1990s
War movies from the 1990’s
Saving Private Ryan (1998, Blu Ray)
Saving Private Ryan (1998, Blu Ray) Well, its finally happened!! Saving Private Ryan is available on Blu Ray! Awesome! I’m going to leave the gist of things to my other review of Saving Private Ryan, based on the DVD, and stick to the Blu here. In short. Wow. I can honestly say that this was like watching... »
Braveheart (1995, Blu Ray)
If you haven’t seen 1995’s Braveheart by now, you’ve probably been living under a rock, or in some remote Gobi-desert cave or something. I mean, really. The tale of William Wallace, 13th century champion of Scottish independence, Braveheart is indeed an epic film in every sense of the word. Painted here as a simple man from... »
Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)
2006’s Rescue Dawn was the story of US Navy pilot Dieter Dengler, as he was shot down over Vietnam, and his successful escape from the POW camp, the only person ever to achieve such a feat. Little Dieter Needs to Fly is a documentary of that same story, told from the man himself, Dieter Dengler. ... »
Heaven & Earth (1993)
Heaven & Earth is Oliver Stone’s final entry in his Vietnam Trilogy, and likely the most controversial of the three. Following the trials of a Vietnamese girl, Le Ly (Bussaro Sanruck) from a young girl at the outset of the war, all the way through to far after. Share and Enjoy: »
Flight of the Intruder (1991)
I really wish I could nail down what Flight of the Intruder is trying to be. I think the problem is it tries to be too much, and fill too many different ‘roles’ as a movie that it never really succeeds at any of them. If that makes any sense. Maybe another case of... »
In The Army Now (1994)
Kind of like that quote from Beetlejuice, “it just gets funnier, every time I see it!!” Yeah, so I like Pauly Shore’s In The Army Now. Not because I’m a child of the late 80s and early 90s, but just because it really is funny, and its got a decent story and isn’t too... »
Stalingrad (1993)
I’m not even sure how to begin with (or end, or even put the stuff in the middle of) this review. On the one hand, Stalingrad is a stark depiction of what it must have been like during the battle of the same name. Full of vivid, graphic, and disturbing imagery, it... »
The Thin Red Line (1998)
1998’s The Thin Red Line takes us to Guadalcanal in the South Pacific. Based on the novel of the same name by James Jones, its a long and arduous journey into… …well I’m still trying to figure that out. The Thin Red Line is a visual masterpiece, I will give you that. But there is... »
Sniper (1993)
In 1993’s Sniper, we travel to Central America to fight the good fight in the “war on drugs,” er, I think. No, actually we’re playing CIA games to try and meddle in the affairs of nations. Yeah, that’s better. Anyway, we find veteran expert sniper Thomas Beckett (Tom Berenger) sent off to eliminate the army... »
Three Kings (1999)
I guess since the first Gulf War (at least on the ground) only lasted a couple of months, there probably aren’t a lot of stories to tell. At least we can fall back on Three Kings to fill in the gap. Somewhat a re-telling of the Kelly’s Heroes story, it follows four soldiers in their... »
