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Good points, but HH was still tedious and cliched

Posted by Doug Flynn on December 23, 2010 at 11:58:34:
If it was a big picture movie, then it should have given us more of the big picture (ie. the strategic importance of the hill, the top brass decision making behind its taking, how the NVA/VC would have been affected by its loss, etc). It wasn't a big picture movie at all because it concerned itself solely with the guys in the platoon who were tasked with taking the hill.

All in all, it was a sloppy screenplay. The Doc death scene was an exercise in cliche, as was the Dear John letter and the brothel scene. You need more depth to a screenplay when basically all you have is a movie about a bunch of guys crawling up a hill under gunfire. HH *could* have been a really great movie, maybe the defining Vietnam war movie. The taking of the hill should have been worked into a larger whole, because without the fighting on the hill there wasn't really anything else in the movie which was noteworthy.

There's no real coda to the movie either, either physical, psychological or metaphysical. Contrast that with Platoon, which resolved many different conflicts in its final act (yes, I know you hated Platoon, but give it some credit).

Anyway, you've got me thinking, so I will watch it again soon (it would make a great Christmas day movie, don't you think).