What's Your worst war movie ever

[gunny]

If I had to pick one:

Sergeant Steiner.

The sequel to Cross of Iron with Richard Burton. I guess somebody couldn't accept a ficticious hero who was not only a skilled soldier but could also maintain an ant-war sentiment while fighting for survival on the side of the NAZIs. So the solution was to transfer him to the western front, then have him become a traitor, join the enemy and kill his best friend. Willi Heinrich must of rolled over in his grave when this came out.

[Hertston]

The Green Berets. `Nuff said.

[ShermanM4]

The Patriot with Mel Gibson. All around just plain stupid.

[Lars Remmen]

Pearl Harbour.

Regards,

Lars

[riverbravo]

WINDTALKERS.....this movie to me is the most piece of crap movie I have ever see.

Yup,Cage kills em all,with the rare tommy gun in the pacific.He's poppin pills cuz he's hard-core all while baby-sitting a navajo....yadda yadda yadda.

The bad thing is,it coulda been a geat movie!It had a good plot but it was hollywoodized into utter BS.

[KG Erwin]

I'll agree with Riverbravo in that Windtalkers was such a disappointment--director John Woo made a "Rambo on Saipan" that simply blew wind. However, my bottom choice is still 1965's Battle of the Bulge-- they picked locations in Spain to represent the Ardennes??

[Sarge]

Well....... I will save my vote for the Battle of Britain staring Tom Cruise [8|]. Think its due out sometime in 05.

[pasternakski]

Brady's imagination.

[VictorH]

I have to say all Mel Gibson's War Movies. The reason being they are portrayed as Historically accurate, but in reality are just the opposite. The British never behaved like the SS in the Revolution, although to be fair there were massacres on both sides.

[Pippin]

Well this would be a tuff one. I have to admit there are a LOT of bad war movies, so I tend to avoid them. One that got quite a few of us upset over here was U-571... Once again not only did they attempt to re-write history, they got it totaly wrong! I especialy take offense when I see them stating credits at the end that are totaly & factualy wrong. Further more, the dates and not to mention numerous other items were totaly in error.

BTW, can someone tell me WHAT ON EARTH is a German battleship doing out in the middle of the atlantic at that time? Sheesh! What another bitchslap to the Brits. Come on...

Won't be very many British, or German fans watching that movie again...

Sadest part is, kids who watch it are taking it as fact....



P.S.. I do have a confession to make, I have somewhat watched Rambo III more than once in my life. I won't attempt to make excuses for myself on that one.....But at least you're SUPPOSED to realize you're watching fiction!

[Ron Saueracker]

ORIGINAL: Sarge

Well....... I will save my vote for the Battle of Britain staring Tom Cruise [8|]. Think its due out sometime in 05.

What? Please...no.

[Raverdave]

ORIGINAL: Sarge

Well....... I will save my vote for the Battle of Britain staring Tom Cruise [8|]. Think its due out sometime in 05.

*Gasp* What ???????????? Got any website details????????????

[Sarge]

ORIGINAL: Raverdave


*Gasp* What ???????????? Got any website details????????????

The movie will be about Cruise im sure. Not the real life of Billy Fiske who volunteered with a hand full of other American flyers for the battle of Britain. But yes as far as I know Hollyweird is-or was (not 100% sure) hard at work on this [8|]

[Raverdave]

Thanks for the update......yeah it would be great if you could find a web site.....the ONE thing that I liked about the movie Pearl Harbour was the air to air shots of BoB.

[Makoto]

I'm not nominationg "A Bridge To Far" but I have a question about the movie. After the Irish Guards jump off we have the whole bombardment scene with the bomber planes. I'm wondering if those were accurate, they look like Hawk 75 A3 or A4s to me, were the Brits still using those in 1944?

[stubby331]

ORIGINAL: riverbravo

WINDTALKERS.....this movie to me is the most piece of crap movie I have ever see.

Yup,Cage kills em all,with the rare tommy gun in the pacific.He's poppin pills cuz he's hard-core all while baby-sitting a navajo....yadda yadda yadda.

The bad thing is,it coulda been a geat movie!It had a good plot but it was hollywoodized into utter BS.

I totally agree. What a great idea for a movie Windtalkers was... AND WHAT A TOTAL PIECE OF CRAP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The scene which highlights its total lack of credibilty is where a guy with a Bazooka pops up, fires his round off and totally flames a whole ridgeline worth of Japs.... Total Junk....

[Muzrub]

Wheels of Terror!

The horrible attampt to make a Sven Hassel book come to life.

[Cheesehead]

The Big Red One, starring Lee Marvin and Luke Skywalker

[Les_the_Sarge_9_1]

Hey I LIKED the Big Red One, it was a "fun" movie like Patton

Now I have to take Issue with Windtalkers being on this list, simply because it sucked sufficiently to be totally demoted right out of war movie status.

It was as bad as Pearl Harbour, which also has been officially demoted to being a bad way to get laid (pick a better chick flick next time guys).

Thus, I will offer as worst war movie (one that IS a war movie, but was still bad), and pick hmmmmm

Can't think of any right now, must be the filters working again. Blocks harmful memories

[showboat1]

The Patriot (I have no words for this fiasco)
Revolution (This little catastrophe is perhaps the worst movie that Al Pacino ever made)
The Windtalkers (We're lucky this little gem didn't start another Indian uprising)
U-571 (Complete and utter nonsense)
Pearl Harbor (Total crap)
Battle of the Bulge (In the fianl tank battle - what happened to the BLIZZARD and SNOW?)
Captain Corelli's Mandalin (one word AAAAAAUUUUUUGGGGHHH!!!!!!)