Best Nam Movie?

[VaticanAssassin]

Well I guess the title should read second best. Because everyone knows Apocalypse now was the best.

Deer Hunter get high marks but I can barley get through it.
Full Metal Jacket?
Good Morning Vietnam? ( barely consider this a Nam movie)
Hamburger Hill?

I think I would have to go with Platoon. I personally like We Were Soldiers better, but admit Platoon was a superior flick...

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

my vote goes to: full metal jacket

 

[BotanyBoy]

my vote goes to: full metal jacket

I haven't watched a war movie in several years....I always cry like a sobbing fuckin' titty baby.

But FMJ takes the cake over PLT. The basic training section of that film was amazing....and a truly important part of the military exp that is missing from just about every other war flick.

But we all know what #1 really is...

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

I haven't watched a war movie in several years....I always cry like a sobbing fuckin' titty baby.

But FMJ takes the cake over PLT. The basic training section of that film was amazing....and a truly important part of the military exp that is missing from just about every other war flick.

yes indeed.

 

[SeatWarmer]

Forrest Gump.

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

Forrest Gump.

lol no you didn't.

that movie was funny as shit

 

[BotanyBoy]

Forrest Gump.

You will laugh, you will cry, you will get pissed then want to hand out hugs.....one of the greatest movies of all time.

 

[SeatWarmer]

And to the point of my topic, one of the greatest movies ever to feature Viet-fucking-nam.

 

[VaticanAssassin]

I haven't watched a war movie in several years....I always cry like a sobbing fuckin' titty baby.

But FMJ takes the cake over PLT. The basic training section of that film was amazing....and a truly important part of the military exp that is missing from just about every other war flick.

But we all know what #1 really is...

Rocky movies make me cry..it is weird.
FMJ has the best BT scenses of any movie, but once they get to nam it is just blah....

 

[Sean]

Body Bags 2

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

FMJ was pretty close to my Vietnam experiences. BT reminded me of my BT cept we had old World War 2 wooden barracks.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Rocky movies make me cry..it is weird.
FMJ has the best BT scenses of any movie, but once they get to nam it is just blah....

It may have been bad for your average movie exp. but imo it seemed realistic how they portray the urban combat back in the day, an epic portrayal of what it's like to stare your enemy in the eye and pull the trigger. That never changes.....

Joker was hard fucking core man....not many film scenes get to me like that one does.

 

[Joeybagadonuts]

I think one has to have lived it to know which is the best cinematic portrayal of that reality. I fortunately did not have that experience.

 

[Ishmael]

Well I guess the title should read second best. Because everyone knows Apocalypse now was the best.

Deer Hunter get high marks but I can barley get through it.
Full Metal Jacket?
Good Morning Vietnam? ( barely consider this a Nam movie)
Hamburger Hill?

I think I would have to go with Platoon. I personally like We Were Soldiers better, but admit Platoon was a superior flick...

Platoon.

Another interesting offering was The Boys in Company C.

Ishmael

 

[rosco rathbone]

Have to go with Deer Hunter. Platoon was incredibly naff.

 

[Sean]

No-one got the Body Bags ref? Peasants.

 

[RobDownSouth]

FMJ was pretty close to my Vietnam experiences.

Vetteman got most of his good Vietnam stories from Full Metal Jacket too.

 

[slvrspks]

Go Tell The Spartans with Burt Lancaster. It's about the early years of the war when it mostly advisors.

Not your Rambo or Chuck Norris stuff.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Go Tell The Spartans with Burt Lancaster. It's about the early years of the war when it mostly advisors.

Not your Rambo or Chuck Norris stuff.

The movie sux monkey balls.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Vetteman got most of his good Vietnam stories from Full Metal Jacket too.

You know as much about fighting as you know about football and fornication.

 

[torchthebitch]

The odd angry shot.

 

[Sean]

The odd angry shot.

All Quiet on the Western Front.

 

[kbate]

All Quiet on the Western Front.

John Wayne in "The Green Berets"

 

[Sean]

John Wayne in "The Green Berets"

Quality movie. But not because the RW thinks it is.

 

[Phelia]

Saving Private Ryan