Name yours, mine are;
1. Where Eagles Dare
2. The Dirty Dozen
3. The Final Countdown
4. La battaglia dell'ultimo panzer (battle of the last panzer)
5. Hart's War
I think I've only seen like 4:
1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Where Eagles Dare
3. The Dirty Dozen
4. Kelly's Heroes
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I don't see how anyone could consider Das Boot a fantasy, and I wouldn't call Battle of the Bulge a fantasy either; I'm sure it wasn't meant to be. I also liked The Final Countdown, but WWII barely appears in it. The Dirty Dozen is the ultimate WWII fantasy and laid the groundwork for several war flicks that followed, most notably Where Eagels Dare. I love Kelly's Heroes, but it carries the fantasy aspect to a much greater extreme and is more a satiric action-comedy, especially with Donald Sutherland and Carrol O'Connor's characters ("Is that 'Claremont' Booker?).
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If any way movie is 'fantasy war movie' than its The Battle of the Bulge. It hardly follows the time-line of the real battle, and the last tank battle at the end which seemingly takes place in a desert, despite it being winter, is pure Hollywood hilarity. Even the ending *Spoiler Alert* where Robert Shaw's tank gets blown up by a fuel drum is hilarious. Totally un-realistic...but entertaining movie!
shareTo me, any movie that has a large amount of non-factual content is a fantasy.
Sorry, I can't agree that "Battle of the Last Panzer" is in the top five of anything except possibly worst war movies.
You need to go back many decades to examine films made during the actual WW2 period about the event to find some real works of fantasy.
If you want to talk about a fantasy war movie, let's consider "Apocalypse Now" re. the Vietnam war. I consider it a work of almost complete fantasy. There was very little in it that bore any resemblance to actual events. The douche-bag generals in their air conditioned trailer, the pallets of beer in the rear areas, the 1st Cav posers wearing their stupid Stetsons, that stuff was based on reality but not much else. All that stuff that took place in the bush was way beyond reality. The macabre trashing of human life depicted in COL Kurtz's camp might have been a reflection of Khmer Rouge excesses that took place later but that's outside the US military experience. And why on earth would the army send CPT Willard on a day-after-day journey on a brown water navy craft skippered by an EM when a quick insertion by helicopter would've taken a lot of the danger (and drama) out of it? On and on.
1. Where Eagle's Dare
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. The Great Escape
4. The Guns of Navarone
5. A Bridge Too Far
1. The Great Escape (Yeah, it was based on a true event, but it was very, very "loosely based" on that event.)
2. The Bridge on the River Kwai (I never get sick of this film.)
3. Where Eagles Dare (One of the most action-packed films ever.)
4. The Guns of Navarone (Great stuff.)
5. The Dirty Dozen (Great cast, exciting movie.)
Honorable mentions: Inglourious Basterds, Saving Private Ryan, Objective: Burma, Bataan, Sands of Iwo Jima, Desperate Journey.
My list, in no particular order:
• Kelly's Heroes
• The Incredible Mr. Limpet
• Where Eagles Dare
• The Dirty Dozen
• Force 10 from Navarone
There are many others that are also good candidates, such as "Von Ryan's Express", "The Eagle Has Landed", and "The Guns of Navarone". I have not seen "Inglorious Basterds", but based on what I've read it would be on my short list too.
I left off "Battle of the Bulge", "The Longest Day", "The Great Escape", "Bridge over the River Kwai", and even "Saving Private Ryan" because although liberties were certainly taken, they were still based on actual events. The five I've listed, however, were definitely made up out of whole cloth.
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love all these movies listed, but for me, Kelly's hero's! numero uno! #1! it's fantasy, but it's realistic too, and funny as well as a good world war two yarn. guns of navarone is second, the others all good, dirty dozen, where eagles dare, etc all good and can't really be rated. private ryan is too recent and I would not include it just because it's fiction, it was simply the most realistic war movie ever made, bar none.
also can't include the great escape since it's a true story basically, although it's an all time favorite for sure
Yeah Kelly's Heroes is OK but can't do with Donald 'Oddball' Sutherlands big bendy eyeball gum face. Spoils it a bit for me'h.
I did enjoy Where Eagles Dare especially the plot which I don't fully understand to be honest. Put some names in this book, shooty, shooty, jump out of plane, the end. Great action sequences though.
If you liked this film you might also try:-
1) The guns of Navarone
2) Dambusters
3) The bridge at Remagen
4) Enemy at the Gates
5) Battle of Britain
You might not like any of these so have supplied an alternative list:-
6) Von Ryan's express. There's 2 hours I'll never get back
7) Total recall. War on mars.
8) Planes, Trains and Automobiles. War between 2 characters
9) War of the Worlds. War of the Worlds
10) Where Are My Children. Never seen it but sounds fantastic. I hope it's got war in it.
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2-The Thin Red Line
3-Battle of Britain
4-Operation Crossbow
5-Cross of iron
Hmmmm
No mention of Raiders of the Lost Ark or Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? How much more WWII fantasy could you ask for?
Can't pick just five, but some of my favs that I don't think have been mentioned:
The Train
Battleground
Casablanca
Five Graves to Cairo
Sahara (the one with Bogart)
Lifeboat
Stalag 17
In Harm's Way
Destination Tokyo
Empire of the Sun
The Best Years of Our Lives
Run Silent, Run Deep
30 Seconds Over Tokyo
13 Rue Madeleine
The Caine Mutiny
Sink The Bismark!
The Young Lions
Foreign Correspondent
I was thinking about the Lost Ark/Last Crusade movies when I made this thread believe it or not, thought about including them in 'honorable mentions' but that really just shows the time at which events were taking place, you might as well include Pearl Harbor in your list if you're going to include Casablanca
shareToo Late the Hero 1970 (Michael Caine)
Murphy's War 1971 (Peter O'Toole)
Fury.
last full scene is pure fantasy.