”write an original death scene”
People dying: yeah you’re right I’ll die a different way this time

I don't understand how basic human emotions in last moments or when met with information of losing a significant other can be cliche.

The "Tell My Wife I Love Her" actually happened, read the book.

I’ve watched about a dozen of your reviews and this is my first serious disagreement with you. I was 5 years old when I watched my dad go out the door to Vietnam (I'm guessing I was about the same age as Gen. Moore's youngest when he deployed). I appreciated the kids being depicted as they were in the film, especially the youngest.  At that age, trying to understand why dad has to go to this war half way around the world is not easy (I had a similar conversation with my dad that Moore had with his daughter). My dad completed his 13-month tour and came home in one piece. The scene where the black woman received the telegram about her husband being KIA, I think, drove home just how badly prepared the US Army was for this battle from a morale and support standpoint.

“Tell my wife I love her” and calling for their mother are the most common last words for soldiers in Vietnam I believe, so it actually has a point in the movie and not really something to complain about tbh.

According to eye witnesses the two “cliche” death scenes are what was reported to have been said by the dying soldiers. That part is actually historically accurate perhaps to a fault.

23:05  I work in Casualty Affairs for the Army, and this is a 100% realistic reaction to notification. Happens all the time, people are at once in shock and disbelief, and are expressing denial while also not knowing what to actually say. So it just comes out as head-shaking and "uh-uh". Absolutely accurate.

To be fair to the referenced American arrogance about air superiority:  The North Vietnamese's resilience is borderline miraculous.  The fact that they were able to sustain the kind of damage and casualties they did and keep fighting is a testament to their remarkable bravery and hard work.  

I wouldn't say America was arrogant.  I would say the North Vietnamese were shockingly tough.

I went into the army in 1980 to 83. I am from the south. There was a guy from Wisconsin he told me he never met a black person in his life until he joined the army.

My uncle was there... He watched this film with me and said the only thing they had wrong was the way everyone was standing up and running around. The grass was over 6ft tall and you couldn't see more than a few feet most of the time. After the fighting started it  became easier to move due to the grass being worn down. But all in all it was a great movie showing what it was actually like in combat.

My father, died about 7 years ago, was a Vietnam veteran, hated this movie. He was able to watch all other Vietnam movies because it was too far off of reality. We were soldiers was too real for him.

This movie is definitely one of my top favorite war films for a few other reasons. The scene where Hal Moore's wife picks up that stack of telegrams off her front porch then delivers them to the unfortunate families. It very well illustrates how wars are not just fought on the battlefield or in a different country, but the wars are also fought back home. How many wives, husbands, daughters, sons, uncles, grandpas, grandmas would wait for either their soldier in the flesh or that piece of paper that confirms their soldier is no longer breathing. The song that plays during that scene just makes it much more epic.

The other reason is after the battle, the conversation between Moore and Galloway with tears in their eyes for their fallen brothers and the reality sets in about what they just went through and why they survived but their brothers didn't. Then Galloway walks away, and Moore just starts to tear up. This scene always tears me up. The bond between battle hardened soldiers is a bond stronger than family bonded by blood because they fought for each other.

Yeah, saw a soldier on my first tour whom was shot 7 times.  He could barely speak and all he kept asking for was for his wife.  Cliche but it really happens.

General Hal Moore passed away this past weekend at the age of 94.  Thank you for your service sir.  RIP.

RIP to Captain Thomas Metsker, who gave up his seat on an evac chopper to one of his soldiers who was injured worse. After hopping off the chopper he was shot and killed right then and there. A fellow alumni of The Citadel, and a national hero, he will forever be remembered

In Full Metal Jacket Lee Ermey's performance of the drill sergeant was authentic. He improvised the scenes based on his experience as a drill sergeant in the marines during the Vietnam war.

Singing Bingo and other songs in the car was how you kept your little crotch goblins busy on road trips.  We did this in the 1970s.  This is an actually slice of Americana for the period.

I remember watching this film in history class. My teacher was a Vietnam vet.
He wasn't in this particular battle but he said that when men died they always cried for one of two people: their wives or their mothers.

As someone who actually knew Hal, his depiction was rather accurate. I knew him as an old man and watched his decline following his wife's passing. He never cared about himself, his focus was always the well being of those around him. The man was a legend and I'll take out anyone who says otherwise.

28 year Army veteran, every war since Korea politics has played the biggest role in war fighting.
Politicians gave us rules of engagement set up limits on where we could operate and told us what weapons we could and couldn’t use.
It my belief as long as the wallet of politicians can dictate war fighters, we will fight wars with no plans of winning as long as they can profit off the war machine!