Most laughably inaccurate war movies ever

**Ironduke** · 12-26-2006, 21:13 PM

What film(s) do you think was the most inaccurate, laughable war movies ever made, whether its been pumping it up with unneeded drama and romance, inaccurate showing of military tactics, heavily clichéd, etc?

dalem · 12-26-2006, 21:50 PM

"Battle of the Bulge" and "Enemy at the Gates" both immediately spring to mind for me.

-dale

Rifleman · 12-26-2006, 21:59 PM

"Where Eagles Dare" with Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton. I loved it though! Loads of fun to watch!

**astralis** · 12-26-2006, 22:23 PM

"the green berets", by john wayne. and on the other side, "apocalypse now", although whether or not that counts as a war movie can be debated.

RustyBattleship · 12-27-2006, 01:02 AM

Most inaccurate: "Battle of the Bulge"
Most anti-war: "Apocolypse Now"
Most dumbest: "Pilot Number 5" with Van Johnson and Gene Kelly
Most hilarious as a combination of war and sci-fi: "Zone Troopers"
Most depressing: "The D.I." with Jack Webb as a Marine Drill Sergeant

Then there was one (I forgot the title) where in a flash back to WW II I play a German soldier beating a French Resistance fighter to death with my M-98 Mauser. Just HAD to be the worst ever because I don't think it was ever released.

sappersgt · 12-27-2006, 01:50 AM

Kelly's Heroes

Gaskin · 12-27-2006, 06:29 AM

Rambo 3, if you can count it as a war movie (CIA DID send operators to actively help the mujahids, didn't they

)

**TopHatter** · 12-27-2006, 06:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Ironduke

What film(s) do you think was the most inaccurate, laughable war movies ever made, whether its been pumping it up with unneeded drama and romance, inaccurate showing of military tactics, heavily clichéd, etc?

By those standards...

Top Gun is right at the top of my list.

I especially love how a multi-billion dollar aircraft carrier with 5000+ sailors (valuable asset? Nah...

) and 90+ aircraft on board is only capable of launching THREE fighter aircraft for it's defense, mainly because Cats 3 and 4 picked a really odd time to simultaneously go down and Cats 1 and 2 must have been on a coffee break or something...

glyn · 12-27-2006, 10:11 AM

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What film(s) do you think was the most inaccurate, laughable war movies ever made, whether its been pumping it up with unneeded drama and romance, inaccurate showing of military tactics, heavily clichéd, etc?

Holy Moses, Ferrous One, I can see this thread running until doomsday. Virtually every war film I have ever seen has had its share of 'errors'. Perhaps the question to ask next is 'What was the most accurately portrayed war film'?

dalem · 12-27-2006, 11:19 AM

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Holy Moses, Ferrous One, I can see this thread running until doomsday. Virtually every war film I have ever seen has had its share of 'errors'. Perhaps the question to ask next is 'What was the most accurately portrayed war film'?

Nahh. There's "inaccurate"; wrong gun for the era, wrong uniform patches, dressing up Shermans for Panzers, etc., and then there's "laughable"; i.e. they didn't even TRY to get accurate.

-dale

gilgamesh · 12-27-2006, 11:24 AM

Braveheart. Yeah, Wallace rebels against the King somewhere in Scotland and then boinks his woman(consenting) right under his heavily fortified nose!

gilgamesh · 12-27-2006, 11:29 AM

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Perhaps the question to ask next is 'What was the most accurately portrayed war film'?

'The Longest Day'(I can't comment on the hardware). 'Great Escape'.

Both don't have swear words in them. So not realistic in that sense.

Edit: Add 'A Bridge Too Far'.

Amled · 12-27-2006, 11:54 AM

1941 and Pearl Harbour

Gaskin · 12-27-2006, 11:59 AM

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1941 and Pearl Harbour

Pearl Harbor indeed, it was a complete disgrace

. Basically it was a love movie with cool spec. effects. I remember I looked soooooo forward to see it and was pretty disappointed. Tora Tora Tora is still the best PH movie around

**Officer of Engineers** · 12-27-2006, 12:01 PM

You guys watch communist propaganda films? Especially Chinese ones? The ones from the Korean War was hillarious.

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RustyBattleship *Defense Professional* Join Date: 01-12-06 Location: Long Beach, CA Posts: 2,858	Most inaccurate: "Battle of the Bulge" Most anti-war: "Apocolypse Now" Most dumbest: "Pilot Number 5" with Van Johnson and Gene Kelly Most hilarious as a combination of war and sci-fi: "Zone Troopers" Most depressing: "The D.I." with Jack Webb as a Marine Drill Sergeant Then there was one (I forgot the title) where in a flash back to WW II I play a German soldier beating a French Resistance fighter to death with my M-98 Mauser. Just HAD to be the worst ever because I don't think it was ever released. __________________ Able to leap tall tales in a single groan.

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dalem Lord High Hullabalooster *Senior Contributor* Join Date: 11-23-04 Location: Columbia Heights, MN Posts: 8,557 Country:	"Battle of the Bulge" and "Enemy at the Gates" both immediately spring to mind for me. -dale

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Gaskin Regular Join Date: 12-25-06 Posts: 28	Rambo 3, if you can count it as a war movie (CIA DID send operators to actively help the mujahids, didn't they ) __________________ I'm sorry for my English - can make grammar mistakes sometimes :(

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