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"The kids can't be VC." Mary, sometimes you are too innocent for your own good.

Mary won't remember, but Frank Drebin and Jane came out of Platoon laughing their heads off on their first date in The Naked Gun. Gotta love a Vietnam comedy

One day my parents were out driving in the Ozarks of Missouri. All of a sudden dad slammed on the brakes and said No Fkn way! Backed up to the mailbox he’d just passed. Jumped out and ran to the door to knock. When an old man opened the door dad leapt forward and bear hugged him. It was his best friend from Vietnam.

I remember once in the barracks I had to wake up the next person to take my shift. I was a "fish" and he was an oldie, I woke him up, said get up, he said "I'm up, shut up." I left him the keys to the arms locker and the roster for that night. He fell asleep and then an hour or so later I get woken up yelled at by our officer in charge. I was yelled at for falling asleep on "my shift" cause the oldie didn't sign in and fell asleep and said I didn't wake him. We spent then next hour looking for the keys and the roster which the Officer hid to teach us a lesson. He eventually confessed and told me "Next time, you get him to sign in." It was from that moment on I never trusted anyone again.

The reason it's the toughest is because it's real. Oliver Stone was in the same class at Yale as future US President George Bush Jr. Stone was all poised to become one of the elites of American life, and he gave all that up to serve in Vietnam. Like the main character Stone dropped out of college, joined up, requested-infantry, combat, Vietnam. This movie is in part based on his personal experiences.

My dad was in Vietnam and he said this is the most realistic Vietnam War movie he saw according to his tours. He only watched it once because he said it reminded him so much of his time in country

The scene in the beginning when Willem Defoe is drying and powdering his testicles, is because in jungle conditions it is absolutely necessary to keep your crotch dry or you will develop “crotch rot” which can lead to fungus growth, bacterial infection, Urinary tract infection.

The Vietnam draft did work that for "rich" and "poor". Since there was such a large field of baby boomers to draft from there was a college deferment that would delay eligibility for the draft if they were in college and making good grades. This lasted until graduation or the age of 24. Of course that meant that the draft pool was heavily skewed toward poorer people.

The reason for Barnes leaving Elias's "dead" body behind was that a cursory inspection of the bullet wounds would reveal that they were made by the smaller M-16 rounds and not the larger AK-47 bullets.

People overlook Tom Berenger's performance in this movie. He plays one of the great villians in a war movie. The actor who plays Francis who stabbed myself in the leg at the end is Corey Glover. He is the lead singer of Living Colour, a terrific band from the 80s and 90s.

Re. The village raid. Unofficially, they were called Zippo Raids, as the GIs would use their lighters to start the fires (as is shown in the movie). A big US policy in the war was concentrating the southern Vietnamese into larger settlements, forcibly resettling them. This was done because the smaller villages were easy targets for the VC to use as bases, recruit from, or force into helping them. Usually the villages would be destroyed to stop them being used as VC bases after the villagers had left. It was a practical solution to a big problem, but it didn’t exactly do much to win the hearts and minds of the people. You can imagine how being forced from your home would push so many southern Vietnamese into the arms of the VC.

Charlie Sheen was also with Tom Berenger (sgt Barnes) 3 years later in the baseball movie "Major League" (1989)

My old friend who served in Vietnam (1965-1967) said this movie was the most relatable and captures the vibe and essence of his experience

This is why the Vietnam conflict was so unpopular with the college students. There was no clear enemy. Great reaction!

The documentary Platoon: Brothers in Arms is amazing. In it the actors stated that there were scenes when they looked at Stone and his eyes were glazed. He was not there with them anymore... he was back in 'NAM. The platoon of actors were dressed and in character out in the jungles of Indonesia with proper army guys for two solid weeks before they descended and filmed their first scene. They really worked like a combat unit. The US military fund and assist in the making of war movies as long as the film hits certain "quality" controls regarding how the military is portrayed (look at Top Gun which is basically a recruitment video). This movie failed all of these controls and was refused assistance so was independently financed. Veterans have stated that this is the most realistic version of a combat platoon ever shown on film.

There’s an Australian movie about their involvement in the Vietnam war called “The Odd Angry Shot” from 1979 which is a pretty good watch

Another gripping and realistic Vietnam war movie is Casualties of War (1989), starring Michael J. Fox and Sean Penn. Dale Dye (the Captain in Platoon and a former Marine officer in Vietnam), also has a role in Casualties of War.

