The "Thin Red Line" was not the best ww2 movie.

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Regards, Christian/SMLE shooter.

the worst i saw lately was "the bunker"
about a german company trapped in a bunker with ghosts .

what irked me is that they had SS tunics with cuff titles , whermach litzen and ALL the soldiers had 2 tank destruction awards on the right sleeve , every single one of them !!!!!! ....

historically awful ...

cheers,

sabai

Lets see....to list some that come to mind....

Not a big fan of Defiance. It is a great story but I thought they made the movie too long and I didn't like how it ended.

Flags of our Fathers was ok, Letters from Iwo Jima was far better.

S.S. Doomtrooper makes me want to gauge my eyes out....

I know there are more, I just cant think of them right now...and it is not fair to say Defiance and Flags of Our Fathers are two of the worst WWII movies ever made (it is ok to say S.S. Doomtrooper is) they are just fresh in my mind.

....I don't know why you would every watch the bunker....did you not see the DVD box?

But they couldn't possibly tell the whole story, it spanned the entire duration of the war! They had to limit it to a certain part of the war, but that part that was portrayed was very accurate and true to the book "The Bielski Brothers".

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Hello fellows,

what impression did you guys have of "Miracle of Saint......?

Regards
Kruska

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Ok then it was just boring in general. It was accurate, why would that matter if it is long and boring.....

It was alright, not that great acting, a little "corny" at times, especially the end.

I have a new contender for the worst ww2 movie: Brothers war.
I lasted for 17 minutes and I am still sorry for every and each one of them. I can't talk about the story because I didn't see it. The Germans were all clean shaved poster boys for Aryan race while the Russians were all like mongoloid thugs. The main German character never took more then two puffs from a cigarette before throwing it away – must had an endless supply I guess. In the one and same scene he had, from one angle a PPSH 41 and from the other STGW 44, both of which had to be re-cocked after every shot. 88' that didn't recoil, Russians only tactic was human wave …......

Against this PH in Oscar material.

I even threw away the CD after having watched it.

Regards
Kruska

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Top picks of the worst:

1. Midway
2. Battle of the Bulge
3. Tobruk
4. Pearl Harbor
5. Memphis Belle

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Glorious Basterds

Good one to list D-Day.

Also, the lousiest one I ever saw, was: Battle For the Last Panzer, which had Klaus Kinski in it. Then there was one that had Wally Campo in it, which took place in North Africa-and the "Italian and or "German" Soldiers all wore RAD caps. This movie has to be either tied in 1st place as Worst War Movie ever-or in 2nd place. It's so bad that I can't even remember it's title and am too lazy to try looking it up on the IMDB site.

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I read "Wheels of terror" years ago and thought it was pretty good,i used be a big sven hassel fan.

Worst wwii 2 movie,there are hundreds of wwii movies where people dont even fire a gun,any wwii for women movie has to be a bad war movie.Women sticking together type of stuff.

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I enjoyed Memphis Belle even though it isn't completely accurate. Even Saving Private Ryan had tons of flaws.

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I didn't make it to the end.

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The name alone tells me all I need to know it probably s**ks.

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Never mind that they were in a bunker with a bunch of GHOSTS!!!

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Think of it as a nature documentary with a few battle scenes thrown in every once in a while to keep the audience from falling asleep.

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As bad as Pearl Harbor is - and as bad as it could have been (listened to one of the tech advisors at a Smithsonian lecture on the Pentagon and Hollywood talk about this) - it reinvigorated some interest into World War II, and had some awesome images (along with totally ridiculous ones); and as for the Elsa films, the Carradine-Reed film - we expect those to be bad (and it is part of their marginal charm) - but for me Battle of the Bulge takes the cake at being bad in so many ways and so consistently. I can watch it like Mystery Science Theatre 2000....

I also have to say that the WORST ww2 movie ever made is pearl harbour starring Ben Afflek and Josh Hartnett. I picked it up from a jumble sale because it looked like good viewing material however once I turned it on and watched one hour into the film I turned the DVD off and binned it because it made a mockery of pearl harbour . It is inaccurate, badly written and totally scheiss.

