yangcaiqiliu It is very real and close to the reality of Vietnam. A lot of American movies make the American soldiers look bad. This is wrong. All the left-wing movie director did this in order to stop the draft. My Grandfather a United States Marine officer fight for America in Korea and Vietnam. He would not lie to me and he love freedom. We need patriotism in this country. Make America great again, President Trump!

SnoopyStyle U.S. Special Forces troops train in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Col. Mike Kirby (John Wayne) is eager to leave the base and head off to the front. Plenty of men are also eager to follow him. Sneaky Sgt. Petersen is caught stealing supplies and is recruited. Reporter George Beckwith joins them but his paper objects to the war. At the firebase, Capt. Nim (George Takei) leads the local South Vietnamese troops.This is heroic, sincere, propagandistic, and patriotic. It even attempts at light humor. It is old fashion. The local girls are pretty. There is no mention of drugs. We are the good guys and the bad guys are evil. There are heroic deaths on our side and countless deaths by the enemy. This was released months after the Tet offensive. Its success comes from a need to escape the TV news coverage of the war. The cheesy humor does clash like sticking sitcom leftovers into a war drama meal. It's not so much the writing but the music cues and broad comedy. If the jokey scenes can be cut out, this would be much better. It's not the deepest examination of the war but it does have good production value.

englishforyou This is one of the most unintentionally funny films from Hollywood. Here we have a 60-something John Wayne and Aldo Ray chasing the Viet Cong in the jungles of Vietnam (and maybe Cambodia). At every turn we have John Wayne and company preaching to an increasingly humiliated David Jansen (playing a "liberal" journalist) how horrid and animalistic the enemy is. And, of course, how humane and brave and dedicated to freedom that we (Americans) are. (All that between bombing the natives.) And, yes, one of the Americans adopts a Vietnamese orphan and, if memory serves, the dastardly communist kill the boy!!!! Oh, it makes me want to get a gun and go after those godless commies!!!But all is not funny.Well, this clearly is a pro-war, right-winger's dream come true. Re-fighting and war and winning not only the battles but the hearts and minds of the Vietnamese. It features two Asian-Americans, one of Chinese extraction and another of Japanese extraction, somehow letting us know how noble this war was. But in the end, like the sun setting in the east coast of Vietnam, the whole film becomes an illusion. A lie. A big, horrific lie told to Americans. The lie was known to the Vietnamese, however. Our big bad military, in the end, was battled to a stalemate. The Tet offensive let us know how uninformed (intentionally?) the Americans were about the strength of the enemy. John Wayne went to war and brought us back a sick, horrific war in which communism remained entrenched and the thoughts of freedom, liberty and the American way were shown to be illusions. Except when they came in the form of bombs and bullets and body counts. John Wayne led the charge in the "Green Berets" but it should have been titled "The Red Herring" for its lies and diversions. In reality we lost the war. Americans, since WWII keep hoping to win a war. It's been 60s years since we have won a war. They just don't make wars the way they used to.

beauzee since 1939, we can count bad John Wayne movies on one hand..maybe. here is a well put together, well intentioned but hopelessly misguided project.Wayne's patriotism shines through and that means a lot. but it appears no one was on hand to say, you know, Duke, this is gonna be a hit but you will never convince anyone that this War is necessary. Japan and France gave up with Vietnam and the CIA pushed for us to take over. The domino theory is just a theory. and now people are getting fed up.Wayne might have knocked him down...but at least the word would have gotten out, there *was* some thought behind THE GREEN BERETS, not just hawks in flight.particularly embarrassing scene: David Jansen vociferously explaining to a Lefty how recovered Vietcong weapons came from Russia. The script does not include any discussion about how USA escalation made that necessary! yes, the War was the first to be serialized, shall we say....every night we learned the latest body count. and Bob Hope, Georgie Jessel, and John Wayne called the reporters "Commeez".ground troops kept busy for four more years.