"Worst American Revolution Movie?" Topic

Oddly enough, TV movies have treated the Revolution much better than cinematic movies.
I really liked both "The Crossing" (I wonder why?) and "Benedict Arnold".
Years ago, another Howard Fast novel, "April Morning", was also done very well for TV, with Tommy Lee Jones as the father. It's one of those legendarily hard to find VHS tapes now.

My vote is The Patriot for worst – - Mel Gibson re-stating his slow motion cry for Freedom in a bloody action sequence (wasn't that Braveheart?).

Revolution was not great, and Al Pacino was not at his best. But I thought the English camp life of Revolution tried to be somewhat accurate – and Donald Sutherland was good as the English NCO; thats about all I remember from the movie.

HEY HEY HEY… Beggars can't be choosers!

There's too few AWI movies at all to start trashing some of them.

I liked the Patriot for its combat sequences, but where were the Hessians? In no battle sequence do they appear, and I thought they comprised a goodly portion of the British forces? Or was it feared that Rebels in blue versus Hessians in blue might confuse some movie-goers?

Revolution I didn't really dig except for Donald Sutherland's performance. At least it showed some "patriots" acting less than nobly.

I liked the Bostwick mini-series about Washington.

The ONLY AWI movie I can not sit through is 'Revolution'.
This has to be the worst.

1776!!!!!, it's a FAMILY night every year around 4 July to watch this.

In answer to ElaineP,that would be "The Devil's Disciple" which also had Larry Olivier as "Gentleman Johnny" Burgoyne and based on George Bernard Shaw's play. Agree that Howard DaSilva made a funny Ben Franklin,and there was a "St. Elsewhere" episode where Dr. Craig(William Daniels)was walking past Independence Hall with the wife and he joked that walking past the place made him feel like dancing and singing. Then he sung a few bars about it being "Hot as hell in Philadelphia",then turned to his wife and said "Now don't ever say I never sang for you." But in answer to the worst AWI movie,don't really know.

The battle scenes in Revolution were not bad – very confused and muddled, which seemed accurate. I would say that The Patriot was worse in that it had the opportunities to be good and they were wasted, whereas the Pacino film was made when people knew no better.

Re-enactors who worked as drill instructors on Patriot were tearing their hair out when, having created a superb battalion of "British" out of extras, they were then told they had to incorporate hundreds of "virgin" extras who would "pick it up as they went along". Then you got the uniform changes (RA and Tarleton's BL all in red coats), despite the Smithsonian having provided a complete set of accurate plates.

The Patriot is the worst, by the morons who insulted your intelligence with Stargate, Independence Day, Godzilla and The Day After Tomorrow.

The only redeeeming quality about The Patriot was when it ended! There is absolutely NOTHING positive about this movie.From the God awful uniforms,to the hokey,innacurate representation of 18th century warfare.I feel the urge to kick in my TV whenever I see its on TV.
Best? Pretty tough.I like,and own Revolution.Great atmosphere and feel for the period.But WAY too long,and bad Yorktown scenes.They made it look like a massacre with all the dead bodies laying around!

Sgt. Bob

I think people hate "The Patriot" with such a passion as it was such a badly wasted opertunity. It will be a while before we see another big budget AWI movie, a long while.

I reckon a well made TV series, a la "Band of Brothers" would be the best way of doing it. I think a family split between Patriot and Loyalist causes would be an interesting approach. I don't see it happening anytime soon though.

Maybe we should have a "Your fantasy AWI movie" thread?

This is why I can't stand gamers judgeing movies. Don't any of you have a life? Is your whole existence wrapped around trivia and button colors?

I loved Revolution. Probably the single most accurate movie in terms of historical settings and clothing ever made for this period. The clothing and history was EXCELLENT? I cherish this gem of my collection. If you didn't like this one, it's because your history came from an Osprey or out of battle descriptions only. It was a good view of a common man in an uncommon time. I hear tell, that there were lots of those types running around back then.

1776 was a musical. Again, pull your head out of the Osprey! In fact the dialog, the story and the characterizations were near perfect. But, there was singing and danceing – because it was a MUSICAL guys. What did you expect? What was the flaw in this one? The emotion was right. The politics were perfect. Franklin was portrayed exquisitly, as was Adams.

