We were Soldiers was a good movie but for Mel Gibson who I can't stand. It was also a true story.
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We were Soldiers was a good movie but for Mel Gibson who I can't stand. It was also a true story.
Platoon - by far and away the best. Oliver Stone at his brilliant best.
Apocalypse Now - more of an artsy type movie, but a fine movie none the less.
Born on the 4'th of July - more classic stone. He used the same filming technic in Platoon when Charlie Sheen first arrived in Vietnam and he was locking eyes with a battle weary soldier and when a young Ron Kovic is watching a parade on the 4'th of July and he locks eyes with a WW2 vetran who winces when firecrackers go off. Probably some of the best acting Tom Cruise has ever done.
Apocalypse Now - more of an artsy type movie, but a fine movie none the less.
Born on the 4'th of July - more classic stone. He used the same filming technic in Platoon when Charlie Sheen first arrived in Vietnam and he was locking eyes with a battle weary soldier and when a young Ron Kovic is watching a parade on the 4'th of July and he locks eyes with a WW2 vetran who winces when firecrackers go off. Probably some of the best acting Tom Cruise has ever done.
His performance was exceptional and made you forget about his real life persona. (The trailer below doesn't do justice to the movie).We were Soldiers was a good movie but for Mel Gibson who I can't stand. It was also a true story.
+1..I bought a special edition DVD of We Were Soldiers, and I thought it was Mel Gibson's better performances and an excellent Vietnam movie. I didn't think it was simple-minded at all. The part showing the soldiers rounding up to leave their base camp and families to be flown across the Pacific to begin their tour was thought-provoking, not to mention the very beginning showing the start of the VN war against the French and the various reminders of the tenacity of the enemy.
(I remember seeing a talk show in which Lieutenant General walked out of the premier of that movie when the violence erupted and brought out the sad memories).
Yes, I forgot about this one. Thanks for reminding me.Coming Home with Jane Fonda and John Voight.
The books are usually better than the movies in most cases.The book We were soldiers once and young: Ia Drang - The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam by Lieutenant General Harold G. Moore on which it was based is far better.
I agree.Born on the 4'th of July-Probably some of the best acting Tom Cruise has ever done.
Here's some others. Some were set on the Homefront during or after the war. Some are very good and others were OK but had something that resonated.
Gardens of Stone
Hanoi Hilton
In Country
Bat 21
Alamo Bay
Rescue Dawn
Tropic Thunder & Air America (Robert Downey Jr comedies)
Flight of the Intruder
Gardens of Stone
Hanoi Hilton
In Country
Bat 21
Alamo Bay
Rescue Dawn
Tropic Thunder & Air America (Robert Downey Jr comedies)
Flight of the Intruder
+1 for The Deer HunterDefinitely Apocalypse Now, either Redux or Original, and The Deer Hunter.
Strictly speaking, The Killing Fields was about Cambodia and the brutality of the rein of the Khmer Rouge, which took place after the Vietnam War had concluded, but I'm nitpicking.Also, anyone remember The Killing Fields with Sam Waterston?
I do remember seeing the film -- a superbly directed and acted film. The performance of the late Cambodian-American actor Haing S. Ngor was especially haunting, all the more so given that in real life he was a doctor with no professional acting experience prior to this film, who himself was forced to flee the killing fields of Cambodia during that same period, fleeing into a refugee camp in Thailand before coming to the US. I can only imagine the courage he had exhibited in choosing to relive the horrors of that time in his portrayal of the journalist Dith Pran.
Mine too! Doesn't get much attention.Coming Home with Jane Fonda and John Voight.
Also Apocolypse Now and Deer Hunter
I think his best.Platoon - by far and away the best. Oliver Stone at his brilliant best.
Apocalypse Now - more of an artsy type movie, but a fine movie none the less.
Born on the 4'th of July - more classic stone. He used the same filming technic in Platoon when Charlie Sheen first arrived in Vietnam and he was locking eyes with a battle weary soldier and when a young Ron Kovic is watching a parade on the 4'th of July and he locks eyes with a WW2 vetran who winces when firecrackers go off. Probably some of the best acting Tom Cruise has ever done.
I thought he should have won the Oscar over Hoffmann (Rainman).
