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Hamburger Hill (20th Anniversary Edition)
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Genre | War |
Format | NTSC, Original recording remastered, Multiple Formats, AC-3, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen, Color, Closed-captioned See more |
Contributor | Harry O'Reilly, Tim Quill, Tegan West, Michael Boatman, Don Cheadle, J.C. Palmore, Daniel O'Shea, James Carabatsos, Dylan McDermott, Steven Weber, Kieu Chinh, Tommy Swerdlow, Marcia Nasatir, Doug Goodman, M.A. Nickles, Michael Dolan, J.D. Van Sickle, Anthony Barrile, Courtney Vance, Don James, John Irvin See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 50 minutes |
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Though the anti-war sentiments of Hamburger Hill come through loud and clear, the film is squarely on the side of those courageous, much-maligned Americans who fought and died in Vietnam. Based on a true incident, the story takes place in 1969, as the 101st Airborne Division confronts the Vietcong in a bloody battle over Hill 937 (aka "Hamburger Hill") in the Ashua Valley. During the next 10 days, both sides incur heavy losses, but the Cong refuse to surrender the hill. The ultimate American "victory" turns out to be a hollow one indeed. Scripted by Vietnam war vet Jim Carabatsos, Hamburger Hill not only underlines the futility of the war but also the pressures brought to bear upon the troops by an insensitive, often hostile media. By utilizing a cast of unknowns, director Jim Irvin deftly avoids the Hollywoodized slickness of such bigger-budgeted efforts as Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter.
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 ounces
- Audio Description: : English
- Item model number : 23288
- Director : John Irvin
- Media Format : NTSC, Original recording remastered, Multiple Formats, AC-3, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen, Color, Closed-captioned
- Run time : 1 hour and 50 minutes
- Release date : May 20, 2008
- Actors : Anthony Barrile, Michael Boatman, Don Cheadle, Michael Dolan, Don James
- Subtitles: : Spanish, English
- Producers : James Carabatsos, Marcia Nasatir
- Language : Unqualified, English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Studio : Lionsgate
- ASIN : B0015D20FE
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #6,154 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #61 in Military & War (Movies & TV)
- #874 in Drama DVDs
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The story is a salute to the American fighting man and his willingness to gain objectives. Few people know that there were 44 provinces in South Vietnam and that the 4 provinces that comprised I Corps accounted for 44% of all US casualties. It really was a different war there although actions in '65 thru '67 in the Central Highlands were just as fierce and challenging. The Ashau Valley was conqured, with great sacrifice, in 1968 and 1969 by The Marines, The 1st Cav and by my proud unit the 101st Airborne.
I was there in operation Somerset Plain in August 1968. I was on the lower levels of Hamburger Hill when we backed off and let the Air Force Bomb Hanburger Hill for 24 consecutive hours. When we entered the valley, both sides were lined for miles with 37MM and 51 cal anti-aircraft guns. Out of 50 Slick Hueys and 26 supporting gunships, 15 of the choppers were shot down before we touched down on the valley floor. That mission was doomed from the start. A Company 2/502 was hit by an Air Force National Guard F100 that dropped a 500# bomb directly on their position killing 15 of my Brothers and wounding 55. Due to casualties in the war a standard company of 200 men could not get replacements fast enough to field more than 100 men. We spent 19 days on the west ridge of the valley before pulling out.
My unit B Co. 2/502 is the Strike Force unit of the 13th Valley fame. However, the two major engagements Hamburger Hill and Ripcord were both fought by the 3rd Brigade of the 101st. Hats off to the 3rd Brigade and all who served in Vietnam. Most I Corp grunt units were like mine taking 1 in 4 killed and 50% wounded every year. If you were in the mountains, Hamburger Hill was your story, any other movie is a faery tale..
It was called the 90th Replacement Battalion (as though there were 89 others) and was located at Long Binh, just north of a city once called Saigon. Virtually all American soldiers who arrived in Vietnam would spend 2-3 days at the 90th, trying to get over jet lag, while the powers-that-be assigned them to their ultimate destination.
