Warrior Movies

Results from the Best Modern Warrior Movie? poll:

Band of Brothers 31% 86

We Were Soldiers 21% 58

Blackhawk Down 12% 32

The Deuce Four Movie
Bruce Willis Never Made 11% 30

Saving Private Ryan 8% 23

300 8% 21

Lord of the Rings 5% 14

Gladiator 2% 6

Generation Kill 1% 4

The Last Samurai 1% 3

Generation Kill, on the other hand, is near the bottom. I confess I haven't seen it, but that's because I'm not an HBO subscriber and the DVD hasn't been released. I have read the book (the latest edition is now available as a bargain book at Amazon - if you've read an earlier edition, click through and read the new afterword in this version that updates the stories of many of the Marines. The book was a fair account of men at war, I'm not sure if the movie version remained true to that or if not enough people have seen it or if its a good movie that doesn't quite top the others in the list. It's one of two I haven't seen, more on the second shortly.

I have seen The Last Samurai. I'm not a Tom Cruise fan, and I didn't expect much from this, but it far exceeded my expectations. Based on poll results, this could be an "overlooked gem" among warrior movies. If you've never seen it, give it a try. (You can even rent it online for 2.99)

As for that other movie I haven't seen, it's the one you haven't seen either: The Deuce Four Movie Bruce Willis Never Made. Throughout the life of the poll it was in a neck-and-neck battle for third place.

I wrote about that movie that never was from Iraq in the summer of 2007, a time when

Encouraged by widespread opposition to the conflict in Iraq, Hollywood filmmakers are preparing to unleash an unprecedented wave of war films on moviegoers. In a notable break with the past — when antiwar films were released several years after the conflict in question — a whole new genre has been created even while American troops remain on the front lines of the war on terror.