The Patriot. The Patriot WAS NOT A DOCUMENTARY! It did however include the characterizations of a half a dozen men rolled into one. There were quite a few vignettes in this movie that were based on real events – including the last scene about his men rebuilding his house. The producer of this movie's philosophy was "I never let facts get in the way of the truth". A wise man would understand that.Even I understood it. I'm certain that few gamers would. And yes, again, one of my favorites.

But the one you guys liked was "The Crossing". I loved watching the 3 pound balls EXPLODE LIKE 16" SHELLS! What about the atrocious weather that night? Where was the stinking ice? They could have thrown a block of styrofoam or two in the water, you think? For a TV cheapy history it was as good as PBS and History Channel could afford. I liked it, I watched it, but the history was a bit weak.

History isn't button colors and exact uniform shades. History is in the setting, the flavor, the emotions and perceptions of the participants. History is about people. This is why mere facts do not history make. Instead of reading the unit histories, and the battle descriptions, try reading about the real people and get into their shoes.

Granted, my view of wargamers as anything but trivia merchants is colored by 40 years of experience with them. I just wish every now and then that thoughts might run a bit deeper than instinct.

'Oliver Wiswell' would be my fantasy AWI movie. Loyalist perspective, but portrays nearly everyone as bunglers and/or poltroons.

mikeah,

As usual, you seem to have rephrased other people's arguments in order to shoot them down. We're not talking about "exact uniform shades" we're talking about completely the wrong colours, despite the production/direction team being given the correct colours. Why get it wrong when it's easier to get it right? The usual answer is that US audiences couldn't cope with red, blue AND green uniforms – not only unfairly insulting to the American public, but also easily disposed of with a bit of simple script-writing early on in the film. Revolution at least tried to get it right with lots of American troops in civvies for the early battles.

And what about the ludicrous anti-British bias in the film? Shooting the wounded, burning civilians in a church (ooh, look, just like the Nazis used to do…). Why distort history when the reality was just as exciting – and more believable? Frankly, even without wanting to watch it for "accuracy" (or "trivia" as you prefer to call it), it was a crappy film.

And the American hero's slaves actually not being slaves at all, but willing loyal fun-loving "employees".

Symbiotic Relationship,

"Oliver Wiswell" had crossed my mind as well. I wonder would any movie dare to portray American loyalists in a sympathetic light?

There was a moderately interesting German mini-series made in 1976 called "Der Winter, der ein Sommer war", about two Hessian half-brothers feuding over their inheritance, who end up in the regiments heading for America and finally have a showdown there at the same time as the battle of Trenton. The focus is very firmly on the Hessian soldiers, their resistance to being pressed into service for their tyrannical monarch, and the tensions between the officers/NCOs and the sullen soldiers. IIRC the only British seen were a few recuiting officers, and most of the "Americans" were Germans taken prisoner while fighting the Hessians (White Plains). Some of the latter desert to the Americans. The battle of Trenton is shown as a scrappy fight from the Hessian point of view, and Colonel Rall is a very unsympathetic martinet character. The uniforms and costumes are fairly accurate, with both Rall's grenadiers and green-clad Jägers prominent.

All in all a good effort which will leave most American and British viewers completely cold, but which I found fascinating! I had it on video once, but that's long perished, so this is from memory only.

By the war, I concur that "The Patriot" is infuriatingly bad, and that "Revolution" is only a little better – but "the Patriot" was based on a lie from the very start, while Revolution had a better approach which was poorly executed.

I'm with Supercilius Maximus on this one. Stuff like Legion Dragoons in red is a minor irritation, and one most of us can live with, and had that been the only type of problem it would certainly not have spoiled a good film. Even the pancaking of Hanna's Cowpens and Guildford Courthouse doesn't matter that much.

However Redcoats burning villagers in churches and shooting wounded prisoners is just so badly wide of the mark as to sink the whole enterprise. I know the British press were up in arms about it, but to me the problem was it was so beyond what any 18th Century officer, British, German, or American would have contemplated (even a bounder like Banastre!) that it ruined the film. Inaccuracy on that scale is not easy to forgive, and there is no point worrying about buttons and facings if the broad strokes are just wrong.
A friend who saw the film was happy to accept this happened, when I challanged him on it he thought it would have been too outrageous to make up.

Besides you don't have to be a wargamer or history buff to spot the clangers in the script.

