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Posted: 5/15/2018 3:01:31 AM EDT
[#1]
Pole impound? Lmao.
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Posted: 5/15/2018 3:02:52 AM EDT
[#2]
 The Siege Of Firebase Gloria Trailer |
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Posted: 5/15/2018 3:05:15 AM EDT
[#3]
I like most of them but from your pole choice it would be Apocalypse Now.
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Posted: 5/15/2018 3:07:09 AM EDT
[#4]
I really like a lot of those equally, but voted FMJ
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Posted: 5/15/2018 3:27:16 AM EDT
[#5]
None of the above.
The best movie is La 317eme Section, written and directed by Pierre Schoendoerfer and filmed in the jungles of Indochina during the Vietnam War (sadly, in black and white). 
It has become one of my absolute favourite war movies and even movies overall. Quite excellent. Kinda dark. Writer, director, and cinematographer were combat vets and POWs. Their experience in-country influenced a lot. The director wanted to show the behaviour of jungle animals, so you hear them react (by going silent) before you see the enemy, and the troops know this and react to it. He also wanted to show how dark the jungle really gets at night, so except for the flashlights carried by the soldiers, and campfires in one scene, there is no artificial lighting in the night scenes. Before I watched it I read a review that said it strikes a good balance, neither glorifying war nor portraying it as an evil or hopeless thing (like many modern war movies do, especially in Europe), but just showing it for what it is, with the soldiers both being miserable and tired, while also doing their duty and wanting to take the fight to the enemy, showing valour, and in a way fighting for each other, and after seeing it that review proved to be spot-on. Also has decent gun play and handling for the time and is probably the oldest movie I've seen that shows how the tracer compounds from machine guns can bounce every which way after impact. The actors also were required to live in the field under field conditions untilt he filming was over, and it shows. Weather was also not allowed to impact filming, so when it starts raining in the movie, it's really raining, and it rains a lot. It's an outstanding movie and I strongly recommend it. |
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Posted: 5/15/2018 3:28:01 AM EDT
[#6]
You missed Uncommon Valor.
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Posted: 5/15/2018 3:32:50 AM EDT
[#7]
How can you have a pole and not put The Green Berets on it?
Come on man, we are talking about John Wayne, the Duke! |
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Posted: 5/15/2018 3:33:01 AM EDT
[#8]
317 seems cool. Where can I find it streaming?
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Posted: 5/15/2018 3:33:07 AM EDT
[#9]
We Were Soldiers deserves a spot.
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Posted: 5/15/2018 3:33:08 AM EDT
[#10]
What was the name of that John Wayne movie with the kid running around at the end looking in the Huey’s for his adopted friend?
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Posted: 5/15/2018 3:35:08 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
What was the name of that John Wayne movie with the kid running around at the end looking in the Huey’s for his adopted friend? 
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Posted: 5/15/2018 3:36:52 AM EDT
[#12]
Tropic Thunder
Change my mind. (I'm actually somewhat embarrassed to admit the only one on that list I've seen is Good Morning Vietnam) |
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Posted: 5/15/2018 3:38:34 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
How can you have a pole and not put The Green Berets on it? Come on man, we are talking about John Wayne, the Duke! |
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Posted: 5/15/2018 3:41:44 AM EDT
[#14]
That's a tough one.
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Posted: 5/15/2018 3:42:32 AM EDT
[#15]
 Trailer - La 317e Section - Colorized with neural network |
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Posted: 5/15/2018 3:44:34 AM EDT
[#16]
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317 seems cool. Where can I find it streaming? ETA: This is the site I got it from. Decent quality aside from the subtitle issue mentioned above. There may be somewhere better, though. http://rarefilm.net/la-317eme-section-the-317th-platoon-1965-pierre-schoendoerffer/ Also, apparently Amazon has the bootlegs with English subtitles for sale. |
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Posted: 5/15/2018 3:54:01 AM EDT
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I don't think it's available for streaming anywhere. Took me a while to find a download site. Without paying, it took 13 hours to download, plus I had to download the English subtitles separately. Both DivX files. Most of the time the Spanish subtitles seemed more true to what was being said and the English ones run away later during the film; the latter do sometimes correspond better to the French, though. Let me see if I can find where I got it. I think someone else here searched and found a better download site. There are also bootleg copies with English subtitles on DVD for the correct region (Studio Canal only releases the DVD for the French region, IIRC, and has no subtitles). ETA: This is the site I got it from. Decent quality aside from the subtitle issue mentioned above. There may be somewhere better, though. http://rarefilm.net/la-317eme-section-the-317th-platoon-1965-pierre-schoendoerffer/ Quote HistoryQuoted:
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317 seems cool. Where can I find it streaming? ETA: This is the site I got it from. Decent quality aside from the subtitle issue mentioned above. There may be somewhere better, though. http://rarefilm.net/la-317eme-section-the-317th-platoon-1965-pierre-schoendoerffer/ |
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Posted: 5/15/2018 4:00:06 AM EDT
[#18]
Boys in Company C
 The Boys in Company C  Failed To Load Title |
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Posted: 5/15/2018 4:00:48 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Just a couple of posts above yours, you can't have a pole without The Green Berets being part of it! I can’t believe it slipped my mind. I guess it is time to rewatch. Silver wings upon their chest, these are men, America’s best......... |
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Posted: 5/15/2018 4:06:01 AM EDT
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I bought 317th Platoon and then donated it to the local library.
