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Originally posted by Desdichado I don't think ANY "war movie" about ANY war could be considered accurate. Oh, they can get all the little technical details right if they try, but ultimately all you're going to get is a snapshot at best. Unfortunately, anyone who wasn't actually there is going to seize on that snapshot as if it were some kind of all-encompassing mural. People tend to treat movies as history, even when they're clearly not.

Good Morning Vietnam works as a film because it's not a movie about Vietnam, it's a movie set IN Vietnam. It's a freaking huge difference that film makers just don't seem to get.

I think films like We Were Soldiers are nothing more than pornographic violence. It's one thing when a book tells a story about something that happened. A book is a personal thing. It informs. When it gets turned into hundreds of people sitting in air-conditioned padded seats, munching popcorn and watching people die for their entertainment on a Friday night, it just transcends sick. Life has no soundtrack.

And I don't know what Oliver Stone(d) was thinkin' with his movies, but I'd like to punch him in the nose.

I was trying to find words to compare the movie Cold Mountainwith the book of the same title by Charles Frazier and could not. Your whole post expresses my thoughts perfectly.

I went to see the movie Cold Mountainand the description of the story contained in the book that Griz had told me about was not there. I left the movie and got to the book store before it closed at 11 pm.They had the book andit took me on a journey that I will never forget.

The opposite happened with We Were Soldiers I read the book and saw the movie with my children in their home. It was a serious time and not a form of entertainment for any of us. Again the movie could never tell the story contained in the book. I do think there was one good thing that came out of that movie and that is a more respectful view of the Vietnam Veteran and what he lived through. Other than that I would agree completely with your statement that Hollywood War Stories are largely poronographic violence.

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