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It had been many many years since I watched the original version. This was so awesome to me re watching it after so many years. Really kept me focused on what was going on. Totally forgot about Kilgore flying around trying to get his surfboard back from Lance.



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Having served in an air cavalry unit in Vietnam I can state unequivocally that this movie is the biggest cinematic steaming pile to ever come down the pike.


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I would contend that it wasn't really about Viet Nam, so I wouldn't expect much in the way of realism. Nam was just a substitute setting for the colonial Congo from Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
 
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Having served in an air cavalry unit in Vietnam I can state unequivocally that this movie is the biggest cinematic steaming pile to ever come down the pike.


Slightly off topic. Have you read Chickenhawk?

To this day, I still think I could half ass fly a helicopter just from the description he uses during flight school.


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Right here. GREAT book!!!



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"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
 
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