This movie earned Willem Dafoe his first ever Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He has 4 Oscar nominations in total so far: 3 for Best Supporting Actor (PLATOON (1986), SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE (2000) and THE FLORIDA PROJECT (2017)) and one for Best Actor (AT ETERNITY'S GATE (2018)). His Best Actor nomination came for playing Vincent Van Gogh.

Ben Stiller 'death' at the begining of Thropic Thunder is a mockery of Williams Defoe, guy gets fragged 100 times

8:28 "The shots are different colours..." Tracer rounds are loaded into magazines for directing fire at night, one for every other four rounds of regular ammunition. When fired they give off a bright light. US and NATO forces use red tracers while most non-NATO forces use green tracer rounds.

Oliver Stone’s 15 month Vietnam War experience was the basis of the script, though w/just enough Hollywood (Stone was already established in “tinsel town” having an Oscar from several years prior). The main actors went through military style training by another veteran, Dale Dye, then kept tired to mimic the stress of war. Both Dye and Stone have a role and a cameo, respectively, as officers in the film. Dye is the company commander calling in the airstrike and Stone the ops officer who gets blown up in the bunker. Where this gets viewers is feeling the jungle despite being in an air conditioned theater, as much as the story. Then there’s the moral and emotional side where the village gets razed after finding Manny. So there’s revenge but also finding weapons/extra rice. There’s actually a book version that gives more background (the characters, the village scenes, the final fight as “bait” for the gets to come in .. then that plan goes a little awry). Think there was also an advantage of having worked another jungle war film ed: “Salvador” before and avoiding “Apocalypse Now” production foul ups again the Philippines.

Now you’re now why Frank and Jane were laughing while leaving the cinema after watching Platoon in Naked Gun. 💅

21:12 “actually you know what….the leaves on the helmet is not a bad idea…..”. 😂😂😂 That’s camouflage 101 Mary.

A lot of Platoon was based on Oliver Stone's own experiences in Vietnam. Stone like Chris dropped out of college, volunteered for the infantry. Largely because his parents were going through a divorce. He wrote to his grandmother, like Chris did. He started smoking pot, just like Chris did (in fact when he got back from Vietnam, he actually got arrested for trying to smuggle marijuana back to the States across the Mexican border). The characters of Elias and Barnes were based on two sergeants he served under in different units. Both of whom had different personalties and styles of leadership. Stone more or less came up with the idea for Platoon, by asking the question. What would happen if those two sergeants were in the same platoon? The answer he came to was "They'd kill each other."

I remember seeing it in the movies all those years ago. I can still recall some Vietnam vets had to leave the theater. Thank you for your reaction Ms. Cherry.

Another great reaction Mary. This is my favorite war movie, it’s a bit difficult at times. I’m a Marine but I love this one more than F. M.J. Seen it a hundred times. 😳👏👏😊🥰

One of the most memorable soundtracks ever!

Another good movie for this era of history is "We Were Soldiers". Based on a true battle, and Col. Hal Moore helped with production. Amazing film.

Another amazing reaction Mary ❤❤😁😁.

Amazing movie love the video Mary stay motivated dream big 1 mill on the way

Great reaction. Fact about this movie, Oliver Stone is a Vietnam veteran and he based this movie on his own personal experiences in Vietnam. He purposely casted a very young cast because the average age of soldiers in Vietnam were between 18 to 25

I recommend watching Black hawk Down and Band of brothers. Being in the military for over a decade. Most military movies nowadays I get turned off. But those two I still watch here and there.

Thanks!

Casualties of War is another laugh a minute film if you are interested. That and Platoon are the hardest to watch Vietnam films for me. After watching this you can now appreciate the visual joke in Naked Gun, where they come out of the cinema after watching Platoon laughing carefree like they had just seen a comedy.

Coming from someone who served in the military, you cannot possibly judge those in that position as a civilian.

SSG Barnes was an effective NCO. A lot of men survived because he did his job.

