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I’ve only watched bits and pieces of Apocalypse Now. The most dramatic movie scene that I’ve ever watched was The Deer Hunter scene while they’re being made to play Russian Roulette by the viet cong.
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I’ve only watched bits and pieces of Apocalypse Now. The most high drama movie scene that I’ve ever watched was The Deer Hunter scene while there being made to play Russian Roulette by the viet cong. Great scene and great movie. IMO though, The Deer Hunter isn't nearly as good as Apocalypse Now.
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I’ve only watched bits and pieces of Apocalypse Now. The most high drama movie scene that I’ve ever watched was The Deer Hunter scene while there being made to play Russian Roulette by the viet cong. Great scene and great movie. IMO though, The Deer Hunter isn't nearly as good as Apocalypse Now. I need to check it out. I’ve seen the iconic helicopter scene but somehow missed seeing it all the way through.
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I’ve only watched bits and pieces of Apocalypse Now. The most high drama movie scene that I’ve ever watched was The Deer Hunter scene while there being made to play Russian Roulette by the viet cong. Great scene and great movie. IMO though, The Deer Hunter isn't nearly as good as Apocalypse Now. I need to check it out. I’ve seen the iconic helicopter scene but somehow missed seeing it all the way through. While it's good to see the Director's Cut, I actually think the original theatrical release is superior. A lot of stuff in the Director's Cut had been edited out...because it needed to be edited out.
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One of the best films ever made.
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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While it's good to see the Director's Cut, I actually think the original theatrical release is superior. A lot of stuff in the Director's Cut had been edited out...because it needed to be edited out.
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See the Documentary and you'll see why!! If you're speaking to me, I've seen the documentary, as implied by my post earlier in this thread, where I cited it with its actual name. Nope. Previous poster
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"The Brothers, Bloods" in Platoon were just like the ones in my Company in Germany, '72-73. Not a pleasant memory for me, especially since they and the "Blood wannabe Puerto Ricans" comprised about 70% of our Battalion. No VC Incoming, but plenty of bootheels and knives, plus "Politically Correct" Army BatCrap Craziness.
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Hacking up the live cow was awesome.
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"The Brothers, Bloods" in Platoon were just like the ones in my Company in Germany, '72-73. Not a pleasant memory for me, especially since they and the "Blood wannabe Puerto Ricans" comprised about 70% of our Battalion. No VC Incoming, but plenty of bootheels and knives, plus "Politically Correct" Army BatCrap Craziness. yep pretty much my Army experiance in HAAF Savannah GA 83-86.learned my mother was reall wrong about a few things
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I always remembered the scene where the crashed B-52 tail was sticking up in the air as the boat went by ,surreal , kinda cool ,but i didnt think we had any B-52 BUFF'S shot down over South Vietnam or even Loas or Cambodia. North Vietnam ..yes .. . So that kinda made it unreal for me
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It’s okay in my opinion. I really enjoyed Duvall’s character.
The second half of the movie seems to drag on forever.
R. Lee Ermey made an appearance as a chopper pilot.
PBR’s are cool! Got to meet R Lee Ermey when he was the Glock Spokesman. Very nice fellow. Very gracious and down to earth to. That was my experience as well. I met him at the NRA convention in Houston a few years back. Had a good conversation with him about the M-1903 Springfield vs the M-1917 Enfield rifles. We was very sincere and quite likeable. He gave my daughter an autographed photo. Really enjoyed talking with him.
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I have read Heart Of Darkness. It’s pretty wild someone adapted that to the Vietnam war
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"The Brothers, Bloods" in Platoon were just like the ones in my Company in Germany, '72-73. Not a pleasant memory for me, especially since they and the "Blood wannabe Puerto Ricans" comprised about 70% of our Battalion. No VC Incoming, but plenty of bootheels and knives, plus "Politically Correct" Army BatCrap Craziness. Just as an aside, in 2020 the director, Spike Lee, made a movie called Da 5 Bloods. It's about five black Vietnam vets circa 2019/2020, friends who served in Vietnam in the same infantry platoon, who get together to return to Vietnam and find a large stash of CIA gold that went down in a CIA plane in the jungle. The five black soldiers found it (circa 1969/1970) hid it, and planned to return someday, smuggle the gold back secretly to the U.S., and live life large. But, the best laid plans often go awry. All kinds of obstacles and difficulties arise, and things in Vietnam take a severe downturn in their plans. It is one of the dumbest, couldn't happen movies Spike Lee has ever made and typically, it is Lee's very anti-white people bias, anti-white soldiers, etc., screed. If I'd not watched it free gratis for nuthin', had to pay to see it in a theater, I'd have walked out mid-movie and demanded my money back. Anyone else waste their time viewing Da 5 Bloods? L.W.
