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To: mamelukesabre
I gotta vote for The Green Berets too, if for no other reason than the closing moments, when the sun sets in the east. (I am not making this up.)

The kid annoys me too.
12 posted on 06/25/2002 4:54:32 PM PDT by Xenalyte
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To: Xenalyte
The kid annoys me too.

Yeah but I liked his name, "Hamchuck."

19 posted on 06/25/2002 4:56:50 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: Xenalyte
...when the sun sets in the east. (I am not making this up.)

LOL - you're kidding. Those Hollywood geniuses could not figger out that Cali is different than (most of) SE Asia?

25 posted on 06/25/2002 4:59:05 PM PDT by Senator Pardek
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To: Xenalyte
I gotta vote for The Green Berets too, if for no other reason than the closing moments, when the sun sets in the east. (I am not making this up.)

Dang! you beat me!! (Glad to know someone else noticed that too)!

126 posted on 06/25/2002 5:51:23 PM PDT by southern rock
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To: Xenalyte
I gotta vote for The Green Berets too, if for no other reason than the closing moments, when the sun sets in the east. (I am not making this up.)

The kid annoys me too.

"Was my Peter-san brave?"

Gotta go with the concensus about Battle of the Bulge. The only worthwhile moment is the panzer troopers singing their panzer ass-kicking song at the beginning. Someone said that it was filmed in the U.S., but I believe it was actually Spain. Most of the big war movies of the 1960s and 70s were filmed there--Franco was apparently always willing to rent out his army. And if I recall correctly, it's not Sherman tanks, it's M-48 Patton's--for both sides.

Other nominees: Well, despite Charlton Heston (and maybe partly because of him), Midway is pretty awful (and uses a lot of recycled Tora x 3 footage). MacArthur, with Gregory Peck is pretty abysmal, too. A Bridge Too Far is truly bad, and it's remarkable that a usually great screenwriter, William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Princess Bride, Marathon Man, All the President's Men, etc), wrote that piece of crap. Somebody mentioned Wake Island, but that's not really fair. Hokey as it seems now, it was a very important film at the time as a piece of American home front propaganda.
132 posted on 06/25/2002 5:54:29 PM PDT by Heyworth
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To: Xenalyte
Hopped a ride from Cu Chi on the 3/4 Cav. 'Evening Road Clearing' chopper to Ton San Nhut in '68 ... We sat down long enough to take in The Green Berets at some AFB theater. Talk about a joke ... the whole place was up for grabs throughout the movie. Nobody could hear the dialogue for all the hoots and hollars.
184 posted on 06/25/2002 7:31:28 PM PDT by CIBvet
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