[greenhornet68]

I'm sorry but I hated this movie. It seemed like the 'touchy/feely' Hollywood garbage of Pearl Harbor all over again. The racial overtones, as in the "whites only" sign on the laundromat and one of the main characters trying to save the black soldier only to be killed himself, flashing back to the cab driver delivering notification of death telegrams and all the sobbing women detracted from the movie I had hoped it to be. I loved Braveheart and Patriot but this was just too much.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

NEVER FORGET

...Thank you very much for viewing .."WE WERE SOLDIERS".. and sharing your feelings with us about it.

...The "Just Too Much" you talk about in regard to this RANDALL WALLACE ..'Braveheart in 'Nam.. Motion Picture...

...was "Just That" to US as it was all REALLY happening.

...May I suggest your reading ..'WE WERE SOLDIERS ONCE and YOUNG'..by Lt. Gen. HAL G. MOORE (Ret.) and JOE GALLOWAY for more on how it REALLY was...?

NEVER FORGET

[VaBthang4]

You and I are in agreement.

A bit heavy on the vanity and subliminal-life-lesson side and short on unscripted reality.

Not worth the hype some are giving it and in my mind nowhere near Braveheart. Close to the saline clean Patriot(Wannabe "Last of the Mohicans").

The actual event has its own voice...let it speak for itself. You dont have to manufacture the lessons of freedom with code words and scenarios.

I'm all for movies about Values and Freedom but having it spoon fed to me in prefabricated one dimensional scoops is lame. Just show me what happened....I'll do the math myself.

They bit on it a bit...when they showed the vietnamese trails coming down the mountains at night using candles...and also when they had just received their orders to find and destroy the enemy. The diologue started to go the right direction in talking about the guts of the matter....but then they go into a serinade[sp?] while the troop boards their helicopters. Corny.

Also the paying of tribute to the Peoples Army was a liberal "we are the world" slap in the face. Again...just tell the story and I'll figure out how I think & feel about it.