Best War Movie EVER: Boardsies Decide - Voting Thread

Necro

He's not wrong tbf

Necro

And after a gruelling contest, the winner of the Best War Movie EVER Tournament as decided by Boardsies is....


With a dominating scoreline of 15 votes to 6 over a worthy adversary....







SAVING PRIVATE RYAN



Thank you for playing everyone, I hope you enjoyed the tournament even if the outcome is not what you wished for

J Mysterio

Wait. The Great Escape beat Schindler's List?

Ohhh

Electric Nitwit

Thanks for running Necro, serious effort, much appreciated

Ted_YNWA

I demand a full recount.

quickbeam

Thanks Necro. Not the best film, IMO, but not far off, so happy with the result. Enjoyable playing along.

Necro

Here are all of the movies nominated that were in the contest, with the ones nominated multiple times on the top:


In fairness, the result and the semis pretty much reflect that unanimously.

Entries Number of Nominations
Saving Private Ryan 12
Inglorious Basterds 11
Full Metal Jacket 10
The Great Escape 10
Platoon 9
Apocalypse Now 5
Das Boot 4
Braveheart 4
Black Hawk Down 3
Hurt Locker 3
Good Morning Vietnam 3
Dunkirk 2
Empire of The Sun 2
Downfall 2
Aliens 2
Kelley's Heroes 2
Hacksaw Ridge 2
The Imitation Game 2
Jarhead 2
Where Eagles Dare 2
Battle of Britain 2
The matrix 1
war horse 1
terminator 2 1
war games 1
d.a.r.y.l. 1
Schindler's List 1
M*A*S*H 1
The Dirty Dozen 1
Too Late The Hero 1
A Very Long Engagement 1
Barry Lyndon 1
The Dam Busters 1
He-Man Masters Of The Universe 1
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back 1
Dances With Wolves 1
A Few Good Men 1
American Sniper 1
Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers 1
The Rock 1
Stalag 17 1
Sands of Iwo Jima 1
Lord of War 1
Paths of Glory 1
Enemy At The Gates 1
Pan's Labyrinth 1
Hamburger Hill 1
Wind that shakes the Barley 1
Casualties of War 1
The Deer Hunter 1
Born On The Fourth Of July 1
We Were Soldiers 1
The Pianist 1
Forest Gump 1
Casablanca 1
Cross of Iron 1
Red Tails 1
Sink the Bismarck 1
Hunt For Red October 1
Michael Collins 1
Tora! Tora! Tora! 1
A bridge too far 1
The bridge on the River Kwai 1
The Longest Day 1
The Big Red One 1
Gallipoli 1
Rambo 1 1
Memphis Belle 1
Rambo 2 1
Lawrence of Arabia 1
Starship Troopers 1
Eye in The Sky 1
The Warriors 1
Top Gun 1
Letters From Iwo Jima 1
Zulu 1
Pearl Harbour 1
The Thin Red Line 1
Dr. Zhivago 1
Iron Sky 1
Porco Rosso 1
Dr. Strangelove 1

TheValeyard

Cheers Nerco. Great fun. One hell of an effort. Well done indeed. I tip my hat to you!!

Electric Nitwit

quickbeam wrote: »

Thanks Necro. Not the best film, IMO, but not far off, so happy with the result. Enjoyable playing along.

I suspect it's in a lot of top fives but not top of many lists, but that's enough to win through in head to heads

Necro

Ted_YNWA wrote:

I demand a full recount.

Knock yourself out it's all on the thread

Ted_YNWA

Necro wrote: »

Knock yourself out it's all on the thread

Zaph

That was great fun, even if democracy clearly doesn't work.

Thanks for running it Necro, that was a huge amount of work you put in.

Manic Moran

I applaud whoever nominated Iron Sky.

Some strange nominating, though. Shame Gettysburg didn’t get a nomination, it is one of my top five.
1941 deserved a nomination as well, as did Glory! but they were never going to win, so I can see that. Same with a Fury, a better movie for tankers than most non-tankers understand, but not a class leader. The Enemy Below was good. And how can Irish voting have skipped out The Siege of Jadotville?

