Most Boring War-Movie

[Anthropoid]

Toward the end there you could almost SMELL the sweaty, diesel-fumey, bilge-watery oppressiveness of that can they were in, eh?

ORIGINAL: Jeffrey H.

ORIGINAL: Anthropoid

I don't know if I'm just a warmonger at heart, or if it is the anthropologist in me that enjoys watching war movies as a sort of 'ethnography' of warfare (the closest I really want to get to it, though I acknowledge it may often be inaccurate), but I've seen most of the movies mentioned here negatively (including the one with the hot nurses in the Pacific Island which shall not be named) and enjoyed all of them.

Another one that I really enjoyed, and have watched at least 3 times, but which IS boring: Das Boot.

Getting bored toward the last hour I think was part of the brilliance of that movie. It conveyed the agony of serving in one of those boats.

God DaS Boot was BORING ! so true. But it still delivered a powerful story.

[Fallschirmjager]

ORIGINAL: carnifex

All Quiet On The Western Front.

Not sure how anything negative can ever be said about this movie. It is an all time great.

[Jeffrey H.]

ORIGINAL: Anthropoid

Toward the end there you could almost SMELL the sweaty, diesel-fumey, bilge-watery oppressiveness of that can they were in, eh?

ORIGINAL: Jeffrey H.

ORIGINAL: Anthropoid

I don't know if I'm just a warmonger at heart, or if it is the anthropologist in me that enjoys watching war movies as a sort of 'ethnography' of warfare (the closest I really want to get to it, though I acknowledge it may often be inaccurate), but I've seen most of the movies mentioned here negatively (including the one with the hot nurses in the Pacific Island which shall not be named) and enjoyed all of them.

Another one that I really enjoyed, and have watched at least 3 times, but which IS boring: Das Boot.

Getting bored toward the last hour I think was part of the brilliance of that movie. It conveyed the agony of serving in one of those boats.

God DaS Boot was BORING ! so true. But it still delivered a powerful story.

Yes, and a weird sense of relief and despair at the same time.

[Hertston]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Thin Red Line was a godawful snooze-athon...

+1.

Not only is the plot a complete yawn fest but it features perhaps the world's worst actor's second hammiest ever performance (the hammiest being the unbelievably awful Cape Fear).

[anarchyintheuk]

I don't remember Keanu Reeves in TRL.

[bairdlander2]

Nick Nolte

[balto]

+1 Zakhal.

I bought the whole Pacific, Band of Brothers set. It took me about a whole DVD to realize it was really bad.

I therefore just fast forwarded to all the combat scenes.., which were pretty good, and handed it off to a friend. What a bomb.

Speaking of which, why would the Marines rush across open ground thru the airfield into dozens of unconcealed machine guns without using the ample air and arty they had. Or just circle around where all the trees were for cover. Anyway, it sucked.

[ezzler]

Thin red line and pearl harbour. But Thin Line is several boredom notches above PH.

Then

Battle Cry
The Patriot
Gods and Generals
D-Day 6th of June
The Red Baron

[warishere]

It has to be The English Patient. Its one of the most boring films ever made. I also hear a lot of people calling The Deer Hunter boring but I think its one of the best war movies ever.

[invernomuto]

The thin red line.

[planner 3]

The most saddddd war movie was..........The Pink Submarine......Cary Grant was the skipper, ........bad war movie, next worse..."Back to Batann" and "Flying Tigers", but they did sell "War Bonds".

[spelk]

Despite this was a Brittish film, and Britts are supposed to be heros and all, I found myself constantly waiting/hoping for the Argentines to come and shoot the @#%(#$^ out of the Britts and kick them right off the damn island and out of the movie. That just couldn't possibly happen fast enough...

The Argies weren't up to the job, I'm afraid.

[Schnaufer]

Hmm, I liked The Thin Red Line, bought it after I saw it in the theatre.
Must have real bad taste, lol.[:D]

[spelk]

My worst war films are The Cross Roads, and Only the Brave.

The Cross Roads was a low budget title, poorly acted with french actors playing the Americans.

Only the Brave, another low budget film depicting the Japanese-American troops fighting the Axis, with very little fighting actually going on.

Yawnfests.

[Yogi the Great]

ORIGINAL: Schnaufer

Hmm, I liked The Thin Red Line, bought it after I saw it in the theatre.
Must have real bad taste, lol.[:D]

Oh good, I was about to try it via Netflex instant view. Don't feel bad. A few of the others that are being mentioned as bad I liked as well, so my taste is probably even worse then yours. [:(]

[Obsolete]

My nominates are Gods and Generals

Yes, another boring film, and it feels even more boring since Gettysburg was filmed around the same time and was directed so much better....

But I don't know, somehow that Falklands war movie just really tested my patience... Now I know why there wasn't a part II

[Gil R.]

I believe that the most boring war movie possible has yet to be made, and would focus on the Pig War.

[Titanwarrior89]

I second this pick.[>:]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Thin Red Line was a godawful snooze-athon...

[ezzler]

Just looked on IMD. The thin red line has the most number of 5* reviews I've ever seen.
Mostly about how beautiful it is and how it was nominated for 7 oscars.

Guess this was another one of those "different plane" movies that I never seem to get.
Like Crouching Tiger and Lost in translation.

[nelmsm1]

I guess it's a matter of taste as I always watch 12 O'Clock High.  I'd have to nominate The Windtalker as another one that I absolutely refuse to watch unless I'm in the mood for a good comedy.