I dont know if anyone is as into them as I am...

[Shawn]

But...


Here are some damn good war movies and/or books to pick up



Books:
Tim O'Brien - The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien - If I Die in a Combat Zone
Joe Weber - Rules of Engagement
Stephen Wright - The Other Side of Heaven
Rebecca West - Return of the Soldier
Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front
Joseph Heller - Catch 22
Norman Mailer - The Naked and the Dead


Movies:
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
Apocolypse Now
Command Decision
Saving Private Ryan
Patton








give me some more good ones.

[Shizzle]

LoL @ you for not mention Lord of the Rings.

[Shawn]

c3ll ph0n3d.

[pale666]

Funny you made this thread, cause it's ANZAC DAY tomorrow. I have read a few Australian war novels based on Gallipoli and the Kokoda trail. There is actually a really heavy film coming out soon called Kokoda, based on the gruelling months the Australians spent trying to keep the Japanese out of New Guinea (which they did totally outnumbered). It looks intense.

Favourite war books:

Blood and Water (by Sidney Sheldon)
The Cage (by Joseph F. Fanning)
and...
Gallipoli (by Alan Moorehead)

Top 3 favourites right there.

[Shawn]

hmm... almost all of my books and movies are american. I've yet to really go outside of the American Boundaries. How is The Cage? I've heard good things (I didn't think it was Australian though?)

[pale666]

hmm... almost all of my books and movies are american. I've yet to really go outside of the American Boundaries. How is The Cage? I've heard good things (I didn't think it was Australian though?)

It's an auto-biography styled novel based on an english-men's time in the Viet-war. It's fucking awesome, one of the few war novels that I can actually remember down to the finest detail actually.
[spolier V]
He get's captured by the vietcong and get's put into a cage, escapes... lives off the bush for just under a month, returns home and get's captured by corrupt police and goes insane and the ending just blows you away.

[Shawn]

sounds awesome. I'll check it out

[KaffeinE]

Good war book: The Harry Turtledove books about World War 1, as it would have happened if the Confederate States of America has able to win the American Civil War.

[pale666]

That's a pretty cool story to write about. Everything would be alot different today if that were the case.

[RyanFelix]

Band of Brothers.

Definitely one of the best HBO series' out there. I own it, and I've watched it from start to finish at least 10 times. Especially awesome if you're a wwII buff like I am \m/.

Saving Private Ryan is fucking awesome. same with Enemy At The Gates.

[DeathIsIn...]

THE THIN RED LINE.

[pale666]

Band of Brothers.

Definitely one of the best HBO series' out there. I own it, and I've watched it from start to finish at least 10 times. Especially awesome if you're a wwII buff like I am \m/.

Saving Private Ryan is fucking awesome. same with Enemy At The Gates.

I actually LOL'd when David Schwimmer appeared randomly in a few scenes. He was the commanding General or something high like that wasn't he?
I remember when that aired about 2 years ago, I would make sure my night was free so I could sit down and glue my eyes to it. Fucking awesome mini-series!

[RyanFelix]

Yeah, Scwhimmer plays Captain Sobel...Easy Company's captain. He's the biggest fucking douchebag in that series, hahaha.

[BZM]

THIN RED FUCKING LINE

probably the best war movie ever, but hardest to digest.

[pale666]

THIN RED FUCKING LINE

probably the best war movie ever, but hardest to digest.
that is true.
It has such a solid lineup with celebrities, but it's just so weird and tends to stay on one scene for so long without hardly seeing the enemy till the very end.