There are four major Vietnam war movies: Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter, Platoon and Full Metal Jacket. Of these four movies my two favorites are Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter. Coppola's movie is a nightmarish surreal take on the Vietnam war, exploring the darkness inside the human being and the nonsense of war, The Deer Hunter has the most interesting narrative arch of the four movies, because it deals with the full war experience, trying to avoid spoilers here, and it's just breathtaking, Michael Cimino's ambition realizing his vision was off the scale. Platoon and Full Metal Jacket, as good as they are, and they are, are not at the same level as the other two, they're all masterpieces on their own right but not quite at the same level. Then again, it's a matter of taste and no taste's better or worse than any other. Anyway, Platoon fully deserved the Oscar for best movie that year, I was blown away when I first watched it on the big screen the year it was released, and I watched it in a big old school theater, not a tiny matchbox in a multiplex, it was quite an experience, it remains to this day one of my favorite movies. Platoon is part of an informal trilogy that includes Born on the Fourth of July and Heaven and Earth. The first deals with the aftermath of the war back in the States, brilliant performance by Tom Cruise, and the second is a view of the war from the Vietnamese side. Both are amazing movies but Heaven and Earth, an undeservedly forgotten movie, holds a special place in my heart because of one scene, although it's overall an amazing movie, that completely changed my outlook on life and it kind of change me as a person, it crystallized a life lesson for me, something I already knew but watching it through the eyes of the main character made all the difference between knowing about it on an intellectual level and actually feeling it, it's the movie magic, I remember that scene every time I walk into a supermarket. Unlike Platoon that is inspired by Stone’s experiences in Vietnam but not on a true story, both movies are actually based on true stories. Quite a trilogy, one of the best ever, a testimony to Oliver Stone’s talent. P.S. Platoon's the first time I listened to Tracks of Tears, one of my favorite songs. Smokey Robinson's voice was so beautiful and touching.

U Turn was a great Oliver Stone movie also. Thanks for reacting to this.

Fun movie fact- Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber, the main soundtrack theme, was placed into the film at the last moment by Oliver Stone. A French composer had completed an original score for Platoon but Stone fell in love with Barber's classic 1936 piece when it was applied as a temp track during early editing. The French composer did not learn his score had been dropped until attending the movie premiere, with his family alongside him, and the film began. Ouch.

I think it’s really cool that Charlie Sheen and Martin Sheen (son and father) were both leads in two of the most iconic Vietnam War movies

Edit: The Captain in the movie is Captain Dale Dye, the military advisor who assisted Stone while making this film. He's a Vietnam veteran too. In the Behind the Scenes section, Stone said that during the village scene, both he and Dye walked off the set when it became too much for them both. Stone did two tours in Vietnam. His first was in a regular infantry squad, the second tour he did in a Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP). In a LRRP, the men worked in small commando teams, there's a movie about that LRRP, called 'Charlie Mopic.' Edit: the look in O'Neill's eyes after hearing he's got second platoon is that of disbelief, in my opinion. He just can't believe Barnes is gone. The man standing with his pants hanging down his butt, according to the script that's Elias, applying some anti-crotch rot ointment to his family jewels.

Hey World Traveler! Great reaction. This one was at a peak of a wave of war films which also included Born on the Fourth of July, FMJ, Good Morning Vietnam, Hamburger Hill, and a CBS TV show called Tour of Duty which was very good and set during the Vietnam War. There was also a TV series set in Vietnam during the war, called China Beach focusing on the staff of an evacuation hospital.

Hamburger Hill is your next Vietnam war movie.

Nice reaction Mary, one of my favorite Vietnam movies. 🥰❤️‍🔥

''Hamburger Hill'' (which is based on a true story) is an underrated 'Nam movie. I can see why some don't rate it, but it's worth a watch if you're ever in the mood for another one. I've always thought it's good.

You said in the first of your reaction that Taylor was not meant for war. Remember Rah says that "only Barnes can kill Barnes". By the end of the movie he has changed so much becomes Barnes. He sold his soul when he killed him.

So the way to get out of the draft in that era was being enrolled in college, which left some of the poorer young men out. Not everyone went to college back then (less than today), until the GI bill came to be and veterans could get funding for college.

Great soundtrack especially the strings during Elias death scene. Great reaction. Thanks Mary Cherry 🍒

This is a much better film than "Full Metal Jacket" IMO. A friend of the family was with the 7th Special Forces had a lot of problems watching saying it was a bit too real for him. In the theater, a few men had to go to the lobby during certain scenes. The musical score with "Adagio for Strings" was just brilliant, and the soundtrack with the music from the era is also great. The Captain was Dale Dye, a Viet Nam vet that was in several war movies and was also an advisor on many of them.

Your copy of the movie is so clear and green. I love it.

Hard to believe that Platoon seems to be overlooked when talking about great war movies, considering it won the Oscar for best picture. For me it's still one of the top 2 or 3 war movies all time and there is a lot of great ones.

Another Vietnam Movie about an American military radio station is "Good Morning, Vietnam!" starring Robin Williams. Both drama and comedy.

