Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786301538190 Format: Color ISBN: 6301538196 Label: Sony Pictures Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Sony Pictures Release Date: 1995-05-04 Studio: Sony Pictures Theatrical Release Date: 1989-04-07
Customer Rating: Summary: FIRST TO GO. LAST TO KNOW. Comment: I served as a mopic during that goddamned war. This flick rings so true. It made me laugh and cry and wish I knew nothing about what happened over there.
Welcome home, brothers!
Customer Rating: Summary: Whats your sitrep? Over. (Amazon Review #2) Comment: This is a pretty cool movie. After reading many Vietnam Lurp books I came across 84 Charlie Mopic. This movie gives you a visual to many things read in those books. I would highly recommend this movie to anyone who has read any Lurp book. Customer Rating: Summary: Great Movie..We want a DVD version already! Comment: I saw this movie on VHS in the mid-90s. I was blown away by the psuedo-documentary style at the time, and didnt see anything comparable till The Blair Witch Project.
Please release this in a Region 1 DVD already! Customer Rating: Summary: Someone Finally Got it Right.... Comment: I am 57 years old.
I served with the "Brown Water" Navy for 32 months on the Bassac River, RVN from 1968-1972.
After watching nearly every "Hollywood Hokey" Vietnam Movie, I had almost given up on anyone producing a true representation of what small unit combat in Vietnam was like.
Then...I saw 84 Charlie Mopic.
Technically, there are many operational and tactical flaws in the film that immediately stand out. Crossing open clearings single file...lack of noise discipline, both small talk and loose gear...not maintaining intervals...the presence of non combat personnel on a combat patrol...and many others. Had the movie minimized these tactical flaws, I would have rated it a perfect 5 stars.
However,these flaws aside...no other Vietnam movie has grabbed me in the gut and in 15 minutes transported me back in country as this movie did.
The characters and conversations are so real and so typical of conversations I recall with my buddies and crew, that I felt I had known each of them during my tour.
The monologue of the Southern "woodworker's son", when he explained why he had no reservation being led by a black NCO...ESPECIALLY touched me. It left a lump in my throat...because these were the same sentiments I felt toward several men in my crew. Skin color was NOT an issue. I would have given my life for any one of them...then or today.
It was THIS sense of brotherhood, of loyalty, of commitment that was correctly demonstrated by this film and why ANYONE who did serve would appreciate it's content... and why anyone who wasn't there, should see it.
This film should be required viewing in every public high school today.
I wish someone would offer it on DVD.
Customer Rating: Summary: Bring it to DVD already!!! Comment: 84 Charlie Mopic is one of the greatest movies about the war in Vietnam ever filmed. As a Vietnam War scholar and enthusiast, I must rank this up there with such Vietnam classics as Platoon, Full metal Jacket and Apocalypse Now. The way Duncan teaches us the "lessons learned" by the American combat soldier in Vietnam is unprecidented. He wanted the film to have a certain documentary feel to it and he accomplishes this terrifically. Not only does the viewer witness the brutality of war through the eyes of the Grunt, we actually get a terrific story, great acting and to top it all off, we actually learn something that earlier Vietnam films just don't get accross. I would highly recommend this film to any young person studying America's involvement in the Vietnam war who wants to learn the details of what the soldier actually experienced in the field, and, anyone who is a history buff at all. This is not only a great Vietnam War film, but is a great film period. Why it has not been released on DVD in America yet is beyond me, it certainly deserves it.
