r/WarMovies

i was recently rewatching We Were Soldiers (i recently got it on DVD finally) and rewatching it got me curious where were the Vietnam Scenes filmed? because looking at the terrain in these scenes it looks more like a forest in North America than the Jungle of Vietnam. i've tried searching on Google but couldn't really find much info.

thanks in advance.

\*\*Happy 4th of July r/TheRealMovieTalk. Let's settle something very American today.\*\*

\*\*What is the greatest 4th of July / American movie ever made and why is it NOT the one everyone always says?\*\*

Forget Independence Day. Forget Top Gun. Everybody says those. That's the safe answer. That's the comfortable answer.

I want the real one.

The film that captures something true about America. The complicated parts. The brilliant parts. The contradictory, messy, loud, beautiful, frustrating parts. The movie that made you feel something real about this country — whether that feeling was pride, anger, nostalgia or all three at the same time.

Could be an action movie. Could be a drama. Could be a comedy. Could be something nobody expects.

Just has to be YOURS.

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\*\*I'll start: Full Metal Jacket. 1987.\*\*

I know. Not exactly a fireworks and barbecue answer.

But hear me out.

Stanley Kubrick — a British director by the way — made the most honest film about American identity ever put on screen. And he did it by splitting the movie in half deliberately.

The first half is about what America does to its own people. How it breaks them down, strips away everything individual, and rebuilds them into something it can use. Gunnery Sergeant Hartman isn't just a drill instructor. He's a machine designed to manufacture other machines.

The second half is what happens when those machines get deployed. What they do. What it costs. What comes back and what doesn't.

Full Metal Jacket doesn't hate America. It doesn't celebrate it either. It just looks directly at it without blinking and asks — what does this country ask of its people and what does it give them in return?

On the 4th of July that feels like exactly the right question.

What's yours? The movie that captures America for YOU — the real version, not the postcard version.

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\*Happy Independence Day. Go watch something great tonight.\* 🇺🇸

I watch this movie EVERY time I find it on TV. I have never been able to stop watching it once I start.

I hope the house never catches fire while I am watching it. Because I know all the fire fighters will want to chill with me and watch the movie. Instead of fighting the fire.

That is all.