The Worst Movie

[Barrett]

Maybe it's Y2K or something, but I've had an uncommon amount of contact lately w/folks interested in WW I aviation films. In order to help avoid disappointment among us Forumites, how 'bout we list The Worst Great War Flying Flicks for prospective producers?
I ain't seen 'em all, but I've dang sure seen most of 'em and the biggest stinkers are (ta-da!)_
Lafayette Escadrille
Aces High
Other nominees are welcome before we cast our cyberballots.
(Note: as a former Motion Picture Critic I always figgered that the two essential ingredients for a satisfactory cinema are sixguns and hosses, which might explain why nobody saw "Driving Miss Daisy" a second time, fine film that it was. However, one of my coauthors insists that you need race cars and vampires, though actually he required another ingredient, but this is a family forum.)

Barrett,
Then your friend hasn't watched many race car movies lately then has he?

[PeterL]

Barrett, I have a nomination and a recommendation for you personaly.
"Richthofen and Brown", also released (escaped?) as "The Battle of the Aces", gets the undisputed Palm Merde. If you're looking for a movie that has sixguns hosses AND WW1 aeroplanes (not to mention a little gratuitous nudity), seek out "Gunbus". Bad, but in that watchable way that some really awful films are.

Peter L

Concurring with Peter L..."Richthofen and Brown". Absolutely appalling, yet strangely hilarious.

[Michael Skeet]

"The Lost Squadron" (1932) ranks right up (or is that down?) there. Seldom seen these days, and with good reason. I haven't been able to make myself watch "MvR & Brown" so I'm not qualified to judge. But, really, since there haven't been any *good* WWI aviation films yet, what we're talking about here is degrees of badness. (No, Barrett, a towel scene doth not a good movie make.)

[Vigilant]

I'll second Michael Skeet's nomination of "The Lost Squadron". So cheesy it leaves a bad smell in the video.

Vig.

MvR and Brown makes Aces High look good.

The studio that produced it should've been sured for slander.

Tobias

MY NOMINATION FOR THE WORLDS "WORST" MILITARY AVIATION MOVIE of ALL TIME IS:

Although it was not a movie about aviation during World War 1, I could not resist throwing in my nomination for the absolute "WORST" military aviation movie of all time..."THE MEMPHIS BELLE". Produced in 1990 by Catherine Wyler, whose father made the original in 1944.

Talk about a real stinker! Some of the flying sequences were good but the hokey script and acting was so mad I found myself too embarrased to sit through the hold movie...and walked out!

Honestly, the director and script writer of that film should have been drawned-and-quartered. The film was a slap in the face to all airman who served honourable during World War 2 and should serve as the premier example of how not to make a military aviation movie.

Cliff P.

[mike_baram]

Aww, Cliff, be nice.
Memphis Belle gave me some great ideas of what can be done in the nose of a B-17. Now, all I need is a willing partner.
Mike

Cliff

Have you forgotten John Belushi with his P-40 and the bomber sequence in 1941, or was it 1942, or '43. It seems I have forgotten an extremely forgettable film.

The Spectator