I agree with most of the remarks made here. The trouble is, with such a small number of AWI films out there, I actually own The Patriot!

I never really paid attention to the atrocities – I figured that it was just dramatic license. Everyone should keep in mind that none of the films are documentaries and will no doubt be influenced by the director's agenda. Just remember Michael Moore…..

I LOVE 1776, and was overjoyed it finally came to DVD. I also have a copy of April Morning, which I found for $4.99 USD USD!! Not great, but certainly towards the head of the pack. I also thought The Crossing was very good – it really gave the feeling of desparation that surrounded the whole operation.

I think if you try to avoid your personal prejudices for/against certain directors/films/adversaries you will find that just about all of these films have something to offer those of us starved for the AWI on screen.

We really don't have many choices, and with the prevailing mood of self-loathing in the country today I don't think you'll be seeing too many films about the birth of our nation any time soon.

I think that this evening that I'll watch The Patriot, followed by Revolution, and if I have time, the Crossing.

I WILL enjoy the evening.

I don't give a D*** about the exact shades or even colors of the uniform. These things are inconsequential to the story. Since none of them were documentaries – who cares? All of them get more right then wrong.

The Patriot, was not as "off" as the so called experts on this list would have you believe. Indeed, the movie took many different events, north and south, and crunched them into one man and one campaign. Apparently way too much complexity for wargamers in general. The war in the south was one of many abominations and what would be called "war crimes". The nasty nature of war in the south surprised and shocked the British. Rather than a Revolution, it really was a (un)Civil War. It did go both ways.

In the north, the most brutal event was the Wyoming Valley Massacre.
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In this affair, well over 300 men (women and children) and more than a 1000 homes were burned.

In the south, until the arrival of Greene, the war turned very ugly. This wasn't helped by the slaughter of surrendering men by Tarleton's Loyalists (the prototype for Tavington), hence the cry "Tarlingtons quarters". There were many atrocities in the southern theater of war. This was not the clean war with rules that Washington enforced in the north. Most of the most brutal acts were between Americans (Patriots and Loyalists) rather than the British.

… which is what makes "The Patriot" such an annoying movie. This has nothing to do with being a wargamer or a history buff : I may cringe at times, but I can live with the British Legion in red and the surrealistic battle scenes. As the saying goes, it's only a movie. I do however have a problem with Emmerich & co sanitizing the war in the south beyond recognition and reducing it to a purely manichaean struggle between patriotic, virtuous Americans and sadistic Brits.

I'll readily agree that a movie is primarily entertainment and not a history lesson, but I believe there's a limit to how much you can distort historical reality to please contemporary audiences. In a way, The Patriot strikes me as an exercise in amnesia disguised as historical reenactment : it systematically bypasses all the divisive issues relevant to its subject matter (racism, slavery, civil war, etc) and seeks instead to present late 18th century American society as the unified nation it certainly wasn't. As is sometimes the case with Hollywwod, we have a historical film about a political crisis which shies away from both politics and history.

What you get instead of the complex depiction of a complex period is infantile flag-waving, clichés by the truckload and pathos so thick you can choke on it. This a movie which attempts to manipulate its audience into buying the Revolution as a clear-cut conflict between good and evil, which it certainly wasn't.

<< This wasn't helped by the slaughter of surrendering men by Tarleton's Loyalists (the prototype for Tavington), hence the cry "Tarlingtons quarters". >>

Mikeah,

You might like to try reading this:

banastretarleton.org

Go to "Banecdotes" and then "The Wahaws 'Massacre'" for an interesting re-appraisal of Tarleton slaughtering surrendering men drawn almost entirely from Continental sources that support Tarleton's version of events. Of course, since it's written by "a so-called expert" you may want to completely ignore it!

<< The Patriot, was not as "off" as the so called experts on this list would have you believe. >>

Given that your knowledge of Tarleton is largely outdated and discredited myth, who are you to say?

Mikeah

On the subject of the 'Waxhaws massacre' you may like to have a look at:

southerncampaign.org

Go to archives and download volume 1 part 2 which inlcudes a paper entitled 'Massacre or Myth? Banastre Tarleton at the Waxhaws 29 May 1780' by Jim Piecuch who I believe is a university lecturer in Pennsylvania. It provides a balanced review of the evidence and interpretation of the Waxhaws incident. It ought to give you cause to review your views of Tarleton if no not entirely revisit them. Give a dog a bad name….

