Yeah, I conceived of it as real wars. Full Metal Jacket was a close miss for me.
Re: Paths of Glory, I think it’s one of the most bulletproof counterexamples to the claim that there are no war movies that are truly anti-war. The majority of it isn’t spent on the battlefield, but a notable chunk of it is.
FMJ always struck me as pretty anti-war, no?
I think so too. FMJ and Paths of Glory are both Kubrick, so you can expect similar worldviews even though the movies are very different from each other. I don’t really buy the line that there aren’t anti-war films, but it is a popular sentiment and I do get where it comes from; I just think it’s overly absolute. From my list, Apocalypse Now also seems clearly anti-war to me.
I hate war movies, but The Big Parade was great
Pronouns
Her
Him
Us
It
Them!
They Live
It: Chapter Two
Seven Sins
Wall Street
The Big Lebowski
John Wick
The Menu
Amadeus
The Ladies Man
Sunset Boulevard
What’s the criteria on that one?
Greed sloth wrath gluttony envy lust pride in that order
Haha thought Seven Sins was a movie
Se7en
The seventh seal
The seven year itch
Snow white and the seven dwarfs
Seven chances (Buster Keaton)
Cleo from 5 to 7
7 men from now
The Big Sleep
Happy Gilmore
12 Angry Men
Dope
Allergic to Love
M*A*S*H
Seven Movies for Seven Dwarfs
You forgot The Thin Red Line.
Bad Santa 2
But then should’nt your OP be fixed something like this:
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No no, I remember pretty clearly how much that movie bored me.
Seven Bleakest Black Mirror Episodes
The Waldo Moment
Common People
Beyond the Sea
Be Right Back
Hated in the Nation
White Christmas
Shut Up and Dance
What about “Stalingrad”? Stalingrad (1993) - IMDb
Can’t say I’ve seen that one. War movies are a lower genre for me and I tend to be slower to get to them, but there are still enough of them that pop for me that I can appreciate the best of the best.
7 FAFO films
The Nightingale
Dead Mans Shoes
Promising Young Woman
The Secret in Their Eyes (original version)
Confessions
Nocturnal Animals
I Saw the Devil
+Grumpy Old Men