War Movies

Man Code, What War Movie Should I See?

If you stand in want to see what the war in Vietnam meant in 1965, without the colander of the weepy little Hollywood historians like Penn, Voyage, Sheen(s), Clooney et al; This is a terrific break. The screenplay is the faithful change of the book co-authored by Moore and Joe Galloway, who was a UPI newspaperwoman on the ground at Ia Drang with 1/7 CAV. Gather, a war film by warriors who out time there with a search in their hand…

I strikingly appreciated the role of CSM Basil Plumley, played by Sam Elliott.

War Movies.
Psalm 42:6. Why art thou so bright of heaviness, O my soul : and why art thou so disquieted within me?
War stories are normally cynical. Soldiers are cynical too. Videotape-making is about art, moving picture-making about returns. Nehring offers up some reviews on crumb-known films that he in fact enjoyed. Unless you are Mel Gibson, you don’t endorse your own big budget movies. What do you after when you pay to see a ‘War Motion picture’?

I was disgusted by ‘Born on the 4th of July’. Life-force’s a bitch and her pre-nup has a lot of fine issue. The message in that obscure is the socialization of boys to develop soldiers/Marines and the effects on the men they behove. Ron Kovic has his demons like a lot of us. Of unsound mind and Psychiatry may never board up to the needs of combat veterans; why should Hollywood infer from them any better? The quarrel soldier is not an alien from beyond the Allay-A-Planet, Pluto, virtuous someone with experiences that are surface...

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