Top Ten Tuesdays

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

And these are my top 10 film set during wartime, but not necessarily war films:

• Thirteen Days

Which war was this set in? The Cold War doesn't count.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

I've seen most of your second list if that's any consolation

As I've mentioned, I'm not really a big fan of conventional/classic war films and actually may have seen a few others from your initial list as they were always doing the rounds on TV when I was young. There would be no way I'd be able to confirm from the titles alone though and would have to watch them again to know either way. I will add Kelly's Heroes and Where Eagles Dare to my Love Film list, although I will add that I'm sceptical as to whether I'll enjoy them or not - classic war is a lot like classic western for me =

The cast list of those two alone should make you want to watch them.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Which war was this set in? The Cold War doesn't count.

It doesn't? I have Dr. Strangelove, which is also set during the Cold War, in my 'conventional' war films list.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

It doesn't? In that case, I'll have to think of a replacement.

If it did then things like The Ipcress File and all the Cold War thrillers would count.

Leave it though as it could have been war on a catastrophic scale, luckily it wasn't. It's about the only one from that time that kind of counts.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

The cast list of those two alone should make you want to watch them.

Nah.

Flippancy aside though, unless it's someone I really loathe, cast rarely sways me in terms of what I watch, whether the film in question is from the classic era or the more modern one.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

If it did then things like The Ipcress File and all the Cold War thrillers would count.

Leave it though as it could have been war on a catastrophic scale, luckily it wasn't. It's about the only one from that time that kind of counts.

I was just thinking of films during wartime without any war, and I think Thirteen Days is a great movie, which I find compelling even though the outcome is known at the outset.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

I was just thinking of films during wartime without any war, and I think Thirteen Days is a great movie, which I find compelling even though the outcome is known at the outset.

That's a film out of war time without any war.

[J Harker]

Thinking about it I'm pretty sure Saving Private Ryan was the first proper war film i ever watched. And even that after it had been out about two or three years.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

It fascinates me how many people have 'closed' or narrow areas of viewing.

I need films of all types in my collection. 3000 horror, sci-fi and Eureka's (Minus the war and westerns of course ) would bore me shitless.

[Demoncrat]

Noted. Will stick a few in tomorrow. Wait til you see my criteria