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Originally Posted by Doug E
I found the opposite. I thought it was the first blockbuster to portray the NVA in a dignified manner. Past greats show Ho Chi Minhs boys as a bunch of screaming, crazed lunatics. This was the Tora Tora Tora of Nam movies in my opinion, the first to show the Japanese/Vietnamese in a neutral light.
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I don?t know about that? Sure it?s better than Black Hawk Down where ?enemy? is portrayed as a bunch of monkeys but I wouldn?t say NVA is portrayed in a dignified manner in this movie. Of course, focus is on American soldiers but movies like that insult viewers intelligence in a way. Why would that guy charge 10 armed soldiers with a bayonet?
If you want to see a movie from the other point of view, you should see ?Valley of the Wolves: Iraq?. In this movie Americans are portrayed as cowards.
I really enjoy war movies but I wish somebody could make a great war movie and leave politics out. Actually ?Letters from Iwo Jima? comes close but I wouldn?t call it a great movie.