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Regarding Vietnam, cinema critics and historians have long noted something odd about that war: it was nearly a decade before someone made a movie about it. The war-happy John Wayne film, "The Green Berets," was the only film made during the war. It was almost the eighties before we got "The Deer Hunter" and "Apocalypse Now."
The fall of Saigon was 1975? (I guess you meant when we entered the conflict in the '60s, OK.)
Coming Home and Deer Hunter came out in '78
Apocolypse in '79
If there's a story to tell, a movie will be made. I'm just sorry it's Oliver Stone and the star of "The Rock" and "Con Air"--Mr. meaningful squinting--Nicholas Cage.
Barf.