One which definitely should have been mentioned is 12 O’ Clock High. It is one of the very few movies which is considered a mandatory part of officer development in the US Military. Not in the “traditional” sense like Kelly’s Heroes is, but it actually is on the curriculum of the Command and a General Staff College for the leadership lessons it covers. Men of Honor usually gets a viewing as well, but generally just clips, not the full movie.

Seven oscars, and not one nomination on this thread for Patton? I mean, yes, it has its flaws, but how did that happen? Similarly, Mr Roberts also got a number of Oscar nominations, but nothing here. Or Lawrence of Arabia, another seven oscars.

Zaph

I think the problem Manic is that there are so many great films and we were limited to only 5 nominations each. Just look at the number of films that only received one nomination each. Three of my own are included in that, and two of them advanced pretty far, and the same for a number of other films that only received one vote. I'd say in some cases people simply forgot about a certain film or there were too many others that they preferred. If there were 10 nominations each, for example, then I'd say a good few of the films you mentioned would have made the list. But I'd say it would also have resulted in Necro having a breakdown, so I can see why he left it at five.

sKeith

Manic Moran wrote: »

I applaud whoever nominated Iron Sky.

Some strange nominating, though. Shame Gettysburg didn’t get a nomination, it is one of my top five.
1941 deserved a nomination as well, as did Glory! but they were never going to win, so I can see that. Same with a Fury, a better movie for tankers than most non-tankers understand, but not a class leader. The Enemy Below was good. And how can Irish voting have skipped out The Siege of Jadotville?

One which definitely should have been mentioned is 12 O’ Clock High. It is one of the very few movies which is considered a mandatory part of officer development in the US Military. Not in the “traditional” sense like Kelly’s Heroes is, but it actually is on the curriculum of the Command and a General Staff College for the leadership lessons it covers. Men of Honor usually gets a viewing as well, but generally just clips, not the full movie.

Seven oscars, and not one nomination on this thread for Patton? I mean, yes, it has its flaws, but how did that happen? Similarly, Mr Roberts also got a number of Oscar nominations, but nothing here. Or Lawrence of Arabia, another seven oscars.

You were going so well, but just went one too far...


Laurance of Arabia did get a nomination here.

Manic Moran

Oh, right at the bottom. Damnit.

I don’t personally like the movie, but I don’t think one can deny it is a “great”

Necro

Zaph wrote: »

But I'd say it would also have resulted in Necro having a breakdown, so I can see why he left it at five.

Breakdown? Nah... I'm fine

quickbeam

Manic Moran wrote: »

I applaud whoever nominated Iron Sky.

Some strange nominating, though. Shame Gettysburg didn’t get a nomination, it is one of my top five.
1941 deserved a nomination as well, as did Glory! but they were never going to win, so I can see that. Same with a Fury, a better movie for tankers than most non-tankers understand, but not a class leader. The Enemy Below was good. And how can Irish voting have skipped out The Siege of Jadotville?

One which definitely should have been mentioned is 12 O’ Clock High. It is one of the very few movies which is considered a mandatory part of officer development in the US Military. Not in the “traditional” sense like Kelly’s Heroes is, but it actually is on the curriculum of the Command and a General Staff College for the leadership lessons it covers. Men of Honor usually gets a viewing as well, but generally just clips, not the full movie.

Seven oscars, and not one nomination on this thread for Patton? I mean, yes, it has its flaws, but how did that happen? Similarly, Mr Roberts also got a number of Oscar nominations, but nothing here. Or Lawrence of Arabia, another seven oscars.

Love Mister Roberts and considered including it.

A few others I considered that weren't nominated elsewhere:

Anthropoid (someone mentioned it)
Escape to Victory
Joyeux Noel (someone mentioned it)
Life is Beautiful
A Midnight Clear
To Have and Have Not
Von Ryan's Express

BDI

4 people voted that hacksaw ridge was a better film than saving private Ryan.

Was the only war film these people ever seen hacksaw ridge?

