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We Were Soldiers movie review (2002)
There you have the two emotional poles of "We Were Soldiers," the story of the first major land battle in the Vietnam War, late in 1965. Moore ( Mel Gibson) is a family man, and a Harvard graduate who studies international relations. Plumley ( Sam Elliott) is an Army lifer, hard, brave, unsentimental. They are both about as good as battle ...
We Were Soldiers
Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 04/29/24 Full Review Nathan T We Were Soldiers is a brilliant movie and an outstanding depiction of the fighting in the Ia Drang Valley. Was one of ...
We Were Soldiers (2002)
We Were Soldiers: Directed by Randall Wallace. With Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear, Sam Elliott. The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War, and the soldiers on both sides that fought it, while their wives wait nervously and anxiously at home for the good news or the bad news.
We Were Soldiers Movie Review
Our review: Parents say ( 11 ): Kids say ( 24 ): We Were Soldiers spends half an hour making us care about each of the characters and the rest of the movie blowing them up. There have been thousands of war movies, and dozens of movies about the Viet Nam war, but this is one of the few to truly honor the men who fought and the women they loved.
We Were Soldiers (2002)
10/10. Powerful and moving, not a film for everyone however. Mike-575 24 February 2002. I was privileged to see a preview of Mel Gibson's new film "We Were Soldiers" based upon the book written by his real life character, Lt. Col. Harold Moore, along with Joe Galloway.
We Were Soldiers
Box office. $115.4 million. We Were Soldiers is a 2002 American war film written and directed by Randall Wallace and starring Mel Gibson. Based on the book We Were Soldiers Once… and Young (1992) by Lieutenant General (Ret.) Hal Moore and reporter Joseph L. Galloway, it dramatizes the Battle of Ia Drang on November 14, 1965.
We Were Soldiers
Generally Favorable Based on 37 Critic Reviews. 65. 70% Positive 26 Reviews. 24% Mixed 9 Reviews. 5% Negative 2 Reviews ... Randall Wallace's "We Were Soldiers" is an unpardonable insult to young Vietnamese soldiers who sacrificed themselves for the independence of their homeland, completely contradicting what the story was supposed to do ...
Review of We Were Soldiers
Review of We Were Soldiers. War films by their nature have built-in drama - us versus them, live or die - and as with any genre film, there are a few that outclass the others and stand alone ...
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In "We Were Soldiers", director Randall Wallace offers a non-political take with the true story of the war's first ground battle, in 1965. Barely registering ambiguous politics or social betrayals ...
We Were Soldiers
Plumley's natural reply, 'Sir, Custer was a p--.'. One of the most violent movies ever released. Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 29, 2010. We Were Soldiers is, ultimately, a powerful and ...
We Were Soldiers Review
Most combat dramas of the last 40 years after the scores of World War II commemorative guts and glory heroics have effectively been anti-war, sharing the conviction that, no matter which war, it ...
We Were Soldiers
We Were Soldiers hangs on to the less problematic figures of the war movie - the concerned commander, the tough, loveable sergeant-major, the dedicated subaltern. But it drops the coward, the self ...
We Were Soldiers
February 26, 2002. We Were Soldiers, an unabashedly pro-military look at the first major battle of the Vietnam era, has an impact that transcends politics and some dramatic overreaching by writer ...
We Were Soldiers Movie Review
We Were Soldiers Movie Review. by AVForums Oct 1, 2002. Review. Movies & TV Review. We Were Soldiers Movie (2002) Hop to. Scores; While most Vietnam movies concentrate on the futility of the conflict and the madness it induced in those involved, We Were Soldiers focuses an early skirmish, and tries to present a balanced view of the Vietnamese ...
We Were Soldiers
Movie Review "We came in spastic, like tameless horses/We left in plastic as numbered corpses . . . We held the day in the palm of our hand/They ruled the night/And the night seemed to last as long as six weeks on Parris Island" —Billy Joel, "Goodnight Saigon" ... We Were Soldiers has its heart in the right place, wanting to honor the ...
We Were Soldiers [Reviews]
Review of We Were Soldiers. 9. EDITORS' CHOICE. Review scoring. amazing. ... 2002 - The team that brought us <I>Braveheart</I> delivers one fine war movie. We Were Soldiers ManaByte. Mar 1, 2002 ...
