I'm watching the Helicoper attack scene now and I still say the uh-1 iroquois is just about the best looking helio of all time.

Charlie don't surf..

HUEY FTMFW

(I'm actually preferential to the Apache, but we're talking classics)

/hijack

No doubt.

Freaking awesome movie, too.

Are you watching the redux?

Yep.

"It...smells like...victory"

Never been in a Blackhawk, but the Huey is a wonderful machine.

"tail rotor hit..going down..i got this"

that scene is better than porn

....Sir.  I think one of those guys is Lance Johnson, the surfer.........
.....its an honor to meet you...............................................................



.......Lance, I'm sorry, can we have the surf board  back....its hard to get one out here.....

I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

I'm partial to the Little Bird.  I've loved these heli's since I was a kid and Magnum PI chased the bad guys in 'em.



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When I was going to college they had movie nights.  One Friday they showed Apocalypse Now.  My roommate ( 6'-4" 225 lb ) dropped 2 hits of acid before seeing that movie.  I've never done acid but I bet it was pretty trippy.

I had to kick some guys ass with words when he insisted I was ignorant, because the thing that guy killed at the end was a carabao, or something. I called it a bull...which is any male bovid (as well as many other genera of animals). So I was right and he was dumb.

French hottie, FTW.

I spent many hours in a UH-1E and wholeheartedly agree.    






 

The tide doesn't come in for six hours..... you wanna wait here for six hours?

RF

There is some weird shit in that movie. Like being in the middle of bum fuck no where (and behind enemy lines I think), and they find all these GIs having a show put on by a bunch of hot cheer leaders or whatever.



 

Never get outa the boat !!

We always rode in 53's and 46's. I got a helluva ride one time in Okinawa in a huey. Man that pilot could fly that thing. IT had the bench seats looking out the side doors, wooooo right over the tree tops! fun stuff

Use this in good health:

Fucking savages!

'Scuse me Soldier, Do you know who's in charge here?

'Yeah'   /silence/


Bad mofo with that thumpgun

It took me quite a while to realize one of the scout chopper pilots is none other
than R. Lee Ermy.

It was the voice that got me, I had my back to the TV for a coupla moments and
his voice came through loud and clear.

I thought to myself, "No freaking way," turned back to the TV, and there he was,
big as life, but a whole lot younger.

Great movie. I saw it with my Dad and my big brother when it came out in '77, when
I was eleven.

.................."Willard: Never get out of the boat. Absolutely goddamn right. Unless you were goin' all the way. Kurtz got off the boat. He split from the whole fuckin' program. "

Who else wants to split from the whole fucking program?

Great fucking movie. The redux was fucking awesome......that movie had so many great lines in it it never gets old..........

I've seen horrors... horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer.
You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that... but you have no right to judge me.
It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means.

Horror. Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror.
Horror and moral terror are your friends.
If they are not then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies.

I remember when I was with Special Forces. Seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate the children.
We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for Polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying.
He couldn't see. We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm.
There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms.

And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do.
And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget.
And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead.

And I thought: My God... the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure.
And then I realized they were stronger than we. Because they could stand that these were not monsters.
These were men... trained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love... but they had the strength... the strength... to do that.

If I had ten divisions of those men our troubles here would be over very quickly.
You have to have men who are moral... and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling... without passion... without judgment... without judgment.
Because it's judgment that defeats us.

I flew in one last year(no doors!!)
WAS FUCKING TITS

1979.

(The year I was born; easy for me to remember.

)





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D'oh!

You are absolutely correct; I mis-remembered the dates.

It was "Star Wars" that came out in '77.

I  need to watch that movie again.

I really thought the redux was...

but to each their own.

I LOVE apocalypse now. I've seen it countless times, and it'll never get old. Its a timeless movie of the ages.

One of the greatest films of all time


I think i know what movie I'm poppin' in the dvd player when I get home from the gym tonight

I still get a chill watching the bugler play  the Cavalry Charge as the helos take off.

Oh damn....I never knew that.

Ironic that at it's release, the VN vets blasted Apocalypse Now as just leftist defeatist propaganda.  At it's core, it really is that.  SOF Magazine shreded it in their movie review (e.g. "we did a lot of surfing in Nam, didn't we?).  However it's action scenes still can't be beat.