What is your absolute favorite scene in a war movie?

OK!

'Too Late the Hero' when Michael Caine and the other guy, can't think of his name, run zig zag across the field to the British base.

'Saving Private Ryan' All the Paras jump on the tank trying to kill the crew and a 20mm gun comes around the corner.

'Saving private ryan' opening scene.......come on what a scene, if ever you wanted to be put off joining up that would be it!

'Thin Red Line' The closing Credits, thank Christ what poor, poor movie I don't care who was in it!

 

With you on The Thin Red Line... Apart from when Woody Harrelson gets his arse blown off... That made me giggle...

Anyway, best scenes...

Black Hawk Down... Most of it but one of the best is when the base wallah takes out the techincal truck with his grenade launcher. Great film...

When We Were Soldiers... The sniper from Saving Private Ryan showing up as a photo journalist and showing that he aint lost any of his weapons skill in the years between WW2 and vietnam... Nor has he aged...

Cross of Iron... Many scenes again! But the best is the start! Taking out the Russian mortar bunker is fab, specially the slow mo! 'Good kill..'

Kellys Heroes... ALL OF IT! But the Wild West walk down the high street of Claremont gets me giggling everytime!

Enemy at the GAtes... Anytime when the Russians get shot! Why didnt Ed Harris pop Jude Law and put us all out our misery! But I like the start... Maybe the Stukas had something to do with that...

And Hellboy... The SS assasin...

 

fav movies Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, Full Metal Jacket (GO R LEE!!!), umm Stalingrad, Black Hawk Down, and er....... Apocolypse(sp?) Now i know i cant spell

 

The scene in Enemy at the Gates in which Khruschev meets the political officers of the Stalingrad army. Both Hoskins and Fiennes did great work in that scene.

 

Stalag 17-The escape scene at the end when Sefton reveals that Price is really a krout spy. Then they throw Price out of the barracks and the German's shoot him. Then Sefton and Lt. Dunbar escape. After they escape comes the best ending line of any movie in the history of the known world:"Maybe he just wanted to steal our wire cutters. Did ya ever think of that?"

 

The Finnish movie "Winter war" : all the Red Army attacks with the waves of men attacking and getting shoot dead. ( surprised?)

Stalingrad: T-34 attack and fighting in the city.

Enemy at the gates: the view over Volga to Stalingrad, getting over Volga, and the first sniping scene at the beginning of the film when Zaitsev gets coolly several kills after getting the rifle from the commissar.

Pearl Harbor: The uncut scene of the main attack.

Saving private...: The landing phase to the beach!! Awesome footage!

 

in band of brothers,the bit where lt spiers runs toward the troops pinned down and the germans fire an '88 round at him and only just misses!
then he runs through the german lines to link up to the second platoon then runs back again the germans were so shocked they never fired staight away!! brilliant and true!!

 

Shmoozy I know, but Elliot Gould waving the armour over the Bailey Bridge at Son? In A Bridge too far, 2nd is same movie, the armour moving over Nijmegan bridge towards the Yank paras, tension and music in both scenes was a bit of a rush...

 

Band of Brothers: In Crossroads at the end when the men are marching off to fight the Germans in what would be the Battle of the Bulge.

Battle of the Bulge: When the "Panzers" launch their attack through the forests.

Patton: When his troops are marching through the forests with the tanks, and being fired upon by the Germans, plus when the Germans invade the Ardennes.

 

I pitty the man tha hear the pipes an isna a scotsman
Red Beret.

 

In honOUR of the up-coming release on April 22nd, to DvD of Merrill's Marauders: My favorite scenes in that movie were when Merrill and his Marauders sneak up to the railyards at Myitkyina (SP?) and pronounced: "mit chin aw." They rush through a concrete maze fighting the Japanese garrison there. Really were some great scenes. From one moment to another, they did not know who was in front of them and who was behind them.

 

You guys mentioned a lot of scenes that I liked so here is one scene from the movie Big Red One that comes to mind.
The scene is Omaha Beach (again!) with Lee Marvin shooting at Mark Hamil to force him to go on with his bangalore explosives.
Another would be from the Bridge Too Far where US paratroopers were rowing across the river chanting "Hail Mary, full of grace" to keep time.

 

Private Ryan.....at the end, when "rabbit" gets back from luring the German column their way. The ground is shaking, everyone is getting set for the attack.

Kelly's Heroes......when Oddball leads his squad of Shermans out of the railroad tunnel, music blasting away and attacks the rail station.

Where Eagles Dare.....the fight on the cable cars and the chase at the end.

A Bridge Too Far......when 30 corps first starts out and runs into a German ambush.

 

One really great scene in the very rarely shown movie: "Hannible Brooks" (SP?) that I really liked, was at the very end of the movie when "Packy" and his men were fighting off a unit of Gebirgejagers and also trying to destroy a solidly built, Gebirgs blockhouse? at the same time. The uniforms, vehicles weapons and such; BTW, were the real thing.

 

too many to choose from....anic:....which to choose????anic:


I would have to say the scene in Kelly's Heroes, where Otto (the German tank commander) is told by Clint that he can share in the booty!!!

 

Gosh, there are a good many, and I admire the many that I have seen...

Saving Private Ryan (1998, Steven Spielberg): The scene just before the final battle, when Miller and his men wait in hiding for the German tanks to appear, and all the audience hears is the groaning of this "oncoming evil" as the sound designer described.
Another great scene from Private Ryan that I would count for this thread would be the bridge scene near the end of the film, where Miller whispers to Pvt. Ryan, "James, earn this...earn it."

We Were Soldiers (2002, Randall Wallace): The scene where Lt. Col. Hal Moore (Mel Gibson) leaves his home for the busses to take them to the airfield at Fort Benning, where Moore, looks off camera, dons his helmet, and marches staight off down the road.

Gettysburg (1993, Ronald Maxwell): After Pickett's charge, the wounded Armistead begs Tom Chamberlain to tell General Winfield Scott Hancock, "...that General Armistead sends his regrets...will you tell him how very sorry I am?" Tom replies, "I will tell him sir, I will tell him."

Letters From Iwo Jima (2006, Clint Eastwood): The scene where General Kuribayashi, having been fatally wounded, begs for his aide to behead him. As the aide is about to do so, he is shot through the back and killed. Saigo then calms Kuribayashi saying, "This is still Japan." Kuribayashi then committed suicide with the Colt M1911 pistol he recieved as a gift from Harvard. Later, Saigo has a psychological outburst of rage towards the American soldiers and sqings continually at them with his shovel before he is knocked unconsious with a rifle butt.

Platoon (1986, Oliver Stone): One of the most famous scenes of all time, the scene where Elias throws his arms up towards the sky as he is shot by North Vietnamese soldiers, then falls to the ground. In the actual shooting of the film, the actor who played Elias, Willem Dafoe, has squibs planted on his chest that were supposed to go off after he reached up at the sky. There was an electronic error, however, and the squibs did not go off.

Just a few of the many war scenes that I would consider my favorites.

 

Braveheart for mr.....

 

How about that scene in Patton where the British told Patton that they don't have to worry about German bombers. Moments after that, German aircraft did attack the HQ. Patton is unperturbed about and declares he wanted to give the German pilots a medal.