Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Delight Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

bkoganbing What can you say about a war that Franz Kafka might have arranged? It's said in The Boys In Company C. The story is based on the journal of a GI played by James Canning and his four buddies who went through basic training and served as Marines. The other four are Stan Shaw, Andrew Stevens, Craig Wasson, and Michael Lembeck. The five all come from completely different backgrounds and those backgrounds play into how they come to feel as they feel about our military intervention. Not so surprising eventually they all arrive at the same conclusions.Vietnam was a whole lot like how we dealt with China except that we weren't dumb enough to get into a land war there on behalf of Chiang Kai-shek. No we went in by increments and by 1967-68 when the action of this film takes place we had no clear military objective. Our allies whom we fought for were as corrupt a bunch as you could have. Stan Shaw from the Chicago ghetto thought he was street smart and cynical and thought he'd make some crooked drug money while there. The corruption played out with a scene with South Vietnamese general leaves him appalled.There were sure enough real casualties among civilians in Vietnam. But I remember the obsession and reporting of body counts in the news back in the day. This was how we measured success and those on the ground gave them what they asked for. Scott Hylands has a great part as a captain who has really bought into the hype about that.Hylands has another obsession, soccer. He sees a soccer game as a metaphor for war and pretty soon his men pretend to buy into it including our five protagonists. But we even have corruption there as the five soon discover. All five meet different fates in the end and as the postscript explains. Not as well known as Casualties Of War or Platoon. Still The Boys In Company C can certainly lay claim to being THE Vietnam War film.

tristintheshyman Overall, I thought that the movie was pretty good. The comedy in the beginning was original, witty and funny. After that things start to get serious, but not too much so after they land in Vietnam. The shooting scenes are great and realistic. The acting during these parts and throughout is actually pretty good. However, in the end, they lost me. It seems that the scene wasn't quite done right. There isn't any real tension in the first half, and the scene falls flat. During the second half, they announce another stipulation for no real reason, except it seems, to liven things up. Now we have a proper moral dilemma. Then, at the end of a game a battle starts; for no particular reason except they (Vietnam) lost. The sergeant is killed without reason and at random. A random private is killed without reason. There is a lot of random shooting. This scene does not mesh very well. It seems that the team is lacking discipline in this scene, as they cry about team members lost. This did not happen earlier in the movie. It seems as though they have turned into wimps in this scene. And to top it all off, the movie leaves us at a cliffhanger, with no real resolution.

Buzz Anyone who thinks this flick accurately represents the Marine Corps just shows he knows nothing about the Marines.The guy who compared the boot camp scenes to his Air Force boot camp simply confirms that. Marine boot camp is to Air Force boot camp what the Green Bay Packers are to peewee league football. (Yes, I'm a Marine, so I know what I'm talking about.)This movie SUCKS and is fake beyond belief. The Marines portrayed are confused, sniveling cowards. Their leaders can't lead and have no idea what they're doing once under fire.This movie is an insult to everyone who ever wore the Marine uniform.

brianb2970 I'm a Viet vet from 1969 - 1970, and when the movie first came out in theaters I saw it on the first day (as I recall). At the time I thought it was pretty lame, in that a movie that started out strong dealing with a sweat-dripping depiction of basic training (as we called Boot Camp in the Army); continued with a fairly realistic portrayal of the boredom, ennui, and occasional action of the Nam combat zone; depicted the routine contempt of the lifers and draftees for each other common at the time; then devolved into some kind of weird soccer contest???????????? I mean, what the hell's up with that? It was like a bad splice in the editing room of two movies that had nothing to do with each other. I'm still wondering what the real ending is to "Boys from Company C". Because what I saw sure could not be it. I think that was a screen test ending for the original version of "Bad News Bears".