7. Coming Home
Coming Home is a movie that is so blunt and so dated that it is just about nigh impossible to even sit through. The story concerns itself with trying to tackle heavy issues of the late 70s such as feminism, the consequences of the Vietnam War and the trials faced by permanently impaired veterans trying to adjust to the world around them. The idea to show the horrors of war from the homefront instead of the actual war is a great one especially considering how few movies attempt it. That's the best thing I can say about Coming Home, everything else is insufferable. The film is blatant "Oscar bait" and practically forces its overbearing themes down the audience's throats through the awful, melodramatic love story between Jane Fonda and Jon Voight's characters. While the movie is very heavy handed and hackneyed in its delivery its most egregious element is the way it uses its heavy premise to make a poorly conceived melodrama try to seem like a grand social statement. That, in itself, is practically a slap in the face to the veterans that it tries to portray in a sympathetic light.