Ganger:

Postat inițial de Radene:

If you want realistic, you don't movie, you book. A particular book, to be exact.

Colin Forbes: Tramp in Armour.

I read one book many years ago about a german soldier who served on the eastern front and who later became a luftwaffe pilot (don't have a clue on the book name). One detail was when he was a infantry soldier on the eastern front, he noted that he always had too walked to and from the front lines and that the USSR was just endless.

Another chapter talks about the weeks of boredom of just sitting there waiting for the soviets to attack or to attack them and that another point he mention that movies never show is that when a battle starts, not all soldiers are fighting at the same time.

May be hard too grasp from movies but he also mentions that he was about 600 metres away from a group of soldiers who were fighting the soviets while his squad was just sat there doing nothing all battle, just smoking and chatting.

What stuck out for me was when the squad was bombed and half of them were buried alive including himself, it described the terror in such detail that no film can.

Tramp in Armour is about a single British tank getting caught behind enemy lines on the Western front, and, while trying to make its way back to the Allied side, having to deal with a lot of war stuff that isn't frontline battles along the way.

It can be pretty sobering at times. For example, the tank's gunner (I think) dying of a wound caused by a disgruntled leader of a looter gang after the squad tried to stop them from, well, looting.