Least favorite fictional WW2 movie

[jmatt]

The Enemy Below was great

Sgt. York, was about WWI and non-fiction..
Overly sentimental? Yes. Definitely
Romanticized? Yes.

But still pretty good, if you can get past those two things.

I actually liked "U-571", I thought it was much in the same vein as John Wayne's "Operation Pacific". A fictional (and somewhat overdone, but enjoyable) story based partly in fact...

 

[huisache]

re Kelly's Heroes. Go read any of the lost generation stuff and their mentality was nothing like that displayed in this film. And they were too old to be that age in WW II. They were lost as a result of what happened and ended in 1918, 23 years before WW II.

As for the beats, none of those self indulgent aholes were in the war. allen ginsberg might bear a little resemblance to some of these guys but he was busy going down on people in the men's room at the NY Ymca.

I was born right after WW II and listened to a thousand vets talk about their experiences with each other when I was a kid and none of them were remotely like that.

Find one example of anything like that happening in the war. The closest you will come is guys trying to make liquor out of torpedo propellant. They did not screw around in combat in that war or any other one. IT is for grownups, not a bunch of hippie clowns from the sixties.

 

[CajunHorn]

Can't be 1941. Slim Pickens keeps it out of the Abyss. Windtalkers was pure crap. Pearl Harbor is right up there too. Kelly's Heroes belongs nowhere near this thread.

 

[Ave. H Horn]

Anything with John Wayne. WORST.... ACTOR.... EVER!

He thought he was the characters he played! He was just an actor & a bad one at that!