Favorite Vietnam Movie/s?

[Marv]

Mine are:

1.Full Metal Jacket
2.Platoon
3.Apocalypse Now
4.Casualtys of War
5.Hunter



Marv:D

[lycanthrope on the loose]

1.Jett Jackson the movie (sky premier fav)
2.Babys Day Out
3.Ator: The ???????? Eagle
4. Problem child 3
5. Muppets from Space

[den]

Moving to DVD and Movie Discussion Forum :)

[cervaro]

1. The Deer Hunter
2. Apocalypse Now Redux
3. Platoon
4. Born on the Fourth of July

[Just Call Me Wanda]

1) Apocalypse Now
2) Deer Hunter
3) Full Metal Jacket
4) Platoon
5) Casualties of War
6) Born On The Fourth Of July
7) Good Morning Vietnam
8) Hamburger Hill

[Goblin]

Full Metal Jacket
Southern Comfort
Platoon
Tigerland
Deer Hunter

[Sputnik]

1) Apocalypse Now Redux
2) Apocalypse Now
(yes there are enough differences for it to be a separate film :p )
3) Platoon
4) Bullet In The Head
5) The Deer Hunter
6) Full Metal Jacket

Apocalypse Now wouldn't even be on that list if I'd not watched it again after being annoyed with myself that I didn't like it the first two times :D Fantastic film, and made very different (and slightly better) by the Redux version. I prefer the British end credit sequence though :)

Platoon is a favourite because of the last 20 minutes and a few key scenes, I didn't much like most of the film but a few elements are brilliant.

Bullet In The Head isn't really a Vietnam War film I know, but it's one of John Woo's bestestest in terms of gunplay and some powerful scenes/shots.

The Deer Hunter's just excellent innit :p

Full Metal Jacket is my least favourite Kubrick film and one that I don't feel fully comfortable watching for some reason... it just seems a little staccato. Still an excellent war film though - and as Kubrick said, it's a war film not an anti-war film, which makes a nice change.

Rambo II respectfully declines from a position in my top six :D And The Killing Fields isn't a Vietnam War film so I can't say that :(

[Mike]

1. Casualties Of War
2. Taxi Driver
3. Ulzana's Raid
4. Who'll Stop The Rain ?
5. Go Tell The Spartans
6. Apocalypse Now
7. Coming Home
8. The Deer Hunter
9. Dead Presidents
10. The Green Berets (a terrible film but a fascinating one since it suggests how Hollywood might have handled the war had it been rather more popular in the USA)

I think "Casualties Of War" is a marvellous evocation of the madness of the war which is extraordinarily moving.

"Taxi Driver", "Coming Home" "Dead Presidents" and "Who'll Stop The Rain" all deal with the aftermath of the war in a variety of effective ways.

"The Deer Hunter" is an extraordinary achievement which hovers on the edge of being totally phoney but just about falls on the right side.

"Go Tell The Spartans" is a vastly underrated Burt Lancaster film about the early days of the war. "Ulzana's Raid" is the finest allegorical study of the war and also a superb western in its own right.

"Apocalypse Now" is a failure in all sorts of ways but still one of the most unique films ever made about Vietnam and thus worthy of inclusion.

[stantheman]

Back in the days of vhs rental, I saw at least twice a low low budget film called How Sleep the Brave.
These were the days you could pick up Driller Killer, I spit, Burning,etc etc. So am going back a while. Thing is can't remember if it was any good or not. Vietnam though.
Has anyone else seen this film?

Back to the point, it's got to be Apocalypse Now for me.
Redux stinks however. A complete rip off.

[Rohail]

Apocalypse Now Redux
Full Metal Jacket

[Derek Van Drucker]

Platoon and Three Kings are my favorite vietnam film

[Clipper-]

I have only one Vietnam film in my collection...

