I spent my Veteran's Day watching the 2nd best Vietnam movie ever - "The Deer Hunter"

[LynneSin]

That is such an amazingly powerful movie (even though I'm still ticked that they filmed the Deer Hunting scene in Washington State, which btw looks nothing like the hills of Western Pennsylvania).

Makes me wonder how many small town communities are being destroyed by this current war?

BTW - best, for me, will always be "Full Metal Jacket"

[Iggo]

1. I recorded it for my Dad.

Now I gotta teach him how to use the DVR.

I agree...great movie.

1. Apocalypse Now
2. Deer Hunter
3. Full Metal Jacket
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1,000,000. The Green Berets

[Resuscitated Ethics]

2. Gotta put Platoon as my second

Totally agree on Full Metal Jacket. In discussing some of these movies with vets, Deer Hunter didn't cover the preparation for "killing the enemy" that was such a part of the experience. NO ONE showed up over there unprepared to kill. Kubrick nailed the boot camp cold.

Some of my favs--

Casualties of War (dePalma) was much better than having Micheal J. Fox in it would have you believe.

Saw Apocalypse Now on opening day and it blew me away for some time.

84 Charlie MoPic was one of those magic "blair witch' type projects, cliched as hell but it got under my skin and I can't get rid of it (when Donovans 'To Susan on the West Coast Waiting' begins just hang it up, no dry eyes)

The Odd Angry Shot (aussies)
Go Tell the Spartans (early 60's)
Coming Home and Born on the Fourth of July rocked,
Birdie was a deep brain mash, thoughtful and scary
MASH may as well have been in Vietnam, even though Altman couldn't get funding unless he camouflaged it as Korea
Streamers was an Altman filmed play that took place in DC but it was all about Vietnam
Gardens of Stone (Caan, Huston, nice portrait of sorrow)

Yeah, Deer Hunter was crazed. I am still waiting to see Heaven's Gate, the Cimino project funded with Deer Hunter goodwill. Very few people have even seen it, I have read that it is the most beautifully filmed picture ever made.

There are many I missed, and I've yet to see Rescue Dawn

I watched Frontline for Veterans Day, and made sure the vets I work with had the Applebees store list for the free entree

[edbermac]

3. I'll bet you could suck a golf ball through a garden hose!

Stan was the man!

FMJ and Apocalypse Now (original not the redux) are my top 2. Deer Hunter and Platoon are tied for third. A very underrated one was Go Tell The Spartans with Burt Lancaster.

[BOSSHOG]

6. Ahh Memories!!!

I can hear Barbra Streisand singing in the background. Who could not cherish being called a worthless maggot breath piece of shit fuckwad?

[LynneSin]

8. Gunnery Sgt. Hartman had to be one of the scariest characters in a Vietnam movie

Moreso than Marlon Brando's Col. Kurtz

[cemaphonic]

10. He was a real Marine drill instructor too.

Kubrick initially hired him only as a technical advisor to the film, but Ermey put together a short film of himself haranguing a bunch of other Marines for 15 minutes straight, without pausing or repeating himself, *all while being pelted constantly with tennis balls.*

[LynneSin]

11. He got a Golden Globe nomination for best supporting actor - should have gotten an Oscar nod too

he was amazing!

[Parche]

4. Young and the Restless ex-Rex Co-Wrote That

:woohoo: :hi:

Good movie

[Swede]

5. Platoon and Jacob's Ladder are my two favorites.

Apocalypse Now is a close third.

[applegrove]

7. I'm a platoon fan myself.

[Rambis]

9. Full metal jacket

that was brutal! I took away the hopelessness, frustration, sense of waste and just how cheap life was. One vet I know had a major PTSD breakdown after that movie. It took him 6 months to come out of it and be as 'normal" as he gets. He did not come with us but I wish we would have taken him somewhere else.