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Topic: We Were Soldiers
Bozman
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I can't believe folks think this the best Vietnam war film ever. I suppose Platoon and Apocalypse Now sucked?!?!?! I'm tired of star-vehicle films.
posted 03-03-2002 08:17 PM PT (US) Shaun Rutherford
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Am I wrong to not count Apocalypse Now as a "Vietnam War film?"Shaun
[Message edited by Shaun Rutherford on 03-03-2002]
posted 03-03-2002 09:46 PM PT (US) Murph32874
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Well it's obvious to me that Randall Wallace is desperate to write that "great" script again that he wrote in Braveheart. He goes for the heartstrings almost every chance he gets, and to the educated film goer, it just gets old. He needs to write something a little more real and hard edged. But I keep thinking to myself, is Mel Gibson that good a director? He certainly made Wallace's script look pretty damn good on Braveheart.I also thought of We Were Soldiers as a pretty true comment on the way our soldiers were circa 1965. They were pretty gung ho coming off of WWII and were volunteers mostly, which makes sense to some of the actions and dialogue coming from the characters. It wasn't until the draft that we started getting people there that just didn't wanna be there.
It almost seems like this story is untrue, but it isn't. It's based on fact, which leads me to believe that our boys weren't f-ing around those 3 days they were there. To anybody that really saw the movie, I don't think it glorified war but just the opposite. Most of the characters didn't know why they were there, therefore not really supporting what they were doing. What the movie did do was glorify the spirit and make us feel for a few minutes what it was like there. Even if it did tey to hard for those Oscar moments.
posted 03-03-2002 10:25 PM PT (US) Bozman
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Shaun,Apocalypse Now is most definitely a Vietnam movie. It is a telling of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" set in the Vietnam war. I'm not sure what other kind of movie it would be....like many powerful war films, it follows a man on a mission, and the psychological hardships/insanity he endures along the journey.
posted 03-04-2002 02:36 PM PT (US) André Lux
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Lightborne: thanks for the great laughs!!More please...
posted 03-04-2002 03:07 PM PT (US) Old Infopop Software by UBB