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One way or another, you can stream it. It's pretty eerie to see the "stop motion" Buster Keaton style images give way to fluidity and color. It humanizes history beyond propaganda.
I have a love hate on We Were Soldiers. The book was great but the movie was and is off-putting to me. My first gripe was how everything looks like a big cartoon. It looks like a comic book or something. So vibrant. I had this picture of Platoon where everything was so grimy, dull, and grungy.
I was then corrected by a person, now since passed, who had seen the film when it first came out and was of that Early Vietnam War era. Vietnam did and does indeed have bright sunshiney days and the rifles were new. The OD fatigues were poplin and bright green. Nobody had subdued patches or name tapes. White T shirts were very much worn. And the soldiers at the beginning were not at all unlike the professional soldiers of today. Razor creases, starched everything, can do attitude. The BS attitudes didn't come until later.
So...I say that to say this. There's how things were and there's what people choose to see because of the limitations of the time.
With our technology, we should be documenting everything. Good, bad, and ugly.
They also left out the second, more costly part of the Ia Drang fight: LZ Albany. Of course that would have made it a 5 hour movie, so there's that.
EDIT: just looked at the preview on the link Honu posted. What they did is incredible! Kind of reminds me of the now-colorized Civil War pics, only with fluid (not jerky) motions the advent of motion pictures gave us over the Civil War by the time WWI had started.
Last edited by ABNAK; 12-15-18 at 08:24.
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