Movies Favourite Vietnam War Film

[GoodBadHBK]

To me Apocalypse Now is not only my favourite Vietnam War Film but also my favourite war film. I own and enjoy all 3 versions of the film (theatrical, Redux, Final Cut)

Not only is it my favourite Vietnam/war film, I also think it's a top 3 film of the 70s and top 5 all time favourite film. I also think it has one of the highest replay values.

Honorable mention: Full Metal Jacket. This is my 2nd favourite vietnam and war film.

 

[Spam On Rye]

Apocalypse Now and it's not even close as far as Nam goes. Not a lot of great war films imo but would put The Battle of Algiers, Paths Of Glory, The Ascent, and Come and See up their with Coppola's masterpiece.

 

[650lb Sumo]

Apocalypse Now is the best, because it's from the Conrad novel. However it's a debasement and distortion of the novel, which is just yuck, nul points. So, The Deer Hunter.

 

[Lycandroid]

Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
Born on the Fourth of July

 

[Captain Tenneal]

Elias noooo!

 

[Sweater of AV]

 

[TheNinja]

Full metal jacket. RIP Gunny.

 

[TheNinja]

Is apocalypse now really a Vietnam war film btw ? I mean it’s set there and stuff but I can’t really remember if it’s really about the war.

 

[Osculater]

Apocalypse Now is the best, because it's from the Conrad novel. However it's a debasement and distortion of the novel, which is just yuck, nul points. So, The Deer Hunter.

Deer Hunter is a good movie as well

 

[650lb Sumo]

Is apocalypse now really a Vietnam war film btw ? I mean it’s set there and stuff but I can’t really remember if it’s really about the war.

That's what I'm saying. They took Heart of Darkness, which is about British sailors and some other Europeans in the Belgian Congo in the late 19th century (in peacetime), and transed and shoehorned it into a Vietnam War from the US perspective film.

US Americans have a tradition of doing this kind of thing.

 

[koquerelle]

 

[Highway99]

 

[Jack Reacheround]

There was a movie that was always on network broadcast tv in the 90s. It was about some Vietnam vets who found evidence that the North Vietnamese were still holding some of their friends as POWs, so they go and save them (taking place well after the war in either the 80s or 90s).

Wtf was that movie? It does not have Chuck Norris. At least, I don’t think it does.

 

[Adamant]

Forrest Gump (why isn't it on the list?)

We Were Soldiers (from the list)

 

[Osculater]

There was a movie that was always on network broadcast tv in the 90s. It was about some Vietnam vets who found evidence that the North Vietnamese were still holding some of their friends as POWs, so they go and save them (taking place well after the war in either the 80s or 90s).

Wtf was that movie? It does not have Chuck Norris. At least, I don’t think it does.

American Ninja

 

[Jack Reacheround]

American Ninja

No. But that was always on tv on Saturday’s I’m the 90s.

I can never remember what this movie is called.

 

[Jack Reacheround]

It may have been this.

Die Rückkehr der Wildgänse (1986) ⭐ 5.0 | Action, War

1h 29m | 18

www.imdb.com

Shit, is that German? Maybe not.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Elias noooo!

lets not forget this classic....

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

I dont even consider Apocalypse Now a war movie. More of a psychological drama. Full Metal Jacket is probably the best overall Vietnam War flick while Platoon definitely embodied the horrors of Vietnam on the ground level better than either.

 

[KnightTemplar]

Full Metal Jacket.

Platoon was a very close second, and I've voted for it in any poll that didn't include FMJ.