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I watched The Deer Hunter with Robert De niro and Christopher Walken. That was a good Vietnam Movie, also showing the aftermath of those that went there and how they suffered even after getting home.
Neve seen it, but I've heard it's really good. There were a few other post-'Nam war movies out...Heaven and Earth...Born on the Fourth of July...Rambo.....
It was very ralaistic in the way it portayed the men as they lived in Vietnam. The secene where Deniro and Walken are being held as P.O.W.'s and tortured is among the more factual and realisitic.
Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket.Apparently this one comes quite close to how some soldiers experienced the war.Apocalypse Now is awesome, but is isn't really about Vietnam.
I watched FMJ in high school. As I recall it was divided into two parts – the boot camp part and the actual war part. To this day I still recall some of those scenes, especially during the war.
Not really a movie but the story is quite amazinghttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23631738
That reminds of some of the stories from the 70's and 80's when the last IJA soldiers atrted coming out of the jungle in the Phillipines and other Pacific Islands.
“How soon is too soon to make movies about war”This article is quite interesting about how movies are showing the war during time. From The Longest Day to Saving private Ryan and from Green berets to Platoon, war movies shape the way we see wars.Personaly, one of my favourite movie about the Vietnam war is [url url=http://The 317th Platoon]The 317th Platoon [/url]Now there is two new movies about Afghanistan: The Patrol and Lone Survivor.How will they really reflect the realities of the conflict?http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26030435
Politicians and the media have been trying to shape perceptions of Iraq and Afghanistan since the day we started fighting. I cannot speak to the quality of any of the movies about the wars because I have not, and probably will not, watch a single one of them.
