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#51
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Opticsspecialist</div><div class="ubbcode-body">anyone seen "to hell and back"? i've always wanted to see it and never had a chance </div></div>

"To hell and back" and "Sergeant York" awesome flicks my dad used to get excited about and I'd watch with him. I have To hell and back on DVD. You should definetly watch these!
 
#53
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While we're at it (and I hope no one takes this as a hijack), I saw a war movie when I was kid that stuck in my head, but I can't figure out what it was. Probably a late '70s release, maybe early '80s. Cold war maybe, I just remember soldiers in snow camo advancing through snow covered pine trees at night. Red dawn, shit- don't forget Red Dawn, had a similar scene but it wasn't Red Dawn. Any ideas out there?
 
#55
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mkollman74</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The Longest Day
Patton
The Green Berets </div></div>

Hell yes, I forgot about the Green Berets. That movie rocks.. "where's my Petersahn?", "Don't worry pork chop, I'll be your Petersaahn now", classic John Wayne.
 
#56
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I guess no one has seen this one. Great period detail, true battle story, stirring music and the last cavalry charge in modern times.
"The Lighthorsemen"

Another of my favorites is also in the desert:
"Sahara",
(with Bogie not Matt McConaughey)

And perhaps the greatest movie of all time happens to be a war movie:
"Master and Commander"
 
#57
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: netranger6</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mkollman74</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The Longest Day
Patton
The Green Berets </div></div>

Hell yes, I forgot about the Green Berets. That movie rocks.. "where's my Petersahn?", "Don't worry pork chop, I'll be your Petersaahn now", classic John Wayne. </div></div>

His character is said to be largely based on the story of Larry Thorne. Interesting story by itself as you could hardly imagine many former SS Officers to serve in the US Special Forces. "Larry A. Thorne is the only American POW/MIA to fight communism under three flags - those of Finland, Germany and America."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauri_T%C3%B6rni
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/larry-thorne.htm

Two books:
http://www.amazon.com/Born-Soldier-Times-Larry-Thorne/dp/1439214379/ref=cm_lmf_tit_1
http://www.amazon.com/Soldier-Under-Three-Flags-Exploits/dp/0934793654/ref=cm_lmf_tit_2

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#58
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Mine has to be Heartbreak Ridge because growing up that is how I remember my father. He is still alive and he looks exactly like Clint Eastwood in that movie. Always talked in a low calm voice but very agressive and still kickin ass.
 
#60
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All the ones previously mentioned as well as
Bridge over River Kwai
and an awesome clssic.....Zulu with Michael Caine. Damn good movie.
 
#61
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The Soviet film "Come and see"

It's hard to use the word "favorite" about this movie because it is basically horrific. It's a must see movie, like it or not.

Video

IMDB

Comment from Wikipedia:

"The film was shot in chronological order over a period of nine months. Aleksey Kravchenko says that he underwent "the most debilitating fatigue and hunger. I kept a most severe diet, and after the filming was over I returned to school not only thin, but grey-haired."[3] The 2006 UK DVD sleeve states that the guns in the film were often loaded with live ammunition as opposed to blanks, for realism. Aleksei Kravchenko mentions in interviews that bullets sometimes passed just 4 inches (10 centimeters) above his head (such as in the cow scene)."





 
#63
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: srt</div><div class="ubbcode-body">All the ones previously mentioned as well as
Bridge over River Kwai
and an awesome clssic.....Zulu with Michael Caine. Damn good movie. </div></div>
God, how could I forget Zulu? Best war movie ever!
Some interesting trivia about the film:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058777/trivia
 
#72
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: cpt.creedmoor</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: duke308</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The Boys of Company C, R Lee's first movie roll </div></div>

i think his first was a chopper pilot in appoc now....i could be mistaken though</div></div>

Was that before or after his role as the editor in Superman
 
#74
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A ha, condenced movie list.

