@...Sticky: You either left your CapsLock on or feel the need to shout to make your point valid. Either way a mistake and if we didn’t have the Vietnam conflict we wouldn’t have had all the badass movies. I think the end justifies the means.
@...Paul_Is_Drunk: Amongst children perhaps. I’m pretty sure more people have seen, and more importantly will remember, Platoon, even long after Tropic Thunder is forgotten.
Platoon is in the top 10 war movies all time for me. In specific order.
Saving Private Ryan
Full Metal Jacket
Paths of Glory
The Great Escape
Platoon
MASH
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Glory
Empire of The Sun
Black Hawk Down
@...BowToMe:
So, 50,000 dead is a great justification for war movies and the extreme post-traumatic stress disorder many suffer from it justifies it? Riiiiight @...Puulaahi:
You can support the troops without supporting a war. @...Paul_Is_Drunk:
I was just referencing it. It’s not even a movie parodying many war movies, it’s a thing parodying MANY things, some of which have nothing to do with war. @...freakymescan:
Made it up on the spot.
@...Sticky et al: Well gee-whiz, 58,000 casualties in fifteen years? That’s only twice as many and change as the one day Battle of Antietam, twice as many as the two month battle at Thermopylae, and a little over half of the number killed in the four day Battle of Liepzig. And of course, lets not forget the nine million dead in WW1 (Jeopardy trivia: that’s 10 corpses for every centimeter of ground gained by either side).
And here’s the kicker: three of those bloodbaths were truly dedicated to preserving your right to sit around and “make love, not war” or whatever the kids are doing these days.
Bone up on your history before you complain about how few casualties are suffered in modern wars.
Hail Satan!
Lol. Tropic Thunder totally parodied this.
WHY AM I HERE!
@...Puulaahi:
BECAUSE FIGHTING FOR YOUR COUNTRY IN A WAR NOBODY WANTED TO GET INVOLVED IN AND WAS NONE OF OUR BUSINESS IS PATRIOTIC.
And the kick is GOOD!!!! Three points for the underdogs!
@...Sticky: You either left your CapsLock on or feel the need to shout to make your point valid. Either way a mistake and if we didn’t have the Vietnam conflict we wouldn’t have had all the badass movies. I think the end justifies the means.
@...Sticky: AMERICA, FUCK YEAH! God Bless America, but she stole the B from “Bless”
Troops have to put up with so much shit. SUPPORT THE TROOPS.
Dunno why I used caps…
@...Sticky:
*sigh*
As much as I liked Tropic Thunder, I knew this would happen. The parody will/has become more well known than the amazing original it made fun of.
@...Sticky: I can’t place it. What is that a quote from? Team America?
This, Full Metal Jacket, and Apocalypse Now are the top three ‘Nam films.
@...Paul_Is_Drunk: Amongst children perhaps. I’m pretty sure more people have seen, and more importantly will remember, Platoon, even long after Tropic Thunder is forgotten.
@...Paul Kersey: Agree
I fucking love this movie
Listen in:
www.deezer.com/track/7549
“Well you can put your arms down when you get to school.”
Platoon is in the top 10 war movies all time for me. In specific order.
Saving Private Ryan
Full Metal Jacket
Paths of Glory
The Great Escape
Platoon
MASH
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Glory
Empire of The Sun
Black Hawk Down
i meant no specific order
@...ogie: If you liked Saving Private Ryan, I think you’ll love Band of Brothers.
I’m rating this a 1 because the only memory I have of it is that annoying crappy-ass NES game of the same name.
@...BowToMe:
So, 50,000 dead is a great justification for war movies and the extreme post-traumatic stress disorder many suffer from it justifies it? Riiiiight
@...Puulaahi:
You can support the troops without supporting a war.
@...Paul_Is_Drunk:
I was just referencing it. It’s not even a movie parodying many war movies, it’s a thing parodying MANY things, some of which have nothing to do with war.
@...freakymescan:
Made it up on the spot.
Did you know that Saigon only fell 2 years after we left?
@...Sticky: That is exactly what I do Sticky. Fuck War!
@...ogie: I like your movie choices. Thumbs up.
@...Sticky et al: Well gee-whiz, 58,000 casualties in fifteen years? That’s only twice as many and change as the one day Battle of Antietam, twice as many as the two month battle at Thermopylae, and a little over half of the number killed in the four day Battle of Liepzig. And of course, lets not forget the nine million dead in WW1 (Jeopardy trivia: that’s 10 corpses for every centimeter of ground gained by either side).
And here’s the kicker: three of those bloodbaths were truly dedicated to preserving your right to sit around and “make love, not war” or whatever the kids are doing these days.
Bone up on your history before you complain about how few casualties are suffered in modern wars.
FUCK YOU!
I’M DEAD!!