My favourite 'Nam film is Full Metal Jacket, followed by Platoon
I frankly don't rate Apocalypse Now highly, as I found it very dull. However, it's been a long time since I watched it, so may well watch it again someday.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 9:11, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

I would agree with your order
but I really like Apocalypse Now.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 9:19, Reply)

Ditto
Full agreement with Vipros returns not a sense of nagging unease
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 9:20, Reply)

Apocalypse Now
loses it toward the end a bit.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 9:20, Reply)

yeah, it is pretty weird

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 9:21, Reply)

No it bloody doesn't
The horrors of war, the slow decent in to madness, the disconnection from the real world. It's ace.
( Peej, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 9:22, Reply)

Bit like your knob.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 9:28, Reply)

I watched the Apocalypse Now redux again the other day
It's really good. Nam films are so much better than these modern war films like Jarhead, which was, and lets be totally fair here, a load of fucking shit.
( Peej, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 9:20, Reply)

The problem with films about Afghanistan and Iraq as opposed to Vietnam
Is that by the time Apocalypse Now, and certainly Platoon, were made America had come round to the idea that the whole war was a tremendous fuck-up on their part. Films like Jarhead, Redacted, In The Valley Of Elah and their ilk have more of a muddied message because an awful lot of Americans, including the idiots holding the chquebooks at studios, still think involvement in the Middle East is a good idea.

And yes I know Jarhead is about the early 90's Gulf War but the parallels are the only reason it got made.

And yes, it was shit.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 9:25, Reply)

It's not really a war film
but Buffalo Soldiers is ace. Sergeant Bilko with smack!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 9:27, Reply)

Get out of my head!

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 9:30, Reply)

It was shit because nothing fucking happened.
I could write a fucking book about not doing anything but I doubt it would get made into a film.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 9:27, Reply)

That was my main problem with it
If they had just let him blow the guys head off it would have helped.
( Peej, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 9:30, Reply)

head off


You big bender.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 9:37, Reply)

What can I say? I love the cock.

( Peej, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 9:42, Reply)

This is an unusual beast
A strikethrough-proof post
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 9:46, Reply)

Just trying to do my part

( Peej, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 9:50, Reply)

It's not 'modern', but more modern than Nam
But I liked Buffalo Soldiers.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 9:26, Reply)

Bob Marley is shit.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 9:27, Reply)