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What are some of your favorite military or military-related movies that do NOT feature war, warfare, nor combat? ~

 


DISCLAIMER: if you name any love stories or romantic comedies, I promise to hunt you down and kill you. 'Nuff said. 

Posted - November 10, 2018

Responses


  • 7939
    The Notebook.
    I deserve extra credit for answering the question accurately AND ticking you off at the same time. 
      November 10, 2018 11:28 AM MST
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  • 53490

      Grrrrrrrrrr. Where are the website's administrators when I need them?  Hey, wait . . .
      November 10, 2018 11:36 AM MST
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  • 14795
    Is that with James Garner .....one of the most moving films I've ever seen...the music init is also bang on....I just love" All I want to do is make love to you "....:) 
      November 10, 2018 12:53 PM MST
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  • 53490

      Curse you, Just Asking, grrrrrrr!  I hope you're happy about hijacking my question! I just want to know: do you see what you've started?
      November 10, 2018 4:44 PM MST
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  • 23543
    I went with friends to this movie. I always got outvoted on what movies we'd see.
    :)

    I ended up liking it a LOT! Huge thanks to both James Marsden (hot!) and Gena Rowlands. To me, the movie succeeds (almost) solely because of Gena Rowlands. To me, she adds a much-needed grittiness and realism to the, up to her entrance, mushy love story.
    :)
    That's just my thought on the movie. I doubt if anyone would agree with me, with how much everyone really loves the movie. This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at November 10, 2018 4:52 PM MST
      November 10, 2018 3:31 PM MST
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  • 7939
    I honestly didn't put much thought into the actors. I'm not really a fan of romantic stories, but this one pulled me in.
      November 10, 2018 4:09 PM MST
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  • 23543
    Yeah, I stayed with the story easily, too.
    I do admit that I've always been a fan of both Marsden and Rowlands, so I was in their corner from the moment I saw both of them in the movie.
    :)

    Oh, and I just posted a long question about "The Notebook," ha!
    :)
      November 10, 2018 4:21 PM MST
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  • 53490

      Arrrrrgh!
      November 10, 2018 4:45 PM MST
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  • 23543
    I know! I know!

      November 10, 2018 4:48 PM MST
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  • 180
    A Few Good Men,  The Best Years of Our Lives,  and Judgement at Nuremberg. 
      November 10, 2018 12:00 PM MST
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  • 23543
    Montgomery Clift was achingly breathtaking in that movie ("Judgment at Nuremberg"). Just want to go and give him a hug and say that things will be OK. This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at November 10, 2018 4:47 PM MST
      November 10, 2018 12:13 PM MST
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  • 180
    Yeah..
      November 10, 2018 1:09 PM MST
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  • 23543

    "A Midnight Clear" from 1992

    (not "Midnight Clear" from 2006)



    Director Keith Gordon based his excellent script for "A Midnight Clear" on the book by William Wharton, who had been seriously wounded in the Battle of the Bulge towards the end of WWII. He wrote of an American Intelligence team which came upon a team of young German soldiers, desperate to surrender to the Americans, in order to survive Germany's last offensive. He wrote of fear and suspicion, pain and loss, friendship and hope and a snow-ball fight. And of the agreement to save the lives of the Germans, which went horribly wrong. A haunting, disturbing war movie without much war, looking tenderly at those who go to kill and be killed, and gently painting a truth: There are no real victors; all are wounded by war's inherent, random cruelty. 

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    This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at November 10, 2018 4:33 PM MST
      November 10, 2018 12:09 PM MST
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  • 46117
    War of the Roses
      November 10, 2018 1:05 PM MST
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  • 53490

      Hey, wait . . . 

    :[
      November 10, 2018 4:48 PM MST
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  • 836
    No Time for Sergeants (1958)
    Stalag 17 (1953)
    M*A*S*H (1970)
    Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
      November 10, 2018 1:12 PM MST
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  • Damn, and here I was beginning to think you were a sock puppet solely for giving Likes. :P This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at November 10, 2018 4:48 PM MST
      November 10, 2018 1:42 PM MST
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  • Oh...

      November 10, 2018 1:42 PM MST
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  • 44583
    'A Few Good Men' Nicholson
    'Last Detail' Nicholson
    'No Way Out' Costner.
      November 10, 2018 1:51 PM MST
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  • 14795
    The War of the Roses......it was a Hippy thing I think and no one got hurt Petal .....it was about the the Cavaliers    being a thorn in the side to the Round Heads and the Caverliers kept Stalking them ....:(
      November 10, 2018 2:03 PM MST
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  • 53490

      Grrrrrrr, you again!

      November 10, 2018 4:49 PM MST
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  • 22891
    i dont usually watch war nnovies
      November 10, 2018 2:11 PM MST
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  • 17
    Tribes - 1970
      November 10, 2018 2:19 PM MST
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  • 2327
    "The Deerhunter" may qualify.
      November 10, 2018 4:14 PM MST
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