Been on a Vietnam movie trip recently after listening to some Sodom!

List some of your favorites!

Mine have got to be Full Metal Jacket and Platoon, such amazing films.

Platoon has to be my personal favourite, although full metal jacket is a top film!
I quite like We were soldiers, i know its a modern film but still a good adaptation, and really shows the arrogance of the yanks!
Bit of a left field suggestion, but good morning vietnam is a top film

I enjoyed Full Metal Jacket - great film, but I think I need to rewatch Platoon when I haven't watched 3 other films in a row before it and I can actually stay focused!

I don't see too many Vietnam movie
but FULL METAL JACKET is my favorite!!!

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I love Tom Angelripper cover this song!!!

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Nothing can touch Apocalypse Now. Fantastic film.

Shugmaster wrote:Nothing can touch Apocalypse Now. Fantastic film.

Definitely. Platoon is great, and Full Metal Jacket is amazing, but Apocalypse Now is the ultimate war film, there's so much depth to it, and so much madness. Marlon Brando gives what's probably one of the best performances I've ever seen in a film, along with De Niro in Raging Bull.

Oh, and I almost forgot The Deer Hunter! That rates second to Apocalypse Now for me. Emotional indeed. Both those films are quite difficult and challenging to watch, but that's what makes them so rewarding in the end, after watching them a couple of times. I remember just being really confused when I saw Apocalypse Now for the first time (I saw the redux version in the cinema in Leeds when they used to show classic films, which was awesome), but the second time I saw it, my mind was fully blown. So amazing.

Apocalypse Now indeed is a classic

I knew Deer Hunter but never watch it and dont know it's a movie about Vietnam!

Apoc Now was alright, but it wasn't really a war film for me that more than one of the ones that ask questions about man etc.

FMJ has to be my current favourite, R Lee Emery has to be the best man alive. He literally taught me how to cuss as a kid.

Hamburger Hill is a good one as well, as well as one starring Michael J Fox that i can't remember the name of. It dealt with the brutality dealt out by american grunts.

There is one book i'd like to have made into a Vietnam movie and that's Citadel by Dale A Dye. I doubt it would be as it is really really brutal and frank and i don't think it could be made in today's PC cinema world.

That Michael j Fox one is called Casualties of war.

Though Platoon is very good as is Hamburger Hill, We were soldiers was alright i guess...its no where near as "American" as the pro war film made in during the war such as Green Berets with John Wayne.

Theres also Tigerland with Colin Farrel and how can you forget Missing In Action

It seems most Vietnam relate films are about the after effects such as born on the fourth of july and Forest Gump.

I was gonna say Forrest Gump, yeahhhhhh! I also like Full Metal Jacket, shouty man.

Yeah, Born On The Fourth Of July! I forgot about that one. From the same director as Platoon (Oliver Stone) if anyone doesn't know. Really good film. ("PENIIIIIIS!!") Definitely one of Tom Cruise's best performances, and films, along with Charlie Babbit from Rain Man and Nathan Algren from The Last Samurai ("SAAAAKEEEEEEE!!! NOOOOOOOO!!!!!").

Also, Forrest Gump a Vietnam movie, haha!

Well it was in part.

Yeah I know, it's just funny to think of it that way. Great film though! Tom Hanks is really good at making me cry all the time. Although I've et to see Philadelphia, which sounds like it'll make me weep maybe even more than The Green Mile.

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FUCK. Just watched We Were Soldiers, the worst film I have ever seen. Awful liner story telling, disgusting patriotic, god bothering, religious bullshit. AWFUL! FUCK YOU GIBSOOOONNNNN!