The first half of Full Metal Jacket is spot on all the way down to the little things like hygiene inspection.
The first half of Full Metal Jacket is spot on all the way down to the little things like hygiene inspection.
Yeah Marine Corps Boot camp was pretty much the same when I went through it in the 90's, and I'd be willing to bet it hasn't changed much since.
Multiple Academy Award winning From here to Eternity..
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The scene is Schofield Army Barracks in Honolulu, in the languid days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, where James Jones' acclaimed war novel From Here to Eternity brought the aspirations and frustrations of several people sharply into focus. Sergeant Milt Warden (Burt Lancaster) enters into an affair with Karen (Deborah Kerr), the wife of his commanding officer. Private Robert E. Lee "Prew" Prewitt (Montgomery Clift) is a loner who lives by his own code of ethics and communicates better with his bugle than he does with words. Prew's best friend is wisecracking Maggio (Frank Sinatra, in an Oscar-winning performance that revived his flagging career), who has been targeted for persecution by sadistic stockade sergeant Fatso Judson (Ernest Borgnine). Rounding out the principals is Alma Lorene (Donna Reed), a "hostess" at the euphemistically named whorehouse The New Congress Club. All these melodramatic joys and sufferings are swept away by the Japanese attack on the morning of December 7. No words could do justice to the film's most famous scene: the nocturnal romantic rendezvous on the beach, with Burt Lancaster's and Deborah Kerr's bodies intertwining as the waves crash over them.
<table width="600"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="90"> Starring ... </td> <td width="500"> Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed,
Frank Sinatra, Ernest Borgnine, Merle Travis, George Reeves,
Phillip Ober, and Jack Warden </td></tr></tbody></table>
wil.
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The scene is Schofield Army Barracks in Honolulu, in the languid days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, where James Jones' acclaimed war novel From Here to Eternity brought the aspirations and frustrations of several people sharply into focus. Sergeant Milt Warden (Burt Lancaster) enters into an affair with Karen (Deborah Kerr), the wife of his commanding officer. Private Robert E. Lee "Prew" Prewitt (Montgomery Clift) is a loner who lives by his own code of ethics and communicates better with his bugle than he does with words. Prew's best friend is wisecracking Maggio (Frank Sinatra, in an Oscar-winning performance that revived his flagging career), who has been targeted for persecution by sadistic stockade sergeant Fatso Judson (Ernest Borgnine). Rounding out the principals is Alma Lorene (Donna Reed), a "hostess" at the euphemistically named whorehouse The New Congress Club. All these melodramatic joys and sufferings are swept away by the Japanese attack on the morning of December 7. No words could do justice to the film's most famous scene: the nocturnal romantic rendezvous on the beach, with Burt Lancaster's and Deborah Kerr's bodies intertwining as the waves crash over them.
<table width="600"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="90"> Starring ... </td> <td width="500"> Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed,
Frank Sinatra, Ernest Borgnine, Merle Travis, George Reeves,
Phillip Ober, and Jack Warden </td></tr></tbody></table>
wil.
The Best Vietnam Movie based on a true story that took place early in the Conflict (1965).
We Were Soldiers - starring Mel Gibson.
American War Film that dramatized the Battle of la Drang the first major battle for US forces in Vietnam in Nov 1965.
In a place soon to be known as The Valley of Death, in a small clearing called landing zone X-Ray, Lt. Colonel Hal Moore and 400 young fathers, husbands, brothers, and sons, all troopers from an elite American combat division, were surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. The ensuing battle was one of the most savage in U.S. history. We Were Soldiers Once... And Young is a tribute to the nobility of those men under fire, their common acts of uncommon valor, and their loyalty to and love for one another.
You have the two emotional poles of "We Were Soldiers," the story of the first major land battle in the Vietnam War, late in 1965. Lt Col Hal Moore (Mel Gibson) is a family man, and a Harvard graduate who studies international relations. Sgt Major Plumley (Sam Elliott) is an Army lifer, hard, brave, unsentimental. They are both about as good as battle leaders get. But by the end of that first battle, they realize they may be in the wrong war.
This movie is what Vietnam really was like in the early days. Well worth watch seeing if you care about what happened in the early stages of The Vietnam Conflict or Vietnam at all.
wil..
We Were Soldiers - starring Mel Gibson.
American War Film that dramatized the Battle of la Drang the first major battle for US forces in Vietnam in Nov 1965.
In a place soon to be known as The Valley of Death, in a small clearing called landing zone X-Ray, Lt. Colonel Hal Moore and 400 young fathers, husbands, brothers, and sons, all troopers from an elite American combat division, were surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. The ensuing battle was one of the most savage in U.S. history. We Were Soldiers Once... And Young is a tribute to the nobility of those men under fire, their common acts of uncommon valor, and their loyalty to and love for one another.
You have the two emotional poles of "We Were Soldiers," the story of the first major land battle in the Vietnam War, late in 1965. Lt Col Hal Moore (Mel Gibson) is a family man, and a Harvard graduate who studies international relations. Sgt Major Plumley (Sam Elliott) is an Army lifer, hard, brave, unsentimental. They are both about as good as battle leaders get. But by the end of that first battle, they realize they may be in the wrong war.
This movie is what Vietnam really was like in the early days. Well worth watch seeing if you care about what happened in the early stages of The Vietnam Conflict or Vietnam at all.
wil..
