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Originally posted by rcjarrell:
Audie Murphy - great soldier. Bad actor.

How can you bust him out for playing himself! LOL

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Originally posted by Toome:

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Originally posted by SwtDivaLove:

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Originally posted by Toome:
Ben Affleck is an underrated actress.

^^^^^ LMAO

Actor = Male
Actress = Female

Sorry, just had to point that out. LOL

When Pearl Harbor came out, my wife asked me if I wanted to see it. I told her I was thinking about it, then she pointed out that Ben Affleck was in it. That's when I said, "Oh, I thought it was a war movie. Didn't know it was a chick flick."

Actually, there is one role that Affleck played that I have to admit he did a pretty good job in: Hollywoodland. Then again, he plays a dead guy.

Hahaha Pearl Harbor was as bad as it gets. Also, the entire cast of "Basic". That is by far the shittiest military-related flick on the face of the planet.

Sinatra was great in "From Here to Eternity" and "The Manchurian Candidate".

Chuck Norris has to be one of the worst! Remember when Platoon, came out he said that movie wasn't real like!

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Originally posted by john2x:
Maybe it was the script of the offending movie???


With out a doubt. Maybe he was a better actor than I gave him credit for. He stero typed himself as a coward every time I saw him after that role as a coward.

In reality he was anything but a coward. That's why they call it acting:

Albert served as a lieutenant in the United States Coast Guard in the Pacific during World War II. A genuine war hero, he was awarded the Bronze Star for his actions during the Battle of Tarawa in 1943, when, as a landing ship pilot, he rescued several hundred wounded Marines while under heavy enemy machine-gun fire. He later described some of these events during a short interview in a segment of a program about the war, which appeared on the History Channel. He also discussed it with Col. Ollie North on his series, War Stories (FOX). Albert returned from the war a different actor with a darker screen persona, although it would take another ten years before he became better known to audiences.

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Originally posted by Drmwvr:
FYI...Rickles is a Marine vet.

After graduating from Newtown High School, Rickles served in the U.S. Navy in World War II aboard the USS Cyrene as a S1/c until he was honorably discharged in 1946, age 20.

The USS Cyrene (AGP-13) was a motor torpedo boat tender for the United States Navy. Cyrene was launched 8 February 1944 as Cape Farewell by Pusey and Jones Corp., Wilmington, Del., under a Maritime Commission contract; sponsored by Mrs. G. L. Coppage; acquired by the Navy 28 April 1944; and commissioned 27 September 1944, Commander F. A. Munroe, Jr., USNR, in command.

Departing Norfolk, Virginia 10 November 1944, Cyrene arrived at Manus on 13 December to escort two squadrons of motor torpedo boats to Hollandia, New Guinea, then sailed on convoy duty to Leyte, arriving 1 January 1945.

She served as tender for motor torpedo boats and on 17 January 1945 became flagship for Commander, Motor Torpedo Boat Squadrons, 7th Fleet. She sailed from Samar 21 December 1945 and arrived at San Francisco 7 January 1946, reporting to the 12th Naval District for repair work in decommissioning small craft. Cyrene was decommissioned 2 July 1946 and delivered to the War Shipping Administration for disposal the same day.

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I didn't like his character in Three Kings, the storyline-to me-was insulting.
I don't consider him a terrible actor, just how he portrayed the Army in that film

I think that sometimes in military comedy movies we need to just throw scence out the window and laugh. Pauly Shore is a great example.

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Originally posted by avnrulz:

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Originally posted by rcjarrell:
Audie Murphy - great soldier. Bad actor.

How can you bust him out for playing himself! LOL

Yeah no kidding, in the movie to Hell and Back he played himself fighting in a Army Unit that he really served with during WWII.

Easy part, all he had to be was himself.. Because that's who he was in the movie.

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LineDoggie
Posted Sun 16 December 2007 03:49 PM
"ATTACK" with Palance, Albert, Lee Marvin, Buddy Ebsen, Robert Strauss, and someone who made a career of Playing Soldiers: Richard Jaeckel
Yes, it was a great movie and great acting, I hated EA for a liong time too, the same as Gary Sinise in the movie he was in with Ethan Hawke about American G.I.'s and German soldiers having an undeclared truce over Christmas '44, during the Battle of the Bulge.

Thats it!! Thanks LD it was driving me nuts. You got some memory. Every time I saw albert after that movie he turned me off. That was a long time ago I think I saw that at Hickam field in the early fifties on a layover. Along with another Jack Palance flick called El Tigre.

Worst? Demi Moore as a Navy SEAL. Steven Sagal as a Navy SEAL.

Best? Donald Sutherland as a 60's hippie in 1945 - Kelly's Heroes. HAHAHA!!

And whoever said that "Basic" was the worst military movie of all time was right on the money - hell, it was the worst MOVIE of all time, at least in the last 20 years.

John Wayne, a Draft Dodging Patriot.