The Green Berets

kick butt john wayne 82 airborne excellent kick butt movie the brave guys that went thru that tine will remember this... Full review

Well I became a Green Beret in 67. It show some of what we went thru not all but enough. I guess cause I live it and know what really happen.... Full review

Well I became a Green Beret in 67. It show some of what we went thru not all but enough. I guess cause I live it and know what really happen.... Full review

When I first saw the Green Berets back in the late 1970's early 80's it was widely criticized by contemporary film buffs as being jingoistic and 'gun ho'. Obviously, with John Wayne being the leading role, it only served to reinforce... Full review

what was the us army ,let alone robin moore thinking about ,when they pushed this propaganda piece fit for ww1 ,out on the general public? john wayne should have stuck to cowboy movies!... Full review

what was the us army ,let alone robin moore thinking about ,when they pushed this propaganda piece fit for ww1 ,out on the general public? john wayne should have stuck to cowboy movies!... Full review

John Wayne comes through better on a horse in a western, but other than that, he's great as a soldier in one of the Wars. In this, he's a colonel in Vietnam. Although it is mostly his political views that come... Full review

This movie shows John Wayne at his best, not to mention the memories I have sitting in the living room with my dad watching this show on a saturday afternoon... Full review

While it is the only Vietnam film made during the war, this picture uses a subtle method of defending the war. Using conversation and images to horrify the American people, we were shown why we should want to fight. It makes... Full review

John Wayne comes through better on a horse in a western, but other than that, he's great as a soldier in one of the Wars. In this, he's a colonel in Vietnam. Although it is mostly his political views that come... Full review

About the only well-known Hollywood movie about Vietnam actually made during the war was The Green Berets (1968), John Wayne's laughable anticommunist extravaganza, which unconvincingly recreated Vietnam on the grounds of Fort Benning in Georgia. Limpy and Duke's relationships with Vietnamese women isn't especially realistic, partly because the script wrongly assumes that, as in The Green Berets , Vietnamese families would welcome their would-be American saviors with open arms, but the actors' sincere perf ... Full Review

You can bring the legendary John Wayne in one of his most regarded films home in high definition next year. The Green Berets will be released on Blu-ray on January 5, 2010. ... Full Article

Steven J.Ross is a USC history professor who teaches film and popular culture."Americans," he told me, "don't want didactic films, and they don't want didactic politics in films. ... Full Article

Went down into the sea.So forget about East and West, it's left and right. Debate on where the sun comes up or goes down may seem trivial, but it makes a refreshing change from reading about protests, pontificating and... ... Full Article

Hollywood didn't seriously explore the Vietnam War until years after it was over. During the fighting, the film industry's most notable salvo was John Wayne's "The Green Berets" (1968), which offered a black hats-and-white-hats interpretation of a complex military entanglement. ... Full Article

A Candy-Coated WarWas it best for the American audience to view a sugary, childlike Vietnam War? Or should have the American audience seen the Vietnam War in a sincerely meat-and-bones kind of manner? ... Full Article

A World War II Flick in Vietnam-era Clothes...."Since the mid-1950s, a time when the Cold War between the United States and the former Soviet Union was at its coldest and the threat of a third world war seemed to loom... ... Full Article