[PJ-Comix]

Okay I listed 6 of what I consider to be the WORST war movies of all time. What are your nominees?

[buccaneer81]

Inchon.

[dfwgator]

1. Battle of the Bulge-

Yep.

[Rockingham]

Good list and well-stated crticisms. I would add the pondersous and dull MacArthur bio-pic.

[bushpilot1]

Any film the actor recites: Over and Out

[Salvavida]

Heartbreak Ridge and Death Before Dishonor have to break the top 10.

[MHGinTN]

‘Force Five From Navarone’

[usmcobra]

Hell in the Pacific with Lee Marvin

[VanDeKoik]

Starship Troopers is just horrible! I actually felt shame for the human race after seeing it.

I wasnt really into Jarhead either even though it had its moments.

[Morpheus2009]

My nominations would be U-571, for inaccurately giving Americans more credit in the process of cracking the enigma than they actually deserve. The real story of our codebreaking, which you would need to break with political correctness about, was the fact that we did crack the codes in use by the Japanese in the Pacific, that is what the Americans deserve credit for. What also is true, is that Japanese-Americans were consulted and drafted into the war effort as well. America did play the dominant role in intelligence against the Japanese fleets by cracking the code, however, the political correctness, and Bill Clinton, actually argued in favor of the film, and argued that Europe protested too much, and that the film was just fiction. As for me, I plain-out won’t buy the film, because while plenty of films like John Wayne’s Sands of Iwo Jima have fictional characters, they don’t distort the big historical picture anywhere as much as U-571 did.

[MNDude]

Lady in the Water

[Fiji Hill]

Pearl Harbor was chock full of inaccuracies. In one scene, a plane is flying over Long Island, and there are mountains in the background. In another, an American soldier is sent to England to fight the Germans, even though the US was neutral in that conflict at the time. The soldier left for England from New York City, but the railroad station looked a lot like Union Station in Los Angeles. And one would think it would be difficult to get from New York to England by train.

[bravo whiskey]

force ten fron naverone
there just woulndn’t be a black soldier there (NOTE the guns of naverone is almost as good as the book and a top ren.)

[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.

[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

[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.