Sentences with phrase «realistic war films»

Based on a novel and probably one of the most realistic war films I have ever see.

However, this was definitely the most violent and realistic war film I've ever seen and I had to look away a lot during the battle scenes.

Though not a realistic war film, it is one of the most gripping, thought - provoking war film ever made.

Not exact matches

Many infantry veterans consider The Story of GI Joe to be the single most realistic Hollywood war film of the 1940s, eschewing big stars, phony heroics and overblown battle sequences in favor of the everyday trials and tribulations of the humble foot soldier.

You can admire a movie like Steven Soderbergh's «Contagion» (2011), a realistic rendering of civil breakdown caused by a spreading pathogen, but the horror - film version of disaster in «World War Z» stretches the senses to take in more than you may expect.

The amateur editing and diecting makes the film neither realistic as a war film, nor fun as an all - out action hero / comedy film.

While this is certainly a message that few would find fault with, with better films about the experience of combat vets returning home, setting the film up in the Iraq War and then delivering manipulative and mawkish drama where realistic portrayals should be isn't the way to go about it.

G. W. Pabst brought the war movie into a new era with his first sound film, a mercilessly realistic depiction of the nightmare that scarred a generation, in Germany and beyond.

Westfront 1918 (1930 — Germany) G. W. Pabst brought the war movie into a new era with his first sound film, a mercilessly realistic depiction of the nightmare that scarred a generation, in the director's native Germany and beyond.

And unlike a movie like We Were Soldiers - which never became anything more than an old - school, John Wayne-esque «let's rally around our troops» type of war film - Harrison's Flowers feels brutally realistic.

Set in 1991 amidst the beginnings of civil war in Yugoslavia, this is a brutal film, in every right way: an antidote to the CNN - ification of war news, here is a frank, realistic depiction of total, practically apocalyptic war, one in which civilians and journalists are targeted and an entire nation is laid ruin.

No matter how many technological advances we make in our science fiction, from realistic - looking space walks in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), to realistic - looking space battles in Star Wars (1977) to realistic - looking bullet - dodging in The Matrix (1999), many die hard fans still swear by the low - budget B - films of the 1950's.