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Old April 16th, 2008, 08:32 AM
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Lightbulb Re: Worst WW2 movies ever made?

Pearl Harbor - storyline is drivel, Battle of Britain section unconvincing, CGI flying scenes ditto, despite the love-plot the characterizations seem thin, etc etc. OK for kids - Tora Tora Tora told the Pearl Harbor story better, IMPO.

Battle of the Bulge
- probably one of the greatest missed opportunities ever IMPO. Would have been better to tell the story straight, but Hollywood had to tinker and add a load of guff to the KG Peiper saga. As for blunting the advance of a KG by setting light to a couple of oildrums - barf ! Unwatchable.

Thin Red Line - a curate's egg ; good in parts ( especially the fight for the bunker on the hilltop ). But - could anyone make much sense of the story ? Overlong, confusing, and the central character was, in the end, very irritating indeed. The least bad of the three.

I'm not a professional film critic - so these are only personal opinions. Others may think that they're great films - that's OK by me.....
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