Favorite movie

[KillerCop311]

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[SailorMan]

A Bridge Too Far
The Great Escape
The Big Red One
The Dirty Dozen
Back To the Future (1,2,3)
Star Wars (4,5,6)
Memphis Belle
Apollo 13
The Patriot
Saving Private Ryan
The Longest Day
Bridge on the River Kwai
Enemy At The Gates
Life is Beautiful (Really good one, in Italian)
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Midway

Etc, etc.
Tl;dr: WWII movies, American History, Space/Aviation, yatta yatta yatta

[Archimedes]

Plot:

Japan had been at war with China since 1937 before declaring war on the United States and the United Kingdom. During the conflict, Jamie Graham, a British upper middle class schoolboy living in the Shanghai International Settlement, is separated from his parents. He spends some time living in his deserted house and eating remnants of food but eventually he ventures out into the city and finds it bustling with Japanese troops. Jamie is captured along with Basie, an American sailor, who nicknames him "Jim". They are taken to Lunghua Civilian Assembly Center in Shanghai, but are later moved to Soochow Creek Internment Camp. By 1945, a few months before the end of the Pacific War, Jim has established a good living, despite the poor conditions of the camp. He has an extensive trading network, even involving the camp's commanding officer, Sergeant Nagata.
Dr. Rawlins, the camp's British doctor, becomes a father figure to Jim. Through the barbwire fencing, Jim befriends a Japanese teenager, who shares Jim's dream of becoming a pilot. Still idolizing Basie, Jim frequently visits him in the American soldiers' barracks. At one point, Basie charges him to set snare traps outside the wire of the camp and while Jim succeeds, thanks to the help of the Japanese teenager from the other side, the real reason for sending Jim into the marsh was actually to test the area for land mines. As a reward, Basie allows Jim to move into the American barracks with him. Basie then plots to escape.
Nagata visits Basie's barracks and beats him severely after discovering a stolen bar of Japanese soap. While Basie is in the infirmary, his possessions are stolen by other men in the barracks. One morning at dawn, Jim witnesses a kamikaze ritual of three Japanese pilots at the air base. Overcome with emotion at the solemnity of the ceremony, he begins to sing the Welsh song "Suo Gân". A few minutes later the camp comes under attack by a group of American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft. As a result of the attack the Japanese decide to evacuate the camp. During the confusion, Basie escapes, leaving Jim behind, although he had promised to take Jim with him. The camp's prisoners march through the wilderness where many die of fatigue, starvation, and disease. During the march Jim witnesses a flash from the atomic bombing of Nagasaki hundreds of miles away, and later hears news of Japan's surrender and the end of the war.
Jim sneaks away from the group at a football stadium near Nsntao, filled with items confiscated by the Japanese, and goes back to Soochow Creek, nearly dead from starvation. He encounters the Japanese teenager he knew earlier, who has since become a pilot and appears distraught at the surrender of his country. The youth remembers Jim and offers him a mango, cutting it for him with his katana. As Jim is about to eat it, Basie reappears with a group of armed Americans, who have arrived to loot the Red Cross containers. One of the Americans, thinking Jim is in danger, shoots and kills the Japanese youth. Jim, furious, beats the American who shot his friend. Basie drags him off and promises to take him back to Shanghai to find his parents, but Jim refuses the offer and stays behind. He is found by American soldiers and put in an orphanage in Shanghai with other children who had lost their parents. When his parents come looking for him, Jim is so scarred from his experiences that he does not recognize them at first.

One of my favorite movies, if not my favorite.

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[Cybersix]

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[SailorMan]

Woah that sounds really good. I have to watch that now.

[Blockhead8306]

It's hard for me to pick a favorite, but if I had to choose, it would probably be either Forrest Gump or Saving Private Ryan.

[Hawt]

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[NalNalas]

did i say pacific rim already

[RedGajin]

i dont get how that many people say forrest gump was their favorite movie. i mean no doubt its a good movie but its not THAT good

[bejacks]

i dont get how that many people say forrest gump was their favorite movie. i mean no doubt its a good movie but its not THAT good

I have watched it over 20 times and I still enjoy it every time I see it.

Argument is invalid.

[LordCutlerBeckett]

Blade Runner.
The Shining.

[Favela]

Napoleon Dynamite or The Grey

[Brickman]

paul blart: mall cop
paul blart: mall cop 2
paul blart: mall cop 3d
shrek 2
mall paul: blart cop 4

[BWOB]

Yo I can eat my ice cream before someone can post