Great, great Vietnam War movie.
It had many lasting impressions on me. From the basic training shock and R. Lee Ermey's ultra-effective acting (really, it was probably an easier role for him then I would think, as he probably has a lot of real life experience in the suck), to Animal Mother and the other messed up soldiers the war had created (especially the unknown helicopter gunner, firing at civilians).
But the battle of Hue was so effective and depressing. The last scene where the soldiers are trying to figure out what to do with the half-dead young female sniper is telling. And the movie ending was fustrating, awkward and incomplete; just like the war it portrayed.
Great Kubrick film
