About as accurate as Hellen Keller playing billiards.
Added 7/26/2009
Mkay lets start picking apart this mess of a "straight to vhs film."
Where to start is quite difficult for me. So basically for all you cats wondering why this crap is only on vhs here is the basic reason why. I'll be so bold as to blame the director for all the bad acting. Heck I'll even blame him for the inaccurate equipment as well. I understand most people don't know right or wrong when it comes to equipment but all that crap aside I just plain out felt a little bit dumber after I suffered through this movie. I know pretty much everyone has watched a movie like that. It's kinda like when your wife makes you cuddle and watch a movie on the lifetime network on one of those special nights. It's just plain wrong feeling. I mean cmon you may as well be watching "What Women Want." At least Mel Gibson can pull off a not so horrible war movie. To be totally honest the twenty minutes of film in "Forrest Gump" are just about as accurate as you're going to get. It's just as simply put as that. Suffer through this garbage if you want because I got no sympathy for you if you do.
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Were you in Vietnam? No DVD yet?
Added 4/5/2007
Some noncomplimentary reviews have been written here by people who, from what I conclude after reading their comments, did not actually serve in Vietnam. I did serve with the USMC around the DaNang area in 1969-70. After seeing most of the Vietnam war movies, I feel that this movie is the most realistic of how it really was over there. Why is there still no DVD of this movie?
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This is how Class-B Movie should be made
Added 3/30/2007
Though there are many interesting vietnam War Movies such as Platoon, Hamburger Hill, Tour of Duty, Siege on Firebase Gloria, Last Stand in the Lang Mei, Rumors of War, Boys in Company C, We were Soldier, The Green Berets, The Odd Angry Shot, Apocalypse Now, A Bright Shining Lie and etc. I still keep watching this Platoon Leader..I really wish this movie will be available in DVD soon. For war Movie Fan this is a must see Movie for you.
This is how Class-B Movie should be made.
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Not a bad film
Added 10/21/2004
Though I wouldn't consider this to the greatest Vietnam film I've ever seen (which to me would be Platoon) I wouldn't consider it to be the worst. This film actually goes some way to realistically portray a U.S platoon, where as many films just centre on a crazy one man killing machine. The characters actually are shown to vulnerable, even the hero of the Story. The only thing that lets this film down in my eyes is the obvious shoe string budget and also a few innacuracies. The budget limitations saw them use a crude mock up of an M79 Grenade Launcher and also contrary to what someone else put a very poor helicoptor assault scene that looks like something straight out of Thunderbirds. Also the soldiers were using 30 round magazines (which only ever appeared at the end of the war and were not issued to standard US army troops) instead of 20 round ones. Its only a small point but I'd have thought thats why they employed a military advisor, to make sure things like this were correct.
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Having never been in Vietnam myself, but in the Army in the 70s, I explained offhand to a young 26 year old man how herion was a huge problem in Vietnam, how a lot of GIs came back hooked.
He understnadably could not understand how people got hooked on herion of all things in a combat zone.
I thought of the herion death scene in Platoon leader, and remebered by and large it was a terrific movie.Thats why I found it on Amazon and ordered it, mostly to show him our current troubles seem insignificant to the fatalities suffered then.
I havent seen the movie in gee, 15 years? Ive never forgotten it, tho.
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About as accurate as Hellen Keller playing billiards.
Added 7/26/2009
Mkay lets start picking apart this mess of a "straight to vhs film."
Where to start is quite difficult for me. So basically for all you cats wondering why this crap is only on vhs here is the basic reason why. I'll be so bold as to blame the director for all the bad acting. Heck I'll even blame him for the inaccurate equipment as well. I understand most people don't know right or wrong when it comes to equipment but all that crap aside I just plain out felt a little bit dumber after I suffered through this movie. I know pretty much everyone has watched a movie like that. It's kinda like when your wife makes you cuddle and watch a movie on the lifetime network on one of those special nights. It's just plain wrong feeling. I mean cmon you may as well be watching "What Women Want." At least Mel Gibson can pull off a not so horrible war movie. To be totally honest the twenty minutes of film in "Forrest Gump" are just about as accurate as you're going to get. It's just as simply put as that. Suffer through this garbage if you want because I got no sympathy for you if you do.
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Were you in Vietnam? No DVD yet?
Added 4/5/2007
Some noncomplimentary reviews have been written here by people who, from what I conclude after reading their comments, did not actually serve in Vietnam. I did serve with the USMC around the DaNang area in 1969-70. After seeing most of the Vietnam war movies, I feel that this movie is the most realistic of how it really was over there. Why is there still no DVD of this movie?
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This is how Class-B Movie should be made
Added 3/30/2007
Though there are many interesting vietnam War Movies such as Platoon, Hamburger Hill, Tour of Duty, Siege on Firebase Gloria, Last Stand in the Lang Mei, Rumors of War, Boys in Company C, We were Soldier, The Green Berets, The Odd Angry Shot, Apocalypse Now, A Bright Shining Lie and etc. I still keep watching this Platoon Leader..I really wish this movie will be available in DVD soon. For war Movie Fan this is a must see Movie for you.
This is how Class-B Movie should be made.
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