That Stephen Speilberg golden turkey ‘1941’ or Elvis in GI Blues...awful.
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!”
The Boys In Company C
And although not 'war movies',...
Firebirds
The Iron Eagle movies
The Gallant hours - Cagney must have had some deal where he was to be in every scene and only filmed from the left.
The problem with “The Alamo” was not only Frankie Avalon, but also because ti was another John Wayne flick. Wayne was very proud of making the movie, and he couldn’t understand why the critics didn’t like it. As soon as I saw Frankie Avalon, I knew it couldn’t be very good. Some decent parts, but overall not very good. I don’t know if there ever has been a good flick made about the Alamo.
Apocalypse Now
Definitely the most over rated, OK the Napalm in the morning scene was memorable but the rest pure trash
Sorry but a marine colonel who forms a cult which the members do nothing but dance around all day and kill people and for no reason just gives up and let’s Martin Sheen kill him is just plain silly
Oh and the Deer Hunter sucked also
Thin Red Line
Wife and I were going to walk out but so many in the audience were laughing we stayed because it became a Rocky Horror type joke. People were chanting “Lizard-Lizard” or “Girl on swing!” We stayed only to see how bad it could get.
If you have not seen it:
Wind sweeps thru tree, soldiers attack, girl on porch swings, lizard sticks out tongue, little boys swim as camera (obviously operated by Gerry Sandusky) takes shots from inappropriate angles. More lizard tongues, more palm trees in wind, a quick shooting and a few more girls on swings.
Some other stinkers:
Lee Van Cleef’s Commando’s
Go Tell The Spartans
The Siege of Firebase Gloria
German Film Die Bruche (The Bridge)
Hart’s War was pretty much unwatchable.
“I’m committing my tanks!!”
Okay. The scene at the beginning of Where Eagles Dare when the German officer arrives at the mountain fortress in a helicopter (Bell model 47) just ruins what was a pretty good flick.
Particularly garbage like the Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, Platoon and other such cartoons.
Just watched an idiotic WW I movie called The Somme in which nobody gets dirty, gunfire is somewhat rare and at the end of an interminable hour and a half of chattered gibberish, the launch a charge across a pretty green field and one by one, they fall gracefully and bloodlessly to apparently one machinegun. No budget, apparently.
I hate war movies because they are never produced or directed by actual veterans (Oliver Stone is as much a veteran as John Kerry). The usual technical adviser for such tripe is Dale Dye, a former Marine PAO who wouldn't have the slightest idea what combat is like but he has still wangled his way into "advising" scores of war films... Sheesh.
Alamo, the John Wayne epic or some other remake?
“Windtalkers” with that idiot Nicolas Cage......
No mention of Platoon, Forrest Gump, Full Metal Jacket, Rambo, Born on the 4th of July?
While some of these only refer to Vietnam, they make cartoon characters of the fighting men who went there.
INGLOURIUS BASTERDS. I know it’s supposed to be ridiculous, but it’s REALLY ridiculous.
The Gilligans’s Island episode where Gilligan finds a left behind Japanese soldier... Is that considered a war movie??
I guess it could be.. The Japanese soldier didn’t know the war was over.
Ahhh.. Girrigan... You-are-my-plisoner... hahahahah!!
Can one of you HTML pilots cue up a pick of that guy... I think he looks just like Margaret Carlson. Thick glasses, buck teeth..
Hypothetical wars count too?
“The Day After”
“Independance Day”