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Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.

War is war. Vietnam is no different from the Crusades.

I actually think every war movie is an antiwar movie in its own way - with the exception of some of the propaganda movies.

The military has a very long relationship with Hollywood that dates back to the silent film era.

If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.

I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.

With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost never have a Middle Eastern character by name with a story.