Really Bad Milsurp Movie - Windtalkers

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Well, I'm actually quite certain most of you saw this movie. Great milsurps - BAR, Trench Shotgun, M1 Carbines, Garands, and Thompsons..

However, that's about all. This is the worst war movie I've ever seen. It was like a comedy. I actually laughed out loud when some people died... that's how cheesey it was. With Nick Cage I should have expected it.

Picture a soldier losing his best friend in battle and then looking up in the air and screaming: NOOOOOOOOOoOOOoOOOOoO!

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Yeah it was a little silly. I couldn't believe the shots he was making while running wounded with a 1911. They were 50 metre head shots uphill.
That's why we have a suspension of disbelief!
 
Oh yes thanks for mentioning that. It reminded me of the scene where one of the navahoe throws his knife and kills a Japanese soldier who's about to kill the racist, anti-navahoe guy. Oh god.
 
Uh, its Navaho no e in it. However the code talkers did great service during the war and there are still some of them around. The japs NEVER were able to get any information by tapping phone lines or intercepting radio transmissions, and the information passed on was always 100% accurate.

As for Nicholas Cage, I would blame the script writers.
 
John Sukey said:
As for Nicholas Cage, I would blame the script writers.
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And the director, and the producer, and the list goes on...

They turned what could have been a great movie into a steaming pile of crap. I tried watching it twice but I never made it all the way through.
 
Quit complaining. It's not supposed to be viewed like a WW2 war documentary.
 
It was no Saving Private Ryan. It wasn't enemy at the gates either. It wasn't a Thin Red Line.

It was more like a two hour episode of the A-Team. Except the A-Team was funnier.
 
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Quit complaining. It's not supposed to be viewed like a WW2 war documentary.
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I agree. I mostly like war movies, innacuracies and all. This one, however, compared to others, was truly horrible. It contained every movie stereotype and it was like I accidentally rented a parody of the movie.

The worst part is that, like some posters have already said, the concept is excellent. It could have been a wonderful movie.
 
Shrek said:
It was no Saving Private Ryan. It wasn't enemy at the gates either. It wasn't a Thin Red Line.

It was more like a two hour episode of the A-Team. Except the A-Team was funnier.
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Thin Red Line. Now that was a piece of crap. I remember people walking out of the movie and I can very close to doing so myself.

Windtalkers wasn't that bad.
 
Thin Red Line was crap.Worst war movie ever,Jarhead
was close though.15 minutes into Thin Red Line it was
out,gave it to the neighbor,he watched it and tossed
it.Can't believe I payed for it.
 
Talking of movies with bad weapon boo boos. If you've ever watched the movie Anzio, the American troops get on the ships with Lee Enfield No4's slung over there sholders, and when they land, they have the M1 Garand... :D
 
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Talking of movies with bad weapon boo boos. If you've ever watched the movie Anzio, the American troops get on the ships with Lee Enfield No4's slung over there sholders, and when they land, they have the M1 Garand... :D
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Sometimes soldiers modify their rifles in the field. It's not that far-fetched.
 
Thin Red Line was clearly filmed by a bunch of "why do we fight?" lefty-types. Mr. Scientology & Democratic National Party extremist John Travolta was in it - 'nuff said.

Half the movie is them staring up at the palm trees & sky philosophizing about how we should all just give peace a chance, dude. :rolleyes:

It was painful and I remember being confused about why that movie wasn't made during the vietnam war like all the other "hippies as soldiers" movies. (Kelly's Heros also comes to mind in this genre, though at least that flick was funny).

Flags of our Fathers and the counterpint piece Letters from Iwo Jima were good pacific theater flicks IMHO.
 
skirsons said:
Sometimes soldiers modify their rifles in the field. It's not that far-fetched.
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I'd like to see the kind of ingenuity that let American GI's on a landing craft somehow "convert" their SMLE's into M1's. Guess they had forges, stock turning machines, a mill, a lathe and lots of jigs fitted into those craft... :slap:
 
Tae Guk Ki - The brotherhood of war, is still IMO one of the best war movies made.

This movie was powerful, as visually exciting as band of brothers and gave an excellent feel of the Korean war.

It satisfied all the hunger for war movie, action and feel of the times, yet left you walking away with the stunning realism that makes you extremely glad that you never had to be caught in a hellish war.

Not many movies can do both.
 
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Claven2 said:
I'd like to see the kind of ingenuity that let American GI's on a landing craft somehow "convert" their SMLE's into M1's. Guess they had forges, stock turning machines, a mill, a lathe and lots of jigs fitted into those craft... :slap:
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No, no. I can do it with a paper clip, a rubber band, and a stick of chewing gum.
 
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