Posted on 11/11/2011 4:18:37 PM PST by PJ-Comix
Good Morning Vietnam and Air America were pretty lame as well.
That version of the Alamo was actually good compared to the remake. It had John Wayne at least
Russian babes were everywhere in the Cold War, and they were cute (at least before age 30).
Might I suggest “We Were Soldiers Once & Young” by Mel Gibson. I don’t know personally how realistic it is - but it did have vet technical advisers (I’m thinking the camera man that was in the fight and/or Hal Moore). And folks that know say it was pretty accurate portrayal.
Regardless - I enjoyed (if that is the right word) it.
Final Countdown is unintentionally hilarious. It isn’t nearly as bad as many of the movies listed in this post, but seeing that it involves the military and has a extremely shaky plot. It also hasn’t passed the test of time either.
If you made me pick between having to watch Top Gun or Final Countdown, I would pick Final Countdown.
I liked the book, though I find Heinlein’s writing style to be unnecessarily dense. The book as-is is unfilmable in my opinion.
Inglorious Basterds
Would that we could have herded all the evil leaders of the Third Reich into a movie theater and blown It Up. (sigh)
I think I would pick Final Countdown over Top Gun as well. Its more believable.
If you made me pick between watching Top Gun or Final Countdown, I’d choose hemlock.
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Slightly off subject from war movies, but on track for Apaches; the 229th Regiment “The Flying Tigers”, the Reserve Apache unit stationed at Fort Knox, just returned from their latest combat tour in Afghanistan.
99.9% of all other war movies. IMO, vast majority are so patently phony as to not being worth watching.
Well, during WW2, the little film studio PRC (Producers Releasing Corporation) made some REALLY low-budget stinkers. Two I can think of are “They Raid by Night” and “Miss V from Moscow.” Although the latter one is little more espionage-oriented than war genre. Pretty bad stuff, though.
Maybe he’s getting footage for a recruiting video.
I liked Kelly’s Heroes
The Sniper films with Tom Berenger were especially bad, Casualties of War was horrible, platoon was really bad.
Starship Troopers, great premise, poor poor film.
Midway was bad.
Battle of the Bulge was bad, but Robert Shaw’s performance as Col Hessler was brilliant.
Ha Ha Ha! PRC. My Mom (who worked in a theater) tells me that stood for “Putrid, Rotten, and Crummy”.
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