Full Metal Jacket

I usually dislike war films especially Vietnam movies so it is amazing that there is even one film that I like in that genre

[8-]]

In no particular order:

Apocalypse Now
Deer Hunter
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
Casualties of War
Born On The Fourth Of July
Good Morning Vietnam
First Blood


Special mention - although it doesn't make the list:

Rambo: First Blood part II


I wish I'd never ever seen this:

Braddock: Missing In Action III :)

[Marv]

Originally posted by lycanthrope on the loose
1.Jett Jackson the movie (sky premier fav)
2.Babys Day Out
3.Ator: The ???????? Eagle
4. Problem child 3
5. Muppets from Space
Are never remmember them being Nam movies.Unless your being Sarcastic.

[Yonathan Gal]

1. Apocalypse Now
2. Platoon
3. Full Metal Jacket

[8-]]

A special mention also goes to the episodes of South park when Cartman has Vietnam flashbacks:

"Roger wilco Danforth"


"Me love you long time"


etc....

[IanMasc]

Full metal Jacket is my fav I also really like Jacob's Ladder albeit strictly not a real 'Nam movie.

[AndyWilson]

Just wandering if anyone knows of any Vietnam movies told from the Vietcong POV?

Most of the movies mentioned go out of their way to criticise American policy whilst at the same time glorifying the Heroism and depicting the suffering of the Americans involved, both before and after the conflict. Just be nice to see a different viewpoint, even if it is propoganda - there must have been a Vietcong John Wayne making movies somewhere????

[Clipper-]

Originally posted by AndyWilson
Most of the movies mentioned go out of their way to criticise American policy whilst at the same time glorifying the Heroism and depicting the suffering of the Americans involved, both before and after the conflict.

And that is precisely why I only like Full Metal Jacket :) It mostly avoids these pitfalls...

However I agree that seeing a movie from the VC POV would be interesting.... Far more interesting than yet more self indulgent navel gazing and hand wringing from Oliver Stone.

[chosen man]

Go tell the spartans
The Odd angry Shot
Platoon
Eastern Condors
and Vietnam (I know it's a mini series-but hey watcha gonna do....send me to 'nam):clap:

[urruri]

1 Deer Hunter
2 Apocalypse Now
3 Platoon

[Toothy]

There is only one `nam movie.....Full Metal Jacket.

[charlie angel]

1) Platoon
2) Casulaties Of War
3) Full Metal Jacket
4) Apocalypse Now
5) Deer Hunter

Although those aren't in order.

[CraigKORE]

WOW!!!

Nobody mentioned The Boys In Company C :eek:

Brilliant film that deserves a DVD release! Apart from that, I would have to say Platoon, Casualties Of War, and finally Full Metal Jacket.

[CraigKORE]

Originally posted by stantheman
Back in the days of vhs rental, I saw at least twice a low low budget film called How Sleep the Brave.
Has anyone else seen this film?


I remember that! Still waiting on it getting a DVD release. But the main reason I rented it when I was a lad, was because it had a warning on the front cover about the amount of swearing! :)

Like you, I cant exactly remember to much about it though, but you can see what a few people thought at the IMDB, here (http://us.imdb.com/CommentsShow?82532) is the direct link.

The film did come out again on VHS, released as "Combat Zone", but its now OOP. I was bidding on a copy on eBay a few weeks back, but lost. :(

Gonna keep my eyes out for it though, and you never know, worse films have came out on DVD. ;)

[wong fei hong]

A Bullet in the Head is my favourite. Though it's not warfare/combat orientated, it's as much a treatise on the effects of war on innocence as any other I can think of - I'm really looking forward to Woo's Windtalkers because of this film. I've seen it criticised as simplistic (compared to The Deer Hunter, which it does resemble yet outclasses in every department) but it packs an emotional gut-punch which, for me, is unforgettable. On the big screen it is simply devastating.

Taxi Driver gets a vote for the same reasons. By honing attention away from the technicalities of warfare and onto the psyche, the aftermath, we the real battle - over man's mind, sanity, and in Taxi Driver, his soul.

