About ten tonight on Ch4 – We Were Soldiers (Sunday 6th August)
Well worth watching for a few minutes ground support scattered through the action.
Actually it is the only reason for watching what is a truly dreadful movie. No war movie cliche left out.
Mel Gibson as a far too wonderful to be believed US General. If they’d had him for real Hanoi would now be called McDonaldsville. :rolleyes: Never puts a foot wrong, knows everything better than everybody else. You wonder how Holywood can make such cr@p when you consider the real outcome of that squalid little war. Doesn’t anybody there ever read a history book.
Touching scene where a cabbie is given a bunch of ‘envelopes’ to deliver around base housing and calls at Mrs Gibson’s home for directions. Almost redeems it. Er.. no, not really.
Moggy
By: A225HVY - 6th August 2006 at 13:39
Was based on true events!!
In November 1965, 450 U.S. soldiers were dropped into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley. They were surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers.
Read the full after action report
http://www.lzxray.com/documents/aar-xray.pdf
A225HVY
By: Barnowl - 6th August 2006 at 13:24
I like We Were Soldiers, for no real reason. The scene with the envelopes is especially touching for me personally.
Will get in a couple of beers, order a chinese, then crack open the Band Of Brothers DVDs afterwards and make a night of it.
BARNOWL
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August 6, 2006 at 1:17 pm