European Dislike

Rating: Null/10 (29 April 2002)

I seem to notice that MOST of the bad comments made about this movie are from "Foreigners" who have no idea WHY this movie was made. WHY:The book was written in 1993 by Lt Gen. Hal Moore & Joe Galloway. to describe the events on what happened in forgotten battlefield in Vietnam, which lasted three days. It book tells about the men of the 1st air cavalry and their first encounter with the North Vietnamese Army both historicaly and personally. It had nothing to do with "whys" and the "hows" of why the Vietnam war started just the men of of both sides of that particular battle and the effects of what happened on the home front. The movie just depicts what was written. To the Europeans who think this nothing but flag waving; "Rourke's Drift","Battle of Dunkirk","Battle of Britain","Waterloo","Bridge on the river Kwai","Sergent X","A bridge too far","Tumbledown moutain" and more recently "Braveheart","Horatio Horn Blower"(this I know is largely fictitious but does refer to many actual battles between England,France & Spain) and "Bravo Two Zero" and many more to mention. All these depicts battles involving countries other than the "AMERICANS". All these started out as either footnotes in history, which would have been forgotten, or somebody decided to write a book about it. When someone read the book,or the history note he/she/they decided to make a movie of it. When someone in your country decides to make a war movie. let me know so I can comment on it. And I will be fair. If it was from a book of an actual battle then I'll take that into consideration. FACT: WAR movies involve death ,dying, decapitation,dismemberment,dispair,killing,rape,murder and all the other "CLICHES" you all hate (that actual goes on in a war,see "SAVIOR" with Dennis Quad or "Nanking"). If you hate war movies and you know its a war movie then DON'T SEE IT! that goes for everybody who thought this movie sucked!