Worst WWII Movie

Worst WWII Movie

  • The Eagle Has Landed

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • The Battle of the Eagles

    Votes: 1 1.9%

  • Where Eagles Dare

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • The Desert Fox

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Raid On Rommel

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Tobruk

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Pearl Harbor

    Votes: 35 64.8%

  • The Memphis Belle

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • The Thin Red Line

    Votes: 3 5.6%

  • The Battle of the Bulge

    Votes: 3 5.6%

  • U-571

    Votes: 6 11.1%

  • Windtalkers

    Votes: 1 1.9%

  • Corregidor

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Force 10 From Navarone

    Votes: 2 3.7%

  • The Dirty Dozen

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Aerial Gunner

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Commandos

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Anzio

    Votes: 2 3.7%

  • The Flying Tigers

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Spitfire

    Votes: 1 1.9%

  • El Alamein

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    54

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There were are a few moments of wow that is impressive photograpny, the opening few seconds, and the P-40 getting airborne. I did like the drama captured in the hospital, Tora! Tora! Tora! failed to capture the human cost of the battle. However, it is overall, pretty crap. I went to Hawaii in June with my girlfriend, and I wanted her to have an idea what the movie was about and I guess this was the point of Pearl Harbor, to educate more people who wouldn't otherwise take an interest. She took an interest, and could appreciate the story when we visited Pearl Harbor itself.
Still, I think Ben Afleck and Josh Hartnet are a couple of right plonkers, they are as convincing as pilots, as I am at key hole surgery.

yakflyer
 
"I missed you like Michael Bay missed the mark, when he made Pearl Harbor.

I missed you more than that movie missed the point, and that's an awful lot girl.

Now, now you've gone away, all I'm trying to say, Pearl Harbor sucked, and I miss you.



I need you like Ben Affleck needs acting school, he was terrible in that film.

I need you like Cuba Gooding needed a better part, he's way better than Ben affleck, now, now you've gone away, and all I'm trying to say, is Pearl Harbor sucked, and I missed you!"

etc etc etc etc It sounds better when I actually sing it!
 
-So many to choose from and the competition is stiff.
-Being limited to one I'll have to go with Pearl Harbor. The premise was ludicrous, the acting terrible and much of the costuming was from the wrong era. Given when it was made there was certainly no logical reason for so many inaccuracies to be crammed into so short a period.
-I guess it just says something not very nice about both script writers and the viewing public.
 
Mersch made a bunch of Mosquito films back i n the day - featuring exploits loosely based on the RAF 617 Sqnd (Lancaster missions) and No. 106 Mosquito pathfinder. The plots weren't much but the flying scenes were interesting to watch. Wouldn't fall asleep, IIWY
 
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Film makers are not interested in making good or bad movies. Their only interest is Profit. "Worst Movie' is very subjective. We all have certain expectations when we watch a film and we may agree that some films are bad and others good in a very general sense, but when it comes to rating particular movies we each have our individual parameters. Even very bad movies can have either a very accurate or very creditable scene while the rest of the film, to us as individuals, can be an unqualified disaster. The film 'Pearl Harbor' has the well deserved status as a bad film, but the scenes where the actor Jon Voight plays the part of Franklin Roosevelt are well done, even if they may not have actually happened. I can name a war film that most people consider very good, if not great film, which in my opinion, is absolutely awful with no excusable or redeeming features.
Let's get back to possibilities.
Just off the cuff, let me nominate 'Flyboys' as a supremely bad film.
 
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I forgot about the Battle of the Bulge movie. Telly Savales standing up in his tank (where the turret used to be) brandishing a 50 cal challenging the Wehrmacht is memorable. Just not in the way intended.
 
I still like the opening with the POW's marching to the Colonel Bogie March.
 
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