At the time The Battle of Britain came out a "clever" producer in Italy managed to come out come out with a film titled La battaglia d' Inghilterrra a couple of month before the true long awaited movie was released, I was already a WW2 fanatic and fell for it and it was simply awful. BTW in Italy the real BoB movie is titled I lunghi giorni delle aquile because of this.
On a more mainstream topic The Battle of the Bulge and Pearl Harbor top my list too but I think Miracle at Sant'Anna would beat them if I ever wan to punish myself enough to watch it.

C'mon guys!

GETTYSBURG makes all these aforementioned pale in comparison..

Easily the worst casting, with the very worst beg Martin Sheen as R.E. Lee, sounding more like an Ohio version of Bedford Forrest rather than the cultured "Marble Ediface" himself.
Sam Elliot was simply laughable as John Buford, and the man that played Joshua L Chamberlain ought to have recieved a swift kick in the behind for portraying Mr. Chamberlain as a moustachio chewing doofus instead of the coolheaded, utterly compelling luminary that JL Chamberlain was.
As for Gettysburg revealing anything about how the battle was fought or why, it was simply more than this turgid movie could handle. It's depiction of Pickets Charge left more than a little to be desired, considering this should have been the very easiest of engagements to re-enact.....

PEARL HARBOR was to be on my list, but other posters have pulled that particular turkey back to the coop where it belongs.
The THIN RED LINE was tawdry, induced me to snore loudly on no less than THREE occasions, a record beaten only by Kubricks 2001-A Space Odessey, which I have consistently failed to stay awake for the conclusion of on EVERY time that I've sat down to watch it.....
The Award for Historical Idioicy and Corruption of the Truth goes unquestionably to 300.....Among the catalog of ridicule....

Portrayal of Spartans as "The one hope for reason and justice....standing up against tyranny"...Sparta was the most tyrannical of all Greek city states, served almost exclusively by Messanian Helots (slaves). It took the Theban General Epaminondas at Leuctra to debunk this ancient and well practiced myth of Spartan battlefield invincibility, if it ever existed in the minds of any but the Spartans themselves...
Depiction of the goat herder traitor as a crippled Spartan following the army to the Hot Gates.... Ephialtes was a local, who knew about the Anopaea Trail for the very reason that he used it for his goats. Xerxes offered him a bag of gold for leading a picked force of Immortals up the winding trail and behind the Greek position. He was killed by the Persian leader of that expedition when Ephialties demanded payment. The Immortal officer was so incensed at this bold betrayal that he removed the traitors head from his shoulders on the spot.
While on the subject of Immortals, they were NOT un-dead with sharpened fangs, and they definately would not be armed with Samuarai swords as depicted in the film. They were referred to as "Immortals" for the Royal habit of replacing losses in their ranks instantly. To the Greeks, whose unit differentiation did not change with time, only diminished by loss, the Greeks could simply not wrap their heads around this modern concept of how a military unit should be organised.
Elephants at Thermopylae?.... Xerxes had MARCHED every footsolder across the Hellespont and down the coast, supplied by thousands of ships of the Navy. Not a single Elephant is recorded....
No such thing as a RHINO in the Persian army or any other for that matter...Rhinocerai are far too stupid and tempremental to be trained for war. I defy anyone to show me an account of Rhino's at war anywhere on the globe.....
Xerxes depiction as a bald, tall man covered in body npiercings and gold is so much chickenshit. EVERY illustration I've ever come across shows Xerxes dressed in Immortal style armour, with a quite noble face and a long flowing beard trimmed to a point.
Spartans WITHOUT LONG HAIR?...Laughable. This is one of the chief methods that Spartans prepared themselves for battle, by fixing their hair, which grew down their backs like a horses plume...and Spartans were universally CLEAN SHAVEN.

Hollywood Catalogues of Shame when it comes to historical accuracy are LEGION. Don't get me started on BRAVEHEART, a fine FILM....terrible history....

I guess the worst movies ever made were in 1960s & 1970s!!
They used Shermans & M-24 Chaffe tanks as Panzers!!!

And that was so clear !! They just changed colours & flags!

Any way they used real MG-42s & Mp-40s!!

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I think the worst WWII movie is "Windtalkers" with Nicholas Cage. It was god awful.

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Proud Son of Japan

Agreed!

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I spotted that movie coming and avoided it.

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JW