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On the heels of JimO's post, I want to throw out the question – what's your favorite Vietnam War movie?? Given its popularity in the American consciousness (both pro and con), many movies have been made surrounding this event.? Which one(s) do you like?
I wouldnt say it was my absolute favorite But I liked casualties of war with Micheal J Fox and Sean Penn. Apocalypse now is another. What do you think of the rash of 'going back for the p.o.w.' movies in the 80's, stallone and Norris heading the list.
While growing up it seems like I saw so many of those going-back-to-Nam-to-rescue-the-POWs movies and/or TV shows. It was a staple of the action drama genre. They were alright, I suppose.I liked the movie We Were Soldiers with Mel Gibson.
Good Morning Vietnam, if only for the fabulous sixties music
You stole my my reply! I was going to say that!
Good Morning Vietnam, if only for the fabulous sixties music
"Good Morning Vietnam" but not only for the music. It also was the debut of the serious actor in Robin Williams, at least as best as I recall.Of course "Apocalypse Now" was also a great movie. Wasn't it Robert Duvall who said "I love the smell of napalm in the morning"?.
" It also was the debut of the serious actor in Robin Williams, at least as best as I recall.
I believe 'Dead poets society' came before didnt it? (Another great movie)
I believe 'Dead poets society' came before didnt it? (Another great movie)
"Good Morning Vietnam" 1987"Dead Poets Society" 1989
I believe that Platoon came out around the same time as two other Vietnam War flicks, Full Metal Jacket and Hamburger Hill (I only saw Full Metal Jacket). Oliver stone had his Vietnam “trilogy”, though I cannot remember all three movies of his. Didn't he do Born on the Fourth of July? I do know that the third of his trilogy was a Vietnam War movie called Heaven and Earth, starring Tommy Lee Jones.
Born on the fourth was his, with Tom Cruise. if I remember Hamburger Hill wasnt that good. I've never seen heaven and earth.
I think, then, that the Stone trilogy was probably Full Metal Jacket, Born on the Fourth of July, and Heaven and Earth. This last movie was about a Vietnamese woman who marries Tommy Lee Jones' character, who is in special ops with the military there. They eventually make it back to the U.S. where Jones eventually goes crazy because of his post-war syndrome.
I think, then, that the Stone trilogy was probably Full Metal Jacket, Born on the Fourth of July, and Heaven and Earth.?
It was Platoon and Born on the Fourth and Heaven and Earth. By the way, he just announced he is making Evan Connel's book 'Son of the Morning Star',about Custer and the little bighorn,into a movie. Wasnt this done back in the eighties or early ninties? Made for tv I think. Anyway lets hope he doesnt rewrite history like he has a tendancy to do some times, or at least give us his inturpratation.
