Couldn't think of any others.  Battle of Britain was good, Das Boot was good...  I could go on for ever.  Sure, none of them were perfect, but they could hold their own.  Any other good suggestions will be added to the poll!

I didn't see Windtalkers so I would have to go with Pearl Harbor, which totally sucked except for the 20 minutes of air attack.  It failed miserably as a love story too.

I think the John Wayne movie was Green Berets (1968 or so).  David Janssen was a cynical newsman and John Wayne convinced him that we (USA) were in Vietnam for the right reasons and would prevail.  It had a few good scenes, like Puff the Magic Dragon.

The thing with Pearl Harbor was I find it was munfactured for the camera.  I could be wrong, but I don't think all 300 planes were over Battleship Row at the same tima, then all moving to the small airfield when our great love torn heroes scrambled to it.  The way the Zeroes strafed, the fact that the auxilary airstrip had smoking debris despite not being visted by the Japanese yet and one of the things that bothered me the most: there were Vals bombing palm trees in that scene where all the nurses were running to the hospital.  What for, to set up a scene with nice big explosions in the background.  Ridiculous.  Strafing?  Yes.  Bombing?  No.  Windtalkers had nothing but the 2 second Wildcat scene.

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same for me. the best scene in "pearl harbor" was the chase over the channel. the rest was either not that good or total crap.

I don't know.............I wouldn't call Pearl Harbour the best War movie I've ever seen, but it certainly is a long way from the worst.

I don't mind a bit of a romance plot in some movies. When you consider that the entire attack took less than 2 hrs, they had to do something.
We've had the old 'Tora Tora Tora' which showed the lead up to the attack from a military and political point, and it was as boring as all get out. So what to do with Pearl Harbour?.............Tack the Doolittle raid on the end and link the two with a romance/buddy story.
Not bad, I maen, I've seen alot worse, disguised as entertainment.

(I think you young blokes are a bit spoilt. If it doesn't have Computer Generated imaging and heaps of realistic, real life type action, it's not good enough....) j/k  

They did make some good movies that had a romance plot or something other than war and destruction. Not that I don't mind war movies (see my humungus thread re 'Best War Movie)  

urgh pearl harbour definatly
i have said it a million times before but the best part was the headache i had coming out of the movie theater:)

Just watched Pearl last night, with a teary, red eyed Stormy and I can honestly say that the only good scene in the entire movie was the fab side-slipping Stearman at the beginning...........everything else was too " generated "..........

I never watched any of the other movies besides Pearl Harbor.  I didn't like it.  The scene over the channel was good.  I just don't think he could of survived that crash, he hit pretty hard.  And how did he get back to Pearl Harbor?  And why did they fly B-25s?  Fighter pilots don't fly bombers.  And vise-versa.  I liked the Big Red One, I thought it was good.  As said before it showed the human side of it all, but there was a lot of action too.  The Battle of the Bulge was good, but no one else thought it was.