Pick your poison, or should I say Agent Orange.
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Pick your poison, or should I say Agent Orange.
Platoon is one of my all time favorite movies so of course I think it's the best Vietnam War film :p
For me it's a toss up between Full Metal Jacket and Apocolypse Now. But seeing as how I saw Apocolypse Now first, I'll pick that.
Full Metal Jacket, even though the part that's actually in Vietnam is vastly inferior to the part that's not in Vietnam.
You forgot Good Morning, Vietnam with Robin Williams
First this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cyric
Second is probably Tigerland. I didn't care for the others that much.
I can't really count Full Metal Jacket as a Vietnam film, since it's really not about Vietnam at all, though that'd be my number one otherwise. I suppose I have to go with Casualties of War, starring Michael J. Fox and Sean Penn.
Forest Gump is the only one I've seen but I really liked it, so I went ahead and voted for it.
Full Metal Jacket, closely followed by Platoon. FMJ had some seriously good moments in it.
Everyone turns Full Metal Jacket off after the scene in the bathroom. Everyone, seriously. It stops being good after that. I like Platoon.
Full Metal Jacket - people who say the second half is rubbish are out of their minds, the end of the film with the sniper is excellent. Not as good as the first half but not much is.
Apocalypse Now is a close second, for its sheer insanity.
I'd never shut a Kubrick film off period. That man was a God.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jowy
Really? I couldn't watch Eyes Wide Shut a second time if you paid me. His other films are magnificent though, I do agree.
Toss up between Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter. You forgot Jacobs Ladder. I picked Apocalypse Now simply because more of that movie happens in Vietnam than Deer Hunter.
Oh, anyone picking Forrest Gump needs rounded up & shot.
Good Day Madam.
It was only bad because Tom Cruise was in it. He ruins everything. Look at Valkyrie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jowy
I'm curious to know whether anyone has seen Apocalypse Now redux. And to those who haven't...don't. It's :skull::skull::skull::skull:. Stick with the original. As for The Deer Hunter, the only interesting scenes were the Russian roulette ones tbh. That movie had the tendency to drag on a lot. Also I was more convinced De Niro was a Nam vet in Taxi Driver than in Deer Hunter. His unstable progression back in to "normal" society was less prominent in the later.
Crapsticks, I watched the Redux version, and not the original.