1. Apocalypse Now - (1979, Francis Ford Coppola, V) (Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, M. Brando)
2. All Quiet on the Western Front - (1930, Lewis Milestone, WWI) (Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim)
3. Saving Private Ryan - (1998, Steven Spielberg, WWII) (Tom Hanks, Edward Burns)
4. Schindler's List - (1993, Steven Spielberg, WWII) (Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley)
5. Platoon - (1986, Oliver Stone, V) (Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen)
6. The Bridge on the River Kwai - (1957, David Lean, WWII) (Alec Guinness, William Holden)
7. Patton - (1970, Franklin J. Schaffner, WWII) (George C. Scott, Karl Malden)
8. The Dirty Dozen - (1967, Robert Aldrich, WWII) (Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas)
9. The Longest Day - (1962,Ken Annakin, WWII) (John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum)
10. From Here to Eternity - (1953, Fred Zinnemann, WWII) (Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift)
11. Sergeant York - (1941, Howard Hawks, WWI) (Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan)
12. The Great Escape - (1963, John Sturges, WWII) (Steve McQueen, James Garner)
13. Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei Eisenstein, Odessa revolt-1905) (Alexander Antonov)
14. Das Boot - (1981, W. Ger. Wolfgang Peterson, WWII) (Jurgen Procnow)
15. The Deer Hunter - (1978, Michael Cimino, V) (Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep)
16. Full Metal Jacket - (1987, Stanley Kubrick, V) (Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin)
17. Letters From Iwo Jima - (2006, Clint Eastwood, WWII) (Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya)
18. A Bridge Too Far - (1977, Richard Attenborough, WWII) (Dirk Bogarde, Michael Caine)
19. The Guns of Navarone - (1961, J. Lee Thompson, WWII) (Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn)
20. Open City - (1945, Roberto Rossellini, WWII) (Vito Annicchiarico, Nando Bruno)
21. Midway - (1976, Jack Smight, WWII) (Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, Toshiro Mifune)
22. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo - (1944, Mervyn LeRoy, WWII) (Van Johnson, Robert Walker)
23. The Thin Red Line - (1998, Terrence Malick, WWII) (Sean Penn, Nick Nolte)
24. Tora! Tora! Tora! - (1970, Richard Fleischer, WWII) (Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten)
25. Black Hawk Down - (2001, Ridley Scott, Somalia) (Ewan McGregor, Josh Hartnett)
26. Stalag 17 - (1953, Billy Wilder, WWII) (William Holden, Otto Preminger)
27. Battle of Britain - (1969, Guy Hamilton, WWII) (Michael Caine, R. Shaw, Laurence Olivier)
28. The Story of G.I. Joe - (1945, William Wellman, WWII) (Robert Mitchum, Burgess Meredith)
29. The Desert Fox - (1951, Henry Hathaway, WWII) (James Mason, Richard Boone)
30. Paths Of Glory - (1957, Stanley Kubrick, WWI) (Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker)
31. Wings - (1927, William Wellman, WWI) (Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Gary Cooper)
32. Battleground - (1949, William Wellman, WWII) (Van Johnson, Ricardo Montalban)
33. In Harm's Way - (1965, Otto Preminger, WWII) (John Wayne, Kirk Douglas)
34. MacArthur - (1977, Joseph Sargent, WWII, K) (Gregory Peck, Ed Flanders)
35. Pork Chop Hill - (1959, Lewis Milestone, Korea) (Gregory Peck, George Peppard)
36. The Big Parade - (1925, King Vidor, WWI) (John Gilbert, Renée Adorée)
37. Where Eagles Dare - (1969, Brian G. Hutton, WWII) (Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood)
38. The Desert Rats - (1953, Robert Wise, WWII) (Richard Burton, James Mason)
39. Battle of the Bulge - (1965, Ken Annakin, WWII) (Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw)
40. The Blue Max - (1966, John Guillermin, WWI) (George Peppard, James Mason)
41. The Caine Mutiny - (1954, Edward Dmytryk, WWII) (Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer)
42. The Train - (1965, John Frankenheimer, WWII) (Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield)
43. Back to Bataan - (1944, Edward Dmytryk, WWII) (John Wayne, Anthony Quinn)
44. Many Wars Ago (aka Uomini Contro) - (1970, Francesco Rosi, WWI) (Mark Frechette, Alain Cuny)
45. Guadalcanal Diary - (1943, Lewis Seiler, WWII) (Preston Foster, Anthony Quinn)
46. The Big Red One - (1980, Samuel Fuller, WWII) (Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine)
47. Sink the Bismarck - (1960, Lewis Gilbert,WWII) (Kenneth More, Dana Wynter)
48. They Were Expendable - (1945, John Ford, WWII) (Robert Montgomery, John Wayne)