We Were Soldiers
Review. We Were Soldiers. ... But this unimaginative, regressive movie stolidly requires us to forget about all that, to de-ironise these icons and abandon these perspectives in favour of a naive ...
The History Place
We Were Soldiers has absolutely nothing new to add to our understanding of Vietnam or of warfare itself. The film makers obviously played it very safe, taking a little bit of this, a little bit of that, presenting us with a commercial project that is a waste of time for anyone who wants to learn something. The reliance of a visit to the Vietnam ...
Mel Gibson's 2002 War Movie Accuracy "Fails On Lot Of Levels," Says Expert
Mel Gibson's 2002 War Movie Accuracy "Fails On Lot Of Levels," Says Expert. Bill Allison, a military history professor, takes issue with certain scenes in We Were Soldiers, including the film's depiction of PAVN forces. Allison awards the Mel Gibson-starring Vietnam War movie a score of 5 out of 10. We Were Soldiers earned mostly positive ...
We Were Soldiers (2002)
The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War, and the soldiers on both sides that fought it, while their wives wait nervously and anxiously at home for the good news or the bad news. A telling of the 1st Battalion, 7 Cavalry Regiment, 1st Calvary Division's battle against overwhelming odds in the Ia Drang valley ...
WE WERE SOLDIERS
WE WERE SOLDIERS is the first Vietnam movie to really honor the men who gave their lives in that difficult conflict. Mel Gibson plays Col. Hal Moore, a devout Roman Catholic Christian with a Methodist wife and a gaggle of children. In 1965, Col. Moore's superiors order him to create a new combat tactic sending soldiers into combat quickly via ...
We Were Soldiers movie review (2002)
There you have the two emotional poles of "We Were Soldiers," the story of the first major land battle in the Vietnam War, late in 1965. Moore ( Mel Gibson) is a family man, and a Harvard graduate who studies international relations. Plumley ( Sam Elliott) is an Army lifer, hard, brave, unsentimental. They are both about as good as battle ...
WE WERE SOLDIERS
WE WERE SOLDIERS, based on his memoirs of commanding the first major encounter of the Vietnam War, is suffused with the same sensibility. The film opens in the 1950s, with a French patrol in the I Drang valley of Vietnam being ambushed by a guerilla band of Vietnamese.
A Soldier's Play review: A timely, yet sterile revival
Lee, who played Corporal Cobb in the original 1981 production, is slippery and cruel as Sergeant Waters. He perfectly tempers Waters' reveal — his by-the-book army man is unveiled as a self ...
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There you have the two emotional poles of "We Were Soldiers," the story of the first major land battle in the Vietnam War, late in 1965. Moore ( Mel Gibson) is a family man, and a Harvard graduate who studies international relations. Plumley ( Sam Elliott) is an Army lifer, hard, brave, unsentimental. They are both about as good as battle ...
Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 04/29/24 Full Review Nathan T We Were Soldiers is a brilliant movie and an outstanding depiction of the fighting in the Ia Drang Valley. Was one of ...
We Were Soldiers: Directed by Randall Wallace. With Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear, Sam Elliott. The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War, and the soldiers on both sides that fought it, while their wives wait nervously and anxiously at home for the good news or the bad news.
Our review: Parents say ( 11 ): Kids say ( 24 ): We Were Soldiers spends half an hour making us care about each of the characters and the rest of the movie blowing them up. There have been thousands of war movies, and dozens of movies about the Viet Nam war, but this is one of the few to truly honor the men who fought and the women they loved.
10/10. Powerful and moving, not a film for everyone however. Mike-575 24 February 2002. I was privileged to see a preview of Mel Gibson's new film "We Were Soldiers" based upon the book written by his real life character, Lt. Col. Harold Moore, along with Joe Galloway.
Box office. $115.4 million. We Were Soldiers is a 2002 American war film written and directed by Randall Wallace and starring Mel Gibson. Based on the book We Were Soldiers Once… and Young (1992) by Lieutenant General (Ret.) Hal Moore and reporter Joseph L. Galloway, it dramatizes the Battle of Ia Drang on November 14, 1965.
