A movie about Americans being assholes

Rating: 1/10 (18 August 2010)

This movie and its cultural impact says a lot about the American dream in the 20th century. A poor attempt at historical accuracy and the eastern front is mocked. As always Americans do little, but demand all the glory.
The first war scene in the movie says it all. A division of slaughtered Americans is being marauded by starving arab civilians. A bunch of American officers in jeeps drive by, scare them of with guns, quote a grocery list (including socks) and only then the number of lives in the division (implying that those socks were more important), shoot 2 vultures and drive of. Didn't stop to bury the dead or check for possible survivors, didn't even try untying a lonely dog next to a tank. Our heroes.
This movie tries to make you like republican ideology and gilts you if you don't. Patton is praised in this movie as a deity and people who disagree with him are portrayed as fools, even though they are right.
It's a movie about Americans being assholes and Patton is the biggest of them all. Not one scene where he is not trying to show off or nagging somebody into the Napoleon era. Most of his orders would only make you a better looking grave rather than win a war. And by all account he should have died several times in the movie. Fallen soldiers whom Patton knew personally are tragically emphasized, while dozen of nameless GIs who died in the same battle are never mentioned again.
He's an outdated contradiction even for his time. "All leaders are jerks - hate them. But I'm an exception, obey me or I go medieval on your ass!" No decent African-American soldiers, no women in his army. Only pride, glory and vanity, Bible and Hollywood.
Patton is deluded that he was a grate leader in many historical wars. He is so obsessed in destiny, historical nonsense and speculations that he can't get himself to command a new generation army. Any more madness and he would start promising slaves and mules to his men. Hell, he tried starting world war 3 the day world war 2 ended.
I've seen better movies on the subjects than this. Also, Patton read Rommels book halfway through before falling asleep.