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De Niro in Jacknife (1989)
Filed under: Actors, Trailer, Veterans, Vietnam Tagged: De Niro, Vietnam Vets
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De Niro in Jacknife (1989)Part II
Often when you ask someone who is their favourite actor especially men tend to name Robert de Niro. Surely his merits are undisputable still he did get on my nerves in several of his films since he´s...
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True Blood and The Vietnam Vet
I read a lot. All sorts of things. Classics, literature, prize winners, pure entertainment, crime and thriller, some Fantasy… I am curious when I hear people enthuse about a book. That´s how I got...
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How to Kill the Reputation of a Genre or Rambo: First Blood Part II
I have gotten many negative reactions when I have told people that I am interested in war movies. There are many people who think a war movie will always glorify violence and favour supermacho heroes...
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Remembering The Deer Hunter (1978)
Isn´t it weird sometimes what we remember about certain movies? I don´t know when it was, but I think it must have been a very long time ago, that I watched The Deer Hunter for the first time. Looking...
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Alan Parker’s Birdy (1984) A Tale of Friendship, War and Being Different
What took me so long to watch this astonishing movie? For odd reasons it is hardly on any war movie list, not even in Russell’s book on Vietnam movies although he included Forrest Gump. Maybe because...
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Most Memorable Vietnam Vet in War Movies
I actually had a discussion yesterday about this topic. Which is the most memorable Vietnam vet in any movie? De Niro in Taxi Driver? Ron Kovic in Born on the 4th of July? Or even Rambo? The one I...
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Heroes (1977) Another Vietnam Vet Tale
Last year I posted on the topic of Most Memorable Vietnam Vets and collected quite a list of movies in which a Vietnam vet is the main character. With the exception of four movies I had seen all of...
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