49. Closely Watched Trains - (1966, Czech., Jirí Menzel, WWII) (Vaclav Neckar, Jitka Bendova)
50. The Dawn Patrol - (1938, Edmund Goulding, WWI) (Errol Flynn, David Niven)
51. Sahara - (1943, Zoltan Korda, WWII) (Humphrey Bogart, Lloyd Bridges)
52. In Which We Serve - (1942, Noel Coward, David Lean, WWII) (Noel Coward, John Mills)
53. The Young Lions - (1958, Edward Dmytryk, WWII) (Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift)
54. Battle Cry - (1955, Raoul Walsh, WWII) (Van Heflin, James Whitmore, Anne Francis)
55. Flags of Our Fathers - (2006, Clint Eastwood, WWII) (Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford)
56. Soldier of Orange - (1978, Netherlands, Paul Verhoeven, WWII) (Rutger Hauer)
57. Halls of Montezuma - (1950, Lewis Milestone, WWII) (Richard Widmark, Karl Malden)
58. The Fighting Sullivans - (1944, Lloyd Bacon, WWII) (Thomas Mitchell, Ward Bond)
59. The Bridges at Toko-Ri - (1954, Mark Robson, K) (William Holden, Mickey Rooney)
60. Destination Tokyo - (1943, Delmer Daves, WWII) (Cary Grant, John Forsythe)
61. Kelly's Heroes - (1970, Brian G. Hutton, WWII) (Clint Eastwood, Donald Sutherland)
62. The Bridge at Remagen - (1969, John Guillermin, WWII) (George Segal, Robert Vaughn)
63. Sands of Iwo Jima - (1949, Allan Dwan, WWII) (John Wayne, John Agar)
64. To Hell and Back - (1955, Jesse Hibbs, WWII) (Audie Murphy, David Janssen)
65. The Lost Patrol - (1943, John Ford, WWI) (Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff)
66. Von Ryan's Express - (1965, Mark Robson, WWII) (Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard)
67. Wake Island - (1942, John Farrow, WWII) (Robert Preston, Macdonald Carey)
68. The Boys in Company C - (1977, Sidney J. Furie, V) (Stan Shaw, Andrew Stevens)
69. Objective, Burma! - (1945, Raoul Walsh, WWII) (Errol Flynn, Henry Hull)
70. Twelve O'Clock High - (1949, Henry King, WWII) (Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe)
71. Operation Pacific - (1951, George Waggner, WWII) (John Wayne, Patricia Neal)
72. Gallipoli - (1981, Australia, Peter Weir, WWI) (Mel Gibson, Mark Lee)
73. Flying Leathernecks - (1951, Nicholas Ray, WWII) (John Wayne, Robert Ryan)
74. Memphis Belle - (1990, Michael Caton-Jones, WWII) (Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz)
75. Run Silent, Run Deep - (1958, Robert Wise, WWII) (Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster)
76. The Tuskegee Airmen - (1995, Robert Markowitz, WWII) (Laurence Fishburne, Allen Payne)
77. Kanal - (1957, Andrzej Wajda, WWII) (Wienczyslaw Glinski)
78. Courage Under Fire - (1996, Edward Zwick, Iraq'91) (Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan)
79. The Sand Pebbles - (1966, Robert Wise, China uprising 1926) (Steve McQueen)
80. 633 Squadron - (1964, Walter Grauman, WWII) (Cliff Robertson, Harry Andrews)
81. Casualties of War - (1989, Brian De Palma, V) (Sean Penn, Michael J. Fox)
82. Cross of Iron - (1977, Sam Peckinpah, WWII) (James Coburn, James Mason)
83. Force 10 From Navarone - (1978, Guy Hamilton, WWII) (Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford)
84. Hell Is For Heroes - (1962, Don Siegel WWII) (Steve McQueen, James Coburn)
85. Too Late the Hero - (1969, Robert Aldrich, WWII) (Michael Caine, Denholm Elliott)
86. Merrill's Marauders - (1962, Samuel Fuller, WWII) (Jeff Chandler, Ty Hardin, Claude Akins)
87. Enemy at the Gates - (2001, Jean-Jacques Annaud WWII) (Joseph Fiennes, Ed Harris)
88. A Midnight Clear - (1992, Keith Gordon, WWII) (Ethan Hawke, Gary Sinise)
89. Dunkirk - (1958, Leslie Norman, WWII) (John Mills, Richard Attenborough)
90. The Green Berets - (1968, Ray Kellogg, V) (John Wayne, David Janssen)
91. The Story of Dr. Wassell - (1944, Cecil B. DeMille, WWII) (Gary Cooper, Laraine Day)
92. Three Kings - (1999, David O. Russell, Iraq'91) (George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg)
93. Operation Crossbow - (1965, Michael Anderson, WWII) (George Peppard, Sophia Loren)
94. The Naked and the Dead - (1958, Raoul Walsh, WWII) (Aldo Ray, Cliff Robertson)
95. Jarhead - (2005, Sam Mendes, Desert Storm) (Jamie Foxx, Jake Gyllenhaal)
96. King Rat - (1965, Bryan Forbes, WWII) (George Segal, Denholm Elliott)
97. Heartbreak Ridge - (1986, Clint Eastwood, Grenada) (Clint Eastwood, Mario Van Peebles)
98. Stalingrad - (1992, Joseph Vilsmaier, WWII) (Dominique Horwitz)
99. Torpedo Run - (1958, Joseph Pevney, WWII) (Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine)
100. A Walk in the Sun - (1945, Lewis Milestone, WWII) (Dana Andrews, Lloyd Bridges)

