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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January 23, 2022, 08:31 AM
xaircav
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.
I have flown among the trees and looked into the face of the enemy.
January 23, 2022, 10:29 AM
kidcop
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.
January 23, 2022, 10:45 AM
Ronin1069
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Originally posted by xaircav: 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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January 24, 2022, 07:00 AM
erj_pilot
^^^^^^^ Right here. GREAT book!!!
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "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