Most Boring War-Movie

[decaro]

ORIGINAL: Fallschirmjager
... In fact, I am having trouble thinking of any good ACW movies.

The Red Badge of Courage w/real life hero Audie Murphy and an all star cast that remained faithful to the original story.

[Fallschirmjager]

ORIGINAL: Gil R.

ORIGINAL: Fallschirmjager
In fact, I am having trouble thinking of any good ACW movies.

"The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" is the best I can think of.

Which is not even an ACW movie. It is a spaghetti western that just happens to be set in the ACW.

I guess Gone With the Wind is an ACW movie and it is pretty good.

[Fallschirmjager]

ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

ORIGINAL: Fallschirmjager

ORIGINAL: ezz

Gods and Generals

I think this is probably my pick. I am a huge Civil War fan but this moving just flat our bored me to death. Add to the fact that it is over three hours long...
It is not that the movie is bad. I would not call it terrible. It is just flat and lifeless. And the southern accents are also pretty badly done.

There was supossed to be a sequel about the last days of the war, but Gods and Generals lost over 40 million dollars so it was never made.

There was also another Civil War movie called Cold Mountain that was also incredibly yawn inducing.
In fact, I am having trouble thinking of any good ACW movies.

Having grown up on the battlefields of Virginia (dad was the historian at Richmond Battlefield so we lived in the Watt House), I have always managed to overlook the long, boring interludes between a couple of excellent battle depictions (they did a beautiful job of Fredericksburg).

And they did get the Virginia accents down pretty good. I get reminded of this on a regular basis because my grade school principle lives nearby and he has an old school Tidewater Virginia accent - much like some of those in the movie.

I grew up in the mid south and went to college and law school in Virginia for six years. The accents were terrible and one can tell they were done by those who ordinarily speak something else.
Most southern accents in movies are pretty badly done. Forrest Gump has among the worst despite being a fantastic movie in every other respect.

[Fallschirmjager]

ORIGINAL: sprior

SPIKE trick, which was used by the English against the French at Agincourt. It seems indeed to have been decisive,

No, it was the longbow that did the worst damage.

I would say the mud did even move.

[martok]

ORIGINAL: Marshal Villars

William Wallace LIVED.

Um, no he didn't. He was captured and executed by the English just like in the movie (although undoubtedly the actual circumstances of his capture differ from how it was depicted in the film).


In any case, though, I agree with your overall assessment. I love Braveheart as a film, but I despise it as an "accurate" historical adaptation.

[KG Erwin]

Do many of you find movies boring because of the content, or is it because your attention spans can't last beyond one minute? Sure, as I get older, I have the same problem, but I frankly do NOT think HBO's "The Pacific" miniseries was boring. Heck, I thought parts of "Band of Brothers" WAS boring, but that's my personal opinion.

[bradfordkay]

ORIGINAL: Fallschirmjager

ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

ORIGINAL: Fallschirmjager



I think this is probably my pick. I am a huge Civil War fan but this moving just flat our bored me to death. Add to the fact that it is over three hours long...
It is not that the movie is bad. I would not call it terrible. It is just flat and lifeless. And the southern accents are also pretty badly done.

There was supossed to be a sequel about the last days of the war, but Gods and Generals lost over 40 million dollars so it was never made.

There was also another Civil War movie called Cold Mountain that was also incredibly yawn inducing.
In fact, I am having trouble thinking of any good ACW movies.

Having grown up on the battlefields of Virginia (dad was the historian at Richmond Battlefield so we lived in the Watt House), I have always managed to overlook the long, boring interludes between a couple of excellent battle depictions (they did a beautiful job of Fredericksburg).

And they did get the Virginia accents down pretty good. I get reminded of this on a regular basis because my grade school principal lives nearby and he has an old school Tidewater Virginia accent - much like some of those in the movie.

I grew up in the mid south and went to college and law school in Virginia for six years. The accents were terrible and one can tell they were done by those who ordinarily speak something else.
Most southern accents in movies are pretty badly done. Forrest Gump has among the worst despite being a fantastic movie in every other respect.

My take is that one of the actors (I forget who it was) had a voice and accent that was a dead ringer for John Clarke, my principal from Richmond (who I see on a fairly regular basis out here). You say that they were terrible, and yet one sounds just like an older native Virginian from the Tidewater region... I guess that we're just going to have to agree to disagree on this one.

