Worst Military Movies

[GR66]

Action/adventure movies set in military backgrounds aren't really war movies.

Wait....are you trying to tell me that Red Dawn isn't really a war movie???

 

[dimsum]

Next you’ll say that Die Hard isn’t a Christmas movie because it’s an action/adventure set around 25 Dec.

Heretics.

 

[FJAG]

When you get right down to it there really is only one good war movie; "Midway," the original 1976 film not the new one.

 

[OldSolduer]

When you get right down to it there really is only one good war movie; "Midway," the original 1976 film not the new one.

Saving Private Ryan.

 

[dimsum]

Saving Private Ryan.

The first hour or so, yes.

But my pick for “great war movie”? Greyhound.

 

[dapaterson]

Stripes is the most accurate portrayal of Army life ever recorded on film.

 

[RangerRay]

A Bridge Too Far. Hands down.

 

[GR66]

A Bridge Too Far. Hands down.

Tora! Tora! Tora!

 

[The Bread Guy]

A Bridge Too Far. Hands down.

Ideally watched back to back with this one - 1946 flick about Arnhem, starring folks who'd been there, done that literally ....

Theirs Is the Glory - Wikipedia

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[dimsum]

Stripes is the most accurate portrayal of Army life ever recorded on film.

Buffalo Soldiers or Down Periscope are contenders, as is In the Army Now

 

[SeaKingTacco]

Buffalo Soldiers or Down Periscope are contenders, as is In the Army Now

Down Periscope is not crazily far off actual submarine operations, in my experience with submarines…

 

[stoker dave]

For submarine movies, I vote for Das Boot.

Hunt for Red October is simultaneously extremely good and extremely bad.

 

[FJAG]

Tora! Tora! Tora!

I stand corrected - two good war movies.

 

[Brad Sallows]

When you get right down to it there really is only one good war movie; "Midway," the original 1976 film not the new one.

I place "Tora, Tora, Tora" slightly higher. They were sort of a pair.

 

[mariomike]

For best, I go with "12 O'clock High".

It starts with "a hard luck Group". Exhausted and demoralized.

But, under new leadership, even as their missions become longer and casualties mount, there is a growing pride and confidence in their ability.

I think most audiences can enjoy WW2 movies because their world of automoblies, aircraft, movies, radio, newspapers, telephones etc. is pretty familiar even eight decades later.

 

[Blackadder1916]

I cannot recall who said it, but someone referred to my favourite military movie - 'Tunes of Glory' - as being about "the horror of peacetime soldiering."

Along with "Tunes of Glory", my list includes "Guns at Batasi". They cover the dynamics of the Officers Mess and the Sergeants Mess but if one needs the flavour of JRs in 1950s peacetime soldiering a lesser known movie is "The Bofors Gun". And then there is my favourite Sean Connery movie, "The Hill".

And, obviously, my favourite military TV show was "Blackadder Goes Forth".

 

[The Bread Guy]

Along with "Tunes of Glory", my list includes "Guns at Batasi". They cover the dynamics of the Officers Mess and the Sergeants Mess but if one needs the flavour of JRs in 1950s peacetime soldiering a lesser known movie is "The Bofors Gun". And then there is my favourite Sean Connery movie, "The Hill".

I learned of "Guns at Batasi" only 2-3 years ago, and love it as well. "The Hill" is another good one, an underrated psychological military story.

 

[Retired AF Guy]

" Go Tell the Spartans" the Vietnam War film most people have never heard of. Starring Burt Lancaster as an U.S. advisor to the South Vietnamese Army. Much more realistic then John Wayne's gung- ho extravaganza.

 

[mariomike]

And then there is my favourite Sean Connery movie, "The Hill".

A great movie.

Nobody's gonna put a medal on us. But get this straight - one job's as important as the next.

We're not celebrating our glorious victory. We're patching up a bloody disaster.

 

[Edward Campbell]

When you get right down to it there really is only one good war movie; "Midway," the original 1976 film not the new one.

Alexander Nevsky (Eisensten, 1938) is the best war firm ever made ...

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... then there's SFA, in my opinion.