vietnam war movies...

[Mike70]

what are you favs? know of any less well know ones we might be interested in seeing?

has anyone seen an australian movie called "the odd angry shot"? it deals with australia's involvement in the war and is a great movie as far as i am concerned.

[capncnut]

Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket

The Last Hunter was a decent low budgeter.

Was I the only one who liked Casualties Of War?


has anyone seen an australian movie called "the odd angry shot"? it deals with australia's involvement in the war and is a great movie as far as i am concerned.
Never heard of it Mike, but will give it a viewing if it floats my way. :)

[Bub666]

I love Full Metal Jacket.That is a great movie.

[bassman]

Can't really think of any that aren't that well known. These are my present favorites....

1) The Deer Hunter
2) Platoon
3) Full Metal Jacket
5) Apocalypse Now
6) Born on the Fourth of July
7) Good Morning Vietnam
8) Casualties of War

I want to add First Blood because the story happens as a result of the Vietnam war, but it's not set IN the war. So i'll leave that one out...

[MaximusIncredulous]

1. Platoon
2. Apocalypse Now
3. Casualties of War
4. The Deer Hunter

A shame First Blood can't be included in this list. Then again, if it is, someone may want include Billy Jack in this.

[EvilNed]

Well. Not a big fan of any vietnam films, actually. But I did like Killing Fields, altough that was about Cambodia.

[Dillinger]

84C (Charlie) Mopic
Hamburger Hill
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
Deer Hunter

[AcesandEights]

Full Metal Jacket and Platoon, for me. The first time I saw Full Metal Jacket I was floored and in shock. Platoon is just a solid script, with a decently handled protagonist and great performances by Beringer and Dafoe are great in that film with the rest of the cast doing a good job.

Apocalypse Now is an awesome film, but it's hard for me to re-watch due to many of the things that made the film such a landmark endeavor. I know it's a top-of-the-heap film and respect it, but I couldn't call it one of my favorites.

[Tricky]

Apocalypse now is my favourite,especially the redux cut!followed by platoon,full metal jacket,we were soldiers,hamburger hill,casualties of war,the deer hunter & Bat-21 not in any order :) im waiting for oliver stones new vietnam film "pinkville" as well

[kidgloves]

84C (Charlie) Mopic



Seconded

[Mutineer]

The ones in BOLD are my favorites, but i enjoyed all of the,

Apocalypse Now (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_Now)

Born on the Fourth of July (film) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_on_the_Fourth_of_July_(film))

Casualties of War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_War)

The Deer Hunter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deer_Hunter)

Forrest Gump (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Gump)

Full Metal Jacket (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Metal_Jacket)

The Green Berets (film) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Berets_(film))

Good Morning, Vietnam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Morning,_Vietnam)

The Hanoi Hilton (film) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hanoi_Hilton_(film))

Hamburger Hill (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger_Hill)

Platoon (film) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platoon_(film))

Tigerland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigerland)

We Were Soldiers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Were_Soldiers)

[Eyebiter]

Fiction

The Siege of Firebase Gloria (1989) Isolated US base under determined attack

Off Limits (1988) Crime story set in Vietnam

Bat 21 (1988) US aviator shot down, attempts to evade and escape while a friendly US plane stays overhead in intermittent radio contact.

Flight of the Intruder (1991) Based on the Coonts novel

Documentary

In the Year of the Pig (1968)

Hearts and Minds (1974)

The Ten Thousand Day War (1980) miniseries

[Skippy911sc]

Glad to see tiger land thrown in there...not completely about Nam but how about the Doc Fog of War? Great Doc! I also loved Apocalypse Now as well as platoon, Full Metal Jacket, and Bat 21 was great and now as widely seen.

[Yojimbo]

Check out Blatty's THE NINTH CONFIGURATION. My favorite Nam movie.

Also ROLLING THUNDER as a companion to NINTH CONFIGURATION. They both came out at about the same time, and at the time they were made the Vietnam conflict was still going full steam.

[capncnut]

Check out Blatty's THE NINTH CONFIGURATION. My favorite Nam movie.
Nuff said. :cool:

[Mike70]

you know, i just realized i started this thread and didn't list my favs other than "the odd angry shot."

the boys from company c.
full metal jacket
platoon
84 charlie mopic

[Mutineer]

Glad to see tiger land thrown in there...not completely about Nam but how about the Doc Fog of War? Great Doc! I also loved Apocalypse Now as well as platoon, Full Metal Jacket, and Bat 21 was great and now as widely seen.

The Fog of War is the best documentary I have ever seen

Great call !

[Staredge]

My old man was on a river boat in the Nam. He says We Were Soldiers is the most realistic movie he's seen.

[RustyHicks]

Platoon
Full metal Jacket
Hamburger Hill
We were Solidiers

Haven't watched many war movies in my time

[Tricky]

My old man was on a river boat in the Nam. He says We Were Soldiers is the most realistic movie he's seen.

