Posted on 06/25/2002 4:43:34 PM PDT by Burkeman1
What is the worst war movie you have ever seen? Your reasons can be political, realism, historical innaccuracy, or a mixture but what is the worst?
, not strictly a war movie, informs us that the Communists defeated the Nazis in WW2, and were robbed of their rightful rule of postwar Europe by capitalist trickery.
Windtalkers is just about the worst war movie I have ever seen. Wooden acting, atrocious battle scenes, unbelievable characters, irritating John Woo cliches, and, to top it all off, political correctness. Awful.
My favorite scene was the revalation of the remarkable advance they made in aircraft launch/retrieval: the angled flight deck of the Kaga! (Or was it the Akagi? :-/) < /sarcasm>
Force 10 from Navarone.
Which one had Lee Marvin in it?
The Dirty Dozen?
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Not only bad but beyond horrible. Remember that giant clock ticking backwards at the German HQ along with those nifty models of rockets and other stuff? And then Colonel Hessler giving his dopey theory on war needing to be eternal with no real winners. And I still can't get over those completely phony looking panzers which were nothing more than painted over Sherman tanks. Oh, and let's not forget the final scene where the German soldier is walking across a vast treeless plain in the middle of Belgium (actually filmed somewhere out West).
I was waiting for someone to get the right answer. Yes, this stink bomb is the very worst war film that I have ever seen. It was war portrayed as only a left-wing sensitive guy can do: the director Terrence Malick. The film was so sensitive that it received 7 academy award nominations. An academy award has about as much to do with movie quality as a Nobel Peace Prize has to do with peace.
I had the misfortune to actually purchase this cinematic disaster before viewing it. I tried to re-sell it on Amazon, but have had no takers.
Martin Sheen as Robert E. Lee... Jeez, why not have Larry Flynt play Kris Kringle in Miracle 34th Street?
Yep, that made the movie. They actually had some pretty good computer animations of the Arizona and such, but they ruined it with a LOT of shots of pyrotechnics going off on the bows of real Spruance class Destroyers (and also Knox-class Frigates were EASILY identifiable...must have been done at one of the mothball sites. I think there may have been some OH Perrys, too.) COMPLETELY ruined the whole attack sequence for anyone who has ever seen any modern naval vessels or has the foggiest knowledge about the Navy. They should have CGIed the whole thing.
Absolutely everything about PH was execrable...easily the worst of the recent war movies with a large budget.
Simply unbelievable that a guy who stutters was played for laughs..with no jokes, the fact he stuttered was supposed to be inherently funny. It's not that it was offensive (I love dirty and un-PC humor) it's just my amazement that that was supposed to just be funny in and of itself. Incredibly, the brain dead audience laughed at it.
Windtalkers and "Thin Red Line" were both horrible as well, but for exactly the opposite reasons. I hated TRL but I honestly think I'd rather watch that again than Windtalkers. At least with TRL you could see the director had talent and it had the POTENTIAL to be a good movie...but was ruined with the incessant, laughable shots of parrots in trees and dead baby birds (to hit people over the head with the "peaceful nature" vs. the violence of war), and the incessant use of voiceovers of the ridiculous supposed "inner thoughts" of every character.
Windtalkers was just painful to watch...cliched, nothing about the combat rang true, guy who played Yahzee was a miserable actor (but, interestingly, the guy who played the older codetalker, who isn't even an ACTOR and was a real Navajo, as opposed to the guy who played Yahzee, was far better.) I honestly couldn't look at the screen for parts, it was so painful.
Incredibly weak effort in comparison to Saving Private Ryan, Blackhawn Down, and We Were Soldiers.
Whatever bashing of SPR you see is solely because people are blinded by hatred of Spielberg; a heck of a lot of people are incapable of being objective about the film.
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