December 7th -
Pearl Harbor
The Final Countdown
Winds of War
Run Silent Run Deep
In Harm’s Way
Tora! Tora! Tora!
From Here to EternityJune 6 -
Ike: Countdown to D-Day
The Longest Day (1962)
The Big Red One (1980)
Red Ball Express (1952)
Saving Ryan’s Privates (1998)
Band of Brothers (2001)War movies are not my cup of tea, what would you say are the best ones? Or if the movie starts like on a previous day, you can also adjust the date to fit in the list.
I may get flack for this but I think despite SPR being more realistic in it’s D-day scenes and more shocking, overall TLD is the better movie because it focuses on the real events of D-day and not on some stupid made up, feel good mission to save a Hollywood pretty that any officer who approved it in any military in world history would fired or court marshaled with in thirty seconds or giving the order.
In that case if you are going to pick between the two and you choose SPR switch it off as soon as the D-Day scenes are done as it becomes insultingly stupid after that. It’s like Speilberge shot one movie, then in editing saw that it was only as long as a short film and so he went back and shot a completely different film with one member of the short film’s cast and spliced them together to make one movie long enough to release.
Say what you will about TLD(and a lot of part of it have not aged well)it at least seemed to know what story it was trying to tell and was made by people who did their best to try and tell that story and most of it’s problems come from early 1960s censorship rules.