Topic: Best War (or anti-war) movie?

[Hostile Creation]

I did see Black Hawk Down, and that was an incredible movie.  I didn't want to mention it, though, since I had no basis for comparison.

[BrianSLA]

Basically IMHO the best " PURE " war movie is probably BLACK HAWK DOWN. It is just 100% pure war movie, no melodrama ( Platoon or Full Metal Jacket ) or severely fictionalized movielike story ( Saving Private Ryan ) ... all great movies.... but 100% pure war movie is probably Black Hawk Down. BHD is just a war movie about a single battle with no crappy melodrama or extra stuff. Nothing more, nothing less.  Yes SOME parts and some characters were fictionalized or combined ( Grimes - Ewan McGregor's character is actually Stebbins a guy later convicted in a child sex crime , the Delta Sgts were real but renamed ). I have been in the Army and I have known many Special Ops guys... including a future CSM of the 3rd Ranger Battalion...and Vietnam Hardcore vets and almost all say that combat is not fighting for your country but fighting for the guy next to you.