Best vietnam movie

feihlination

feihlination

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so, watched full metal jacket yesterday and wanted to know what you guys think.

personally, i like apocalypse now the most (redux version). somehow i feel that AN is the most complex of them (=vietnam films i can recall right now) and leaves more things to interprete.

platoon meanwhile is "just" "showing" war and puts the viewer in first person mode, with all the things going on in a soldiers mind, etc, and doing brilliantly so.

FMJ, idk, i like the whole bootcamp thing because it kinda reminds me of my own military time (austrian army is more badass as i thought :) ), but afterwards its kinda weird, without highlights, only the "usual" stuff, maybe intentionally, but not my favourite.

i dont even care if you hate (anti-)warfilms, but i like them because they remind me of how lucky we all are to be children of such an era of peace. like imagine finding a new love, hold hands, touch each other, kiss each other, etc and get the draft letter the next day. and you have to leave for some random ass place thousands of miles away with death a serious possibility. its one of those things i am grateful for (not in a religious way, i think its just by accident).

inb4 cool story hansel, your mom, and so on
 
in austria, yes, a country totally surrounded by allies with better armies, a country which had to choose everlasting neutrality, a country in which its totally impossible (like ~0.001% chance) of getting into a fight.

i mean i could go to afghanistan or kosovo, but you wont get near an actual enemy if you dont want to
 
yes. there were times when whole generations were butchered and damned (to cite dropkick murphys "green fields of france"), towns or cities were destroyed, etc.

i am happy that i wont have to experience such things, yes. and as i dont sit there all day thinking about that it mostly gets me when watching warfilms.
 
If anyone reads, the things they carried was one of my favorite books. Pretty cool book actually, I really like the style.
 
We Were Soldiers was good but the bayonet charge at the end was fabricated and the Battle of Ia Drang ended in more of a stalemate. So I'd probably have to say Apocalypse Now.
 
there have been a lot of good vietnam movies. Rambo was good. incrediblly fake but good. all the new movies are in iraq but i like the vietnam movies better
 
Apocalypse now^^very impressive, its a piece of art and a must-see movie...
second place; platoon
 
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