Platoon? Casualties of War? Hamburger Hill? Good Morning Vietnam? The Deer Hunter? The Green Berets?
Platoon? Casualties of War? Hamburger Hill? Good Morning Vietnam? The Deer Hunter? The Green Berets?
Forced Entry, 1973 - post-Nam veteran story pretty dark but memorable
Apocalypse Now.
Just rewatched it actually.
The ending sure is bizarre though. I guess that's the point.
Living it was sufficient. I haven't watched any of the Vietnam movies other than Good Morning Vietnam, which wasn't that bad. P.S. Jane Fonda should have served prison time for her actions when we had POWs there, or at least county jail for her lousy acting skills.
I'll ask again.
Why are you using Falcon Heene's name when he's still a minor?
Random elderly runner wrote:
Living it was sufficient. I haven't watched any of the Vietnam movies other than Good Morning Vietnam, which wasn't that bad. P.S. Jane Fonda should have served prison time for her actions when we had POWs there, or at least county jail for her lousy acting skills.
Jane Fonda is scum of the Earth.
You are a good man and I'm glad you made it back alive.
Rhodium Nights wrote:
Random elderly runner wrote:
Living it was sufficient. I haven't watched any of the Vietnam movies other than Good Morning Vietnam, which wasn't that bad. P.S. Jane Fonda should have served prison time for her actions when we had POWs there, or at least county jail for her lousy acting skills.
Jane Fonda is scum of the Earth.
You are a good man and I'm glad you made it back alive.
Jane Fonda, still a great discussion derailer, 40 years on.
Jacob's Ladder FTW.
how did "random elderly runner" mentioning Jane Fonda derail any discussion? If anything it adds an interesting element to a discussion.
Never seen Jacob's Ladder
The Fog Of War, documentary about perspective of technocrat / war criminal Robert McNamara.
Rhodium Nights wrote:
how did "random elderly runner" mentioning Jane Fonda derail any discussion? If anything it adds an interesting element to a discussion.
Never seen Jacob's Ladder
no it doesn't it's a tired old story that should die. We're talking war movies not politics.
Eric Arthur Blair wrote:
The Fog Of War, documentary about perspective of technocrat / war criminal Robert McNamara.
GREAT movie, although only part of it is about Vietnam though.
johnny5 wrote:
Rhodium Nights wrote:
how did "random elderly runner" mentioning Jane Fonda derail any discussion? If anything it adds an interesting element to a discussion.
Never seen Jacob's Ladder
no it doesn't it's a tired old story that should die. We're talking war movies not politics.
wow, that's about the most pathetic attempt I've ever seen at gatekeeping.
People can talk about what they want to talk about. You can engage or not, but don't try to control what other people can say. How tiresome.
Speaking of Apocalypse Now!, certainly the best Vietnam movie (the Deer Hunter is a great movie about the aftermath), I've just started re-reading Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, which is just a beautifully written, very harsh book.
Rhodium Nights wrote:
Random elderly runner wrote:
Living it was sufficient. I haven't watched any of the Vietnam movies other than Good Morning Vietnam, which wasn't that bad. P.S. Jane Fonda should have served prison time for her actions when we had POWs there, or at least county jail for her lousy acting skills.
Jane Fonda is scum of the Earth.
You are a good man and I'm glad you made it back alive.
Speaking of Jane Fonda, Coming Home was a great film about the effects of the Vietnam War.
I'm not going to rank films but a great one not mentioned yet is Born on the Fourth of July
Boys in Company C
All these years later and the Yankees have learned nothing. Why would you get the real story from US movies? You'll get the most Hollywood, maybe.
To the Vietnamese, the war was mostly American choppers flying around and shooting them.
And bombing their cities to rubble.
Americans' attitudes toward war are shaped by the arrogance of near-complete air superiority. That era has ended, though they don't realize it yet.
I have never managed to stay awake all the way through apocalypse Now. For me it would be Good Morning Vietnam as a serious pick or Tropc Thunder as a sentimental pick. Tom Cruise’s finest performance, just ahead of his work on Magnolia...
Such a typical way to pose a question on LRC - "What do you think about this? Do you think _________ (as I do)? Discus."
Might as well just ask for people to reflect your reality back to you, that's what everyone seems to be here for