Your favorite movie about the Vietnam War - Historum

**irishcrusader95** · March 29th, 2012, 06:30 PM

so whats you favorite movie about the vietnam war. for me its a tough choice between Apocalypse Now and We were Soldiers yet for sheer cinematography it has to be francis ford coppola's masterpiece

Apocalypse Now - Opening Sequence - YouTube

**Nemowork** · March 29th, 2012, 06:46 PM

Maybe Apocalypse now and Platoon, I have an aversion to We were soldiers mostly because of Gibson and his usual attempts to rewrite history.

84 Charlie MoPic is a great little movie though. Small cast and tiny budget filmed in a backlot in Burbank and still looks more like Vietnam than We Were Soldiers big budget backlot in Burbank.

84 Charlie Mopic-720p - YouTube

**bunyip** · March 29th, 2012, 07:22 PM

'Apocalypse Now' is SET in the Vietnam War,it is NOT 'about' that war.

The film is based on Joseph Conrad's "Heart Of Darkness',which is an essay on the nature of evil.

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Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1903 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It was classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the "100 best novels" [1] and part of the Western canon.
The story centres on Charles Marlow, who narrates most of the book. He is an Englishman who takes a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a river-boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the dark side of European colonization while exploring the three levels of darkness that the protagonist, Marlow, encounters: the darkness of the Congo wilderness, the darkness of the Europeans' cruel treatment of the African natives, and the unfathomable darkness within every human being for committing heinous acts of evil.[2] Although Conrad does not give the name of the river, at the time of writing the Congo Free State, the location of the large and important Congo River, was a private colony of Belgium's King Leopold II. In the story, Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver. However, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization, in a cover-up. Kurtz has a reputation throughout the region.
This symbolic story is a story within a story or frame narrative. It follows Marlow as he recounts his Congolese adventure to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary from dusk through to late night. The passage of time and the darkening sky during Marlow's narrative parallels the atmosphere of the events he narrates.

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I love "Full Metal Jacket" only for the first half, set in boot camp. That is only because of the wonderfully grotesque drill sergeant. He is as sublimely obscene and insensitive as my own drill sergeant.

**Rongo** · March 29th, 2012, 08:26 PM

Deer Hunter for me. Other than the wedding scene dragging on too long, I thought it was excellent. (But much of the wedding scene was filmed in Cleveland, so that makes it cool too

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The only other ones I've seen on the list though are Platoon and Apocalypse Now.

**Wenge** · March 29th, 2012, 08:36 PM

Good Morning Vietnam.

**Belgarion** · March 29th, 2012, 08:39 PM

The Odd Angry Shot, because it shows the war from an Australian perspective, and Apocalypse Now. An honourable mention for Full Metal Jacket for R Lee Ermeys portyal of the Gunnery Sergeant.

**Jake10** · March 29th, 2012, 08:44 PM

Casualties of War. The scene with Sean Pen and his evil prayer is something I'll never forget.

Crowned Prince · March 29th, 2012, 09:24 PM

Apocalypse Now is not only the best Vietnam War film, it is also one of the greatest movies ever made. The first two hours are the greatest movie experience ever, but the third hour confuses and alienates people.

**unclefred** · March 29th, 2012, 09:26 PM

Apocalypse Now is a masterpiece.

**okamido** · March 29th, 2012, 09:49 PM

Full Metal Jacket....if just to see Marines singing the Mickey Mouse Club theme song.

Full Metal Jacket - Mickey Mouse song - YouTube