Favourite 'Nam flic

[emzie]

Full Metal Jacket

QFT 10CHAR

 

[Irish Caesar]

I'll contribute another mention for The Deer Hunter.

 

[bhsup]

We Were Soldiers

Honorable mention for Flight Of The Intruder and Casualties Of War. Oh, and where the heck is Missing In Action?!

 

[LesCanadiens]

None of you are voting for Good Morning Vietnam... why?

 

[Leonel]

None of you are voting for Good Morning Vietnam... why?

It portrays the Vietnamese as backstabbers! Didn't you see the ending?

 

[MobBoss]

It portrays the Vietnamese as backstabbers! Didn't you see the ending?

And? Remember, they did break the ceasefire that resulted in the USA leaving the war. I think that would qualify as 'backstabbing' dont you?

 

[LesCanadiens]

And? Remember, they did break the ceasefire that resulted in the USA leaving the war. I think that would qualify as 'backstabbing' dont you?

Sure, but Thieu refused to hold national elections, which was the cause of the first limited North offensives back into the South after the US left. So it cuts both ways.

 

[Aiken Drumn]

Apocalypse Now - Don't think i have seen anything else on the list

 

[classical_hero]

Apocalypse Now is clearly the best 'nam movie. Honourable Mention does go to We Were Soldiers.

Has anyone seen the Danielle Steele's Movie called Nam? I assume that it is about this war.

 

[nonconformist]

(btw Apoc. N was a rewrite of a Joseph Conrad's (englishman/scot) novel about the european imperial escapades in the African Congo.

Which itself was a rewrite of T.S Eliot's poem the Hollow Men

EDIT: whoops, maybe not; it seems i was the other way around

 

[Rambuchan]

Apocalypse now with FMJ a very very close second.

My sentiments exactly.

Platoon sucked.

What? All of them?

 

[brennan]

Casualties of war.

 

[Arwon]

FMJ and then Platoon.

 

[Leonel]

And? Remember, they did break the ceasefire that resulted in the USA leaving the war. I think that would qualify as 'backstabbing' dont you?

Spoiler :

I was referring to the part where Robin Williams was screaming at his Vietnamese friend "WHY?!? WHY DID YOU BOMB THAT MAN'S RESTAURANT?!?" and the man says some stupid Che Guava crap and Robin Williams walks away.

 

[Theige]

As has been said already, Full Metal Jacket!

 

[Theige]

Apocalypse Now, Platoon are also great.

Good Morning Vietnam is very good. Most of the others are good too, I like war movies

 

[Che Guava]

I was referring to the part where Robin Williams was screaming at his Vietnamese friend "WHY?!? WHY DID YOU BOMB THAT MAN'S RESTAURANT?!?" and the man says some stupid Che Guava crap and Robin Williams walks away.

Stupid Che Guava crap? I didn't even go by that name in the 80's

And no, he didn't say any 'che' Guevara stuff, he got mad at him for being part of the army that brought his family so much misery. Here's the transcript:

Spoiler :

and now they tell me that
my best friend is the goddam enemy!


Enemy? What is enemy?
You killing my own people
so many miles from your home.

We not the enemy.
You the enemy!


You used me to kill two people.
Two people died in that . .. .. .. .in' bar.

Big . .. .. .. .ing deal!

My mother is dead.

And my older brother,
who be 5 years old, he dead.

Shot by Americans.

My neighbour, dead.
His wife, dead.

Why?

Because we're not human to them.

We're only little Vietnamese.

And I'm stupid enough to save
your . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . life at An Lac.

 

[Leonel]

Stupid Che Guava crap? I didn't even go by that name in the 80's

Haha! Sorry I did mean Che Guevara and there was no seriousness behind the slight.

 

[Godwynn]

Full Metal Jacket

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Apocalypse Now or Full Metal Jacket.

The worst vietnam movie ever is the turd: We Were Soldiers. What a load of incredible smelly horsedung. The shots of the wives back home made me heave.