Vietnam Movies

Rating: Null/10 (30 October 2001)

I've seen Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter, Platoon, and this Stone anti-Vietnam film and well although I have yet to see the supposed best war movie ever made (Full Metal Jacket) out of those named above I think this movie most closely resembles The Deer Hunter in its nature b/c although prespectively these could all be called anti-Vietnam movies Born on the Fourth is the more obvious in its intention it has the least glory of war of these named and it shows more of the aftershock or the aftermath if you will of Vietnam not just initial reactions by first person people it shows just how far and how many the conflict effected although overall the best to me would be Apocalypse Now but this movie along with The Deer Hunter and All quiet on the Western Front needs to be shown to those with enlistment and glory running rapid in their minds to those who think what is lost and can be lost is worth it...seeing what happened to Kovic reminded me of a part of Platoon when Taylor said "Those who die.......are lucky" and that is well proved in Born on the Fourth unless you're like Ron Kovic who openly opposed the war effort and changed some people but for the majority of those who were paralyzed death would have been better compared to what they went through in contrast to other war movies like Patton and the like the opposite of them, the Vietnam movies share the similiar theme that "The first casualty of war is innocence." overall an 8/10 I didn't like all the close ups of the people the poor camera angles and the cimenatography wasn't too good but overall a homerun for Stone not a Platoon but damn well good enough.....