Another real stinker would be one called "Battleforce"

After a recent re-watch, I'd have to nominate 2008's The Red Baron. A film which could and should have been much better given the fact that it is supposed to about one of the greatest fighter pilots who ever lived. Instead we get a sappy, cliche riddled romance.

Visually it is a great movie and for once it was nice to see a WW1 movie which didn't have all red triplanes and camels. Whoever did the visuals did their homework, although they slipped up showing Lanoe Hawker flying an SE.5a and not a DH.2.
From there however the film goes down hill and one wonders if the writers even bothered to read any of the very good books written about Von Richtoffen. A little fact becomes entwined with far too much fiction. Von R's relationship with Roy Brown being a particular issue with me
At the start of the film Von R shoots down Brown behind German lines. Brown is shown in RFC uniform and not RNAS, a warning of things to come. This is also where he meets the nurse he becomes obsessed with and helps to save Brown from bleeding to death. This never happened. At the time Brown was still in flight training. Brown was never shot down during the war, although he did suffer a broken vertebra in a crash during training.
Later in the film, Von R gets into a dogfight with Brown again and both land in a strangely quiet and oddly unscathed 'no-mans land' and have a little chit chat. It is revealed that Brown escaped from a POW camp and returned to fight. This never happened.
Later in the movie, they again get into a dog fight and this time Brown scores a hit. Von R suffers his well documented head wound and crash lands. This never happened. In reality it was during a head on engagement with FE2's of 20 Sqn and given that the bullet hit him from behind, it is likely that the shot was fired from one of his own squad mates.
And there it is left. They don't even show the real and only fight between them. In fact Von R's final flight is not even shown. He takes off and then it fades out. We are left with a last scene showing Brown and nursie, who is somehow able to flit between the lines, visiting his grave.
There are many more things wrong with movie. Even his character is not safe from a rewrite. Von R openly questions the war not only in front of his superiors but also the Kaiser! As a member of the aristocracy and an officer, he would never have dreamed of doing such a thing.
Even if we ignore the historical problems, the pace of the film is also quite slow and at times can be hard to keep the attention of the viewer. My partner, who has some interest in the subject but is not too fussed about the detail, found it boring and fell asleep half way through. A week before we had watched Flyboys and she enjoyed that one. A pacier film I agree, but again not without it's problems.

In short, avoid.

Another real stinker would be one called "Battleforce" you would think something with John Houston, Henry Fonda, and some other big names you be alright. It had the Africa Corps riding on M113's ...

The greatest battle, is listed under Henry Fonda's movies in wikipedia

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Another real stinker would be one called "Battleforce" you would think something with John Houston, Henry Fonda, and some other big names you be alright. It had the Africa Corps riding on M113's ...

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Is there another title for this? I searched IMDB for the title and a 2015 movie came up, Henry Fonda shows no such movie for him and Google also shows no Fonda era title.

As a follow up to The Red Barron I've got a quick question. I've tried to watch it several times on Netflix. Is it me or is there something wrong with the sound? Even cranked up very high the dialogue is nearly unintelligible.

'Get us out of here before they realise your not a god and just an American.'

Pearl Harbor for me. Couldn't stand the actors or the screen play.