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Oh, yeah--the de Ruyter Admiral movie is well-done. There's some great performances, there's some pretty good work with boats and battles, and it doesn't skimp-out on the clusterfuck politics of the Netherlands. Haven't seen the Admiral movie about Kolchak, but have seen it referenced before...

Unquestionably great movie...Top 5 'War Movie', though? I dunnow. It kind of goes heavy on spy-genre stuff for a lot of the runtime before becoming an action-fest, and is kind of the height of 'killin' naw-sees' 70s awesome where themes and messages takes a backseat to bursting blood-packets and...

'We Were Soldiers' and, of course, 'Apocalypse Now' both rank high-up there as good ones to watch that everyone recognizes and should just for sheer pop-cultural value (Apocalypse Now especially), but also because I think they do a good job of presenting the different 'faces' of the Vietnam war...