On the overall film thing, liked Revolution but I loathed 'The Patriot', it was nowhere near true to the spirit of the times. All in all Gibson and Emmerich colluded to produce a despicable film.

(Odd, my post was totally different from what I has typed.)
What I was trying to say is that I can't sit through 1776; I hate the music and the prancing ninnies who arte supposed to be our founding Fathers. I don't like Howard deSilva as Franklin or any of the rest of the cast. I'm obviously in a minority of one on this however.
I'd love to see movie versions of Arundel, Rabble in Arms, or Oliver Wiswell, but I agree that today's red-blooded Americans could not accept a sympathetic Tory or a portrayal of Benedict Arnold as a hero. Abe Lincoln = "Freed the Slaves," Benedict Arnold = "Traitor" is the sum total of historical understanding of most of my fellow countrymen.

Abe who?

Servo3000

I agree it would be good to see soem of the Kenneth Roberts books filmed, Oliver Wiswell in particular but Rabble in Arms would be another good one as well.

I disliked Patriot so much simply because it was an unwatchably BAD movie. It had nothing to do with the historical inaccuracies (which were legion), but rather bad acting, contrived plot, weak script and cliched story.

But, hey – it's a free country, or soon will be.

1776: awesome and used direct quotes albeit with music.
Revolution: sets were awesome which really showed New York. Good battle and showed linear tactics.
The Crossing: awesome. Another reason to despise Germans.

BTW boys, Tarleton was a butcher. Both sides were brutal. A church may not have been burned but old Tarleton burned families in their homes. The war in the South was particularly brutal as neighbor turned against neighbor.
Patriot is not as bad as some have commented. Don't call me obnoxious and disliked. I have MANY sources, professors notes and 25 years teaching this fascinating time.

Hey, Ragukid;

I agree with you! Everyone just rags on Patriot 'cause mel Gibson's out of fashion. Deservedly so, but still…they don't rag on Gallipoli!

Same with Revolution. Al Pacino as an Irish-American frontiersman is a stretch, but the costuming was good and Donald Sutherland was good despite his disfiguring birthmark!

THe worst period movies concerning the American Frontier in the 18th. century are definitely from the 50's. Spencer Tracy as a warm-fuzzy Robert Rogers? The costuming was terrible ( remember the cute green Glengarries instead of blue Scot's bonnets) and Robert Rogers was a drunken, embezzling, xenophobic, war criminal with incredible skills a self-promotion. Makes Banastre Tarleton look like a saint.

By the way Tarleton's treatment of rebels and their supporters was perfectly legal and accepted in his day.

"The Patriot" was a missed opportunity. You could have had something there but Mel just re-did "Braveheart". Everything was wrong in that movie, the uniforms, battles, weapons, everything. But it could have been great.

The Battle Scenes in "Revolution" were better than "Braveheart", err I mean "The Patriot." But it was poorly cast. I love 1776, fun family entertainment.
"The Crossing" was great I loved it, but it really doesn't fit the category. But then again it is pretty slim pickings. But don't forget "Sweet Liberty"!

imdb.com/title/tt0092035

Was there a movie about Layfayette (maybe a French one) made in the late 50s or 60s? Anybody heard of this one?

I feel that if you are expecting a movie to be both historical and entertaining you are expecting to much. As for bad movie Revolution was not my favorite, but I don't watch movies for any other reason then the be entertained if I want the history I read. AND WATER WORLD WAS AWESOME

I wonder if Mel Gibson had not gone all Josef Goebbels and ranting like a loon would people be judging his movies so hard.

I miss Mad Max Mel. If you are reading this Mel Gibson go back to the days when you just hated Tina Turner and crazy motorcycle gangs in a post apocalyptic world, remember the children. :)

I would rate "Tora, Tora, Tora" as very close to being historically (for what was known at the time) accurate and it was very entertaining. I still like "We Were Soldiers" even though there are issues with it.

Historical fiction can sometimes portray a period or event very well such as "Das Boot", "Gettysburg" and "All Quiet on the Western Front" (TV, 1979), all, IMHO, very entertaining. I think it is easier to do Historical Fiction because you can take a few liberties without ruining the movie.

