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Worst war movies (in your opinion)

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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.
 
recently watched black hawk down on blu ray

both my friend and i agreed it was awful

picture quality is good, film is pants
 
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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I think he means Midway with Charlton Heston.

Victory with Stallone, now that was a bad movie.
 
I think all the awful ones have been covered. Those who said Band of Brothers, Saving Private Ryan, or We Were Soldiers are clearly trolls.
 
For me it's that Rambo movie where he is in Afghanistan. Extremely unrealistic and completely stupid. The movie is filled with a bunch of lies and American propaganda, that was very useful during that time for forming public opinion against Soviet Union.

Also "Commando" with Arnold Shwarzenegger was a complete joke. The movie was great fun, and I enjoyed it back in the day, but it's was total crap.

I cant agree with people who didn't like Forest Gump. I don't think it's a "war movie" per se. It's a movie about a person's life. And it's a damn good movie. If it was just me saying that, it would be one thing. But all the oscars and awards speak for themselves. So many people cant be wrong.
 
We Were Soldiers and Jarhead, along wth the obvious ones like Pearl Harbor which (like someone else said) was more a chick flick than a war movie.
Good book/story does not equal a good movie...
 
Forest Gump is not a war movie. We Were Soldiers is a superb film. 🙂 I know it's popular to hate anything to do with Mel Gibson at the moment.

I am not a fan of the John Wayne's rendition of "The Alamo" but I do enjoy most of Wayne's war movies.

Battlefield Earth comes to mind.
 
I don't know if Tear of the sun counts. But that was one terrible movie. All it needed at the end was a "God bless america!" at the end.
 
Originally posted by: Molondo
I don't know if Tear of the sun counts. But that was one terrible movie. All it needed at the end was a "God bless america!" at the end.
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forgot about this one, truly terrible...
 
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.
 
Originally posted by: pontifex
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Originally posted by: clamum
Band of Brothers.</blockquote>

you actually think BoB is the worst war movie? have you not seen any other ones or are you just trying to stir up ******?
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Acting aside, the cinematography in BoB makes it one of the best shot shows/films of all time alone.
 
Originally posted by: Flyback
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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.
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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).
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Movies aren't always about artistic license.

Sometimes they are about telling a non-fiction story.

kthxbai.
 
Originally posted by: RyanSengara
Originally posted by: pontifex
<blockquote>quote:
Originally posted by: clamum
Band of Brothers.</blockquote>

you actually think BoB is the worst war movie? have you not seen any other ones or are you just trying to stir up ******?
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Acting aside, the cinematography in BoB makes it one of the best shot shows/films of all time alone.
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Haha I was joking. It's my favorite war movie (mini-series, whatever).

The cinematography is fucking great, that's for sure. Acting, characters, set design, everything about it is top-fucking-notch.
 
Never seen Windtalkers, but my brother assured me it's one of the worst movies in history.

Pearl Harbor was terrible. Obviously. But among ones that are popular, I have to say The Thin Red Line (just BORING) and We Were Soldiers.

We Were Soldiers is not an inaccurate movie - I'd like to emphasize that. I like a lot of aspects of it. But while the portrayal of the battle and combat in general was accurate, the characters were totally unbelievable. Mel Gibson was too much of a boy scout. Seeing some guy say "I'm glad I could die for my country" as his last words was one of the campiest things I've seen in any movie. The whole thing was like a caricature of war. It was both an accurate portrayal and a cliche.
 
Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
We Were Soldiers is not an inaccurate movie - I'd like to emphasize that. I like a lot of aspects of it. But while the portrayal of the battle and combat in general was accurate, the characters were totally unbelievable. Mel Gibson was too much of a boy scout. Seeing some guy say "I'm glad I could die for my country" as his last words was one of the campiest things I've seen in any movie. The whole thing was like a caricature of war. It was both an accurate portrayal and a cliche.
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Read up on the man he was portraying and you will find that his reproduction was VERY accurate.
 
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