Great reaction Mary awsome movie

This film might be on my top 10 of all time. It’s hard to watch, though. The music is doing so much. It’s Adagio for Strings, by Samuel Barber.

Hello! Since your going to Vietnam, check out, Ba Na Hills. It was built in the 50s as a resort for the elite in Saigon. A tram goes to the 15,000 ft top of the mountain. Continue construction makes this place like a Disneyland! Fun fact, keep your eyes out looking for Dale Dye. He is the technical adviser for a lot of war movies, plus he sometimes appears on film like he did in this film. He has a crisp speaking.voice so is usually used on the voice on the radio. He also trains the actors how to be soldiers. He appeared in, Saving Private Ryan, Starship Troopers, The Last Of The Mohicans, among many, many others. If you didn't know already, Full Metal jacket was filmed entirely in London England! Palm trees were imported from Spain! The ruins were an old gas factory! Backgrounds were covered up by stacking shipping containers! The magic of moviemaking!

Tom Berenger and Charlie Sheen reunite in the sports comedy Major League - great film, too!

The analysis is on point again, "the duality of man" is a good way to describe the theme of this film. It's probably the most naturalistic war movie of that era and the focus on the regular soldier's perspective is very grounded and believable. I don't think Oliver Stone necessarily had a Barnes or Elias in his own Platoon but the realism here is surely based on lived experience. The film is almost like a gripping drama and a documentary at the same time, which is rare.

Now, watch Charlie Sheen again in Red Dawn with Patrick Swayze. It's totally worth it 👌.

the music is "Adagio for Strings" composed in 1936 by Samuel Barber (1910-1981)

Dayle Dye, who plays the Commander, is also a Marine Vietnam Vet too.

For Americans of my age 70s -80 the Vietnam War Dominated Our Lives. Politically, Musicly, and Socially. It divided the Country like no other time, except for the American Civil War years, 150 years earlier. We had A Military Draft, there was a Great Chance you were going to get drafted when you turned 18 and sent to Vietnam to fight this Worthless War...This movie comes close to showing my experiences in Vietnam, all these things in this movie really happened, probably not to the same platoon, but they happened during the course of the war, JMW 1st Cav Division Vietnam 1970-71

Hi Mary hope you are having an great and awesome day ❤

You sort of caught it but in the movie you hear "Good morning Vietnam" on the radio. That's another great movie and it stars Robin Williams and Forest Whittaker. I was in highschool and I saw this movie in theatre with my girlfriend. Afterwards, neither of us said anything We just went back to my place and cuddled on the couch. It was a really sobering thought that it was people our age that were drafted, sent to fight and had to experience those things. I already knew that but this movie specifically drove the point home.

this is the one movie that I will never forget seeing in the theatre... Remember, this was ONLY 1986 or 11 years after the war ended... that would be like 2012 in relation to 911. I was only 18 and was really affected by the people openly weeping.... and when the movie ended, you could hear a pin drop... everyone just got up and went to the exit without saying a word, most were crying.... I finally brought myself to watching it again as I thought this was a must watch for my kids as we can not forget the sacrifice.. vowed I would never watch it again... so here goes.... with that said, the cast was amazing in this... There is a reason it had something like 40 nominations with 24 wins across the board including 8 Academy and Golden GLobe awards...Yeah, the village seen was hard... what was harder in real life is a lot of those people were killing American Soldiers and the VC often used villages as bases...(hence why enough rice to feed an army) of course that doesn't excuse anything shown... but that was a real challenge...and sorry 17:45 kids killed 1000's of american soldiers... and you have Seen Tom Berenger and Charlie Sheen before in a movie... Major League... :) what a contrast....

Another must-see Vietnam movie is "Casualties of War". If you were surprised to see Johnny Depp in this movie, you will be shocked to see Michael J. Fox in a movie based on a real case of war crimes in Vietnam. It's also surprising that this intense war drama was filmed in 1988 in between making some of the best comedies of all time ("Back to the Future", 1985 and "Back to the Future" 2 & 3, 1989). I bring that up because Michael J. Fox doesn't get nearly enough credit for his incredible acting range.

29:54 - 29:59 Explosion sound effect is giving me Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet vibes.

One war film I never see people react to is Casualties of War staring Sean Penn and Michael J Fox. Brilliant performances, especially by Sean. It’s a tough watch though. It’s the kinda film you watch and you’re glad you saw it because it’s a great film, but it’ll never be on the rewatch list.

