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Worst war movies (in your opinion)

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Originally posted by: destrekor
Originally posted by: Schfifty Five
How many of the above posters posted without realizing that this thread is over 1 year old?
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well... ignoring that little fact...


What is with all the hate for Jarhead?

Originally posted by: fatpat268
Originally posted by: maddogchen
jarhead was incredibly boring.
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QFT

Jarhead builds and builds, and then nothing happens in the movie. Worthless movie.
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Seems most people went into it not realizing what the movie was about, eh?
It wasn't a war movie, not one meant to be filled with big explosions and lots of blood.
It was more of an analysis of what the idea of war will do to someone, even people who never see actual battle. If you look at it like that, it's an awesome movie. It's not tense of gripping, sure, but it's a great movie ABOUT war, especially with the Gulf War, where many units never saw much action during Desert Shield/Desert Storm.
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I understand all that, but that didn't mean they needed to make a movie about it. For the record, I knew there was very little conflict in Desert Storm, but it wasn't like the rest of the story was interesting anyway.
 
Originally posted by: Flyback
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Originally posted by: Uppsala9496
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Originally posted by: Flyback
We've seen your favorites, now list the ones you dislike or hate.

For me it has to be We Were Soldiers.

(yeah, that is a favorite for some 😀)
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We Were Soldiers is a good movie. Sure there were some sappy love story parts, but aside from those it was good. I guess the realism was a bit too much for you.</blockquote>

The realism? It was the acting (Stowe and Gibson were horrible) and story that bored me.

It didn't stir any emotions re: brutality of war and pointless death of soldiers. The character development was non-existent and so I don't see how anyone could cheer on the Americans (as it were through watching the movie, not in reality). The character development attempted (Gibson's character) was so laughably cliché and flat.

I try not to laugh at the bit with Barry Pepper's character (the journalist) picking up a gun and the crying, choked up bit towards the end "YOO GOTTTTTA TELL THIS STORY MAN, AND YOU TELL IT RIGHT! DO THESE BOYS JUSTICE!".

If that is what you consider enough to sustain a film--"realism"--blood and guts and nothing more then bravo. But Saving Private Ryan showed that you can add a hell of a lot more to a movie. Watching large numbers of people die on film is easy. Making you (viewer) care is where the beef is.

YMMV.
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It kinda felt like 'Windtalkers'. I haven't been to 'Nam, but those "jungles" did not look tropical or South Asian.
 
Originally posted by: clamum
Originally posted by: destrekor
What is with all the hate for Jarhead?

Originally posted by: fatpat268
Originally posted by: maddogchen
jarhead was incredibly boring.
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QFT

Jarhead builds and builds, and then nothing happens in the movie. Worthless movie.
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Seems most people went into it not realizing what the movie was about, eh?
It wasn't a war movie, not one meant to be filled with big explosions and lots of blood.
It was more of an analysis of what the idea of war will do to someone, even people who never see actual battle. If you look at it like that, it's an awesome movie. It's not tense of gripping, sure, but it's a great movie ABOUT war, especially with the Gulf War, where many units never saw much action during Desert Shield/Desert Storm.
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Exactly. For what it is I think it is a great movie.
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I hated Jarhead, I don't care what is was supposed to be about. For me it was just total crap.

Fern
 
Originally posted by: CVSiN
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Originally posted by: Flyback
<blockquote>quote:
Originally posted by: Uppsala9496
<blockquote>quote:
Originally posted by: Flyback
We've seen your favorites, now list the ones you dislike or hate.

For me it has to be We Were Soldiers.

(yeah, that is a favorite for some 😀)
</blockquote>

We Were Soldiers is a good movie. Sure there were some sappy love story parts, but aside from those it was good. I guess the realism was a bit too much for you.</blockquote>

The realism? It was the acting (Stowe and Gibson were horrible) and story that bored me.

It didn't stir any emotions re: brutality of war and pointless death of soldiers. The character development was non-existent and so I don't see how anyone could cheer on the Americans (as it were through watching the movie, not in reality). The character development attempted (Gibson's character) was so laughably cliché and flat.

I try not to laugh at the bit with Barry Pepper's character (the journalist) picking up a gun and the crying, choked up bit towards the end "YOO GOTTTTTA TELL THIS STORY MAN, AND YOU TELL IT RIGHT! DO THESE BOYS JUSTICE!".

If that is what you consider enough to sustain a film--"realism"--blood and guts and nothing more then bravo. But Saving Private Ryan showed that you can add a hell of a lot more to a movie. Watching large numbers of people die on film is easy. Making you (viewer) care is where the beef is.

YMMV.</blockquote>

Youre a flaming idiot...

you know that this movie was Exactly waht happened those few days.
and Gen. Hal Moore who also wrote the book said the movie and the script was as close as you can get other than the book to what happened that day and what was said.

We Were Soldiers is as real as Hollywood war movies get period.
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I had very high hopes for We Were Soldiers, and came away disappointed.

I did like the portrayal of the mid '60's home front, so those who weren't alive then could see some of the warp and woof of the America that sent so many of its sons to die in 'Nam.

BUT I couldn't stand Sam Shephard's Sergeant repeatedly waltzing around standing up without cover during a fucking fire fight. That was completely and totally unrealistic and unworthy of a film that purported to portray realism.

Plus, let's face it, Mel Gibson sucks.

 
Originally posted by: FallenHero
Originally posted by: Citrix
oh yea, Tora, Tora Tora. the romance scenes were really really bad. nothing like making a naval aviator look like a whiny little bitch.
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Are you and I thinking of the same movie with Tora Tora Tora? Perhaps you are thinking of Pearl Harbor. Tora Tora Tora is a classic.
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WTF did you bump a thread over a year old?? Putz! :disgust:
 
Originally posted by: irishScott
Originally posted by: MagicConch
Originally posted by: Accipiter22
Saving Private Ryan
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agreed
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Dare I ask how so?

It's arguably the most realistic WWII movie to date. Unless you prefer John Wayne's crap.
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SS can make a technically superb flick but usually fails, as with SPR, due to comical and/or cliched stories and treatment. Lest we forget his forte is B-grade monster movies and serials with A-grade budgets. Thus he targets the lowest common denominator, if even capable of anything more substantial.
 
Originally posted by: Flyback
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Originally posted by: Rudee
Windtalkers. It was so bad I actually got up and left my own house.</blockquote>

Christian Slater beheaded and Nick Cage dying. What more could you ask for in a movie?
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For it not to be made.
 
Originally posted by: zerocool84
Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
I can't believe no one has voted suggested Apocalypse Now yet. The most unrealistic piece of crap to ever darken a theater.
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but it'a a damn good movie
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It is not a war movie. That is inconsequential to the story of man's corruption, innate brutishness, and all that. Heart of Darkness, the novel upon which it is based, has essentialy the same setting but without war: a river journey in colonial Africa with a likewise "unsound" Kurtz playing god to the natives.
 
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