MHF - Hockey Thread

[Montegriffo]

I just watched Hamburger Hill for the first time.
Apparently, war is hell.

Otherwise known as Hill 937 at Dong Ap Bia.

The High Watermark of the New Dealers.

Not a great Vietnam movie.
Not compared with Full Metal Jacket or Platoon.

[Smitty-48]

I just watched Hamburger Hill for the first time.
Apparently, war is hell.

Otherwise known as Hill 937 at Dong Ap Bia.

The High Watermark of the New Dealers.

Not a great Vietnam movie.
Not compared with Full Metal Jacket or Platoon.

True, they turned it into an action movie, so it's a frivolous attempt to document the battle.

Mind you, Platoon and FMH are totally made up fiction, whereas the events in the Hamburger Hill movie actually happened, it's not generally inaccurate, it's just badly made.

The American war plays out between two Hills

The Chu Pong Massif in the Ia Drang Valley and Hill 937 in the A Shau Valley.

Hill 937 is the straw that breaks the camels back, the point where the morale of the Army in the field collapses.

From there moving into 1970 is where it starts to become like a mutiny, the troops start to buck the rider

[Montegriffo]

Otherwise known as Hill 937 at Dong Ap Bia.

The High Watermark of the New Dealers.

Not a great Vietnam movie.
Not compared with Full Metal Jacket or Platoon.

True, they turned it into an action movie, so it's a frivolous attempt to document the battle.

Mind you, Platoon and FMH are totally made up fiction, whereas the events in the Hamburger Hill movie actually happened, it's not generally inaccurate, it's just badly made.

The American war plays out between two Hills

The Chu Pong Massif in the Ia Drang Valley and Hill 937 in the A Shau Valley.

Hill 937 is the straw that breaks the camels back, the point where the morale of the Army in the field collapses.

From there moving into 1970 is where it starts to become like a mutiny, the troops start to buck the rider

As a movie it was just a bit dull. Full of cliches about racial division and the pointlessness of war. I'd have rather watched a documentary about the battle than that.
Not a lot of truth in Apocalypse Now but at least it was entertaining.

[Smitty-48]

As a movie it was just a bit dull. Full of cliches about racial division and the pointlessness of war. I'd have rather watched a documentary about the battle than that.
Not a lot of truth in Apocalypse Now but at least it was entertaining.

Yeah, it gets silly at the end too, it's so over the top maudlin that it becomes laughable.

[Smitty-48]

I like The Odd Angry Shot

It's not an epic, but it's down to earth realistic with realistic tactics

[Montegriffo]

I like The Odd Angry Shot

It's not an epic, but it's down to earth realistic with realistic tactics

Not heard of that one.

[Smitty-48]

I like The Odd Angry Shot

It's not an epic, but it's down to earth realistic with realistic tactics

Not heard of that one.

Australian. SASR. Based at Nui Dat with 1st Australian Task Force, Vung Tau province, from 1966 to 1971

[Montegriffo]

I like The Odd Angry Shot

It's not an epic, but it's down to earth realistic with realistic tactics

Not heard of that one.

Australian. SASR. Based at Nui Dat with 1st Australian Task Force, Vung Tau province, from 1966 to 1971

Rocking the SLR. That's what my Action Man doll had.

[Smitty-48]

Yegor Korshkov is making his NHL debut

31st overall 2nd round pick, which is a 1st round pick now with 31 teams

Long term project drafted in 2016 out of Russia, by Mark Hunter Hockey Genius.

[Smitty-48]

Not heard of that one.

Australian. SASR. Based at Nui Dat with 1st Australian Task Force, Vung Tau province, from 1966 to 1971

Rocking the SLR. That's what my Action Man doll had.

That's what we used when I first joined, then we switched to the AR15 (C7) at the end of the 80's