Favorite War Movies

[Bort]

Is there a separate thread for favorite submarine war movies?

The Enemy Below
Run Silent, Run Deep
Das Boot

All three of these are awesome.  The first two, if Gil hasn't seen them, he needs to.  They'll remind him of a famous episode from his all time favorite show.

Balance of Terror is the greatest episode of the original Star Trek, bar none. It's that, The City on the Edge of Forever, Mirror Mirror, and then a bunch of crap.

And after all that crap, there's the hippie episode.  Which is crap to the power of crap.

1. Balance of Terror
2. City on the Edge of Forever
3. Mirror, Mirror
4. The Doomsday Machine
5. Amok Time
6. The Enterprise Incident

The rest I could give two shits about. Never saw the appeal to the Trouble With Tribbles, although the Trials and Tribble-ations episode of DS9 was a pretty sweet tribute.

Tribbles is fun, but not actually good.

The only thing I hate more than Hippies? Space Hippies.

[Chuck to Chuck]

Is there a separate thread for favorite submarine war movies?

The Enemy Below
Run Silent, Run Deep
Das Boot

All three of these are awesome.  The first two, if Gil hasn't seen them, he needs to.  They'll remind him of a famous episode from his all time favorite show.

Balance of Terror is the greatest episode of the original Star Trek, bar none. It's that, The City on the Edge of Forever, Mirror Mirror, and then a bunch of crap.

And after all that crap, there's the hippie episode.  Which is crap to the power of crap.

1. Balance of Terror
2. City on the Edge of Forever
3. Mirror, Mirror
4. The Doomsday Machine
5. Amok Time
6. The Enterprise Incident

The rest I could give two shits about. Never saw the appeal to the Trouble With Tribbles, although the Trials and Tribble-ations episode of DS9 was a pretty sweet tribute.

Corbomite Maneuver is very good, too.

[Gilgamesh]

I don't want to derail this great thread, but I completely agree with SKO's list.

Also, watch DS9.  Best Trek ever.

[SKO]

I don't want to derail this great thread, but I completely agree with SKO's list.

Also, watch DS9.  Best Trek ever.

It's hard to agree. I totally agree that, content wise, DS9 was the best and the scale of what they did is astounding, but I don't see how anything can top the cast of TNG. The difference was the story arcs. Rodenberry and Berman had control of TNG and really didn't want long, overarching story arcs. Every episode had to essentially be a new adventure. Ronald D. Moore (the guy that made the new Battlestar Galactica, I believe) had pretty much free reign since Berman focused on Voyager, and he tried some pretty intense shit. Hard to top the Dominion War, but I still love the TNG characters and I would have liked to have seen what the TNG writers could have done without Rodenberry and then Berman scrutinizing their every move.

[Richard Chuggar]

Ninja Assassin.

[flannj]

I don't want to derail this great thread, but I completely agree with SKO's list.

Also, watch DS9.  Best Trek ever.

It's hard to agree. I totally agree that, content wise, DS9 was the best and the scale of what they did is astounding, but I don't see how anything can top the cast of TNG. The difference was the story arcs. Rodenberry and Berman had control of TNG and really didn't want long, overarching story arcs. Every episode had to essentially be a new adventure. Ronald D. Moore (the guy that made the new Battlestar Galactica, I believe) had pretty much free reign since Berman focused on Voyager, and he tried some pretty intense shit. Hard to top the Dominion War, but I still love the TNG characters and I would have liked to have seen what the TNG writers could have done without Rodenberry and then Berman scrutinizing their every move.

I've got to agree with SKO as well regarding the TNG characters, Marina Sirtis excuded.
Easy to look at but a terrible actress.

And I positive any episode with Q.

[Yeti]

Anyone see Talvisota or Come and See?

I'm having issues finding Talvisota on Netflix.

[CBStew]

I just saw the 1998 version of The Thin Red LIne on the IFC channel.  I don't know why I never saw this in a theater.  I am sorry that I didn't.  No plot, just  the deadly grind of war and the seemingly endless supply of its victims.  It renewed my respect for Nick Nolte as an actor.  I can also understand why Jim Caviezel was cast as Christ in the Passion of the Christ 6 years after this movie was made. 

[Wheezer]

Cold War movies:

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Well, I'm doing Strategic Air Command, in which Dutch Holland moves from third to the mound and there are a lot of B-36 shots or something, to keep glued together tonight. Sky King, do not answer.

[Edit.--Oh. My. G-d. It's soft-core bomber porn with a soundtrack and plot to match. Do not do this.]