The Worst War Movie/Series you've ever watched

Well, Not all war-movies can be "war-movies".

The worst I've seen? Pearl Harbor. Everything was a "LOVE-STORY" and there was many historical and technical errors. There were many inaccuracies. One, the Spitfire that appeared in the interception of the HE-111s was an IX, which
appeared later after the Battle of Britain. The P-40 can't "Outrun or Outfly" Mitsubishi Zeros and the stunts were too dangerous. The Doolittle Raid was also inaccurate. They destroyed a whole industrial area, but Colonel Jimmy Doolittle said that the B-25B Raid was ineffective.

 

The Frogmen-very slow. Too little action for me.

D-Day: The Sixth of June-hardly had anything to do with D-Day. The actual D-Day landing was only about seven minutes. The whole film was a love story and the ending wasn't great.

 

For me it has to be ANZIO. Complete waste of time.

Coletti directed "Under Ten Flags" with Van Heflin, Charles Laughton and Cecil Parker then eight years later made this garbage.

 

That awful Battle of the Bulge filmed in Spain with scores of Spanish Army M-47s pretending to be Tigers, advancing through the woods in tight phalanxes, while the M-24 pretending to be Shermans.

I remember the scene where the German general unveils to the SS Panzer Colonel what is going to be his secret weapon, s silver painted model of an M-47!

This is only an example, there are many more baaaaad films.

 

Always amazes me how some of these directors and producers (and some of them acclaimed) think they can get away with making rubbish like this. Would you make a film about the twin towers but film it at the Petronas towers in Malaysia? I don't think so. How can they get away with this? Don't they realise that they're mis-leading the younger generation that think that what they see is how it actually happened. Really, really annoying. I think they're also dismissing the respect of the veterans who fought in these places.

As Sapper always says...... "Hollywood Bulls#@t".

marcus

 

Well, y'all have taken the wind out of my sails, with bad movies.

Here's and addition, Fireball Forward. Made using outtakes from Battle of the Bulge added to additional new storyline and scenes. It is was just so sad.

 

please add 633 squadron to this list. dear god, so slow that even Mossies cannot save it.

 

Dang VP, you make me look like I have a sieve for a brain. How COULD I forget U-571 and Emema at the Gates (well titled by you)?

As far as U-571, why didn't they just show the real story of the capture of the U-110 or if the producers felt they had to show an American victory, then U-505? That was such a lame movie.

 

Perhaps we should discuss the good films instead, they are much thinner on the ground than baaaad movies. But speaking of baaaad movies is a lot more fun

 

U-571 or Pearl Harbor

 

Enemy at the gates?

It's been branded rubbish on this forum many a times, but I gotta admit... .. I actually thought it wasn't too bad.

Not for historical accuracy but for film viewing. The scene where he shoots the string from the hook he's trying to get his rifle with, I thought was brilliant. ( I'm waiting to be slated now).

The worst so far, I'll agree with spidge. Anzio.

 

I agree with Anzio, it's really awful.

 

Only just saw Enemy at the Gates and laughed out loud at the crashed He-111 that had an engine broken off its mounts from the "impact". The engine nacelle/firewall that was exposed was a blank "wall". No impact marks, no plumbing etc etc. So very wrong.

English accents cheesed me off too given the setting.

 

U571

 

Come on, Enemy at Gates can't hold a candle in terms of badness as compared to the golden age of war movies, the 60s. See for instance the gut wrenching Battle of the Bulge I mentioned already, Guns of Navarone or Where Eagles Dare.

 

I'd agree with you Za but with the efforts that can be made by film makers to get things "right" these days, little things like having the cast do language/dialect lessons would not have cost too much!

Another thning that cheesed me off in "Enema" was something relating to the German sniper. Now, a sniper's rifle is his best friend (my understanding) so why was the German guy sitting there relaxing after a day in the field with a filthy weapon next to him? I would have though the first thing he would do when getting back to his billet would be to strip the rifle and clean it but that's just me and I have no militray experience so...

 

Come on, Enemy at Gates can't hold a candle in terms of badness as compared to the golden age of war movies, the 60s. See for instance the gut wrenching Battle of the Bulge I mentioned already, Guns of Navarone or Where Eagles Dare.

I can agree with "Battle of the Bulge" because it portrays an actual event however The Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles Dare are adaptations of novels and do not depict actual events.

The latter two were hard to swallow if they had been factual and required super heroes I agree, yet they were well directed, casted and acted.

We have to take some movies with a grain of salt and allow some latitude to ensure that these type of movies are profitable.