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Worst war films
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We've done best - now how about worst?
The Thin Red Line - pretensious bollocks and anyone everyone knows the thin red line is the British Infantry so adding another reason to burn this film
Courage under fire - frankly I can see why they shot Meg Ryan, though why someone who fucks up so abdly she's topped by her own men gets awarded the US's highest honour is a new one on me; the only obvious reason would be that the film-makers thought it would bring in the chicks in an outbreak of girl power. So not only complete bollocks, but politically correct bollocks as well.
Oh, what a lovely war - as an anti-war film it remains the best recruiting sergeant ever. If they showed it before troops went over the top and said the bastards who made it in were in the trench opposite it'd be twelve VCs before breakfast as everyone strove to bayonent the director... probably in the bollocks that being to kind a fate for this film
The Charge of the Light Brigade - history written by an O'level student who slept through most of the lesson on the Crimean War. Such talented actors wasted on an exercise of class-war bollocks.
How I won the war - proof that John Lennon may have been more important than Jesus but he had lousy taste as a film star. It might have worked for 196)'s drugged out hippies, but show it to a bunch of Northern Irish schoolkids in the 80's was possibly the stupidest mistake a teacher made since Mr Magoo accidently stumbled into the girls changing toom. yep you guessed it - the film is absolute bollocks
The Thin Red Line - pretensious bollocks and anyone everyone knows the thin red line is the British Infantry so adding another reason to burn this film
Courage under fire - frankly I can see why they shot Meg Ryan, though why someone who fucks up so abdly she's topped by her own men gets awarded the US's highest honour is a new one on me; the only obvious reason would be that the film-makers thought it would bring in the chicks in an outbreak of girl power. So not only complete bollocks, but politically correct bollocks as well.
Oh, what a lovely war - as an anti-war film it remains the best recruiting sergeant ever. If they showed it before troops went over the top and said the bastards who made it in were in the trench opposite it'd be twelve VCs before breakfast as everyone strove to bayonent the director... probably in the bollocks that being to kind a fate for this film
The Charge of the Light Brigade - history written by an O'level student who slept through most of the lesson on the Crimean War. Such talented actors wasted on an exercise of class-war bollocks.
How I won the war - proof that John Lennon may have been more important than Jesus but he had lousy taste as a film star. It might have worked for 196)'s drugged out hippies, but show it to a bunch of Northern Irish schoolkids in the 80's was possibly the stupidest mistake a teacher made since Mr Magoo accidently stumbled into the girls changing toom. yep you guessed it - the film is absolute bollocks
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And the ending.... I remember watching it with this face :eek2: predictable, sappy, garbage.
Pearl Harbour - What. The. Fuck. So little attention to detail all the way through this film (the scene where they walk past the building with 'Est. 1947' for example) and the last hour was totally stupid and pointless, they can't make a movie where the americans get beaten so they make this bombing raid that ends with.. well i dont know what the hell happened other than Josh Hartnett getting shot. I had pretty much given up on the plot at that point.
What about that one about the U-boat. I've never seen it, I just remember everyone whinging about it when it came out.
Das Boot?
U-271 - I think this is the one! - they aimed for a Das Boot feel but they failed miserably, the scene where they are switching and they drop the machine 'the enigma!!' the guy shouts and jumps in, totally thrilling action scene.
The scenes where they get depthcharged also has no tension and the ending is one of the worst ive ever seen in a war movie. Another one of those 'based on a true story' movies where the thing did actually happen but it was not done by americans in reality.
Yeah it was awful. Not to go too much over the top but its such a shame and quite sad really that they made that bollocks. Could you imagine survivors of Pearl Harbour watching that? They'd think what the hell have you done!
I may as well add the storyline, as we all know was one big FARCE. Why add all the crap?! WHHHHY!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid
I'll have a think on some more, I'm still trying to come up with my 5 favourite TV series
Green Berets - John Wayne wins the Vietnam war
Windtalkers - fuck me this was the biggest disappointment I've ever seen. How does the guy who made Bullet in the Head direct this mess? Mr. Woo, you disappoint me sir.
I didn't think it was that bad - okay it's not brilliant but no where near dire enough to make it onto the worst list.
And hurry up about that - I posted the entire topic for you
Agree with Windtalkers being shit, other shite include tears of the sun, black hawk down...
i like war films though
This is the most Disappointed Movie which I ever seen.
I liked we were soldiers :S