Television does seem to do it better, "John Adams", "Band of Brothers", "The Pacific", "The Crossing", "The Lost Battalion". Yes reading books is one way to get your history, but don't discount all the documentaries on TV and I don't mean the lousy History Channel.

Great history can be found on PBS, The Military Channel, The Military History Channel and History International, all have some really good documentaries. If your lucky enough to get them, which I am!

I have enjoyed "The Devil's Discipline" – not as an AWI movie but rather as a work by George Bernard Shaw. It remains faithful to the play – though Lancaster gets to show off. As something historical about the AWI – there is little to show.

One of the best "historical" movies IMHO was Zulu – even though it totally ignored historical fact when it conflicted with the need to make it a good movie. However the movie presented the conflict from the British side – it made sure that the viewer – who had no idea of what this battle was about – had some idea what was happening – and presented the Zulu's as a worthy enemy who knew what they were doing.

The company commander of the 24th Foot went from a deaf grumpy old man to a young dashing Michael Caine, the sequence of attacks was rearranged to make the battle escalate – the 24th Foot became Welsh when it was one of the last of the long service battalions and hated its new title – but as a movie it was entertaining and held your interest.

In contrast they then made Zulu Dawn – a glorious "historical" movie that tried to stay true to fact – and which was boring as a result.

Considering the options open at the time – the Patriot does rank as the worst AWI movie – because the changes made to history did not make the movie more entertaining – they made it worse.

The best scene in the Patriot – and the only one I enjoy – is how it shows that Yorktown was won – when the French Navy showed up.

Hi

I am friends with one of the sub-authors of "At Dawn We Slept" the first of the three volume study of Pearl and
Midway. And by the standards here……."Tora, Tora, Tora" was CRAP!

See, the authors reduced whole rooms of data down to three volumes that takes a speed reader like me about a month to go through, even if I do nothing but read. AND THEN Hollywood edited that down to a three hour movie…the cads.

They used AT6s and Vultees for Japanese airplanes!

The CADS.

I hate all historical movies, I mean, I have volumes on the American Revolution and how DARE they tell any story in two hours!

Grin, sarcasm, mocking icons.

Again, the issue isn't what they got wrong, it is the limit of the format.

Rocky

<<BTW boys, Tarleton was a butcher. Both sides were brutal. A church may not have been burned but old Tarleton burned families in their homes.>>

No he wasn't; he was an extremely civilised man whose former enemies made a point of seeking him out (and he entertaining them) when they visited Great Britain after the war. You might want to read this; pretty nmuch every atrocity attributed to him is either complete fiction, or deliberate misrepresentation (the owner of the website is an American, by the way).

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On the subject of "The Patriot", the sad thing is that according to American re-enactor friends who were involved in the early days as trainers and technical advisors (and all of whom left in disgust later), it was all going so well until Emmerich and Gibson decided to stick their oars in and substitute perfectly exciting and accurate reality for dumbed-down, politically motivated fiction.

Curiously I swim against the current here, as I did like "Revolution". However, The Patriot… that I can't bear it. I don give a damm about the uniforms, or about the mixing up of Cowpens and Guildford Courthouse. What I can't bear of that movie is that all the historical setting is just WRONG. There is no granularity, no complexity in the script; just the old fashioned history of goodies vs baddies, with the baddies being Nazis in British costumes.

<<…..until Emmerich and Gibson decided to stick their oars in and substitute perfectly exciting and accurate reality for dumbed-down, politically motivated fiction.>>

Sorry, I obviously meant that the other way around.

Well, my favorite AWI movie is still the old Hallmark film "April Morning" based on Howard Fast's novel.

Yes, it has its issues…but it's unsurpassed realism compared to The Patriot or Revolution.

I liked the Barry Bostwick TV series on Washington. And the old Fess Parker Daniel Boone show, which I enjoyed immensely as an 8-year-old, had some AWI episodes.

Saw some of the Daniel Boone episodes lately. I remember them fondly, but couldn't believe how bad they were! There was an American Revolution comic character, too. Tomahawk. Think it was a DC comic.

Does anyone remember the old black & white TV series Last of the Mohicans? With Lon Chaney junior in the title role, and John Hart as Hawkeye? Where can we get some?

The Young Rebels probably was tripe but my recollection of it is a rather fetching young lady in period costume.

I actually enjoyed revolution.

