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It's a Vietnam movie. C'mon buddy, what makes a 'Vietnam' movie a 'Vietnam' movie? The fact that it takes place in Vietnam. Now if you were to dispute on whether or not this was a war movie or not, then you'd have an argument.

I'm different, so it's okay to laugh.

It is (as I understand it) a Vietnam Movie centered loosely around the real life expierences of a US Air force DJ. I could be wrong.

If it was a love story there would be a larger female fanbase for it.

You're all wrong its neither.

Its a Drama with some comedy (or Vice Versa). The war was the backdrop. When the fighting is the main focus its a war movie like Platoon and the Longest Day. I thought the whole love story part was almost secondary (or tertiary). I think his friendship with Tuan was more well established than his failed attempts with Trinh. I mean they only really have three scenes together.

As for the rest of the film, its about a DJ in Vietnam during the early days.

To understand what the movie is you have to look at the conflict.

Its not bewteen the VC and the Americans.

Its not Trinh and Cronaur.

The conflict is between the Cronaur and the Officer/Sargent who want to shut him down.

YES it is a Vietnam war movie....see the people running around in green with guns....this USUALLY means there is a war going on.
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But the 2nd mouse gets the cheese!
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I use to like war the "typical" war movie, like when I was in the Army in Vietnam. But not every movie that takes place in some particular country needs to conform to that idea of what a war movie is, to be called a type of movie with the name of that country. So all "Vietnam Movies" have to be just like what was described? If so, then all "American Movies" have to be about a guy or a couple of guys who get thrown into the darkest, deepest, world of hell you could ever imagine. They shoot a couple of people, get into more trouble, smoke some ciggerettes, shoot some more people, get drunk, get laid, get their legs blown off, shoot some more people and by the end of the movie - they have changed their perspective on life. Isn't that a really very small box to live in? Maybe a testoerone box. Dang, no wonder the feminist talk about testerone poisoning. Could I be between a rock & a hard (feminist) place. So what's next? God in-a-box? And to think my main email address use to be AK 47. I back to watching this dumb war movie on TBS. It's like in the US Army, keep 'em entertained, numbed, ignorant, fearful & stupid. Guess we did bring the Bush war back home! Like my company's Bob Hope Show in Long Binh where some guys had a big white sheet with a picture of Nixon on it that read "Nixon, wish you were here". Nobody told us Welcome home soldier. And the 50,000 who died there, is just a small number of all those who died later because of being there. So it's like, if you remember it, you weren't there! Ouch. Namaste

Actually....

It is a war movie.
War movies are movies with an anti-war theme. Placed in Vietnam or Europe or America (anyone remember Red Dawn) the end message is that war is wrong and we need to find ways to avoid armed conflict.

If you really want to split hairs M*A*S*H was a statement about Vietnam but set in Korea. Does that make it a Korea movie.

These are war movies. "Dirty Dozen", "Apocolypse Now", "Platoon", "Force Ten From Navarone," "Bridge on the River Kwai", etc., should be catagorized by the type of film they are and not the location in which it is set.

If the plot or setting has anything to do with the Vietnam War, it's a Vietnam movie!

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

it's a movie about vietnam war and about the feeling of some americans toward that war.