War Movies You Would Like To See Made

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JohnL2, get Taegukgi if you want a modern treatment of the Korean War as a brutal civil war
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Good grief Cosmoline. I thought I had my fill of war gore, but I am going to have to check it out.
I guess I have to keep my ear on the rail for foreign cinema. They have come a long way.
 
I'd like to see a movie about Billy Dixon at Adobe Walls, a decent portrayal of the Korean War, preferably a remake of Porkchop Hill (My father was there), and something about the RAF Eagle Squadrons.
 
In my experience the recent foreign films are far BETTER than the war movies Sillywood cranks out. They're not burdened with idiot superstars or that airhead Michael Bay. Plus foreign productions aren't burdened by the huge insurance costs and union/guild troubles. They can set off squibs next to the star's face without causing an underwriter to have a heart attack. That Korean flick cost a few million to make and grossed something like fifty times that worldwide, so there's a real potential for the genre. Foreign productions can also still put together a real cast of thousands instead of relying on junk CGI. The last US made war movie to ACTUALLY field an army was probably the great "Rough Riders" by our man Milius back in the mid 90's. In the commentary he mentioned the production would be completely impossible today due to the shift to digital, and of course we know what digital armies look like--junk.
 
maybe a movie about the Troubles in Ireland
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"Michael Collins" with Liam Neeson. The best part is when the IRA decides to "take the gloves off" when dealing with the "Black & Tans". At the time, I said that somebody ought to send a copy to the BATF.
 
PBR CMDR. John Kerry

Okay just for sh*ts and giggles, perhaps a movie about former presidential candidate John Kerry's exploits as a CMDR. of a Patrol Boat/River during Vietnam. We could have a ball figuring out how accurate the movie would be.:)
 
Okay just for sh*ts and giggles, perhaps a movie about former presidential candidate John Kerry's exploits as a CMDR. of a Patrol Boat/River during Vietnam. We could have a ball figuring out how accurate the movie would be.
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Been done.

F TROOP:p
 
I like to see The Day After by H.R. Clinton. A recounting of the action seen in the White House the day after the Lewinski Affair was reveiled. I hear it was a long bloody day.:cuss::fire:
 
I can't agree more with Im283. Guns of the South was an amazing book, as are many other books by Turtledove. Great reading for anybody remotely interested in the War of Northern Aggression.

Also maybe the story of the CSS Hunley. The first successful use of a submarine in combat.
 
JohnL2 said:
Yeah, the fact that "Pork Chop Hill" and "MASH" are pretty much the only movies of the Korean War is a source of consternation for me.
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My Grandpa is a Korea vet and in his house he has a little corner of the room with all of his mementos and photos and stuff from the war, and on the wall, a giant newspaper headline that says "THE FORGOTTEN WAR." He says nobody ever thinks about it anymore...the public has forgotten all about it, apparently.

Tourist: I agree about Sonny Barger. I've read his book, he is quite a character. The Hells Angels get a bad rap because of the Altamont concert with the Rolling Stones. In every single historical account I've ever read about this, they make it seem like the Angels just randomly stabbed some poor, innocent guy to death, ruined the whole concert, and symbolized the "end of the 60s" and the replacement of peace and love with violence and brutality.

The truth is this: Meredith Hunter had pulled out a loaded gun and was pointing it at the stage. If the Hells Angels had not stopped him, he probably would have shot someone to death. There were methamphetamines in Hunter's system at the time of death. He was an uncontrollable psycho who posed a grave danger to all of the concert goers and the Rolling Stones themselves. The Hells Angels saved peoples' lives by taking him out. But that's not what history remembers, unfortunately.
 
'Die Hard!' Only reflecting the reality

Nothing to do with Bruce Willis and Terrorists.

The true story of the british 57th middlesex regiment during the battle of Albuera in 1811(Penninsular War). A well executed french cavalry charge had just broken many parts of the allied line(british, spanish-portuguese) and resulted in chaos. Col. Inglis of the 57th drew his regiment up into square and repulsed the french horse. Thre french brought up artillery and blasted them from the flank with short range cannister while french infantry battalions assaulted them from the front. As huge gaps were torn in their ranks Inglis exhorted his men by yelling "Die Hard, 57th. Die Hard!" He took a four pound chunk of metal through his shoulder and neck and propped himself up on the saddle of his horse to direct his men for the remainder of the action.
At the end of the day, the 57th's stand allowed allied reserves to be brought up and drive the french from the field. Inglis survived what was thought to be a mortal wound and three quarters of his men lay in heaps around his standard bearer. The allied commander commented that they lay like a stack of cards.
The term 'Die Hard' refers to the men who fought and bled that day. Somehow Bruce Willis doesn't quite stack up.
 
Wow, my wishlist; hopefully w/ as much historical accuracy as possible:
-The Battle of Teutoburg Forest AD9
-Where Troy Once Stood, taking Iman Wilkens stance that Troy was a battle of bronze age continental proto-celts fighting for control of resources in modern day Britain
-Brian Boru, his attempt to unite Ireland and expel the Norseman
-William the Conqueror and the events of 1066
-Charles the Hammer, depicting the life of a great man (Charlemagnes Granddaddy to boot) who stopped the muslims from overrunning all of Europe at the battle of Poiters in 732AD using pioneering tacticool gear like the stirrup and the heavy cavalry charge
-Vae Victus- Detailing Brennus' famous sack of Rome in 387 BC
Burnt Njal- Icelandic saga of domestic/tribal/familial warfare in Iceland around 1000-1200 AD
-Anything with more accuracy than Pathfinder regarding the Viking settlements in the US around 1000AD
-The Winter War, skiing up and gunning down. Why hasn't anyone done this?
The Last Knight, a Michener type biography of Rommel. Something more personal than The Desert Fox
-A biography of Charles Hathcock in Vietnam
-A dog movie about the canines that served in WWI, WW2 or Vietnam. Satan of Verdun comes to mind.
-Something about the Celtic folk heroes like Cu Chulain and Finn MaCool, plenty of warfare there to be exploited for popcorn munching action aficionados and history geeks alike.
 
I'd like to see a movie made about the attack on the USS Liberty. This was the greatest unpunished war crime and coverup in modern history.
My barber is a survivor of that terrible day when 34 of his crewmates were killed and many more wounded by our so-called "friends".
He told me that the Liberty was buzzed for hours before the attack by Israeli aircraft of all types and there was no way that the later attack was a mistake.
More info here: http://www.natvan.com/free-speech/fs977a.html
 
A war movie depicting the battles of Riva Ridge and Mt. Belvedere during WW2.

I would love to see 1/87, 10th Mountain climb that cliff and surprise den NAT-ZEES.
 
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