Yeah a lot of people have said that,critics werent so keen when it was released but i thought it was really good.I dont think many films before it had shown how brutal modern combat is :barf:
That "broken arrow" sequence is awesome as well (apart from the bit where the bomb falls on the american position :eek:)

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the voice sinc is a bit off in that vid though :rolleyes:

[EvilNed]

****, haha, that is grosse when the skin peels off his legs. I gotta rewatch that film.

[DjfunkmasterG]

There are only two vietnam films I enjoy.

Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now

Watched Platoon the other day and I just don't see what makes that movie so great.

[Yojimbo]

Just thought of another one I enjoyed.

THE EXTERMINATOR

A vietnam vet, formerly with special forces, decides to fight against evil criminal elements in New York, using his knowledge of unconventional warfare techniques.

More a revenge fantasy (not as masterfully done as Death Wish, or Ms. 45) than a proper Nam movie, and certainly not a great piece of cinema, but I enjoyed this one all the same.

[Tricky]

Just thought of another one I enjoyed.

THE EXTERMINATOR

A vietnam vet, formerly with special forces, decides to fight against evil criminal elements in New York, using his knowledge of unconventional warfare techniques.

More a revenge fantasy (not as masterfully done as Death Wish, or Ms. 45) than a proper Nam movie, and certainly not a great piece of cinema, but I enjoyed this one all the same.

Bloody hell thats a blast from the past!i never saw the first one but i saw "exterminator 2" with mario van peebles as the main bad guy!

[capncnut]

THE EXTERMINATOR

More a revenge fantasy (not as masterfully done as Death Wish, or Ms. 45) than a proper Nam movie, and certainly not a great piece of cinema, but I enjoyed this one all the same.
I am a huge fan of The Exterminator, Robert Ginty and James Glickenhaus full stop. A great little flick - I prefer that one film over the ENTIRE Death Wish series tbh.

The Vietnam sequence was like a nightmare, totally sadistic, and the gore of the whole film kinda edges it out of the 'action' category and places it in something much more sinister. Great little soundtrack too.

"Sit me up straight in a chair, comb mah hair..." :D

[Yojimbo]

I am a huge fan of The Exterminator, Robert Ginty and James Glickenhaus full stop. A great little flick - I prefer that one film over the ENTIRE Death Wish series tbh.

The Vietnam sequence was like a nightmare, totally sadistic, and the gore of the whole film kinda edges it out of the 'action' category and places it in something much more sinister. Great little soundtrack too.

"Sit me up straight in a chair, comb mah hair..." :D

Cap, if you liked EXTERMINATOR, I think that you will dig ROLLING THUNDER. Check it out if you haven't yet. Cool, 70's film about a vet who returns to Texas after being a POW for some time. trying to readujst to normal life, when suddenly all that is meaninful to him in the world is taken from him. Again, like EXTERMINATOR, another revenge flick, but very well done. Starring William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, by Paul Schrader.

[capncnut]

Cap, if you liked EXTERMINATOR, I think that you will dig ROLLING THUNDER. Check it out if you haven't yet. Cool, 70's film about a vet who returns to Texas after being a POW for some time. trying to readujst to normal life, when suddenly all that is meaninful to him in the world is taken from him. Again, like EXTERMINATOR, another revenge flick, but very well done. Starring William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, by Paul Schrader.
I think I've seen this before but might need a refresher. Cheers Jimbo, I'll look out for it again.

[Bub666]

Cap, if you liked EXTERMINATOR, I think that you will dig ROLLING THUNDER. Check it out if you haven't yet. Cool, 70's film about a vet who returns to Texas after being a POW for some time. trying to readujst to normal life, when suddenly all that is meaninful to him in the world is taken from him. Again, like EXTERMINATOR, another revenge flick, but very well done. Starring William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, by Paul Schrader.

I love Rolling Thunder.It's a great movie.

[DjfunkmasterG]

The Death Wish films started a Vigilante movie craze. I remember so many movies based around revenge coming out after Death Wish 1 & 2.

[Yojimbo]

The Death Wish films started a Vigilante movie craze. I remember so many movies based around revenge coming out after Death Wish 1 & 2.

You are totally right, Dj, there was a rash of those type of films. I personally dug Ms .45 as one of those weird revenge films.

Back to the Nam films, my wife suggested that I add one that we recently purchased:

COMING HOME

Filmed in 1978, another one of those Nam films that were made shortly after the conflict had ended. Starring Jon Voight, Jane Fonda, and Bruce Dern (Laura's father). Lonely Marine wife on base strikes up a "friendship" with a paraplegic vet while her husband is on tour in Nam. Features a lengthy and fairly steamy love scene with a suprisingly nude Jane Fonda that some say involved actual sex and Fonda herself says she had to get really bombed in order to do. The drama itself is pretty compelling, if Fonda's nudity doesn't attract you to the film, by the way. :lol: No, seriously, it's an actors film. :lol:

[DjfunkmasterG]

Rambo were nam style films. I mean John J. Rambo was a Vietnam Vet, so I wanna add Rambo part 1 to my list.

[darth los]

I love Full Metal Jacket.That is a great movie.

Although there are some excellent NAM films out there Full Metal Jacket is far and away my fav.