[ilovestrategy]

ORIGINAL: KG Erwin

Do many of you find movies boring because of the content, or is it because your attention spans can't last beyond one minute? Sure, as I get older, I have the same problem, but I frankly do NOT think HBO's "The Pacific" miniseries was boring. Heck, I thought parts of "Band of Brothers" WAS boring, but that's my personal opinion.

Some of them are just plain boring. A lot of it depends on what makes it boring for you. Battle of the Bulge bores me to tears because it's so inaccurate. It's a chore for me to sit through.

The Thin Red Line bores me because of all the dialogue which has nothing to do with the movie. If it would have been shorter it would have been great.

I agree with Band of Brothers, as much as I love the series, parts of it bored me.

I can't believe someone labeled Kally's Hero's boring. I laugh everytime I think of Carrol O'Connor talking about the ionosphere! [:D]

[ezzler]

I wouldn't say battle of the bulge is boring. Nor Kelly's Heroes. they're quite pacy movies. Inaccurate and unbelievable,sure. But not boring.
But The Red Baron was boring. Watched it very recently. It manages to be inaccurate,unbelievable, unlikely,  and revisionist. Now Gladiator is all those things but is still a good movie, same way that Braveheart is.

The Red Baron isn't. Manfred the pacifist? What were they thinking? Some complained about the meetings between Brown and the Baron on the ground. They have a point. Not because they are historical inventions, but because they are so monumentally dull.
A truly BORING film.

[Canoerebel]

Nobody described Kelly's Heroes as boring. The criticism was that it is an awful movie, which it is. Those of us who think it is among the worst movies ever made cannot comprehend how others feel the opposite way, and vice versa.

[sabre1]

Thin Red Line, followed by the one that must not be named.

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: sabre1

Thin Red Line, followed by the one that must not be named.

Warspite1

The one that must not be named? What - you mean Pearl Harbor? [:D]

[diablo1]

you mean Pearl Harbor?

With John Wayne and Maude?!

When you get down to it though "Midway" wasn't that great either.

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: diablo1

you mean Pearl Harbor?

When you get down to it though "Midway" wasn't that great either.

Warspite1

No, but it was better than Pearl Harbor...in fact every film ever made has been better than that Pearl Harbor tripe - how could they have released such bilge?

[diablo1]

Oh I know another one.

PT-109

[bradfordkay]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: diablo1

you mean Pearl Harbor?

When you get down to it though "Midway" wasn't that great either.

Warspite1

No, but it was better than Pearl Harbor...in fact every film ever made has been better than that Pearl Harbor tripe - how could they have released such bilge?

Pearl Harbor was a chick flick with an ahistorical background. In that it succeeded quite well...

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: diablo1



When you get down to it though "Midway" wasn't that great either.

Warspite1

No, but it was better than Pearl Harbor...in fact every film ever made has been better than that Pearl Harbor tripe - how could they have released such bilge?

Pearl Harbor was a chick flick with an ahistorical background. In that it succeeded quite well...

Warspite1

You may be right, but personally, I do not buy that at all. If the film makers wanted to make a "chick flick" set against the background of an (in)famous day in history then they would surely have called it something else. Calling a film Pearl Harbor says in big red letters about 100 foot tall - "Women stay away as this is war film and you will be bored witless".

I believe - and it is this that makes the end product quite correctly such a target for scorn - that the intention was to make a proper war movie - i.e. something that would appeal to men, but would have a love interest to ensure that there was a degree of universal appeal. That of course is a perfectly acceptable and well worn path - but it does not necessarily follow that in going down that path, the producers/directors/script writers of this film had to leave their brains at the door [:-].

Sorry, but that film was just dumb in just about every way possible. "I think World War II just started" - AAARRGGHHH [:@][:@][:@][8|][:@][8|][8|][8|]

Worst. War. Film. Ever [X(].

[simovitch]

In that genre, Shenandoah with Jimmy Stewart is one of my all time favorite movies. Great for the family movie night as well.

[RangerX3X]

Pearl Harbor is not a bad movie. It did what it needed to do to appeal to a broad and disconnected audience. It accomplished this task and thus was an overall failure to most people. You cannot have a romance intertwined with an action movie on any successful level.

However let’s face it, the movie covered some things that a lot of students in today’s government schools have no idea ever took place:

• The attack on Pearl Harbor itself
• The Doolittle Raid
• Volunteer airmen flying for the British before war was officially declared
• The screening process airmen, sailors & soldiers had to endure just to “strap in”.

Sure, Ben Affleck is no John Wayne, but the movie was educational if anything else.

[andym]

to turn this on its head.....The BEST war films of all time are

Cross of Iron
Das Boot
The 9th Company