The Worst War Movie/Series you've ever watched

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.

I have to agree with you on this, Spidge. They would be no more believable than the Indiana Jones movies, but they do make for a rousing 2+ hours spent watching them. The cable-car scenes in Eagles are exciting.

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.

:icon_police: I made a mistake. This craphole of a movie was not made using outtakes from the Henry Fonda movie, Baffle of the Bulge, but from Patton, instead. Apologies all around, please.

 

Anyway, good or bad, those movies from the 60s I badmouthed so much were, plus a lot of others like Bridge at River Kwai, were part of what aroused my interest in WW2, I have to thank them for that.

Provided they wouldn't feature Telly Savalas!

 

were part of what aroused my interest in WW2, I have to thank them for that.

Ditto!

 

Spot on, Za! My Dad sitting me down to watch Sink the Bismarck and The Dambusters and then building the Bismarck with me got me into it!

 

Just to name a few, Pearl Harbor, Enemy at The Gates, U-571 and the

recently released Flyboys all belong in the trash barrel.

Occasionally we get a decent war film.

 

Browsing the Radio Times just reminded me of Yanks - utter romantic tosh

 

I was in high school when this...this...movie came out. I saw it coming and avoided it. I have never seen it. How did you get rooked into seeing it?

 

It was on TV this afternoon but I avoided it. But I saw it years ago when I was naive and would watch anything to do with WW2! Glad I never payed money to watch it in a cinema.

 

Pearl Harbor hands down!
Patton and Battle of the Bulge is on the list, but they do both get a pass for helping to get me into WWII history as a kid.

My secret vice and as a kid favorite movie was the utterly horrible Raid on Rommel, made with mostly out takes of Rock Hudsons Tobruk. Terrible movie...but I still like it
Art

 

Alas, for a double post.

 

Nothing worse than "Pearl Harbor" comes to mind. At the time, I didn't know any technical stuff that was wrong, and I am not sure I would be able to spot much now, even. I thought the effects generally looked rather good. The problem of course, was that it was basically the "Titanic" of WWII. What a waste of interesting history, just because you're trying to draw the silly teenage girl crowd (and I say that as someone who saw the movie as a teenage girl.)

Honorable mention to "U-571", because like so many others, I am offended by the totally wrong nation being heroes, and all the other nonsense. I saw the movie years ago, though, and I think I found that the Brits did it, right after I watched it. Plus, Bon Jovi is in it...It can't be that historically sound.

 

The Man Who Never War: Who was the actress who played the flat-mate? Her face, especially her top lip, never moved throughout the film!

Pearl Harbour: Gung-ho-pretty-boy-film aimed more at the young girls.

Bridge of the River Kwai and the sequal Return to the River Kwai (?)

But, you have to remember that these films aren't there to be documentaries, they are just films.
Should we, who have a passion for WW2 (or any war) get hot under the collar if a director uses a MkIII* SMLE when he should have used a Jungle Carbine? After all, the avarage man or woman in the street isn't going to be any wiser.

Just think, you might find a WW2 film that has everything military-related just right......then some bright spark pipes up with "I cannot believe they have just shown a 1949 Dennis Fire Appliance during the Blitz! Doesn't the Director know ANYTHING?" If he hadn't said anything then you would have been none the wiser and gone away thinking it was a good film.

Anyhoo, I also detested Anzio

 

Cheers Spidge, that's cleared that up for me!

 

Thinking about the odd boo-boo that film-makers are guilty of.

In 2003 my wife and I had a week in Florence. Amongst the local trips we made was one to nearby San Gimignano, a town immortalised in the film “Tea with Mussolini”.
When we returned home I thought I would have another look at the film, which I have on video. As I watched the re-run, I came to the scene near the end, where the Germans tanks re-enter the town, with orders to blow up the beautiful Collegiata church.

It was all very dramatic, but what completely spoilt it for me this time round, was the fact that the tank that they used was clearly a Sherman Mk IV, albeit with a German Cross painted on the turret side.
Trust me chaps …..I’m ex 4th Hussars, and it WAS a Sherman and I’ve got comparative photos to prove my point. The snap on the left was taken of my TV screen at the offending moment.
The question, is did the director honestly think there was no one left alive who could tell the difference?

 

"pearl harbour"and,"they saved hitler's brain." the latter being far more historically accurate! (too bad they couldnt save the brain of'pearl harbour's' scriptwriter;taking off in a medium bomber from the deck of an aircraft carrier,no job for an experienced bomber pilot when you can use a couple of fighter jocks who converted last week....... please! )

 

Well if nobody has said "Castle Keep" [1969] staring Burt Lancaster, I am going to throw it down as a Trump card. It is unbeatable. Sorry chaps, I win.

 

My husband loved Pearl Harbor. I asked if there was a "love story." He said, "Yes." I am proud to say I have not watched it!!! Don't get me started, love and war...No way!!

 

Well if nobody has said "Castle Keep" [1969] staring Burt Lancaster, I am going to throw it down as a Trump card. It is unbeatable. Sorry chaps, I win.

I can't say if it is the worst movie ever, I haven't seen it all the way through. I reeked so badly, I turned it off to watch George Formby.

 

Debra, I loved Pearl Harbour as well, but I was too scared to say it by myself LOL.
We all know it is junk, but to me it's a blokie movie filled with dames, planes, nylons and guns. I put aside history.