Best Battles seen in movies...

[Morgan Frydman]

I liked the battle at the start of Gladiator. BraveHeart also had some good fight scenes.

I wasn't too keen on any LOTR battle scenes. Don't know why, they just seemed rather silly.

[eeyoredragon]

I wasn't too keen on any LOTR battle scenes. Don't know why, they just seemed rather silly.

I agree on that. Especially the battle at Helms Deep, where the archery in particular was rather clumsy done.

And munrock, we all now Hollywood can't make movies .

[Morgan Frydman]

I agree on that. Especially the battle at Helms Deep, where the archery in particular was rather clumsy done.

Exactly. The archers were stupid. Why did they wait for the Orks to go all the way up to the outer wall before firing?
And how did Ganadlf's cavalry ride through that entire pike formation? Ok, so they had the sun in their eyes and they're dumb, ugly orks. But still they all must have been pointing they're spears in the opposite direction for the cavalry to ride over them so easily. It's beyond belief.

[Tamur]

Agreed on Gettysburg. There's nothing glamorous about it - heart-rending, awful, amazing all at the same time.

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

First off there is bugger all wrong with the LOTR fight sequences.

I like the First battle in Gladiator, The siege and sack in a flesh and blood and the fighting in Stalingrad

[Longshanks]

The best battle scene ever in terms of raw, in-your-face realism was the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan.

I thought Gettysburg was quite good also, but would rank it behind the opening scene in SPR because it lacked the same gritty realism. In the movie men just fell over and died rather cleanly, when in reality most suffered horrific wounds and died agonizing deaths.

[Louis de la Ferte Ste Colombe]

Other interesting battle scenes; Steiner (James Coburn) skirmishing in Russia during WW2 in Cross of Iron from Sam Peckinpah.

Recommanded.

Louis,

[Oleander Ardens]

Other interesting battle scenes; Steiner (James Coburn) skirmishing in Russia during WW2 in Cross of Iron from Sam Peckinpah.

Recommanded.

Louis,

One of my fav. WW2 movies. With so many good battle scenes and a hearttouching intro...

I liked also some scenes of "Enemy at the Gate". The sniper sequences are awesome, but others are really bad...


Cheers

OA

[Goofball]

The best battle scene ever in terms of raw, in-your-face realism was the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan.

I thought Gettysburg was quite good also, but would rank it behind the opening scene in SPR because it lacked the same gritty realism. In the movie men just fell over and died rather cleanly, when in reality most suffered horrific wounds and died agonizing deaths.

Unquestioningly correct.

[kchickenlord]

Band of brothers is more authentic, but the budget is smaller and people are more attracted to saving private ryan with its flashier visuals.

[Nerouin]

In my opinion, LOTR: Return of the King had the best battle scene I've ever seen. The Battle of Pelennor Fields was simply nuts.. the whole scene- the speech and all- of the charge of the Rohirrim had me going nuts, it was amazing.
Helm's Deep in The Two Towers and the battle at the beginning of The Fellowship were also pretty great.. in the Fellowship, watching the legionary style of battle and seeing the field of gold from the allied troops was pretty rad.
Also Glory, Gettysburg, and Saving Private Ryan.


As for someone's question about the Helm's Deep battle- I can probably give a decent explanation for why the horses were able to charge straight into a line of pikes. Regular orcs were not able to be in view of the sun.. it would burn their flesh. You will notice that at all times when regular orcs are on the screen, the sky is darkened, or, as in Mordor, it is simply black.
Uruk-Hai are a merger of orcs and wild humanoids- they were created by Saruman. They are easily distinguishable by their greater size over normal orcs, and can march in the sun without dying. However, they are still part orc, so having the sun directly in their eyes is probably INTENSELY painful. Hence that happening would have probably caused a great loss of concentration in the face of the charge- picture yourself facing a charge, and having someone shove toothpicks in your eyes the moment before the charge hit you.

[TCon88]

Actually the Uruk-Hai at Helms Deep wernt being affected by sun as Gandalf came running down the hill, it was the light from his staff. Uruk-Hai are imune to the pain of sunlight, whether its in the eyes or not. I know its off-topic ahwell.
Anyways best battle scenes, hmmm well that would have to be Gladiator and SVP, although Black Hawk Down was also very very good.

[KillerKadugen]

Most of my favorites have already been mentioned. I enjoyed Gettysburg and Saving Private Ryan, but I also thought that Enemy at the Gates had some neat sequences, as did Black Hawk Down, although it was almost exhausting to watch because of the constant conflict once the character building stage of the movie is finished. In terms of sci-fi, who could argue against The Matrix....I mean wow. Who would not like to be able to do the stuff they do in either of those three movies.

[Lucius Lucullus]

Well most have been mentioned, but here are my favourites

The Assault on Dog Green beach in "Saving Private Ryan"

Picketts Charge in "Gettysburg"

Most of "Platoon"

River crossing and subsequent frontal human wave assault in "Enemy at the Gates"

Neys cavalry charge in "Waterloo"

Forest battle in "Gladiator"

Naval battle in "Ben Hur"

Battle of Hoth in "The Empire Strikes back"

Stirling and Falkirk in "Braveheart" (though unhistorical, rather entertaining)



Dont get me started on Lord of the Jackson Franchise :

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

Dont get me started on Lord of the Jackson Franchise

What are you talking about?

The only thing i didn't like in LOTR was the dead army at pelloner and thats it, the battle scenes are wonderful and thats all i'm going to say about it