Best movie that captures the FE spirit and why?

[Shane Limbeck]

Some films just get it right. The attitude, the grit, the humor, the sense that life’s better when it’s a little dangerous.

What movie nails that Field Ethos spirit for you?
Could be a classic, a war film, a western, or something nobody expects.

Name it and tell us why it belongs in the lineup.

 

[Chad Adams]

The greatest shoot-em-up flick ever made?!? "Heat," Michael Mann's ballistic opus, just turned 30. Dr. Dabbs talks about the guns that made it famous.

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[sbhartgraves]

As a family once a year we make a pot of campfire beans, and a couple skillets of cornbread. We then watch Lonesome Dove start to finish. Look forward to it every year, usually on a cold day in February.

 

[jeff]

The greatest shoot-em-up flick ever made?!? "Heat," Michael Mann's ballistic opus, just turned 30. Dr. Dabbs talks about the guns that made it famous.

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This is the only acceptable answer.

 

[Ron Dan]

The greatest shoot-em-up flick ever made?!? "Heat," Michael Mann's ballistic opus, just turned 30. Dr. Dabbs talks about the guns that made it famous.

Bringing the Heat — Hardware From the Coolest Gun Movie Ever Made | Field Ethos

By Will Dabbs, MD Transcript of an actual conversation I overheard among some Army buddies whilst waiting in…

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Easily the best gun fight scene in Hollywood

 

[badgererickson]

"....captures the FE spirit and why?" Out of Africa, w/o a doubt. Robert Redford's character Dennis has a monologue in there about war, politics, and life in general; just be free and go fucking hunting and adventure. The rectangle screens of death are consuming 2-3 generations now, which is great for those of us out in the fields still...