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Post by Popeye Doyle on May 20, 2020 7:23:51 GMT
The director/writer did serve in Vietnam so its realism is probably valid.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on May 20, 2020 10:59:58 GMT
What are your thoughts on the movie?
Also, do you think it's realistic and that solders really engaged in that sort of "fragging" stuff?  Spoilers!!!
Fragging happened a lot. Term came from "fragmentation grenade". A popular method was to roll a grenade under an unpopular officers bunk. And it wasn't begun in Vietnam. A sergeant in the British Army was killed by his own men after the Battle of Blenheim, 1704. Confederate general Braxton Bragg, as beloved as a fart in a crowded elevator, survived several attempts on his life. There were over 900 fragging attempts in Vietnam from 1969 to 1972, resulting in 99 deaths. And those were only from grenades. Something like Taylor killing Barnes in the film wouldn't have been reported and happened a lot, I would imagine.
Why, the US armed forces in Vietnam were undisciplined.
Awesome film. The death of Sgt. Elias is one of my all time favorite scenes in a war film
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Post by Toasted Cheese on May 20, 2020 11:28:50 GMT
Excellent Vietnam war film, one of the best. Full of high scale emotional impact and exposing the futility of it all. Yes, the soldiers are represented as victims, when a lot of it was their own easily brainwashed simpleminds regarding their notions of nationalistic pride, but the film shows different levels of conflict and camaraderie and a main theme of the film, is the war raging amongst themselves. Avoid Hamburger Hill at all costs. This I found a mess. Hamburger Hill - 87' |
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Post by Vits on May 20, 2020 18:59:34 GMT
9/10
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Post by petrolino on May 21, 2020 0:32:43 GMT
The director/writer did serve in Vietnam so its realism is probably valid. Oh yeh.
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