The Worst War Movies of All Time
 

OK... here goes.

1. Pearl Harbor (2001) I still want my $10 and those 2hours, 4 minutes back.... pure crap.
2. The Conqueror (1956) "this Tartar woman is for me... my heart says, take her!"...oh, Duke, how could you?
3. Midway (1976) All WW2 footage with cuts to Chuck on the bridge of a carrier.... hmmm...
4. Vercingétorix (2001) Holy crap....this was bad.
5. They Died With Their Boots On (1941) propaganda never sat well with me...
6. Heartbreak Ridge (1986)...yack.
7. Iron Eagle II (1988) 'nuff said.
8. Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988).. the least you could do is to make the sequel story line follow the first two.... sheesh.
9. Red Dawn (1984) Reagan-era hysteria.
10. Invasion U.S.A. (1985) Because one Chuck Norris film in the list isn't enough...

Odd you picked Midway, that is, to me, one of the greats, I still watch it every time it airs.

I just think that the weak story line and the heavy use of stock WW II footage was a lazy-ass way to make a film.

Just an opinion....

Here's a couple more:

11. The Purple Heart (1944) Must be seen to be beleived, e.g. when the Chinese fellow murders his stoolie father in the courtroom.

12. Kelly's Heroes (1970) Don Sutherland as the "stoner" tank driver is pretty silly as is the rest of this "heist" flick.

Actually, despite saying I love all war movies on the other thread, I'd have to agree 100% with Pearl Harbor at #1. And I'd add in U-571 at #2.

There is a limit before historical inaccuracy just becomes plain distracting. Battle of the Bulge pushes it, but these two (and Bridge on the River Kwai) go too far...at least in my humble opinion.

U-571. Hands down.

Crash Dive :down:

I thought Midway was pretty good actually.

Have only seen small parts of "Pearl Harbour", but those already confirm a top position in this list for me. I thought "Tobruk" was pretty bad too.

U-571 definitely...

--Mike

A film I thought was really bad was 'When Trumpets fade' made by either the writer or director of 'Hamburger Hill.' I cannot explain why I hated it so much, becuase, in actual fact the setting (the Hurtgen forest,) is an interesting and much ignored part of WW2.

Oh, actually, I do know why I didn't like it; It was badly written, the action sucked and the acting blowed...

Operation Petticoat

http://www.carygrant.net/fotogallery.../op-lobby1.jpg


Ok...ok it was a comedy actually but lets don't split hairs.....PH was a love story in disguise

Das Boot (1981)

In Enemy Hands (2004) !!! Also known as U Boat in Europe.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316824/


This is the worst war movie, and should rank as one of the worst movie ever. It makes U 571 look like a masterpiece. It has to take top honors because it was made only a few years ago, there is just no excuse for the factual errors as well as terrible acting, sets, effects........

Wow, someone actually rates this as the worst? :huh:

That's more than a little surprising, considering just about everyone here, (and their mothers I bet), love that movie! :doh:

Windtalkers.

U-571
Terrible actors, H. Keitel in his worst role, and a rockstar in his probable best role, still much too bad for any film :rotfl:
Completely concocted history (Engigma etc.) AND still serving the WW2 allied propaganda German-U-boats-kill-shipwrecked" bullsh*t.
Greetings,
Catfish

The Pearl Harbor (2001) Attack Scene Was good and accurate. RED DAWN alerted the USA to Communist Aggression, and that "Reagan Hysteria" won the Cold War..:)

Pearl Harbour? What an utter crock of sh*t!

That film is aweful. Who directed it? Who wrote it?

Laugh? I nearly shat...

You can tell its a crap war movie, cause girls like it more than blokes...

Never seen U-571, think I'll give it a wide birth.

Nope, sorry. You're wrong on two counts.

Communist aggression was known since the Korean War, and it hardly required a bad Patrick Swayze movie to sound the alarm. Red Dawn was only a hysterical and propogandist attempt at fearmongering and cashing in at the same time. Propoganda is propaganda.

A number of factors decided the Cold War. The Solidarity Movement in Poland, the instability of the Russian economy, the shortcomings of the Stalinist system, the Berlin Wall, and mutually assured destruction ensured the end of the cold war.

Hysteria never won any wars, so far as I can recall.

While I agree Red Dawn was just pure propaganda, Reagan pushed the Russians to the breaking point. He kept up the pressure on their economy, he made them decide between making food or keeping up with us in the arms race. Politics is my specialty, without Reagan's intervention the USSR would probably still be standing. Most of the people in the 80's were very apathetic towards the USSR, we didn't want to push them because we feared their push back. Reagan said f*ck that and made the USSR push itself more than it could sustain. Which obviously resulted in the collapse of the economy. Now if only Bush would follow Reagan's example and call Puttin a dictatorial Stalinist Russia may become a successful democracy.