[Burkeman1]

My pick is the recent version of Pearl Harbor. It is dreadful on so many levels I can't go into here.

[mhking]

"1941" -- 'Nuff said...

[Maedhros]

Pearl Harbor

I'll second that, although I heard it was so bad that I never actually saw it.

[hole_n_one]

Laker Girls starring Tina Yothers.......

who are they trying to kid?

[mamelukesabre]

pearle harbor was pretty bad. So was "the thin red line". I never cared for "apocalypse now" either. Even though I like john wayne, I'd have to say "green berets" wasn't very good either.

[MoscowMike]

Howdy

OK you got me, Pearl Harbor has to be up there just because they cast an anti American hatemonger in the role depicting an authentic American hero, good call. (on your part!)

I was moved to reply because I recently saw "A Bridge Too Far" and was flabbergasted by a new perspective on the movie. I was explaining the history, the planning, the objectives, and the execution of Operation Market Garden to my gal as the movie went on, and I realized that not one shred of the how's, the why's, the motivation and training of and for this offensive, there was NOTHING in the movie but an incoherent lurch from violent and bloody scene to violent and bloody scene.

One would think watching that show that WWII was just an opportunity for people to act like animals

hollywood is disgusting.

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

does mars attacks count as a war movie cuz it sucked

[DoctorMichael]

MASH.

Altman was arguing that war has no purpose.........Una paloma blanca.

[Chairman Fred]

M*A*S*H.

A bad movie that spawned a worse TV show.

BTW, Mars Attacks was a great movie.

[ContentiousObjector]

Opperation Peticoat,

You know, the one with the pink submarine

[Mat_Helm]

"A Bridge To Far" a waste of good actors and a poorly writen and directed movie. Was a real let down and did not show the British failure enough as it realy was.

[LibKill]

Well, "Gettysburg" had the worst fake beards ever seen on the silver screen.

[parsifal]

Right now, "Wake Island" is real high on my list. So phony! The construction workers cried like ti**y-babies and would not help the Marines fight off the Japs. What a bunch of yellow cowards. In the movie, however, wow, they joined hands and manned the machine gun nests along with the Marines. Great book written about it several years ago by a guy from Arkansas. Good read. I highly recommend it. parsy.

[Springman]

bump for later.

[Utopia]

• Plan 9 From Outter Space
• Message From Space

I will consider adding Battlefield Earth to the list

[parsifal]

Some of those 40s and 50s submarine movies were pretty wretched also. Can't remember the names. You know the type-John Wayne sub commander types. parsy.

[leadhead]

I was going to say "West Side Story" but didn't want the flame so I'll go with "the Longest Day".

[xrp]

I didn't see Pearl Harbour, but that would qualify as the worst ever.

Reasons:

Ben Affleck
Commerical promotions I saw of the movie that had Japanese planes bombing Spruance class destroyers. Did this actually make the movie? Spruance class DDs did not start entering service in the US Navy until the mid 1970s.

[The KG9 Kid]

The Green Berets.

Completely stupid and ridiculous. Awful plot. Terrible models. Some of the worst dialogue ever. The low point of John Wayne's career.

Loads of fun to watch. :D

[blue jeans]

A Bridge Too Far as it was a movie WAY TOO LONG!!!

[Only good part was when they blew up the bridge as Elliot Gould's men were running towards it.... for those who remember it.. and weren't asleep by that point!]

On the flip side.... one of the best of all time was....

The Guns of Navarone

[Billthedrill]

Oh, I have a trump, but I bet nobody here's ever seen it - a fetid little production named Night Wars. It was a Vietnam-vet-psycho-post-traumatic-stress exploitation flick that featured two stumblebums wondering why their vet buddies were mysteriously dying in their sleep. I swear I am not making a word of this up.

It turns out they are having flashbacks in their dreams in which an evil Sergeant (weren't they all?) is killing them off and it takes in real life. So these guys load a hotel room up with enough ordnance to take on Germany and do what everyone does before going into deadly combat - go to sleep. Riiiiight...

In their dreams the, er, "patrol" is a bunch of longhaired goofs who are clumped like little girls traipsing down a trail in some Mexican - er, "Vietnamese" - forest (great combat interval - get nine guys in the frame at once), kill sentries by pulling their hair straight back (it evidently breaks necks in Guadalajara) and then, after about 70 minutes of this incredible bilge, in the climactic chase scene the .45-carrying hero ducks behind a tree, pops his magazine out to check the ammo, and there, resplendent in a 35mm closeup, resides the crimped ends of a blank cartridge. Priceless!

I once bet a Navy Chief and a Seal a case of beer that they couldn't watch the whole thing without breaking up or screaming at the screen. They didn't last 20 minutes.