Second time I watched it tonight. First time was way back in 1990's. I initially thought pure fiction but actually tonight, pretty close to real story .... Ron Kovic life. Born on the Fourth of July film was better than Platoon and Full Metal Jacket (IMO)
Anyway, Cruise is fabulous ....... his greatest performance.
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Of course different plot but I liked true stories. That is why Born on the 4th is a best vs. Platoon & Full Metal.
You've never watched the bolded movie? DUDE! It's Iconic. Watch it, if you don't like that movie, I honestly don't know what to tell you.
Okay ..... I will watch Deer Hunter movie via Prime Video. Though I don't like Christopher Walken .....
Just watch it, don't assume anything.
My brother-in-law, Vietnam vet. Army I think. Wounded, metal plate replacement in his skull. Apparently no problem with his civilian adjustment.I really liked Born on the Fourth of July, because it was a true story and also reflected many of the problems of soldiers who returned; things @Pops has talked about. Also, understand my cousin who saw heavy combat, but was not wounded (but close calls) and had civilian adjustment issues .......
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....... I note you left off "The Green Berets," I saw that one, too...
We Were Soldiers is based on a book written by the (at the time) Commanding Officer of the unit whom first fought a significant battle with the North Vietnamese and an AP writer there at that battle. It was fairly decent in its treatment of reality save for the third and final day when the culmination was Hollywood fantasy.I really liked Born on the Fourth of July, because it was a true story and also reflected many of the problems of soldiers who returned; things @Pops has talked about. Also, understand my cousin who saw heavy combat, but was not wounded (but close calls) and had civilian adjustment issues.
I highlighted those that I have seen. "We Were Solders" is a true story, and from a movie perspective is close to the battle scenes of "Saving Private Ryan." I cannot remember if it was based on a book I had read, or if it was an essay.
I also saw "A Bright and Shining Lie" which apparently was a made for TV; I liked the book, interestingly, Daniel Ellsberg & David Halberstam asked that their names not be used in the movie (I wondered why their "characters" were combined and had a different name; I knew who they were from the book). Reading the book was the first time I had heard of "ArmaLite" (Ellsberg would grab an "ArmaLite" and a Jeep and drive around 1962 Vietnam),
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I note you left off "The Green Berets," I saw that one, too...
