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What is the worst war movie ever made?
My Brain | 6/25/02 | Burkeman1

Posted on 06/25/2002 4:43:34 PM PDT by Burkeman1

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To: Burkeman1
Older movie "They all laughed" starred Ben Gazara.... Awful movie... People in the theater we making comments out load which we much funnier than the movie.
201 posted on 06/26/2002 8:07:49 AM PDT by KSCITYBOY
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To: mhking
""1941" -- 'Nuff said..."

I kinda liked that one!

202 posted on 06/26/2002 8:10:27 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Burkeman1
Recently? Behind Enemy Lines
203 posted on 06/26/2002 8:10:36 AM PDT by Protagoras
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To: Senator Pardek
"Those Hollywood geniuses "

That Hollywood genius was John Wayne.

204 posted on 06/26/2002 8:13:20 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: ThomasJefferson
Behind Enemy Lines

I can't believe it took over 200 posts before somebody nominated this mother of all turkeys.

205 posted on 06/26/2002 8:15:45 AM PDT by Alouette
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To: Burkeman1
Some friends and I have what we call "hecklefest" occasionally, no set intervals of time. We just basically get together cook burgers, etc., and purposefully watch bad movies just to put them down - to the extreme. It's great fun.
Anyway, we got a movie off the B rack somewhere that was called "G.I. Bro". Absolutely the worst serious attempt at a war movie I've ever seen. The main features of the movie were the ability to run down the sides of railroad tracks, and falling down in slow motion. It was really awful.
206 posted on 06/26/2002 8:15:50 AM PDT by DETAILER
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To: Burkeman1
"Empire of the Sun".

Bleh.

207 posted on 06/26/2002 8:16:13 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts
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To: John H K
People have a difficult time looking at The Patriot objectively around here because Mel Gibson is known not to be a Hollywood leftist, and because the movie depicted kids shooting guns in a positive light.

I didn't like "The Patriot" at all. It just didn't work as a movie; too outlandish and contrived.

Walt

208 posted on 06/26/2002 8:19:23 AM PDT by WhiskeyPapa
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To: PJ-Comix
The German tanks were not painted over Shermans, they were painted over M-47 Pattons, I believe. The American tanks were M-41 Bulldogs. This was a common movie practice in the 60's and 70's. They're aren't too many real Tigers running around you know! The movie Patton used the Spanish army and had M-48 Pattons for the Germans and M-41's for our stuff.
209 posted on 06/26/2002 8:21:01 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: x
"U-571" was derivative, historically untrue, and boring.

I wasn't too bad on this until they had the homing torpedoes. Hey it looked great in "Hunt for Red October", but.........the technology didn't exist. Movie makers always go wrong when they play the audience for suckers.

As a departure, when I saw "Gladiator" I thought the motivation of the one officer who refused his sword to Commodus at the end to be very odd; not supported by what had gone before. I now have the deluxe DVD set and his motivation for basically betraying the emperor was brought forth in a deleted scene. So movie makers have to cross a lot of "T"s and dot a lot of "i"s t make things work.

Walt

210 posted on 06/26/2002 8:24:53 AM PDT by WhiskeyPapa
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To: Prodigal Son
I think Heart of Darkness was done as a TV movie a year or two ago.
211 posted on 06/26/2002 8:28:12 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
The Dirty Dozen Got my vote. Insulting the audience's intelligence and the military in one fell swoop.

Yea, but Donald Sutherland's turn as the "General" inspecting the troops is priceless and funny stuff.

212 posted on 06/26/2002 8:30:50 AM PDT by mc5cents
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To: Sword_of_Gideon
Agreed. Starship Troopers redefined bad. Cheesy plot, gratuitous violence and T&A, really bad acting, no stars. Except for "Bridges of Madison County", it was the worst movie that I've paid money to see.
213 posted on 06/26/2002 8:31:55 AM PDT by kidd
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To: Maedhros
Notice in Black Hawk Down that they never mention Clinton getting them into that mess but they give him credit for pulling them out at the end
Hollywood = Bill's Cheerleaders
214 posted on 06/26/2002 8:41:18 AM PDT by DM1
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To: kidd
Most of the films that have been nominated- The Longest day, A Bridge Too Far, Thin Red Line- aren't really all that bad. Though I haven't seen it, I understand Oh, Inchon! is a REAL turkey. Set in the the famous landing in Korea, the movie was financed by Sun Young Moon and stars Lawrence Olivier as MacArthur. Richard Roundtree plays a US soldier killed midway in the movie, who somehow returns later in the film with no explanation!
215 posted on 06/26/2002 8:41:38 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Senator Pardek
LOL - you're kidding. Those Hollywood geniuses could not figger out that Cali is different than (most of) SE Asia?

A well known "blooper"

Perhaps they didn't think WE would notice...or just didn't give a crap?
216 posted on 06/26/2002 8:52:52 AM PDT by newcats
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To: Burkeman1
The Pallbearer

It came out fairly recently (1999?) and was the first thing outside of "Friends" for whathisname. (you know, the tall dopey looking one)

217 posted on 06/26/2002 9:05:10 AM PDT by BureaucratusMaximus
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To: mamelukesabre
Yoda is kermit the frog. I'm serious. THe only difference is yoda doesn't speak english quite as well.

Wrong Muppet. Yoda is Fozzy Bear wearing a green rubber mask. "Help you I can... Wokka Wokka!!"

218 posted on 06/26/2002 9:08:25 AM PDT by Charles Martel
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To: WhiskeyPapa
I wasn't too bad on this until they had the homing torpedoes.

You should do some research. The US Navy fielded the Mark 27 passive acoustic homing torpedo in 1943; however it was only used by Pacific theatre submarines. The Kriegsmarine also developed them for u-boat use. HERE are pictures of the Mark 27. Cute little thing, no?

AB

219 posted on 06/26/2002 9:11:28 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard
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To: PJ-Comix
Are you trying to say that a platoon didn't singlehandedly break the German attack by rolling cans of gas at the tanks? What a letdown!
220 posted on 06/26/2002 9:14:01 AM PDT by ko_kyi
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