What's the best film set in the VIETNAM WAR?

[thedaveformula]

What's the best film set in the VIETNAM WAR?

[chelle7272]

Full metal jacket (imo)

[dotty.]

Sean Penn and Michael J Fox, casualties of war, harrowing story

[jno]

Apocalypse Now

[DTCwordfan]

Apocalypse Now and the helicopters coming and up the valley to Wagner the Ring blasting out...it was shot in the Philippines about 30 miles south of Manila in a river valley/gorge famous for the canoe trip up the river to this small pond with a waterfall under which you can 'shower;' it takes about 3 hours to get up the river with a combination of paddling, being assisted by two porters and snack breaks - and then you come back in 45 minutes.

There are these wonderful lodges and houses on either side of the river in its lower reaches - the only trouble is that it is the Philippines centre for paedophilia......very nice - 4 miles around the corner is a small town making all the religious statues for their churches etc - there I managed to get into this wonderful crowd with all its fabulous colour and camera snapping, not realising the greater panorama; it was a funeral........

[dotty.]

We Were Soldiers is also excellent on the early days of the war, very technically accurate apparently, excellent performance from Sam Elliott.

[Invictas]

Good Morning Vietnam?

[sandyRoe]

The Deerhunter was a classic war film.

[sandyRoe]

Born on the 4th July, another good film.

[Prudie]

All those mentioned are good except I found Born on the Fourth of July particularly harrowing and wouldn't want to watch it again whereas the others I do.

[sandyRoe]

If a war film isn't harrowing it's not giving a true account

[sandyRoe]

The worst would probably be John Wayne's The Green Berets

[Prudie]

They are all harrowing, I just couldn't handle Tom Cruise's situation, it was unbearably depressing

[sandyRoe]

There are British soldiers coming home now and living with worse injuries. If most films glorify war there needs to be one or two telling of its cost to the soldiers.

[Prudie]

None of the films mentioned glorify war and all show the terrible suffering of the soldiers - in fact events in the Vietnam war cannot be glorified in any way IMO. I'm just saying I personally found Born on 4th July too distressing to watch again.
I'm well aware of what is happening to current soldiers.

[andy-hughes]

'The Deerhunter' - I found out from a Vietnamese colleague that what the officer in the 'Russian Roulette' sequence is shouting - 'Mau! Mau!' means 'Blood!' - it was even more harrowing after that!

I cried at the end too - in the cinema!

[doomey!]

Teen Wolf.

[jd_1984]

Platoon

[McMouse]

Deer Hunter for me as it accurately portrayed how young soldiers react to war.

[Sooper]

Platoon for me.