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Originally Posted by Stealhead
I do not know if you will like it very much it is not exactly pro military.In fact Vietnam is really just the setting of the story which is an adaption of the story "Heart of Darkness" it is really about one man hunting down another man who has gone "of the reservation". You will love the Do Lung Bridge scene Jimi Hendrix acid,heroin and an M-79 are deadly to the NVA. Judging from your posts you might take offense to some things that it shows though honestly most of the things it shows did happen in Vietnam sometimes not to say that every troop did them.
Of course all that being said you most likely enjoy "Full Metal Jacket" and that film has an anti war message you missed it I bet.So I'll explain;Joker always said that he was a killer
and maybe he did kill some of the enemy from a distance but in combat with everyone firing you usually have no idea that you killed someone for certain you know as a group that you did but not on the individual level. At the end when he could have executed the female sniper that had killed his very good friend Cowboy he was unable to do so even though this person had taken a personal friend of his.
He was not able to be the idealized killing machine.
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I really liked Full Metal Jacket and Platoon. I don't care what you say...Charlie Sheen was a pretty darn good actor back in the day. They had antiwar messages. It is true that I'm pro-military but it doesn't mean that these movies have a good message and there are some that I really like.
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Apocalypse Now is a very good movie the best out of the last half of the 20th century.The music and sound are amazing.
If you watch it go ahead and watch "Redux" it has nearly an hour of scenes that where fully finished but cut from the original release.
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I'm sure my uncle has a copy on DVD somewhere. I could probably get him to send me a copy. He's a big war movie guy and has tons of them.