Originally Posted by Bubbles_Barker

Originally Posted by LineDoggie

Worst war films ever? top 10 gotta be; "The Fifth day of Peace", "Pearl Harbor", "U-571", "The Thin Red Line"(remake), "The Commandos Strike At Dawn", "Play Dirty", "Tunes Of Glory", " Wing & a Prayer"," The Bofors Gun", & "The Battle of the Neretva" with Yul Brynner.

"Tunes of Glory"? What's wrong with you man? Firstly, it ain't a war film, it's a film about the effects of war. Secondly, it's fecking brilliant!

I have to agree on "Battle of the Neretva" though!

"The Bofors Gun" aint a war film either, it's set in BAOR in the 1950's. Having said that it's a very good film indeed, a real psycho-drama and should be compulsory viewing for all potential NCO's I reckon!

These have already been nominated, but 'Pearl Harbor' (Favourite line - 'Hey, I guess WWII just started!'), 'Rules of Engagement' (which seems to have been the main training aid for the US Army prior to deployment to Iraq in 2003) and - the crap de la crap - 'The Green Berets'. An honourable mention is 'Paris Brule T'il?' ('Is Paris Burning?') where the French tried to claim that they liberated their own country in 1944.

Worst - not as in bad, but horrifying - is the Russian film 'Idti i Smotri' ('Come and See'), with very realistic scenes of Nazis butchering Soviet peasants.

Fun, but ludicrous - Errol Flynn in 'Charge of the Light Brigade' where - for reasons too complicated to explain - the leader of the Indian Mutiny (who has treacherously butchered women and children) is in the Russian lines, and Flynn lances him before he dies. A major achievement, seeing as the Crimean War was 1854-1856, and the mutiny began in 1857.

They Who Dare - crap from start to finish! I only watched it right through from morbid fascination.

Originally Posted by Bubbles_Barker

Originally Posted by LineDoggie

Worst war films ever? top 10 gotta be; "The Fifth day of Peace", "Pearl Harbor", "U-571", "The Thin Red Line"(remake), "The Commandos Strike At Dawn", "Play Dirty", "Tunes Of Glory", " Wing & a Prayer"," The Bofors Gun", & "The Battle of the Neretva" with Yul Brynner.

"Tunes of Glory"? What's wrong with you man? Firstly, it ain't a war film, it's a film about the effects of war. Secondly, it's fecking brilliant!

I have to agree on "Battle of the Neretva" though!

Agreed, saw it for the first time a few months ago and was very impressed.

Originally Posted by VanHelsing

The Big Red One....another yank film this one showing us how the septics won the N.African campaign single handed in WW2.

They have achieved this once.....Grenada, but they dont make films on that one.

IIRC, the Big Red One shows the US Army get its ass handed to it at Kasserine, thats where the Sergeant is captured after his squad runs away, and he's rescued by a British Commando raid on Tunis while in Hospital.

How you got from that that it shows us win N.Africa single handed is beyond comprehension.

maybe watch it sober next time.

Originally Posted by Flak_Hackett

Black Hawk Down. Trust me. I saw it in the States at Christmas.
Reality - Yanks panic, get shot down, panic some more, decide everyone with black skin is a terrorist, send in Apaches to fire rockets into demonstration slaughtering 90 unarmed men, women and children
Film - Yanks get shot down thanks to bad luck, fight bravely against overwheling odds, against scores of state0of-the-art armed an well trained enemy troops, emerging victorious in the nick of time.
Moral - This is why they're so fecking dangerous on ops.

*gets stuck between american spec ops and british spec ops* erm im going to stand with them *hides behind the british spec ops* lol

Originally Posted by Nanuq

Originally Posted by Flak_Hackett

Black Hawk Down. Trust me. I saw it in the States at Christmas.
Reality - Yanks panic, get shot down, panic some more, decide everyone with black skin is a terrorist, send in Apaches to fire rockets into demonstration slaughtering 90 unarmed men, women and children
Film - Yanks get shot down thanks to bad luck, fight bravely against overwheling odds, against scores of state0of-the-art armed an well trained enemy troops, emerging victorious in the nick of time.
Moral - This is why they're so fecking dangerous on ops.

*gets stuck between american spec ops and british spec ops* erm im going to stand with them *hides behind the british spec ops* lol

Spec Ops? If you are serious about writing a book you shouldn't refer british special forces as Spec Ops - its all too septic

Originally Posted by TheSpecialOne

Originally Posted by Nanuq

Originally Posted by Flak_Hackett

Black Hawk Down. Trust me. I saw it in the States at Christmas.
Reality - Yanks panic, get shot down, panic some more, decide everyone with black skin is a terrorist, send in Apaches to fire rockets into demonstration slaughtering 90 unarmed men, women and children
Film - Yanks get shot down thanks to bad luck, fight bravely against overwheling odds, against scores of state0of-the-art armed an well trained enemy troops, emerging victorious in the nick of time.
Moral - This is why they're so fecking dangerous on ops.

*gets stuck between american spec ops and british spec ops* erm im going to stand with them *hides behind the british spec ops* lol

Spec Ops? If you are serious about writing a book you shouldn't refer british special forces as Spec Ops - its all too septic

hmmm good advice

Its probably already been mentioned but can't be fecked reading all the pages again.

The only "war" film that was so bad I had to switch off: "American Soldiers: A Day in Iraq". Awful, just bleedin awful.

Can I suggest Anzio, biggest load of old cobblers I have ever had the misfortune to watch , along of course with The Green Berets which has the glorious line when all is going down the pan of "Move out". Desperate!!