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Tarfumes.com - Green Berets
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List Price: $4.98
Our Price: $2.69
Your Save: $ 2.29 ( 46% )
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Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Luke Askew, Bruce Cabot, Eddy Donno, Jason Evers, Edward Faulkner
Directed By: John Wayne, Ray Kellogg
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Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300267831
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 6300267830
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: 1992-04-01
Running Time: 141
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1968
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Editorial Reviews:
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Anyone who fought in Vietnam can tell you that the war bore little resemblance to this propagandistic action film starring and codirected by John Wayne. But the film itself is not nearly as bad as its reputation would suggest; critics roasted its gung-ho politics while ignoring its merits as an exciting (if rather conventional and idealistic) war movie. Some notorious mistakes were made--in the final shot, the sun sets in the east!--and it's an awkward attempt to graft WWII heroics onto the Vietnam experience. But as the Duke's attempt to acknowledge the men who were fighting and dying overseas, it's a rousing film in which Wayne commands a regiment on a mission to kidnap a Viet Cong general. David Janssen plays a journalist who learns to understand Wayne's commitment to battling Communism, and Jim Hutton (Timothy's dad) plays an ill-fated soldier who adopts a Vietnamese orphan. --Jeff Shannon
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Summary: A Viet Nam Classic - a MUST SEE!
Comment: Censorized in Sweden when the film originally hit the white screen as glorifying the Viet Nam War, I only 30+ years later, and then with a military career pocketed, I wonder why all the adoo! Showing the war as it was, the good, the bad and the ugly you might say, it is real, entertaining and certainly adds an additional angle. Today's generation will have seen similar either by Clint Eastwood or Oliver Stone. The added value for those of us too young to have experienced it is to get a glimpse of what life like could be like at the front(often obscured in this war), in the 1960's or 70's or off duty, and the environment faced among people then in contrast to the present. It is entertaining and certainly a film needed at the time to portray the professional soldier in a war 'unpopular', as much as there is a need today when facing Iraq, Afghanistan and international engagements in among other, Africa. And to be honest - it is not a soldier who goes to war it is in effect - his/her government, when everything else has failed, opinions and people have been violently opressed and the truth has been sold down the river...
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Summary: poopaganda.
Comment: When John Wayne died they did an autopsy on him discovering over 40 pounds of impacted fecal matter which was believed to be the cause of the cancer in his colon that killed him. But he really didn't have 40 pounds of fecal matter in him at his death as far as anyone knows because they never did an autopsy. That was a false internet rumor, probably started by sellers of "colonic irrigation products", vegetarians and that want to call attention to the unhealthy American meat-based diet. Heh, can't believe everything ya here. John Wayne did die of cancer, but I'm affraid he was indeed full of it, just in other ways. This film THE GREEN BERETS is impacted with enough nonsense to be harmful to the society that consumes too much material of this kind. The movie is well known for containg many technical errors including depiction of a sunset that takes place in the east. I wonder how many Americans would to this day know and or even notice that the country of Vietnam has no western coastline? How many would care is perhaps even more important a question. Technical errors aside the meassage of the film is completely false: the Vietnam War was was not faught to save little Vietnamese children and the Vietnamese people. It killed countless thousands of them. Can't believe everything you hear, especially what the government tells you on TV and in newspapers about war.
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Summary: It's good the hear the other side
Comment: It seems like the only movies you'll see about Vietnam these, are made by anti-American leftists. (Except Mel Gibson) This movie is different in that you do get a different perspective of that war, which is rarely shown from Hollywood these days. I wish we could go back to the days when Hollywood supported the military, the way this movie does. The thing that bothers me most about the Vietnam war is that we could have won it. North Vietnamese Generals, have admitted as such in documentaries. But widespread treason was committed by our left-wing media, and the leftist Hollywood types. Which I believe helped turn some Americans against the war. So we ended up losing the PR war.
Allot of good people died in Vietnam. We should have honored their service by winning that war, rather than spitting on them when they came home. If anything, this movie reminds us not to ever let that mistake be repeated.
I'll take this movie over anything Oliver Stone ever made...
5 stars.
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Summary: A silly movie, but still good for a laugh
Comment: Wayne avoided military service during World War Two, and it shows in the movie. For example, Wayne repeatedly uses his rifle to gesture toward someone, a flagrant mistake that a recruit with one week of training would not make. Appropriately, at the movie's end the sun sinks in the east as Wayne and a Vietnamese child gaze out to sea. The movie's grasp of the war in Vietnam is as confused as its grasp of geography.
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Summary: Motion Picture; "The Green Berets"
Comment: For those who are fans of "The Duke" (John Wayne). This is yet another example of a very good John Wayne movie. Though the subject matter is controvercial, even today. If your a fan of "War Movies", this film is quite good, and an excellent addition to any collection. The story presentation would be considered weak by today's standards, as would the special effects. Still, not bad considering the period. There were a few touching moments to the story, which added a nice diversity, as opposed to the action which, as I said before, is period specific to 1967-68 when this was filmed.The best that Hollywood could do at the time. Overall, still worth adding to one's collection.
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