“Diversity” is a buzz word today. But for real “diversity,” try conscription. It was a wild assortment of very diverse (male) individuals from across the USA who were being trained as Army medics at Fort Sam Houston, TX. One in particular was a big farm boy from Kansas, who commenced the training as a rather unquestioning patriot. Ten weeks later, the training had turned him into a disillusion sceptic. Was it when the drill sergeant read out the answers to all the test questions and threatened anyone who willfully provided the wrong answer with “KP,” (kitchen police)? We were all 100% geniuses. The real life test was soon to come, with less spectacular results.
At the 90th, we stood in formation together as the assignments were read out. He was assigned to the 101st Airborne; I was assigned to the 4th Infantry. To this day I do not know what happened to him. A couple of days later I was at Camp Enari, near Pleiku. The first and only time I would see the 4th’s commanding general, Major General Stone, was at orientation, a 10-minute bit of wisdom, in which he said: “In the 4th, we do not do frontal assaults; if we run into serious resistance, we pull back and let the artillery and air force earn their keep.”
“Hamburger Hill” is about frontal assaults. I decided to break down and watch this movie after recently reading “Vietnam central Renaissance de la vallée d’ A Luoi” in French, which is about the valley the Americans called the “A Shau.” Technically, Hamburger Hill was called Hill 937, for its height in meters, at the far southern end of the A Shau. The Vietnamese called it Ap Bac. On May 10, 1969, the commanding general of the 101st, Major General Melvin Zais, ordered elements of his division to take the hill by frontal assault. It took 10 days, encompassing 11 separate bloody assaults. Wikipedia says that 72 Americans died taking the hill; 372 were wounded. Zais did not have the “pull back” mentality.
John Irvin directed this largely accurate re-enactment of the battle. He directed some good actors like Don Cheadle who played Private Johnny Washburn. Dylan McDermott played Sgt. Adam Frantz. Officers were scarce as hen’s teeth. The focus is on the grunts. By far, the best actor is Courtney Vance, with America’ “Oxbridge background,” Harvard-Yale, who amazingly somehow brilliantly played the cynical medic, Spec. 4 Abraham “Doc” Johnson.
The movie is essentially in two parts. It shows the relevant unit of the 101st at a firebase, mainly cavorting with the local women. Looked like good times, but the depiction completely missed the sordidness of it, as was brilliantly captured in the award-winning documentary “Hearts and Minds.” Why, oh why did the Vietnamese women do this? An answer has been provided by Norman Lewis, in his “Naples, 1944,” in which he estimated that 70% of the Italian women had to prostitute themselves to survive. “Doc” Johnson participates, but there is no mention that treating VD is his number one task as a medic.
Most of the movie is that frontal assault, in which, inter alia, a “short-timer” is killed. It was hard not to think of other such charges, particularly from WW1: Passchendaele, Ypres, the Somme, et al. Madness. And Doc Johnson? A serious shortcoming in the script: why it did not explore the psyche of Zais who ordered the assault?
The Battle for Hamburger Hill may have impacted my life. I was 300 or so km to the south at the time. Very limited outside news. It was only in June, when I was in Australia, on R&R, that I read the headline: “NVA retake Hamburger Hill.” There was a large political uproar in the States about the battle… promises of “never again,” which may be the reason I was given a seven day “drop” to the standard 365 days as America hastened to turn the fighting over to the Vietnamese.
Oh… the denouement. A year later, back in the States. There was a very intelligent woman… she had also spent a year in Vietnam… she showed me one of her jungle fatigue souvenirs from the war - a shirt with the nametag, “Zais.” No dots needed to be connected. Nothing could have been a greater turn-off.
4-stars for the movie about frontal assaults… in the country where the bombs had to fall.
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Le DVD fonctionne très bien, donc aucun souci au niveau de la lecture. Cependant l'emballage/boite pour DVD est arrivé endommagé.
the story of the assault on Hill 937 at the A Shau
Valley in 1969.
It starts with the arrival of a bunch of FNGs, that
is F***ing New Guys, who are green to Nam... The
jargon is about right, and it does show some of the
darker side of the war, like the brothels and friendly
fire. The battle scene are quite good, but we hardly
see the POV of the NVA or VC, they seem to be an
invisible enemy. Maybe that was the point, but there
were two sides to this battle...
Overall, still a good film.