Among the director driven "Platoon" by Stone and "Full Metal Jacket" by Kubrick, this film got buried in the hype. Most Vietnam veterans vote for this one being the best and I agree, "Hamburger Hill" the best Vietnam movie made. Thank you director John Irvin!
Other great Irvin movies to check out:
Robin Hood (1991)
When Trumpets Fade
Ghost Story
Shiner
1. Platoon
2. Apocalypse Now
3. Full Metal Jacket
1. hamburger hill
2. cross of iron
3. all quiet on the western front
4. the thin red line
5. when trumpets fade
VIETNAM:
1 HAMBURGER HILL
2 WE WERE SOLDIERS
3 FULL METAL JACKET
4 PLATOON
WWII:
1 BAND OF BROTHERS
2 BATTLE OF BRITAIN
3 SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
4 PATTON
NEWER TIMES THAN VIETNAM:
1 JARHEAD
2 BLACK HAWK DOWN
TOP 10 WAR MOVIES:
1: FULL METAL JACKET
2: PLATOON
3: APOCALYPSE NOW
4: THE DEER HUNTER
5: HAMBURGER HILL
6: SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
7: SCHINDLER'S LIST (Not really a War film, but fantastic)
8: PATTON
9: JARHEAD
10: BLACK HAWK DOWN
[b] Jake
'Become vengeance, David. Become wrath' - John Doe, Se7en.
1 Apocalypse Now
2 Platoon
3 Full metal jacket
4 The deerhunter
5 Hamburger Hill
6 We were soldiers
I watched Hamburger Hill and was disappointed. For a start the characters were extremely stereotyped and unintersting, most war films when somebody gets waisted I rewind to see if they survived to get on the MEDEVAC. For this film I frankly couldnt care less if a charcter died or survived. The film didnt have any drive and 60 mins of people randomly getting shot was not interesting to me, plus the acting was in some parts absolutely dreadful. The lines appeared extremely scripted and the actors didnt seem that engrossed in the role
Another thing I found annoying was when someone got killed everything went silent, the explosions and guns died down and they gave a cheesy death line or too. Then they would slowly fall into unconsiousness and the guns would start again.
Best War films of all time
1. Lord of the Rings 2 towers
2. Dragon Quest 2
3. Reign of Fire
4. Dark Crystal
5. Dungeons and Dragons; Madge Masters Revenge
6. War of the Worlds
7. The Mummy
Platoon, Deer Hunter, First Blood, Apocolypse Now
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