The Pacific and Band of Brothers

1. Glory - (1989, Edward Zwick) (Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington)
2. Gettysburg - (1993, Ronald F. Maxwell) (Martin Sheen, Tom Berenger)
3. North and South - (1985, Richard T. Heffron, TV) (Patrick Swayze, James Read)
4. The Red Badge of Courage - (1951, John Huston) (Audie Murphy, Bill Mauldin)
5. Shenandoah - (1965, Andrew V. McLaglen) (James Stewart, Doug McClure)
6. Gone With the Wind - (1939, Victor Fleming) (Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh)
7. Andersonville - (1996, John Frankenheimer, TV) (Frederic Forrest, William H. Macy)
8. Ride With The Devil - (1999, Ang Lee) (Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich)
9. Gods and Generals - (2003, Ronald F. Maxwell) (Jeff Daniels, Robert Duvall)
10. The Horse Soldiers - (1959, John Ford) (John Wayne, William Holden)


1. M*A*S*H - (1970, Robert Altman, K) (Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland)
2. Dr. Strangelove - (1964, Stanley Kubrick, Cold War) (Peter Sellers, George C. Scott)
3. Mister Roberts - (1955, John Ford, WWII) (Henry Fonda, James Cagney)
4. Catch-22 - (1970, Mike Nichols, WWII) (Alan Arkin, Richard Benjamin)
5. Operation Petticoat - (1959, Blake Edwards, WWII) (Cary Grant, Tony Curtis)
6. Good Morning, Vietnam - (1987, Barry Levinson, V) (Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker)
7. Stripes - (1981, Ivan Reitman, Cold War) (Bill Murray, Harold Ramis)
8. Private Benjamin - (1980, Howard Zieff) (Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan)
9. Tropic Thunder - (2008, Ben Stiller) (Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr.)
10. The Secret War of Harry Frigg - (1968, Jack Smight, WWII) (Paul Newman, Sylva Koscina)
11. Operation Petticoat - (1959) (Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Gavin MacLeod)
12. Top Secret! - (1984, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, David Zucker, WWII) (Val Kilmer)
13. How I Won the War - (1967, Richard Lester, WWII) (Michael Crawford, John Lennon)
14. What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? - (1966, Blake Edwards, WWII) (James Coburn)
15. McHale's Navy - (1964, Edward J. Montagne Jr., WWII) (Ernest Borgnine, Tim Conway)
16. Wake Me When It's Over - (1960, Mervyn LeRoy, WWII) (Ernie Kovacs, Dick Shawn)
17. Sailor Beware - (1951, Hal Walker, WWII) (Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis)
18. Operation Snatch - (1962, Robert Day, WWII) (Terry-Thomas, Lionel Jeffries)
 
#75
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List condensed from this post.