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"The Brothers, Bloods" in Platoon were just like the ones in my Company in Germany, '72-73. Not a pleasant memory for me, especially since they and the "Blood wannabe Puerto Ricans" comprised about 70% of our Battalion. No VC Incoming, but plenty of bootheels and knives, plus "Politically Correct" Army BatCrap Craziness. Just as an aside, in 2020 the director, Spike Lee, made a movie called Da 5 Bloods. It's about five black Vietnam vets circa 2019/2020, friends who served in Vietnam in the same infantry platoon, who get together to return to Vietnam and find a large stash of CIA gold that went down in a CIA plane in the jungle. The five black soldiers found it (circa 1969/1970) hid it, and planned to return someday, smuggle the gold back secretly to the U.S., and live life large. But, the best laid plans often go awry. All kinds of obstacles and difficulties arise, and things in Vietnam take a severe downturn in their plans. It is one of the dumbest, couldn't happen movies Spike Lee has ever made and typically, it is Lee's very anti-white people bias, anti-white soldiers, etc., screed. If I'd not watched it free gratis for nuthin', had to pay to see it in a theater, I'd have walked out mid-movie and demanded my money back. Anyone else waste their time viewing Da 5 Bloods? L.W. Won’t waste my time watching anything that POS made.
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Just finishing up watching this movie for the umpteenth time. The surreal weirdness of this movie has always captivated me for some reason. Anyone else here likes or hates this flick ? Love it, always have. Especially when super drunk or smoking good ganja or doing shrooms .... three completely different movies than when watching it sober.
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Any scene with a helicopter was my favorite. An empty Huey has a max payload of 9500 lbs. Maybe 10,000 in an emergency. No way in hell could a D model sling load a PBR. But, I didn't learn that until many years after first seeing the movie. It makes for a good script.
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It’s okay in my opinion. I really enjoyed Duvall’s character.
The second half of the movie seems to drag on forever.
R. Lee Ermey made an appearance as a chopper pilot.
PBR’s are cool! Got to meet R Lee Ermey when he was the Glock Spokesman. Very nice fellow. Very gracious and down to earth to. That was my experience as well. I met him at the NRA convention in Houston a few years back. Had a good conversation with him about the M-1903 Springfield vs the M-1917 Enfield rifles. We was very sincere and quite likeable. He gave my daughter an autographed photo. Really enjoyed talking with him. I shot alongside Ermey at the CMP Eastern Games held at Butner, NC a few years ago. Nice unassuming fella, as long as you didn't stick a camera in his face when you asked him for his autograph. Here he is at the national matches at Camp Perry responding to someone who had his camera rolling: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zPlqMKYQdrQ
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"The Brothers, Bloods" in Platoon were just like the ones in my Company in Germany, '72-73. Not a pleasant memory for me, especially since they and the "Blood wannabe Puerto Ricans" comprised about 70% of our Battalion. No VC Incoming, but plenty of bootheels and knives, plus "Politically Correct" Army BatCrap Craziness. Just as an aside, in 2020 the director, Spike Lee, made a movie called Da 5 Bloods. It's about five black Vietnam vets circa 2019/2020, friends who served in Vietnam in the same infantry platoon, who get together to return to Vietnam and find a large stash of CIA gold that went down in a CIA plane in the jungle. The five black soldiers found it (circa 1969/1970) hid it, and planned to return someday, smuggle the gold back secretly to the U.S., and live life large. But, the best laid plans often go awry. All kinds of obstacles and difficulties arise, and things in Vietnam take a severe downturn in their plans. It is one of the dumbest, couldn't happen movies Spike Lee has ever made and typically, it is Lee's very anti-white people bias, anti-white soldiers, etc., screed. If I'd not watched it free gratis for nuthin', had to pay to see it in a theater, I'd have walked out mid-movie and demanded my money back. Anyone else waste their time viewing Da 5 Bloods? L.W. WTF?! I try not to watch anything with “‘Da” in the title…
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It’s okay in my opinion. I really enjoyed Duvall’s character.
The second half of the movie seems to drag on forever.
R. Lee Ermey made an appearance as a chopper pilot.
PBR’s are cool! Got to meet R Lee Ermey when he was the Glock Spokesman. Very nice fellow. Very gracious and down to earth to. That was my experience as well. I met him at the NRA convention in Houston a few years back. Had a good conversation with him about the M-1903 Springfield vs the M-1917 Enfield rifles. We was very sincere and quite likeable. He gave my daughter an autographed photo. Really enjoyed talking with him. Yep. He gave me an autographed photo also. And took a “selfie” with him too.
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