Are there any good Gulf War movies?

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Fireberg@reddit

Jarhead (2005). My dad said that is exactly what it looked like when he was there. From digging your hole in the desert to stirring the burning shit all very accurate.

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Such_Elevator_8408@reddit

You have no idea how happy it made me to see this as the first comment

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Avenger007_@reddit

that took place after the war though

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jeremiah1142@reddit

Yeah, I realized that after I was reading the plot on Wikipedia after posting the comment. Lol.

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RightYouAreKen1@reddit

Infinity. Lexus never did a convertible (till after the movie was made anyway).

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Drew707@reddit (OP)

I forgot about that one. That was pretty good!

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KoRaZee@reddit

Can’t think of any, but there were trading cards produced with generals, tanks, and planes. How weird was that?

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Darmok47@reddit

I remember those for the 2003 Iraq War. I remember guys at my middle school had them.

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RikardOsenzi@reddit

The Upper Deck ones were much better than the Topps ones. I have no idea where mine ended up.

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I have the entire set. My grandpa was a huge war buff and bought a ton of these cards. After he passed away, my grandma gave me a box with all his trading cards in them and there was an entire set of these. I didn't know what to do with them, so I kept them just because they were so quirky.

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KoRaZee@reddit

I was just a big card collector at the time with tons of baseball cards. So it just fit to collect these cards too I suppose.

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Fappy_as_a_Clam@reddit

I had some of those! I kind of wish I still had them, they'd be pretty cool to see nowadays.

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SanchosaurusRex@reddit

Didn’t the Simpsons reference a Stormin Norman trading card or something? I definitely had a Ninja Turtle that was Desert Stormed theme. I loved it.

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Drew707@reddit (OP)

Sounds pretty fucking weird, but I would have been 2.

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KoRaZee@reddit

I’m pretty sure I still have them in a box somewhere. Just like baseball cards but war stuff. Definitely not what we would expect today.

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CoffeeExtraCream@reddit

Check out the show *Generation Kill*

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5littlemonkey@reddit

That series was about the Gulf War sequel.

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CoffeeExtraCream@reddit

You're right, I mixed it up in my head which war that was

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DaCrowHunter@reddit

Funny thing I learned at my last VA visit. They consider one big event. So my Dad, who was part of Desert Shield and my time in Afghanistan 2 decades later are considered the same conflict.

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docthrobulator@reddit

Courage Under Fire (1996) was decent

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kastbort2021@reddit

[Bravo Two Zero \(1999\)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120617) is a British movie, following SAS troops during a failed mission in Iraq - it's ages since I watched it, but IIRC it was pretty decent. Based on true events.

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Luka_Dunks_on_Bums@reddit

It’s kind of hard because the war lasted 6 weeks when America and its allies invaded and most of it was bombing before the troops moved in

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Drew707@reddit (OP)

That makes sense.

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JuanoldDraper@reddit

I'm going to second Jarhead here. If Savings Private Ryan is the most authentic depiction of war combat in film, Jarhead is the most authentic depiction of everything *outside* of combat in film.

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schismtomynism@reddit

I'd argue that Generation Kill takes the cake for both circumstances

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Drew707@reddit (OP)

OK. Putting it on now.

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MarcusAurelius0@reddit

We Three Kings is a fictional movie set during the Gulf War.

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Carloverguy20@reddit

Jarhead was good!! Jake Gyllenhaal, Jaimie Foxx, Dennis Haysbert! Good movie!!

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Avenger007_@reddit

There was a hindi film with Akshay Kumar that was denounced by the Qatari government because it showed the royal family abandoning the country. Beyond that the war was so short its main influence in pop culture was how other fictional films were told.

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Drew707@reddit (OP)

Thanks, I'll check that out.

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Avenger007_@reddit

I don't think it covered the Gulf war but it did cover the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait mostly from the migrant worker perspective.

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SlamClick@reddit

Jarhead is pretty good.

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Drew707@reddit (OP)

That's one I've always heard of but hadn't seen. I might put it on tonight. Thanks!

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FailFastandDieYoung@reddit

Just from what I remember (haven't seen it in a long time), it's not a "war movie" in the sense of Saving Private Ryan. It's more about the hardships of the Marine experience, and specifically how the Gulf war experience was mostly out of combat.

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