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Release Date: 19 August, 2003 Retail Price: $12.98 OUR Price: $9.99 You SAVE: $2.99! Cast: Complete Cast (16 total) |
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We Were Soldiers
This is an excellent movie if you like war flicks. It made me angry being from the Vietnam generation also. It shows how pointless war is and what a waste of good men. The acting from all the cast was top class. I highly recommend this movie. It may be slow at first, but the action later is amazing.
The Great Battle of 1965
This film is about the battle in the Ia Drang valley in 1965 Vietnam. It begins in 1954 when a French patrol is attacked and defeated in a surprise ambush. A prophecy for the future? In one scene a wounded French soldier is killed. [Was this truth or drama?] Then in 1964 we see children in a car singing a tune based on "Sambre et Meuse", which dates to the Napoleonic Wars. Next we see a training camp where helicopters will be used in ground battles. [Wasn't this an adaption of a civilian model?] One scene shows officer's wives discussing local conditions and the laundromat. [Are the defective washing machines at the camp a symbol of failure?] One scene recalls Custer's last battle. Custer did not know the size of the enemy; he assumed about 2,500 and not three times as many. Later we hear the Intelligence officer admit they did not know the size of the enemy forces. Ominous?
The mechanized cavalry lands in their helicopters, the soldiers start shooting. Some soldiers run after a lone enemy and are ambushed. The battle erupts in fierce fighting. Two helicopters bring in needed ammunition. Back in the states telegrams arrive with bad news for the families. Were they delivered impersonally? The battle continues with rising casualties on both sides. Air support arrives to drop napalm. Some lands too far from the enemy. They expect another attack at dawn. But the tide has turned, the enemy faces defeat and withdraws. The end of the battle shows a load of journalists arriving to take pictures and question the colonel. After the Seventh Cavalry is withdrawn the Vietnamese reclaim their land. The Colonel returns to his family in his land.
In 1964 General Douglas MacArthur advised LBJ against getting into a land war in Asia. Could this film have been created as a warning against a war in the Middle East? Does it have a subtle anti-war message? It seems different from his earlier film based on the Revolutionary War.
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