The main thing you have to do is Dehumanize your enemy .. Then anything is possible

Check out Willem Dafoe in BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY (1989) as well. Same director (Oliver Stone) with a phenomenal lead performance from Tom Cruise (who was absolutely robbed of an Oscar win for that film IMO) and also features probably my favorite theme music ever composed by John Williams for a movie. It is unbelievable that Tom Cruise gave the performance he did (he was only 27 years old at the time).

They didn't "just get rid of the bodies there." If recovered, they were always sent back to the US.

HAMBURGER HILL is another really good movie about the Vietnam War. Hamburger Hill was a real battle which took place in the middle of the war. WE WERE SOLDIERS is also about the experiences of Major Hal Moore in the Battle of Ia Drang. In this one you see both sides. It takes place in the early part of the war.

Seeing this movie only a month or so after finishing Army basic may have shaped its initial effect on me. Love it though, can't wait for We Were Soldiers reaction.

An ALLTIME favorit Vietnam war movie of mine ! 🤪

Thanks for the review. A difficult film to watch, I haven't seen it since watching it twice when it was released. I actually stopped watching War movies for a couple decades after this film. Many of my veteran friends were deeply affected by this film. A lot of vets back then said this was the most accurate modern/VN war film ever made. It was compressed within an Oliver Stone style of drama of course, but it was said that it was as close as a non-vet/non-participant could get to understanding life/death as a US soldier the Vietnam War. You made a comment about American competency in the war. The war was a mess due to politics and policies, the soldiers weren't allowed to "win", albeit we never should have been there to begin with. Thank you again. I'm glad you got to enjoy your trip outside the shadow if the war.

My grandfather barely spoke of his time in the war. We did not press him, though some of his passing anecdotes made us really wonder. One being in camp, and being fired upon from a friendly village. Command denying the CO’s request to return fire, because it was a friendly village. The others were frankly… disturbing. Though he did say he saw a lot of the guys doing drugs, and shook his head. Saw a lot of guys lose it from not just the war but the drugs too.

This is actually my favorite war movie. I'm glad you gave it a chance. Other films I like from Oliver Stone are Born on the 4th of July(1989) U-turn(1997) and Natural born killers(1994). Two that I like, which he did not direct but wrote the screenplays to are Conan the barbarian(1981) and Scarface(1983) thank you Mary 😊

Most war movies are anti-war movies as they show the horrors of war. But other war movies you should check out are Black Hawk Down (based on a true story and one of the few war movies that don't question the "no man left behind" motto), Other war movies you should see are Taeguki: The Brotherhood of War (Korea, watch subtitled, not dubbed), Come and See (Belarus), The Deer Hunter, and Glory.

First, let me say that I hope you are enjoying Kuala Lumpur. I have been there a couple of times on overseas deployments while serving in the Navy; this was the late 1990's/early 2000's. A nice place to visit. Platoon was the first movie I saw having to do with Vietnam; I was 15 when it came out and it made me think. I was definitely more sympathetic towards Chris and Sergeant Elias. Charlie Sheen as Chris, Willem Defoe as Elias and Tom Berenger as Barnes were all excellent in their roles. A few years ago, I read a book called Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes. It is a fictional novel about Vietnam, but it was largely based on the experiences of Marlantes, who served in the Marines during Vietnam. It took him thirty years to publish it, but it is a book definitely worth reading. And Winston Groom, the author of Forrest Gump, also wrote a fictional book about Vietnam called Better Times Than These; it was his first book and he started working on it after his service in Vietnam had ended. If you want to see Tom Berenger in another amazing film, I recommend the Civil War film Gettysburg, from 1993. He plays Confederate General James Longstreet, with Martin Sheen as General Robert E. Lee and Jeff Daniels as Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, commanding officer of the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment.

Born on the 4th of July would be a great follow-up to this. Shows the aftermath of Vietnam Vets returning home and all the necessary hate they got. Also directed by Oliver Stone.

We were soldiers is another Vietnam war movie. True story too

'Born on the 4th of July'

I saw this in the Cinema, and it left a negative memory on me. I was just old enough to get in, being 15. We went to see a different movie, but it was full, so we went to Platoon instead. I had a mild headache going in.......it was a miserable evening. It wasn't the movie's fault. It did take me many years to give it a proper chance. It's a damn good movie.

The characters of Barnes and Elias are representations of the duality of man.

