better flick Apocalypse Now or Saving Private Ryan?

ttystikk

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Apples and oranges.

All the war movies mentioned so far are excellent...

Just for openers, they cured me of ever wanting to go near a war, let alone fight in one.

If there is no other option, I'll fight. But there is always another option.
 

buzzardbreath

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I've heard some old vets say that Ryan was the best war movie ever made, AP was more of a dark fantasy flick. Hearts of Darkness was even better than AP, and I thought Full Metal Jacket was just amazing...
Hearts of Darkness, I read in college and was stoked when I found out it was the base to AP's story. That made me appreciate AP a little more. I learned F.F. Coppola within my film studies minor.

Full Metal Jacket was cool for a while, but I did 6 yrs in the Corp so it became Cliché after awhile.
 

Aeroknow

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My best buddies dad says hamburger hill was the most like his Vietnam experience. My dad doesn't talk at all about it! My grandfather escaped the Bataan death marches only to be recaptured again to spend the next few yrs in a japan pow camp. I'm sure he would have thought unbroken was the most like his experience.

Saving private Ryan is my favorite war movie. The forest gump war scenes are a close second. Best soundtrack for sure though!
 

VTMi'kmaq

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I've heard some old vets say that Ryan was the best war movie ever made, AP was more of a dark fantasy flick. Hearts of Darkness was even better than AP, and I thought Full Metal Jacket was just amazing...
well my uncle wore steel radial sandals and spent most of his time in laos during that shitstorm, he says it aint fucken fantasy lol!
 
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