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Couldn't think of any others.  Battle of Britain was good, Das Boot was good...  I could go on for ever.  Sure, none of them were perfect, but they could hold their own.  Any other good suggestions will be added to the poll!

I only like the flight scenes in Pearl Harbor. I hate history mixed with...love...
Anyways Wintalkers was a disapointment too. Seemed pretty good at first the ending was just wrong. Some time ago i saw a Nam movie, was a John Wayne-type film (dont even know if he was in it) IMO, was the worst war movie ever. Main characters died, most of the things were fictional, the mission was pathetic, etc. Seemed like a WWII film...with a real bad plot.

I didn't see Windtalkers so I would have to go with Pearl Harbor, which totally sucked except for the 20 minutes of air attack.  It failed miserably as a love story too.

I think the John Wayne movie was Green Berets (1968 or so).  David Janssen was a cynical newsman and John Wayne convinced him that we (USA) were in Vietnam for the right reasons and would prevail.  It had a few good scenes, like Puff the Magic Dragon.

I forgot to add Casualties of War.  A sack of it.

The thing with Pearl Harbor was I find it was munfactured for the camera.  I could be wrong, but I don't think all 300 planes were over Battleship Row at the same tima, then all moving to the small airfield when our great love torn heroes scrambled to it.  The way the Zeroes strafed, the fact that the auxilary airstrip had smoking debris despite not being visted by the Japanese yet and one of the things that bothered me the most: there were Vals bombing palm trees in that scene where all the nurses were running to the hospital.  What for, to set up a scene with nice big explosions in the background.  Ridiculous.  Strafing?  Yes.  Bombing?  No.  Windtalkers had nothing but the 2 second Wildcat scene.

Anyone who didn't say 'The Green Berets' doesn't remember a 250 lb 60 year old John Wayne pretending to be able to keep up with the 20 y/o in his outfit!

George Beckworth: There is such a thing as due process.
Colonel Mike Kirby: Out here, due process is a bullet.  ::)

Oh Brother!

But that's not the worst war movie ever.  That honor falls to 'The Big Red One' with Luke Skywalker as a WWII grunt/cartoonist who finally learns the value of killing a man...

I only like the flight scenes in Pearl Harbor. I hate history mixed with...love...

same for me. the best scene in "pearl harbor" was the chase over the channel. the rest was either not that good or total crap.

same for me. the best scene in "pearl harbor" was the chase over the channel. the rest was either not that good or total crap.

that's hollywood crap for you ::) ::) :-/ >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( i sipose if there wern't any........ l.......lo.....lov...........looooooo.........love in it the Movie wouldn't of been of a big deal!! Sheesh,  that just takes the mucho, and realism outta war..... stupid hollywood.... hey lets bomb and straf them with vals, kates, bettys and zeros and show them how it's really done

I don't know.............I wouldn't call Pearl Harbour the best War movie I've ever seen, but it certainly is a long way from the worst.

I don't mind a bit of a romance plot in some movies. When you consider that the entire attack took less than 2 hrs, they had to do something.
We've had the old 'Tora Tora Tora' which showed the lead up to the attack from a military and political point, and it was as boring as all get out. So what to do with Pearl Harbour?.............Tack the Doolittle raid on the end and link the two with a romance/buddy story.
Not bad, I maen, I've seen alot worse, disguised as entertainment.

(I think you young blokes are a bit spoilt. If it doesn't have Computer Generated imaging and heaps of realistic, real life type action, it's not good enough....) j/k

IMO i dont think The Big Red One was a bad film. There could have been other movies better than it but i think it did a good job showin the North African campaign, Italy, and all that stuff. And..at least theres a human touch to the story - like the concentration camp parts. Thats the thing with some war movies sometimes. They show big explosions, the

urgh pearl harbour definatly :-/ :-/ :-/
i have said it a million times before but the best part was the headache i had coming out of the movie theater:)

Green Berets, no question! Dreadful film.

Just watched Pearl last night, with a teary, red eyed Stormy and I can honestly say that the only good scene in the entire movie was the fab side-slipping Stearman at the beginning...........everything else was too " generated "..........

No contest. Pearl Harbour was just pants!

I never watched any of the other movies besides Pearl Harbor.  I didn't like it.  The scene over the channel was good.  I just don't think he could of survived that crash, he hit pretty hard.  And how did he get back to Pearl Harbor?  And why did they fly B-25s?  Fighter pilots don't fly bombers.  And vise-versa.  I liked the Big Red One, I thought it was good.  As said before it showed the human side of it all, but there was a lot of action too.  The Battle of the Bulge was good, but no one else thought it was.