It's that good. Best review I've seen. Directed by Pierre Schoendorfer, a Dienbienphu survivor, and photographed by Raoul Coutard, who shot "Breathless" (the real one, Godard's) and Truffaut's best films, this is in every way the best, most real and gripping filmed drama of the Indochina wars ever made. It was photographed in glorious black-and-white on location in Cambodia. If you were a combat veteran, line doggie or LRRP in Vietnam this wonderful movie will resonate with you. The little details are there, sounds, faces, jungle rivers, all of it. If you weren't there and want to know what it was like then you should purchase this film. No other film comes close to the understated realism and gritty reality of Schoendorfer's masterpiece -- and I've seen them all. This is a true masterpiece of the war film genre and the best "Vietnam movie" ever made. Trust me. https://www.amazon.com/317th-Platoon-Jacques-Perrin/dp/B075RVGLD3#customerReviews |
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Posted: 5/15/2018 4:07:40 AM EDT
[#21]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You answered your own question. 
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Posted: 5/15/2018 4:27:47 AM EDT
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Freaking kids, the world is doomed! Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: You answered your own question. Green Berets is good and all, not even close to best Nam movie though. IMO I voted Platoon out of these choices. |
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Posted: 5/15/2018 4:33:28 AM EDT
[#23]
Out of the choices I'm going with Hamburger Hill.
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Posted: 5/15/2018 4:44:08 AM EDT
[#24]
No option for Bat*21 ?
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Posted: 5/15/2018 4:53:06 AM EDT
[#25]
84C MoPic ?
Hearts and Minds ? Casualties of war ? Rescue Dawn ? 
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Posted: 5/15/2018 4:57:26 AM EDT
[#26]
My favorite is Hamburger Hill.
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Posted: 5/15/2018 6:30:41 AM EDT
[#27]
I like Forest Gump
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Posted: 5/15/2018 6:31:47 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/15/2018 6:36:16 AM EDT
[#29]
OP missed a bunch in his pole so that’s a fail.
Of the choices provided I have to go with Platoon |
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Posted: 5/15/2018 6:43:36 AM EDT
[#30]
Coming Home in a Body Bag.
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Posted: 5/15/2018 6:51:15 AM EDT
[#31]
I am going with Heat.
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Posted: 5/15/2018 6:54:52 AM EDT
[#32]
We Were Soldiers?
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Posted: 5/15/2018 7:02:28 AM EDT
[#33]
IDK about Vietnam based movies, but post Vietnam; the best of that era is without a doubt Southern Comfort.
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Posted: 5/15/2018 7:04:17 AM EDT
[#34]
FMJ is the best boot camp movie.
The worst part of the movie is when they are in Vietnam. |
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Posted: 5/15/2018 7:13:06 AM EDT
[#35]
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FMJ is the best boot camp movie. The worst part of the movie is when they are in Vietnam. I voted Platoon. My Dad was a corpsman in Nam and always said it was the most realistic. |
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Posted: 5/15/2018 7:13:16 AM EDT
[#36]
I’ve always been partial to Missing In Action...
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Posted: 5/15/2018 7:22:13 AM EDT
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
FMJ is the best boot camp movie. The worst part of the movie is when they are in Vietnam. |
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Posted: 5/15/2018 7:23:35 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
We Were Soldiers? |
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Posted: 5/15/2018 7:24:32 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
We Were Soldiers deserves a spot. |
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Posted: 5/15/2018 7:26:42 AM EDT
[#40]
There is a Aussie film Odd Angry Shot is a good watch.
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Posted: 5/15/2018 7:28:10 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
We Were Soldiers? |
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Posted: 5/15/2018 7:36:44 AM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
How can you have a pole and not put The Green Berets on it? Come on man, we are talking about John Wayne, the Duke! |
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Posted: 5/15/2018 7:43:00 AM EDT
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Don’t forget the little orphan kid, Hamhock, or Porkchop, or whatever his name is. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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How can you have a pole and not put The Green Berets on it? Come on man, we are talking about John Wayne, the Duke! |
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Posted: 5/15/2018 7:45:17 AM EDT
[#44]
Apocalypse Now (diretor's cut) had Playboy Bunny Bewbies and surfboards, so that.
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Posted: 5/15/2018 7:49:02 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
We Were Soldiers deserves a spot. |
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Posted: 5/15/2018 7:51:30 AM EDT
[#46]
Poll fail: I don't see "Operation Dumbo Drop" in there.
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Posted: 5/15/2018 7:55:08 AM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
We Were Soldiers deserves a spot. |
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Posted: 5/15/2018 7:55:23 AM EDT
[#48]
I'd have to say We Were Soldiers. It is one of the very few Vietnam War related movies out there that doesn't portray our troops as a bunch of drug addicted, baby killing psychos.
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Posted: 5/15/2018 8:22:35 AM EDT
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Flight of the Intruder.. {Come on, it has Dafoe as a crazy vet, where did we see this before... Ohh right.. Platoon..}
Rescue Dawn {Batman does Vietnam} Bat 21 { Sh**y fake movie story about a MOH action} Tragedy that they didn't make a movie about the Son Tay raid.. |
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Posted: 5/15/2018 8:32:04 AM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
We Were Soldiers deserves a spot. |
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