"War on the Rocks" best war movie list

[GDS_Starfury]

and none of you even mention The Beast. 

See, this is what you get for glazing your eyes over when I haven't even written a wall of text yet!

I can sorrrrt of understand them neglecting the Gods and Generals / Gettysburg duology, for political controversy, but not Glory? Oh well, lots and lots and lots of good war movies.

I for one enjoy "Pearl Harbor" and for that matter the recent "Midway" pseudo-sequel remake a lot -- they're no more ridiculous than "Battle of the Bulge", which I also enjoy more than I suppose I should. And "The Beast" for that matter.

Andrew missed it also, admittedly many eyes autoglaze a Pratt post due to your verbose nature. 

[JasonPratt]

Pearl Harbor may be technically well done but the acting and dialogue are so horrible they overshadow any amazing effects. Come on.

I don't think we've watched enough of the same other movies to compare what horrible acting and dialogue are like. Some of the acting and dialogue are fine, they aren't like cheap 1950s Bert T Gordon sci-fi flicks a la MST3K.

(I did say "some". ;) )

I think we could eliminate some of the more contriverial choices by adding "and not something a woman would be caught dead watching" to the definition.

"300" hasn't been mentioned! 

Speaking of some occasionally horrible acting and dialogue...! But still not 'worst' level horrible.

[JasonPratt]

"Autoglaze" may be the name of my techno-trance performance club-jockey name if I decide to go into that business.

[JasonPratt]

Hm, considering the number of hot Ukrainian babe-jockeys in techno-trance music, maybe I shouldn't be joking about that...!

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Ukrainian+techno+trance+2023

[Sir Slash]

I read your posts Pratt, even if I don't always understand everything in them.     But there's a lot of other stuff that gets by me as well.

One of my all-time favorite War Movie scenes, even if it may not be a War Movie, is the superbly well-done naval battle at the end of, "In Harm's Way". I could watch it a hundred times and it'd never get old. How often do you see John Wayne blown out of the water?

[Gusington]

I will go a step further and say the acting in Pearl Harbor is, indeed, some of the worst I have ever seen.

I'll just leave you with this - for a movie about the Navy there sure are a ton of wooden soldiers in it.

Thank you, thank you...please try the veal.

[SirAndrewD]

Pearl Harbor is pretty bad but no, most of their "worst" movies don't truly belong on a worst list.

[JasonPratt]

MANos thE HANDS of FATE?

(As an example of what I regard as bad acting.)

[Windigo]

Again, restarting an old, dead and buried thread.

WTF is Top Gun on that list for???? Gawd damn son, but that's nuttier than a peanut field.