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I saw a video about this a couple years ago. I like Efron as an actor. He's seems to be more than just a pretty boy. And was that Bill Murray? All the new war movies seem to all be on Apple TV. This one, The Masters of the Air, Greyhound 2.

Found it.

 
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Reminds me of a chapter in the book Chickenhawk where a Huey that was loaded up full of beer got shot down while flying over a rice paddy.

I’ve always thought Chickenhawk would make an excellent film if done right. Sure there are a lot of Vietnam war films already but that story is really good.

The greatest beer run ever looks like a promising story.


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I remember someone posting a video here a year or two ago about this story and seemed a bit less dramatic.
But, it wasn't a movie being made to draw people in for money, so...

I guess it must be the one Skull Leader posted.
 
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Smokey and the Bandit have the greatest beer run ever. Period.

I have Apple TV so hopefully it’s a decent flick.


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I watched this last night and I rather enjoyed it. It seems to show fair points of view of the war from all sides (anti-war protestors, supporters of the war/soldiers, the soldiers, the war correspondents).

I didn't read the book, but there's a bit where the main protagonist is running from the CIA for impersonating a CIA operative and he finds himself in the middle of the Tet Offensive. I don't know if that was true or an embellished part of the movie made for dramatic effect.

Overall, I liked this movie and I'd watch it again. Bill Murray played a crusty old bar owner who supplied the beer and the duffel bag. It's a good movie about a guy who supports his friends and the troops but finds out for himself what was really happening to his friends and how unbelievably confusing that war was.

I didn't find this movie to be politically motivated or biased despite that war being a very political and divisive war for us at home.

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