Brinag back Hector Heathcoat!

Hector Heathcoat! Ah, I'd almost forgotten him! For Canadians there's the vaguely 18th century tv comedy " Blackfly". It might have been sold overseas…,

Oh, I almost forgot a Canadian TV movie, " Divided Loyalties". With Joseph Brant as the main character. And Sir William Johnson wearing a beard!

Being involved in the movie business and having some thought to do a Revolutionary script – if all I had to decide whether to go forward or not was this thread the chance of progress is dead zero – and that's despite a few voices of reason here.

As I've said before, if you want visual history you MUST resort to documentaries – movies are for entertainment, pure and simple.

Imagine you were making a movie and you had someone offer you the use of one hundred FIW muskets that were not appropriate for AWI or you had to pay $800 USD a piece to buy them new and wait for them so long your scheduled bankable star passed on the picture…and you lost your always precarious financing as a result…

There are some hard realities of getting ANY movie made EVER that means your arguments are pretty much meaningless for most producers. And, despite opinion to the contrary, most movie makers try as hard as they can to be as authentic as they can within the HARD constraints of time and budget.

But, again, movies are not history, they are stories, usually about people and their relationships that are sometimes set against the background of history. So, for those of you who continually insist on dogging Patriot, you really miss the point completely (though you are certainly entitled to your opinion). The movie is not about the American Revolution, it is about Mel Gibson's character and the journey he travels. Everything else is set dressing and, frankly, I think they did a pretty damn good job at that, all in all. Not perfect, but decent. And another thing many of you are probably unaware of is that studio legal departments can insist on changes that might radically change a producer and/or director's intent. I wonder if that is how the Tavington character got so mangled.

And to the British who don't like how they were portrayed – the point of villains in movies is to make them as nasty as possible to give the "hero" something to overcome. If you felt personally assaulted, I strongly recommend you forego any further watching of movies – any movies – in the future because you are not properly equipped emotionally to deal with what you might see. It ain't Freaking reality!

The ultimate decider of whether a movie succeeds or not is the box office and by that measure Patriot did just fine. It grossed over 200 million worldwide, about double its cost and it ranks near the top 400 for all time worldwide gross and around 380 for US domestic gross – and that's against tens of thousands of movies that have been made. I don't know about you lot, but I figure better than 80% return on investment is pretty successful.

And, finally, for the record, I had no participation whatsoever in the making of Patriot.

And I did like 1776 and Drums Along the Mohawk.

I guess the bottom line here is that if you want more films set during the revolution is to go out and write a damned good script that Hollywood can't say no to and then pray they have the budget and the right production designer to meet your unrealistic expectations.

Go to the movies to be entertained!

However, a film can influence the opinions and beliefs of the public far more effectively than any documentary. They might have been entertained, but a large swathe of the Great American (and indeed British) Public now have an utterly distorted view – not only of history, but of the British as a people. That's very unhealthy 'entertainment'.

They may get a distorted view of history from the movies but the vast majority of people don't give a hoot about history anyway. That's part of why its so hard to get any historical movie made – its got to be a damned good yarn before producers are going to make so expensive a movie.

<<They may get a distorted view of history from the movies but the vast majority of people don't give a hoot about history anyway. That's part of why its so hard to get any historical movie made – its got to be a damned good yarn before producers are going to make so expensive a movie.>>

But why let a little thing like historical truth or accuracey get in your way lol when you want to pedal propaganda or in your words a story. Btw its not just any story either, for an American audience its got to be where the Americans win the war single handedly or the President shoots down an alien. The whole of this site is based on historical accuracey so you are in the wrong place to talk about fiction. If I want fiction I'll read Harry Potter.

The Patriot was a travesty of a film. Mel Gibson's films are always anti-English like Braveheart and for any Hollywood audience any villain always has an English accent. Why do the British always have to be the villains ? To a certain extent the attitude that 'the redcoats are coming' pervades and informs American culture today.

What would be refreshing is for some truth and honesty to come out of Hollywood. It was a British submarine that found the enigma machine but in the American film, lo and behold an American submarine picks it up. You're right its not reality, I think they call it faction.

The worst war film I've sen is The Patriot (I avoid Gibson's films like the plague) and the best is Barry Lyndon with a great scene of the redcoats marching in line in his first taste of battle. Even an American audience can identify with that.