I saw Boys of Company C when it came out with a buddy who was in Vietnam with me in 1968. We were both 0311s (rifleman) in a rifle platoon.
For starters, recruits never had relationships or dialogues with drill instructors as portrayed in Boys. While in Vietnam I never conversed with a captain, as depicted in Boys who was the company commander; unless you were a radioman there was little need to speak directly to a captain.
The soccer game in Vietnam came across as a tired movie vehicle. That is, when you run out of script throw in a sporting event for filler and a possible conclusion.
Boys ranks with Heartbreak Ridge and The Siege of Firebase Gloria as war movie screenplays that should have been relegated to the REJECT pile. Whoever threw this stinker together should have been court martialed and been given the same sentence as Breaker Morant: Rule .303
For starters, recruits never had relationships or dialogues with drill instructors as portrayed in Boys. While in Vietnam I never conversed with a captain, as depicted in Boys who was the company commander; unless you were a radioman there was little need to speak directly to a captain.
The soccer game in Vietnam came across as a tired movie vehicle. That is, when you run out of script throw in a sporting event for filler and a possible conclusion.
Boys ranks with Heartbreak Ridge and The Siege of Firebase Gloria as war movie screenplays that should have been relegated to the REJECT pile. Whoever threw this stinker together should have been court martialed and been given the same sentence as Breaker Morant: Rule .303