What video have you watched the most?

[PanzerJaeger]

Lucky you. I have yet to see a good American WWII film that does not portray Russians as drunken imbeciles who use human-wave attacks. How the heck do they think Russia won the war by employing hman-wave attacks?? All you need to stop those are a few well-positioned MG-squads.

Well I can only think of one Hollywood movie that showed Russians during WW2 in any meaningful capacity at all: Enemy at the Gates.

I loved the character Ed Harris created, but yea, the rest of that movie was not at all representative of reality.

But where did you get the impression that American flicks always showed Germans as idiots? I never seemed to get that impression, as the films show Fritzes as normal if not good tacticians. Saving Private Ryan was one of the few films that did show Boches as semi-incompetents. Especially in that scene where a dozen men appear to be holding off an entire battalion of Krauts.

There are countless American war films that would have you believe one farm boy from Iowa with a Thompson was the equivalent of several German squads. I don't really fault Hollywood for making such movies though, as that's what Americans want to see. Who wants to go to the movies to see their "team" get gunned down. It doesn't make for a fun Saturday night.

And yes, I did have problems with the last battle in SPR, but it was still much better than I had seen. (I would have a lot more issues watching it today than when i was 13.) The tank action was patently ridiculous, but the rest wasn't too bad if you weren't looking for tactical misrepresentation. IIRC, after some initial troubles the Germans killed lots of the GIs with a 20mm as they were playing on the Tiger and were mopping up the rest. Their only saving grace was the sudden appearance of the P-51s - which while Hollywood hokey, was pretty representative of the combat during Normandy too.