TheValeyard

SPR is not a bad winner considering all the choice out there.

khalessi

Nice choice of finalists either winning make me happy but I would have voted TGE for nostalgia watching it with my dad as I still do

Nice Necro thanks for running it

Zaph

BDI wrote: »

4 people voted that hacksaw ridge was a better film than saving private Ryan.

Was the only war film these people ever seen hacksaw ridge?

You do realise that the whole voting process is subjective, don't you? Just because you clearly think that SPR is the better film doesn't mean that it is, it just is in your opinion. Personally I don't like Tom Hanks and I thought that Hacksaw Ridge was a superb film, so both those factors influenced my vote. Similarly that doesn't mean that Hacksaw Ridge is a better film, just in my opinion I preferred it. However I did vote for SPR over another film later on because at that point I preferred it to the other film.

Banjo

Manic Moran wrote: »

I applaud whoever nominated Iron Sky.

Some strange nominating, though. Shame Gettysburg didn’t get a nomination, it is one of my top five.
1941 deserved a nomination as well, as did Glory! but they were never going to win, so I can see that. Same with a Fury, a better movie for tankers than most non-tankers understand, but not a class leader. The Enemy Below was good. And how can Irish voting have skipped out The Siege of Jadotville?

One which definitely should have been mentioned is 12 O’ Clock High. It is one of the very few movies which is considered a mandatory part of officer development in the US Military. Not in the “traditional” sense like Kelly’s Heroes is, but it actually is on the curriculum of the Command and a General Staff College for the leadership lessons it covers. Men of Honor usually gets a viewing as well, but generally just clips, not the full movie.

Seven oscars, and not one nomination on this thread for Patton? I mean, yes, it has its flaws, but how did that happen? Similarly, Mr Roberts also got a number of Oscar nominations, but nothing here. Or Lawrence of Arabia, another seven oscars.

If you didn't nominate, you have no right to complain. It was open to all. Hindsight is for tailgunners!

If you did nominate, you didn't nominate those films either so you understand why other people cut them from their top fives too!

(My snippyness has nothing to do with you leaving Battle Beyond the Stars off your list)

J Mysterio

khalessi wrote: »

Nice choice of finalists either winning make me happy but I would have voted TGE for nostalgia watching it with my dad as I still do

Nice Necro thanks for running it

He is a nice Necro

Necro

You guys think this one sparked debate, wait till I run the Best TV Show EVER Tournament :pac:

quickbeam

Necro wrote: »

You guys think this one sparked debate, wait till I run the Best TV Show EVER Tournament :pac:

No contest there. Has to be Diagnosis Murder, right?

Zaph

Necro wrote: »

You guys think this one sparked debate, wait till I run the Best TV Show EVER Tournament :pac:

Just give it to The West Wing now and save yourself a lot of hassle.

Electric Nitwit

quickbeam wrote: »

No contest there. Has to be Diagnosis Murder, right?

Over Murder, She Wrote?!

It's OK, I assume it just slipped your mind

Necro

Zaph wrote: »

Just give it to The West Wing now and save yourself a lot of hassle.

Depends. Does Band of Brothers qualify. Or do I have to run a mini series contest after the main one :pac:

khalessi

Magnum PI surely

TheValeyard

It's obviously Battlestar Galactica.

khalessi

Star trek deep space nine lololol

Limpy

Last of the Mohicans

quickbeam

Necro wrote: »

Depends. Does Band of Brothers qualify. Or do I have to run a mini series contest after the main one :pac:

Probably something to clarify at sign-up.

Also, what about:
- documentaries (eg: Blue Planet)
- soap operas (eg: Eastenders)
- reality shows (eg: The Great British Bake Off)
- quiz shows (eg: University Challenge)
- children's shows (eg: Bosco)
- news shows (eg: Newsnight)
- magazine shows (eg: Nationwide)
- light entertainment shows (eg: Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway)
- chat shows (eg: Graham Norton)
... etc, etc.

Can any of those be nominated?

