After the thread on the best....I have to ask (if it has not already been done) for the worst portrayal of the German Soldier in the "best" that Hollywood / the small screen has to offer.
There have been so many it will be a hard job to come up with a running order...myself I would have to go think for a while.
The very many 1960's T.V. shows I grew up with " Garison's Guerrillas" , "Rat Patrol" are contenders.....the many 1960's Hollywood movies...so many so bad.
Where Eagles Dare...why did they not let Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood go on to Berlin....why did they not just drop them there and in about two hours if I may quote the sniper from "S.P.R." "Shows over boys we're goin home".
German Soldiers.......worst Movie portrayal.
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German Soldiers.......worst Movie portrayal.
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Any war movie made during the former "Yugoslavia". They made it look as if 50 divisions of elite German troops couldn't handle 15 ragged but glorious Commies. I'm suprised that Berlin didn't fall into Tito's rather than Stalin's hands.
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What books do you mean? Not all are über-warriors but most.Achilles wrote:Well, I also saw the Americans running around and not hitting much...perhaps your view that every German was an ueber-warrior comes from some bullsh*t books.The most of Band of brothers series was simply bullshit. Germans running around and hitting nothing. And then those stupid conversations
Everybody who has seen Band of... must say that it is @#% (i think).
Have you ever been in combat? I thought not.What books do you mean? Not all are über-warriors but most.
So who are you to say what is realistic or not?
You need to grow up and stop fantasising about how people really act in combat...that includes your German "heroes".
Is that because the Germans lose - that's because they did in reality. READ MY LIPS - THE GERMANS LOST. BEATEN. VANQUISHED. COMPLETELY.Everybody who has seen Band of... must say that it is @#% (i think).
The worst war film (and probably one of the worst filsm ever) without any doubt is "Operation Crossbow". No, I don't mean the usual "Anglo-Saxon Superhero" stereotype, the absurde espionage plot or the ridiculous idea of a "New York Rocket" already on it's way to the Big Apple when it is destroyed. But if you watch this movie, you will learn that german trucks have a right-hand drive and that there is still the flag of the Weimar Republic flying at the german border. So much dumbness really must hurt...
On the boots in "The Longest Day", this is based on a real story. Somebody in Ryan's book (can't remember who) relates that at the end of the day, he realized that he had put his boots on the wrong feet in the hurry after the pre-dawn alarm. He had been under such a strain and excitement during the fighting that he never even noticed it.
On the boots in "The Longest Day", this is based on a real story. Somebody in Ryan's book (can't remember who) relates that at the end of the day, he realized that he had put his boots on the wrong feet in the hurry after the pre-dawn alarm. He had been under such a strain and excitement during the fighting that he never even noticed it.