dane-70 I continued watching on the basis on the supposed Vet reviews. I assume only that these are alt-right bots, or perhaps real Vets whose trauma was so great that they no longer are functioning rationally. It is difficult to know where to begin, but among the more comic aspects of the (is it a 'film'?) are the great clouds of dry dry dust moving about every scene with tall tall Rodeo-drive worthy palms in the distance. Apparently, no one could afford a hose to make that dry So. California desert at least attempt to look tropical.

Leofwine_draca THE SIEGE OF FIREBASE GLORIA is a little-known Vietnam War flick, Australian-made and shot in the Philippines by cult director Brian Trenchard-Smith, a man best known for making low rent action spectacle including THE MAN FROM HONG KONG and TURKEY SHOOT. This one tells the story of the Tet Offensive, in which the Vietcong rose up to attack many American bases, and focuses on the small-scale siege of a poorly-defended base occupied by the excellent R. Lee Ermey and his men. Ermey really acts his socks off here and brings to life the heart and soul of the picture. The film offers an explosion of endless violence and edge-of-the-seat action scenes in which the realism is key and the bloodshed extraordinarily grisly at times. Trenchard-Smith is at home both shooting the vibrant fire fights as well as eliciting strong tough guy performances from his key cast members, not least Wings Hauser who has also never been better than he is here. Watch out for DIRTY HARRY regular Albert Popwell as a tough-guy sergeant fleshing out the testosterone-packed cast.

itspault Spoilers ahead.Changing rules for the draft in the early 70's created a window in time that accommodated some young men to be excluded from war. It turned out that if you were born in 1958 or 1959, you didn't even have to register for the draft. Now, philosophical positions on defending our nation aside, the fortune of being exempt from kill-or-be-killed was not lost on me. Consequently movies of a certain high caliber about Nam such as Firebase Gloria (FB) have a sobering effect on me. The scarier and more horrific a movie is about that war, the more intense I am grateful I didn't have to go. After watching FB I am as grateful as grateful ever gets. The movie did however have it's share of yuks, even if it perhaps took a sometimes morbid sense of humor to "get it." Decapitation, for instance, is not something I find particularly funny. A one-liner that follows from actor R. Lee Ermey playing Hafner, by contrast, added a sense of occasional relief to the otherwise expertly induced horror. I could go on, but suffice it to say if you dig war flicks and want something askew from standard shoot-die fare, this one might find you happier for having watched it. If, that is to say, it's possible at all to be "happy" for watching a movie about Vietnam.

rittersslave This has some of the stupidest fight scenes of all time. If I was a veteran of any war I would cry when I see this movie, not because I would remember being in Vietnam, but because it is a poor representation of any veteran of that war. Even though the troops are carrying M16s, that movie resembles nothing like Vietnam. The Viet Cong even uniforms look like old leftover Japanese uniforms from a WWII movie. The setting is obviously some crappy Hollywood back lot. The worst scene contains a US soldier fighting "hand to hand" like in a bad martial arts movie. After he dispatches several enemy troops he says, "hey come down here and lets kick some butt!" to a helicopter in the air. He then is shot. This movie is trash.