Generally Favorable Based on 37 Critic Reviews. 65. 70% Positive 26 Reviews. 24% Mixed 9 Reviews. 5% Negative 2 Reviews ... Randall Wallace's "We Were Soldiers" is an unpardonable insult to young Vietnamese soldiers who sacrificed themselves for the independence of their homeland, completely contradicting what the story was supposed to do ...
Review of We Were Soldiers. War films by their nature have built-in drama - us versus them, live or die - and as with any genre film, there are a few that outclass the others and stand alone ...
In "We Were Soldiers", director Randall Wallace offers a non-political take with the true story of the war's first ground battle, in 1965. Barely registering ambiguous politics or social betrayals ...
Plumley's natural reply, 'Sir, Custer was a p--.'. One of the most violent movies ever released. Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 29, 2010. We Were Soldiers is, ultimately, a powerful and ...
Most combat dramas of the last 40 years after the scores of World War II commemorative guts and glory heroics have effectively been anti-war, sharing the conviction that, no matter which war, it ...
We Were Soldiers hangs on to the less problematic figures of the war movie - the concerned commander, the tough, loveable sergeant-major, the dedicated subaltern. But it drops the coward, the self ...
February 26, 2002. We Were Soldiers, an unabashedly pro-military look at the first major battle of the Vietnam era, has an impact that transcends politics and some dramatic overreaching by writer ...
We Were Soldiers Movie Review. by AVForums Oct 1, 2002. Review. Movies & TV Review. We Were Soldiers Movie (2002) Hop to. Scores; While most Vietnam movies concentrate on the futility of the conflict and the madness it induced in those involved, We Were Soldiers focuses an early skirmish, and tries to present a balanced view of the Vietnamese ...
Movie Review "We came in spastic, like tameless horses/We left in plastic as numbered corpses . . . We held the day in the palm of our hand/They ruled the night/And the night seemed to last as long as six weeks on Parris Island" —Billy Joel, "Goodnight Saigon" ... We Were Soldiers has its heart in the right place, wanting to honor the ...
Review of We Were Soldiers. 9. EDITORS' CHOICE. Review scoring. amazing. ... 2002 - The team that brought us <I>Braveheart</I> delivers one fine war movie. We Were Soldiers ManaByte. Mar 1, 2002 ...
Review. We Were Soldiers. ... But this unimaginative, regressive movie stolidly requires us to forget about all that, to de-ironise these icons and abandon these perspectives in favour of a naive ...
We Were Soldiers has absolutely nothing new to add to our understanding of Vietnam or of warfare itself. The film makers obviously played it very safe, taking a little bit of this, a little bit of that, presenting us with a commercial project that is a waste of time for anyone who wants to learn something. The reliance of a visit to the Vietnam ...
Mel Gibson's 2002 War Movie Accuracy "Fails On Lot Of Levels," Says Expert. Bill Allison, a military history professor, takes issue with certain scenes in We Were Soldiers, including the film's depiction of PAVN forces. Allison awards the Mel Gibson-starring Vietnam War movie a score of 5 out of 10. We Were Soldiers earned mostly positive ...
The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War, and the soldiers on both sides that fought it, while their wives wait nervously and anxiously at home for the good news or the bad news. A telling of the 1st Battalion, 7 Cavalry Regiment, 1st Calvary Division's battle against overwhelming odds in the Ia Drang valley ...
WE WERE SOLDIERS is the first Vietnam movie to really honor the men who gave their lives in that difficult conflict. Mel Gibson plays Col. Hal Moore, a devout Roman Catholic Christian with a Methodist wife and a gaggle of children. In 1965, Col. Moore's superiors order him to create a new combat tactic sending soldiers into combat quickly via ...
There you have the two emotional poles of "We Were Soldiers," the story of the first major land battle in the Vietnam War, late in 1965. Moore ( Mel Gibson) is a family man, and a Harvard graduate who studies international relations. Plumley ( Sam Elliott) is an Army lifer, hard, brave, unsentimental. They are both about as good as battle ...
WE WERE SOLDIERS, based on his memoirs of commanding the first major encounter of the Vietnam War, is suffused with the same sensibility. The film opens in the 1950s, with a French patrol in the I Drang valley of Vietnam being ambushed by a guerilla band of Vietnamese.
Lee, who played Corporal Cobb in the original 1981 production, is slippery and cruel as Sergeant Waters. He perfectly tempers Waters' reveal — his by-the-book army man is unveiled as a self ...