Spook_ie

Brilliant work on it Necro but the result wasn't right, I suppose that's life but yer all heathens.

beauf

Manic Moran wrote: »

I applaud whoever nominated Iron Sky.

Some strange nominating, though. Shame Gettysburg didn’t get a nomination, it is one of my top five.
1941 deserved a nomination as well, as did Glory! but they were never going to win, so I can see that. Same with a Fury, a better movie for tankers than most non-tankers understand, but not a class leader. The Enemy Below was good. And how can Irish voting have skipped out The Siege of Jadotville?

One which definitely should have been mentioned is 12 O’ Clock High. It is one of the very few movies which is considered a mandatory part of officer development in the US Military. Not in the “traditional” sense like Kelly’s Heroes is, but it actually is on the curriculum of the Command and a General Staff College for the leadership lessons it covers. Men of Honor usually gets a viewing as well, but generally just clips, not the full movie.

Seven oscars, and not one nomination on this thread for Patton? I mean, yes, it has its flaws, but how did that happen? Similarly, Mr Roberts also got a number of Oscar nominations, but nothing here. Or Lawrence of Arabia, another seven oscars.

I expect it's because most of the older movies don't get played that much in the last couple of decades. So a lot of people haven't seen them. Also their significance is lost watched out of context alongside modern media and if someone hasn't much interest in the history. Which is why movies Which are pure entertainment and little else got rated so highly. So you can't take it that seriously.

I got in pretty late on the thread and realised pretty quick it's only a bit of fun.

I would have nominated top secret.

https://youtu.be/7f_19nxNfjs

beauf

Limpy wrote: »

Last of the Mohicans

Great Movie.

Yester

Thanks for this. I enjoyed reading along.

Trigger

Thanks Necro, even though I missed the majority, I thought the speed of it was great.. no hanging about, I'll make sure to clear my schedule for the next one..

Also.. the crystal maze is obviously the best TV show

TheValeyard

Trigger wrote: »

Thanks Necro, even though I missed the majority, I thought the speed of it was great.. no hanging about, I'll make sure to clear my schedule for the next one..

Also.. the crystal maze is obviously the best TV show

If you like crystal maze you should go to Boss Borg centre in Lough Key Forest Park. It's just like the TV show and you've a team of five. Great craic.

Necro

Ha that's about 20 mins from where I live

Necro

Necro wrote: »

You guys think this one sparked debate, wait till I run the Best TV Show EVER Tournament :pac:

quickbeam wrote: »

No contest there. Has to be Diagnosis Murder, right?

Zaph wrote: »

Just give it to The West Wing now and save yourself a lot of hassle.

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Over Murder, She Wrote?!

It's OK, I assume it just slipped your mind

Necro wrote: »

Depends. Does Band of Brothers qualify. Or do I have to run a mini series contest after the main one :pac:

khalessi wrote: »

Magnum PI surely

TheValeyard wrote: »

It's obviously Battlestar Galactica.

Trigger wrote: »

Thanks Necro, even though I missed the majority, I thought the speed of it was great.. no hanging about, I'll make sure to clear my schedule for the next one..

Also.. the crystal maze is obviously the best TV show

Ah.... screw it.

Couldn't help myself

Best TV Show EVER tournament is open for sign ups :pac:

Electric Nitwit

Ha ha, not sure who the bigger glutton for punishment is here Necro, you or us!

Electric Nitwit

TheValeyard wrote: »

If you like crystal maze you should go to Boss Borg centre in Lough Key Forest Park. It's just like the TV show and you've a team of five. Great craic.

For Dubs and close, Go Quest is similar too.

There's one a junction from ikea, I've been twice and it's brilliant. I know there's a newer one in Carrickmines, not been but I'd guess newer might mean better...?

Rikand

The best war movie of all time on right now on rte2


Where eagles dare

khalessi

Rikand wrote: »

The best war movie of all time on right now on rte2


Where eagles dare

One of the first home videos we bought when i was a kid

TheValeyard

Rikand wrote: »

The best war movie of all time on right now on rte2


Where eagles dare

Our vote disagrees with you