Emperor1956 -> RE: And NOW its MINE, beeeyatch! (5/24/2007 9:17:20 AM)
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actually I liked the movie version of the Shrub's time in the Texas National Guard: Full Dinner Jacket. buh dum bum! Thank you folks, I'll be here all week. Try the veal. The best modern war movie? the first 18 minutes of Saving Private Ryan are so incredible, I often can't watch it. Too bad the rest of the movie didn't stand up. And my favorite Vietman movie is probably The Deer Hunter. Yes its slow, yes its a bit preachy, but GOD, can Christopher Walken act? What an incredible movie. Three other great Nam films that should be named right up there with "Full Metal" and "Apocolypse" but usually aren't: Good Morning Vietnam probably captures more about the real-life day to day world of the American grunt. Thid film shows attempts of regular men to cope with inhuman situations in an inhuman war better than any other. Born on the Fourth of July -- the other side of Oliver Stone's war experience? Maybe. A bit heavily directed, but jeeeze, the guy was young. And yes, Tom Cruise CAN act. Best film about returning (white) Vets. and...The Green Berets. Yes, jingoistic, right wing, but two things: 1. it prefigures about 80% of the plot and issues that Platoon and Apocalypse Now revist twenty years later (remember this film was made in 1967). 2. NO movie will better explain what the USA believed about 'Nam when it was happening. All the others show the "horror of war" stuff in retrospective. This movie, with all the "domino theory" crap included, gives you a window into why we were in Vietnam to begin with. E. All that said, don't let "Lady E" hear me, but Platoon is a damn good movie too. Oh God...I'm sorry, I lowered the tone again. Beeeyatch!
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