I just want to say that when I first saw this movie I thought that I was watching my life in Viet-Nam unfold in front of me. It was many years after I left VN that I saw this movie but it moved me so much that I had flashbacks for years afterwards. The depiction of personalities, locations, methods, escapism , etc.etc....hit so close to home that I just couldn't believe how realistic of a job that they did on the movie. One last thing, I really believe that there was a "Colonol Kurtz" type guy running his own war in vn. Too often I saw the bodies he floated down the Mekong to taunt the Pentagon and show them how the war should be fought and won....I know that the movie was based on the book "Heart of Darkness" but I think that the same type of character WAS running his own little war out of Cambodia/Laos. I have so much more to say about this movie .... it's like that Idon't know if it's THE BEST movie ever made but (for me anyway) it's moved me and affected me more than any movie I've ever seen.... I'd sure like to know where he got his technical advisors from....right on the money!!!!! If anybody else would like to discuss this movie please do....I'm getting those old feelings again and now I guess I'll have to watch it again and feel queasy and upset for weeks to come... one last thought.... "Don't get off the boat, don't get off the boat, don't get off the boat, dont get off........

Don,t watch that movie,that,s a ride you can,t take.I hope you don,t take this wrong but you probably have post traumatic stress symdrone.I have this too and had to pay alot of money to an incompetent shrink just to figure out what the hell was wrong with me.You don,t need to rub your nose in that shit hon.The horror.My dad served in world war 2,lost a lung because of it.I remember he said we should have never got in Viet-nam in the first place.I salute you,thank God your still here,you guys got a bad deal.I,m on prozac and it seems to help,you need to hook up with the V.A.and get some help.My dad never talked much about it at home,but he was a member of the D.A.V.and V.F.W.and he liked going to the meetings,do you do that?