trying to remember a war movie...

[PhillyB]

i saw this thing years ago, probably in the late 90s or early 2000s, and for the life of me i can't figure out what it is. iirc it was a vietnam war movie and as the protagonists moved through the jungle on patrol and had a bunch of poo happen to them they would flash back to before the war and explain how they each got there. there was this black guy who was a preacher and caught his wife cheating on him and killed her, then this dude who joined up to get a job when his employer fired him for stealing to impress a chick at a party, and so on… i remember this big burly white guy goes renegade in the jungle and when the find him he's gone bonkers and the one guy pretends to hug him and then blows his brains out with a revolver.

 

what fuging movie am i talking about because i've been searching for this poo all evening on google and i've come up empty.

[SZ James (banned)]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114888/

[PhillyB]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114888/

 

how the fug did you just know that? i thought it was obscure as fug. well done and thanks

[SZ James (banned)]

how the fug did you just know that? i thought it was obscure as fug. well done and thanks

I'm an encyclopedia of movies bro

[SZ James (banned)]

or I just googled "war movie, flashbacks, preacher"

[PhillyB]

I'm an encyclopedia of movies bro

 

have you actually seen this one? i remembered by accident, i've been doing tons of reading on films as part of shaping national memory of things like the vietnam war and that one popped to mind

[PhillyB]

or I just googled "war movie, flashbacks, preacher"

 

well fug me. i should've added preacher to the queue. i rolled through a billion "vietnam war soldier flashback movie jungle mission" searches

[MadHatter]

or I just googled "war movie, flashbacks, preacher"

 

this man is the Google master

[KillerKat]

How the hell is the zombie show not sued for copyright infringement?

[Zaximus]

Ouch, dat rating

[Cary Kollins]

looks similar to

 

 

[SZ James (banned)]

How the hell is the zombie show not sued for copyright infringement?

Titles aren't copyrighted.

[pstall]

Titles

aren't copyrighted.

Well. Technically they can be. Depends on how the film is housed legally to ensure it's exclusivity. Basically is there a secondary meaning to the film or is the title such the film can stand on it's on?

It's hazy legalese type stuff.

Then it can be to the MPAA and studios and junk.

So you can't outright copyright a title but possibly could based on public consumption structure.

[SZ James (banned)]

Well. Technically they can be. Depends on how the film is housed legally to ensure it's exclusivity. Basically is there a secondary meaning to the film or is the title such the film can stand on it's on?

It's hazy legalese type stuff.

Then it can be to the MPAA and studios and junk.

So you can't outright copyright a title but possibly could based on public consumption structure.

 

I don't know what that meant but titles of any sort aren't copyrighted, but they can sometimes be trademarked, like pokemon for instance. But that's because there are already toys and whatnot. Titles are too vague to say that it's an original idea. Otherwise you would just have people making a bunch of scripts with just a title so they can sue whoever uses it.