Sgt gunnary what a legend lol if he was doing our half time team talks I reckon we would win the league .....are you eyeballing me Titus I will ripp off your head and sh@t down your neck lol
Aye bit Titus would reply. My thoughts drift back to erect nipple wet dreams about Mary Jane Rottencrotch and the Great Homecoming **** Fantasy. I am so happy that I am alive, in one piece and short. I'm in a world of ****... yes. But I am alive. And I am not afraid if the gaffer don't pick me, cos i still get me wages and can afford taxi's.
Did you see that T.V. series they did a few years back - I think Reidy could have taught him a thing or two1
The drill instructor was apparently, a real soldier. Great film until they got to Nam then it all just fell apart. The jewish lad with the glasses had "born to kill" on his helmet, (no not that one), but wore a CND badge. The funniest part once they got there was the working girl turning down that black guy cos his cock would be ower big, lol.
Been so many better films about Vietnam, Hamburger Hill, Platoon & Casualties of War come to mind. That latter starred Sean Penn & Michael J Fox, great film but not easy watching. What they did to that young lass was ****ing horrendous.
Aye, the Yanks tend to deny that any atrocities were committed by there own. Try Redacted, which is set in Iraq.
Yep, they deny the My Lai massacre... http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0316.html
Never really studied Vietnam apart from films & never knew about this. Redacted was based on a true story where the Yanks gang raped this Iraqi schoolgirl the wiped out her entire family. They blamed it on a Sunni/She'ite fued, which backfired on them. Well worth a watch mate.
Incidentally, I know it's from years ago but if any of you have seen the uncut version of Soldier Blue will have seen what the cavalry did with the Sioux indians.
For some strange reason i have always been fascinated by The War in Vietnam.. Now i live not to far from there, it makes me realises some of the other problems them poor fookers on the ground had to deal with.. The heat/humidity, not to mention in the jungle, snakes, scorpions etc....and ants, friggin ants, i hate them, especially them red fookers. All that and had to try and fight an ingenious enemy, whilst being ordered around like headless chickens by complete and utter fools.. Best movie from the era imo..Platoon...
Summed up very well marra. Might be wrong here but I'm pretty much sure Oliver Stone had to come to Britain to fund Platoon.
Im not sure about Platoon, but I think Full Metal Jacket was filmed in the London Docklands (the closing half hour or so of the film) By the way Billy, I agree about Platoon and Hamburger Hill. Superb films also
Redacted was based on a true story, but I wasn't too keen on it as a film. Apocalypse Now is one of my favourite Vietnam films. Great soundtrack too
A bit unrelated but I watched a film last night with Denzel Washington in, called 'the flight'. Great film and one of the best I have seen in a while.
Platoon wasn't filmed here but he had to come here for funding to make it. The Yanks wouldn't do it as it was one of the first to break the mold portraying them as big, badly done to heroes.
Hero's? Watch this, or at least part of it, and that myth is blown away, well and truely... The untold war, which even most Americans don't know of, and those who do, will deny it... It's grim viewing.. [video=youtube;6HPH7grVHR0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HPH7grVHR0[/video]
