Funny, was just discussing favourite WWII movies with my roommates a few nights ago -- while watching Ken Burns's _The War_ on PBS.
I mentioned _The Longest Day_, _A Bridge Too Far_, and the silly/cynical _Kelly's Heroes_ (which I first saw shortly after it came out, with my whole immediate family; the nine of us taking up nearly an entire row in a tiny Northern Ontario cinema, during a very rainy camping trip on Lake Superior; I must've been five or six!)
But I think my favourite has to be _Bridge Over the River Kwai_. Besides the brilliant Alec Guiness and a fine script, you have a climax that illustrates the uselessness of special effects, especially models. There's really no substitute for really blowing up a real bridge with a real train going across it :)
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I mentioned _The Longest Day_, _A Bridge Too Far_, and the silly/cynical _Kelly's Heroes_ (which I first saw shortly after it came out, with my whole immediate family; the nine of us taking up nearly an entire row in a tiny Northern Ontario cinema, during a very rainy camping trip on Lake Superior; I must've been five or six!)
But I think my favourite has to be _Bridge Over the River Kwai_. Besides the brilliant Alec Guiness and a fine script, you have a climax that illustrates the uselessness of special effects, especially models. There's really no substitute for really blowing up a real bridge with a real train going across it :)