Worst War Movies Ever Made

Self | November 11, 2011 | PJ-Comix

[MD Expat in PA]

Pearl Harbor was vomit worthy.

Pearl Harbor sucked.

Not only was Pearl Harbor a really bad war movie, it wasn’t even a decent chick flick.

[Flag_This]

"Memphis Belle" stunk on ice. Every single character was a bad cliche from other bad war movies. It managed to make the crew appear to be a bunch of newbie cretins, when it was supposed to be their final combat mission.

I liked the B-17s though.

[PJ-Comix]

I forgot to include “Windtalkers.” It was about the Navajo codetalkers (they didn’t call themselves “windtalkers”) and according to this movie, each Navajo codetalker was assigned a white marine whose job was to shoot the Navajo if it looked like he was about to be captured. No basis in fact. It was strictly a Hollywood fiction to give Nicholas Cage another prominent role in which to bomb again.

[Molon Labbie]

The scene where the Japanese sailors are in that pool pushing the model ships around is an old coastal battery casemate. My old man burst out laughing when he saw that, said there was one like that near San Fran.

[buccaneer81]

Bootleg only. Apparently never released on VHS or DVD. It was shown once on ALN (American Life Network) several years ago.

[varmintman]

One of the TV hosts of the 50s - 60s had several of the old-time actors present and asked as to the worst lines they ever had to read and the prize was Kirk Douglas noting that Cecil B. Demille once asked him to say:

"The SODOMITES are coming, lets head em off at the pass!!"

Assuming they DID head the Sodomites off at the pass, that might be a candidate for all-time worst war movie.

Douglas noted that he tried several times and could not read that line and keep his face straight and they ended up with an extra reading the line.

[tcrlaf]

“Master and Commander”

Take a great book, then completely ruin it, by changing the main protaganists from Americans to French, out of fear of alienating the American movie audience, costing most of the major plot points.

[Levante]

” A Midnight Clear” absolute crap.

[isom35]

Combat Shock
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090866/

It is a Troma film. Horrid acting, special effects, music score, you name it. I highly recommend it :)

[Old Sarge]

"Battle of the Bulge" at least had the redeeming quality of the scene in which COL Hessler and his tank commanders sing "Panzerlied".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JDkdc246QQ

[dfwgator]

lets head em off at the pass!!"

I hate that cliche.

[oldplayer]

Pearl Harbor: vomit worthy indeed.

McArthur: I was embarassed to be in the theater.

Oldplayer

BTW Starship Troopers was a great BOOK.

[denydenydeny]

You didn’t mention the even sillier political correctness in U-571, the ridiculous convolutions they went through just to get a black guy onto the sub so that the cast would be more “diverse.”

Oliver Stone’s Alexander is certainly the worst war movie ever made in my opinion.

[Molon Labbie]

Any sequel to the original Dirty Dozen...

[Fiji Hill]

Perhaps the worst war movie I ever saw was Mission to Moscow (1943), which glorified Joseph Stalin and even celebrated the purge trials--which would be like celebrating Hitler's Final Solution. The film was boring, to boot.

[gardencatz]

Oh my son LOVES Heartbreak Ridge. And Full Metal Jacket. It’s a Marine thing, I guess. Heartbreak Ridge IS awful but at least it has Clint Eastwood in it. Definitely easy on the eyes!

Cindie

[Patrick1]

That Stephen Speilberg golden turkey ‘1941’ or Elvis in GI Blues...awful.

[dfwgator]

Oh my son LOVES Heartbreak Ridge.

It's so bad, it's good.

[Frank Sheed]

Kelly’s Heroes. Terrible war movie. Outstanding satiric comedy, however. One of my top 20!

“There you go again with the negative waves, Moriarty! Woof-woof!”

[buccaneer81]

The Green Berets

The Boys In Company C

And although not 'war movies',...

Firebirds

The Iron Eagle movies