Do keep that in mind because that one vote may be it in later polls when we start collapsing all these prelims into the “Best Ever” Finals. Just how that will shake out is unclear at the moment.
Am I the only one showing love for “The Boys in Company C?” Great movie! And it beat a number of more well-known movies to the punch. Including R. Lee Ermey as a drill sergeant.
I’ll add The Odd Angry Shot to the “overflow thread” which is growing toward ten titles now. Some will be true overflow since they’re from periods where we already have threads. Others will just be to avoid reposting the 300+ titles as an entity again.
As for your other question, there are quite a few cases getting only one vote in the various threads. But I suppose that’s a little better than the passel of “0 votes” we’re apt to encounter. Not every one of the 300 is a jewel.
When we go further into the bracket voting, this movie will get my vote for the best of the 70s. And every time I think of this movie, I get this earworm of the theme song.
*Friends all tried to warn me
But I held my head up high
All the time they warned me
But I only passed them by
They all tried to tell me
But I guess I didn’t care
I turned my back and
Left them standing there
All the burning bridges that have fallen after me
All the lonely feelings and the burning memories
Everyone I left behind each time I closed the door
Burning bridges lost forevermore*
It is the best Vietnam movie that most people don’t even know exists.
R. Lee Emory is fantastic in the movie (as you’d expect), and the movie flows so well.
I think it has been drowned out by Platoon and Full Metal Jacket, which is unfortunate. If anyone hasn’t seen this movie, watch it. You won’t regret. It.
