I'm talking a meat and potatoes movie, not pansy shit that's like "war is a metaphor". No Come and See or Apocalypse Now. More like Saving Private Ryan or Black Hawk Down.I want a movie I can show my dad, something that we'll finish together and he'll be like "good movie son" and I'll be like "thanks dad"The kind of movie that will make us feel as though we've been through something together, something that will make us feel close, something powerful and beautiful.The kind of movie that, when it's over, you sit in silence together, reliving the moments of the film but also knowing how close you are to each other, how your thighs are nearly touching, how neither one wants to break the silence but neither wants the unspoken moment to be broken.The kind of film that, when your father says "goodnight son" and you say "goodnight dad", the two of you feel entwined together for the shared experience, as though no one has ever felt the depths of the moment you two shared together. The kind of film where that goodnight almost feels like an invitation, but not quite, yet it's left hanging there as an enticing promise of something more, something the future may lead to, something so beautiful and magical that it's impossible to label it with a single word.What kind of war film would you suggest to watch?
>>219261713Jungle Cruise
>>219261713https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQWj26605gc
War of the Buttons
how about Saving Private Ryan or Black Hawk Down
>>219261713Fury
>>219261713Stalingrad (2013)
>>219261713The Great Escape
Definitely don't show your dad The Thin Red Line.
>>219262127Gay shit>>219261713Kwai is always good
My grandfather, who was actually there, said it was nothing like the movie. All he could see was the sand under his feet, and the sound of his friends falling dead beside him. One bullet, and I would not be here to post this.
>>219261713Zulu!
>>219261713sahara 1995
>>219262745Don’t do it. Don’t fall for the memes. Your dad won’t like it, he’ll just wonder why his son put naked Africans on his television
>>219262588>Kwai is always goodIndeed, it was playing one Christmas when I was visiting my parents and we watched it. Fantastic film.
>>219262745Too racist. My dad supports BLM.
>>219262588>>219262918The Bridge On The River Kwai is a can’t miss rec for sure. Great movie
>>219262127came to say this
>>219262727a shame that didn't happen
>>219263019A Lean night
Kelly's Heroes is great! Clint Eastwood is the top billing but Donald Sutherland steals the show.
>>219261791The Final Countdown is goodUnder Siege (not a war movie but it's on a battleship)
>>219262990Brokeback Mountain
>>219262727My grandfather was there too. 3rd wave. He said the French girls were ready for sex and they welcomed big american dick. Needless to say, I'm 4/8 French.
>>219263409Kelly’s Heroes rules. Sutherland’s anachronistic pirate-hippy tank commander was awesome. The whole movie was awesome.
The Great Escape?
Stalag 17
>>219263720I was just about to post this as well. It's my all-time top 20. Such an excellent movie.
>>219263378Dr. Zhivago, Brief Encounter, and The Bridge on the River Kwai
>>219263409Came here to suggest this, Kelly's Heroes is a peak "watch with your dad" war movie.
>>219263551It really was just the 1st wave guys who had to experience what Saving Private Ryan depicts. They didn't really take the beach for hours
Sisu and Sisu 2
>>219263284Why? It's melodramatic trash.>>219261713Hamburger Hill.
>>219265836>Hamburger Hill What I remember about it is that it just kind of ends once they take the hill. Most of the movie is just Americans dying
>>219261713Do a marathon of the ultra-long, early 90's Gettysburg movie. It has Martin Sheen, Tom Berenger, Jeff Daniels, and a bunch of other recognizable actors from that time. It's really good from start of battle to the end.
>>219261713Master and Commander.
>>219261713>What's a good war film to watch with your dad?All of them. Even the bad ones.
>>219268763Why? It's not like the Americans are portrayed as super heroic or anything. Or that the Nazis are portrayed as evil.
>>219262745Ironically, we're now experiencing the exact opposite of this
>>219261713Stalingrad (1993)
>>219262745every time I see this webm I can't help but think of that scene in Blackadder Goes Forth where he talks about figting off deadly Africans armed with cantaloupes
>>219268698my dad fell asleep watching this last summer, although to be fair at 71 I don't blame him falling asleep halfway through anything we watch, dudes tired.
WingsTwelve O'clock High Maybe Battle of BritainBlokes like planes, it's in our nature
>>219261713Battle of the Bulge (1965)The Dirty Dozen
>>219274419Also kino, have watched that a few times with my father and brother.
>>219262727Real life is never like the movies. Picrel was based on the autobiographical writings of a war journalist who died in combat during WWII and imo it at least captures the spirit of army life and the feeling of being a disposable piece of garbage who lives at the bottom of a mountain of shit and the guys up top won’t stop tossing more of it down on you etc… If still has some of the inescapable war movie tropes of overly theatrical combat etc… but that’s inescapable
Taegukgi
>>219261713The one with Clint Eastwood at ww2 it solid dadkino, war horse is kind of okay for something newer. I bet there's a few more but you'd have an easier time picking westerns
>>219261713Happiness
>>219261713It's not a war movie but you should watch The Wild Bunch with him. I watched it with my dad and when it ended instead of popping up saying "that was good" and going to bed like he always does, he sat in silence til the credits ended then said "that might be the best movie I've ever seen in my life."