Definitely one of the best war films and Oliver Stone switched the roles of Willem Dafoe and Tom Berenger. It worked great and both of them got nominated for best supporting actor for the film.

“Fragging” is the intentional killing of a superior officer, often with a frag grenade, hence the term. It is assumed to have happened in Vietnam occasionally when soldiers felt like their superior was being reckless with their lives.

My best friend did 2 tours of duty as a combat Marine in Vietnam. He did not talk about the war except to his wife. She once told me that the thing that troubled him the most was were civilian deaths, especially a little girl that he tried to save. James turned to drinking in otder to cope and the marriage broke up. James died in 97 a victim of Agent Orange. We placed our soldiers in an impossible situation. Unlike WW2 and Korea there was no ground we had to take. There were no clear cut lines of what territory the enemy held and what we held. Except for North Vietnamese troops we didn't even know who the enemy was. A farmer during the day could easily be the VC that ambushed you at night. A village could be forced to help the enemy or they could do it willingly. Any ground the US took would be reoccupied by the enemy as soon as we left. Then there were the insane rules of engagement. The whole war was run by Washington. In a very real sense we were asking our soldiers to fight with one hand tied behind their backs. Then there was the injustice of the draft. It was a poor mans war where potential draftees got a "college deferment." Blacks were drafted at a higher rate than whites and suffered a 20% casualty rate while only making up 12%of the population. I was lucky as my draft number was 353 according to the birthday lottery. The whole thing was a big mess. Add to that the the average soldier was 20 years old and spent 5 times more time in combat than the average WW2 soldier. The average WW2 soldier spent about 40 days in combat while the average Vietnam soldier spent close to 230 days in combat. Even in WW1 commanders knew they had to rotate men out of the front lines. WW1 soldiers spent 4-6 days in a front line trench before they would get rotated to a middle trench for 4-6 days, then on to the rear lines for 4-6 days. The US did not take into account what war does to a man. In the end the winning metric was not territory taken but body count. The emphasis was on bleeding the enemy....kill more of them than they did of your side. This encouraged counting civilian deaths as VC dead. On top of everything, the whole war was based on a lie perpetrated by President Lyndon Johnson. There were 2 times James said anything to me about the war. When he figured I was eligible for the draft he wrote to me and said, "Whatever you have to do don't come over here." When he got back from his second tour he told me, "They just wouldn't let us win." I knew others who went to Vietnam. Some of my high school classmates didn't come back. Some of them came back wounded. All those that served came back to a thankless nation. One more thing that Oliver Stone does not show are the VC and North Vietnamese attrocities that they committed against their own people. But that's another story.

Casualties of War with Michael J. Fox and Sean Penn...hard to watch as well

Barnes & Elise are the duality of man . Elise is the best of us. Barnes is what we are capable of being.

You gotta see Casualties of war staring micheal j fox and sean penn. Also born on the fourth of july starring tom cruise

The music is "Adagio for Strings" by Samuel Barber. It's a gorgeous piece of music. You should check out a good performance of it.

Deer Hunter is probably the toughest to watch.

Check out the war museum in Saigon. Also recommend Phu Quoc

Wait til you watch "Casualties of War".

Heaven And Earth - gives a perspective from a Vietnamese woman. Final film in Oliver Stone Vietnam trilogy (Born on the Fourth of July is the other one, about a vet after the war) The Killing Fields- gives civilian press and shows the horrors that occurred after the war ended.

11:10 Rich kids also got drafted, but if you were in college, you could get a deferment. There were a bunch of other things you could get deferments for, too. If your family had money there were other ways you could get out of being sent to Vietnam; You could get a doctor to write you a note that says you have flat feet or a perforated eardrum, and you get out. If you couldn't or wouldn't get out of being drafted, your rich parents could make a campaign contribution and you'd somehow end up in the National Guard. Poor kids weren't any more likely to get drafted, they just had a lot fewer ways of getting out of it if they were.

If you want one of the most underrated war movies ever look up "The Thin Red Line" look at the cast in that movie

Just as hot as Panama was in a jungle where there was not enough oxygen in the bush as what is above it. The old Soviet tracers were Green and American's were red. The Cubans fired Green tracers across our flightline to harass us.

‘Just gonna say that the Vietnamese killed ya , bro!’ Lol

The short dark haired guy with the super raspy voice, son of Hollywood royalty, Anthony Quinn! Red has been in tons of great movies plus type in here, tv show Scrubs! Forrest Whittaker also in tons of movies. This movie, for future stars , was like Fast Times at Ridgemont High!