Worst war movies (in your opinion)

[Yossarian]

Everyone's entitled to their opinion but why do you think Band of Brothers is the worst war movie? I don't get it.

 

[Flyback]

Originally posted by: Feldenak

They took some poetic license with the movie but by and large it wasn't that far off from the book sections it was based on.

Again, that is cool if it is based on real events. That doesn't make it a good movie, though.

Some stories just don't make good movies *shrug*.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Another vote for Hamburger Hill, that was poor.

 

[Rudee]

Originally posted by: CVSiN

Originally posted by: Flyback

Originally posted by: Uppsala9496

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 )

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.

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.

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.

Actually, the movie was true to the book to a certain extent. The real asswhoopin happened to the US after their replacements arrived. That's when the NVA cut them down to ribbons in an ambush. That part was in the book but left out of the movie.

 

[DainBramaged]

Windtalkers
Edit: Pearl Harbor

 

[ultimatebob]

Does "In the Army Now" count as a war movie?

I don't care if it does or not... It still sucks!

 

[dennilfloss]

Originally posted by: dainthomas
Red Dawn. So bad.

Indeed. Really bad propaganda. It was on television this weekend and I just couldn't believe how bad that movie remains.

 

[Canun]

The Thin Red Line
FlyBoys
Flags of our Fathers

All pretty craptacular.

 

[irishScott]

Originally posted by: dennilfloss

Originally posted by: dainthomas
Red Dawn. So bad.

Indeed. Really bad propaganda. It was on television this weekend and I just couldn't believe how bad that movie remains.

Seriously. I saw it for the first time at 3 am on TBS. It sucked a$$ in every respect. Hmmm. Soviets invade America. Didn't both nations have nukes? Wouldn't the nukes have been launched?

And the kids were all ignorant idiot pvssies.

 

[maddogchen]

casualties of war with Michael Fox

 

[RollWave]

The Great Raid

 

[RollWave]

I just want to say people who dont like Band of Brothers or Saving Private Ryan obviously just dont like war flicks. Back out of this thread before you get shot!

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Windtalkers was terrible.

 

[Chaotic42]

Platoon

I really hate movies about 70s culture.

 

[Newfie]

Originally posted by: Yossarian
Everyone's entitled to their opinion but why do you think Band of Brothers is the worst war movie? I don't get it.

I'm curious about that too. Personally I loved the series and I cannot see what would make it the worst war movie.

 

[dennilfloss]

Platoon takes place in 1967-1968 since it shows the beginning of the Tet Offensive on January 30-31, 1968.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: Rudee
Windtalkers. It was so bad I actually got up and left my own house. Heartbreak Ridge a close second.

Windtalkers was HORRIBLE.


We were soldiers was amazingly accurate to the book and real accounts. So if you had any issues with the "story" you are a moron.

Edit - Forgot how terrible Jarhead was too. I almost got up and left. And Pearl Harbor wasn't a war movie, it was a chick flick.

 

[mooglemania85]

The Patriot
Pearl Harbor

 

[Flyback]

Originally posted by: TallBill
We were soldiers was amazingly accurate to the book and real accounts. So if you had any issues with the "story" you are a moron.

Can you comprehend that accuracy is not criterion for making something such as art "good"?

If I take a steaming sh!t and write an accurate story based on the event, later made into a movie, it is still a steaming pile of sh!t (much like We Were Soldiers).

 

[ballmode]

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[Vinfinite]

Originally posted by: scrawnypaleguy
Jarhead - not a war movie so much as gay porn.

QFT

 

[Mrvile]

1941. So boring.

 

[PowerEngineer]

The Green Berets -- 1968; John Wayne

 

[adairusmc]

Originally posted by: irishScott

Originally posted by: dennilfloss

Originally posted by: dainthomas
Red Dawn. So bad.

Indeed. Really bad propaganda. It was on television this weekend and I just couldn't believe how bad that movie remains.

Seriously. I saw it for the first time at 3 am on TBS. It sucked a$$ in every respect. Hmmm. Soviets invade America. Didn't both nations have nukes? Wouldn't the nukes have been launched?

And the kids were all ignorant idiot pvssies.

If you would have watched the movie, nukes were launched.

 

[dpert1]

Seriously, if any of you have ever seen a movie called Come and See, that will automatically without doubt take any cake this thread has to offer.

Hamburger Hill sucked because thats what the director wanted you to feel like when u watched it. It was a struggle to never take that hill just as it was a struggle to watch the movie.

/took a cinema class this semister
//come and see is russian
///USA and sometimes the UK should be the only countries legally allowed to produce film, Come and See is one of many reasons
//yeah