300
30 Seconds over Tokyo
5 days of war
9th Company
A Bridge Too Far
Apocalypse Now
Band of Brothers
Bat 21
Bataan!
Behind Enemy Lines
Blackhawk Down
Breaker Morant
Bridge over the River Kwai
Charge of the Light Brigade
Cockshell Heroes
Das Boot (Director's cut)
Empire of the Sun
Enemy at the Gates
Flags of Our Fathers
Full Metal Jacket
Gettysburg
Glory
Go Tell the Spartans
Hamburger Hill
Hanoi Hilton
Heartbreak Ridge
Horatio Hornblower
Ingloriuos Basterds
Lawrence of Arabia
Letters from Iwo Jima
Longest day
MacArthur
Master and Commander
Midway
Mongol
Patton
Platoon
Pork Chop Hill
Pride of the Marines
Red Dawn
Rescue Dawn
Restrepo
River Kwai
Rough Riders
Saboteur
Saving Private Ryan
SGT York
Sgt York
Siege on Firebase Gloria
Stalingrad
The Battle of Britain
The Dam Busters (like the dog)
The Deer Hunter
The Dirty Dozen
The Great Escape
The Green Berets
The Longest Day
The Lost Battalion
The Pacific
The Patriot
Thin Red Line (both Versions)
Tora! Tora! Tora!
We Were Soldiers
Where Eagles Dare
Zulu Dawn
 
#90
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I kind of hated Heartbreak Ridge. A lot of stupid side story about annoying "marines" and then a crappy combat scene at the end. No offense, just don't see what people liked about it.

One of my favorites is Last of the Mohicans. Classic Americana, the way it should be. "Does english law no longer govern?" "There is a war on, how is it you are headed west?Well you just face north and real sudden like turn left!"
 
#91
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: verdugo60</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I kind of hated Heartbreak Ridge. A lot of stupid side story about annoying "marines" and then a crappy combat scene at the end. No offense, just don't see what people liked about it.

One of my favorites is Last of the Mohicans. Classic Americana, the way it should be. "Does english law no longer govern?" "There is a war on, how is it you are headed west?Well you just face north and real sudden like turn left!" </div></div>

I guess the older I get the more I identify with Clint Eastwood's character.

After thinking about, "Saving Private Ryan" is probably my favorite. I get chocked up every time I see the last scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOatpR4mf_o

If that doesn't get ya check for a pulse.
 
#92
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Saving Private Ryan--despite the tactical/planning WTF, it's a great film

Blackhawk Down--though it's hard to watch knowing good men died because the politicians made terrible decisions

Braveheart--the battle scenes were epic

The Patriot is great too

Band of Brothers
 
#93
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Platoon is pretty much a classic-

The Pacific was awesome. I read Eugene Sledge's book and I honestly think it was underdone.

Band of Brothers was excellent.

If there was a good movie that really grabbed the feel of the Infantry mission in Iraq on the ground, I didn't see it.
 
#94
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: verdugo60</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I kind of hated Heartbreak Ridge. A lot of stupid side story about annoying "marines" and then a crappy combat scene at the end. No offense, just don't see what people liked about it.

</div></div>

THere are so many reasons to hate Heartbreak Ridge. First, it was written as a Army movie, but they didn't like the script and refused to support it.
So it was rewritten as a former soldier who ditches the Dogfaces and joins the Corps. he had a MOH, right? Good luck that happening.
Then the unit. They were supposed to be Force Recon, which was only at Lejeune (2nd force Recon Company). They are the best in the Corps, not dirtballs and misfits. They also don't have much to do with Grunt Units. They never train with them as a unit. They are the Seal Team 6 of the Corps. They are not 2nd Recob Bn, which does attach out Plt's to Units like BLT's for deployments.
And they were using Pendleton and Gomer Pyle Quonset huts (probably the same buildings as that show) as a substitute for Camp Lejeune NC! Clint must have wanted to commute to his Malibu house every night.
Heartbreak Ridge was a disgrace. The Corps should have passed on it too, like they did FMJ and The Boys in Company C.
 
#97
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enemy at the gates is god, but call me gay i like the pearl harbor movie probly the best, the band of brothers is probly the best ever hands down but because it was a series i cant count it in my opinion
 
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