I like Casualties of War and Platoon because they don't shy away from the same truths, but ultimately they don't match up to the aforementioned. As far as film experiences go, Sammo Hung's Eastern Condors is much better than either - dafter, certainly, but tons more fun and much more inventive.

I never liked Full Metal Jacket that much, and Apocalypse Now kind of nullifies itself by being so crazy and wrought that it's more interesting than the actual war. Hearts of Darkness, the documentary, is a much better watch. Haven't seen Redux though...

[loz99]

Here goes:-
Platoon - Just Fantastic a Jem!! - A Vietnam Masterpiece!!
Born on the Fourth of July - The Ronnie Kovic Story!!
Heaven and Earth - This is a beautifully Crafted Nam Movie

The Above 3 are Oliver Stone`s Vietnam Trilogy
in my opinion the best nam movies ever.

Heavy Metal Jacket is enjoyable but Shallow,it was made in
London`s Docklands!! It has a false feel to It.

Apocalypse Now is Spendid in it`s scale but gradually
slips into surreal mode like a fantasy movie!

The Deer Hunter shows the devastating effect that a war
of this nature can have on people not directly invoved
in the war e.g. relatives mates etc. Superb Movie!!

Casualties of War has a great moral message with great
acting by Michael J.Fox and Sean Penn.


Just a few thoughts
loz99@ntlworld.com

[cm-9]

1. Full Metal Jacket
2. Heaven & Earth
3. Apocalypse Now (Redux)

Anti-vote for Tigerland, particularly as it's not really about the Vietnam war it's just about boot camp, and FMJ did it better.

I'd give a strong recommendation to Spy Game which includes about 15 minutes of Vietnam sequences which are very powerfully shot; and it's a fine film, underrated I would say.

It's also worth watching Nixon for some of the political background; it attempts to provide an answer to the question "Why?" that is raised by most of the actual 'Nam films. It also includes genuine archive footage of some bombs being dropped on the jungle, and if you compare the explosion speed and devastation of real military explosives with the Hollywood version is positively scary.

I just found Casualties of War on R1 DVD, but haven't watched it yet. Does anybody know if Go tell the Spartans is available on DVD anywhere?

[zoothorn]

like the man said
the boys from company c classic film if you was around in the 80s
Apocalypse Now (Redux)
the deer hunter
the killing fields
and the documentry about the co chi tunnels that was good

[Listy]

the killing fields

Ummm that's not a film about Vietnam mate, it's about Cambodia's (or more precisely Pol Pot's) Killing Fields.

Anyways my favourite Vietnam movies are (in no order):

Platoon
Casualties of War
Full Metal Jacket
The Deer Hunter

[Psycho]

Originally posted by Derek Van Drucker
Platoon and Three Kings are my favorite vietnam film

If you mean 'Three Kings' with George Clooney, that's not a Vietnam War film, that's a Gulf War film.

My choice has to be Forest Gump! Just because it hasn't been named yet! :)

Psycho :nuts:

[RichDB10]

Originally posted by Psycho
My choice has to be Forest Gump! Just because it hasn't been named yet! :)

Psycho :nuts:

Working on the same principle......Jacob's Ladder.

[Listy]

Working on the same principle......Jacob's Ladder

Fraid IanMasc has already narrowly beaten you to it by nearly two years (he posted it on page 1 on 24-02-2002) :D

[RichDB10]

Oh yes!!....only just then..:D

[fama]

CYCLO
A LA VERTICALE DE L'ETE
SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA

[6_miles_loose]

Platoon
Apocalypse Now
The Deer Hunter

[Roberto]

The only 'nam movie i liked was 'Good Morning Vitnam'

Robin Williams’s observations on the ridiculousness of the war win it for me.

[bronso]

Errrmm... Meet the Feebles?

[cm-9]

Casualties of War is on TV on Thursday this week.