To low a score
This was one of the finest Vietnam war films on a particular campaign I've ever seen. Should be rated much higher IMO
THERES NO ROOM IN MY CIRCUS TENT FOR YOU !!!!!
Way too high, considering the Historical inaccuracies and the ridiculously stupid hilariously unbelievable ending. A mass bayonet charge in Vietnam, LMFAOROTF!
shareMoore wrote the book; OMG, Imdb posters get stupider by the day. It actually happened that way. Sure a few things changed, but not the battle..ROLLS EYES.
"Guys like you don't die on toilets." Mel Gibson-Riggs, Lethal Weapon
Only a complete Idiot would ever believe any Bayonet charge like that ever happened. Period. There is no silly *** bayonet charge like that in the book. The book is vastly different than the film.
But I agree. Posters certainly DO get more stupid (Stupider is not a real word, by the way) every day.
Only a complete Idiot would ever believe any Bayonet charge like that ever happened. Period. There is no silly *** bayonet charge like that in the book. The book is vastly different than the film.
Moore wrote about this charge in the original book, in Chapter 16 "Policing the Battlefield" (Pages 251-252 in the movie tie-in edition). This is part of that passage:
The aerial attack began. [Forward Air Controller 1st Lt Charlie] Hastings had also called in a flight of jet fighter-bombers. Within minutes the brush out beyond [Captain Myron] Diduryk's lines was heaving and jumping to the explosions of rockets, 250- and 500-pound bombs, napalm, 20mm cannon shells, cluster bombs, and white phosphorus....
After several minutes of this I told Charlie Hastings: One more five-hundred pounder very, very close to kill any PAVN out there, then call them off." I told Diduryk to order his men to fix bayonets and move out. Within ten seconds we jumped off into the black smoke of that last five-hundred-pound bomb.... [Boldface added]
[2nd Lt Rick] Rescorla and his men had been watching the air show appreciatively. "We gathered for the last sweep. Suddenly a fighter-bomber plowed down from above.... The bomb landed thirty yards from our holes. We came up cursing in the dust and debris. The call came to move out. Every available trooper, including Colonel Moore, pushed the perimeter out."
This time it was no contest at all. We killed twenty-seven more enemy and crushed all resistance. I looked over a field littered with enemy dead, sprawled by ones and twos and heaps across a torn and gouged land. Blood, body fragments, torn uniforms, shattered weapons littered the landscape. It was a sobering sight. Those men, our enemies, had mothers, too. But we had done what we had to do.
Except that it was fixed-wing jets rather than the 7th Cav's own Hueys providing the air support, that pretty much matches your "hilariously stupid and unbelievable" scene in the movie. share
IN defense of the other poster, that action sounded like they were pushing out the perimeter rather than overrunning the NVA Regiment's HQ position.
Why can't you wretched prey creatures understand that the Universe doesn't owe you anything!?
You're grossly inaccurate. This is one of the most truthful and honest depictions of the war to date. Perhaps you need to get off of Wikipedia and read a real book.
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