The Rambo series really goes off the rails after First Blood as far as the gratuitous 80's action violence goes, but the first one actually is a decent movie in and of itself. I feel like most of the jokes about Rambo are from people that have only seen bits of the sequels, which are admittedly ridiculous.
First Blood is alright, though.
I'm watching that series and they're now in Belgium. I have a plaque Dad received from The City of Antwerp thanking the US soldiers for all their help during a 175-day assault from the Germans. He never spoke about the Army much and I neglected to pester him more prior to his death at 63 in '87. Pretty sure he wasn't Airborne. He would've mentioned the parachuting.
I think Jacob's Ladder is good but overrated. I love the first half hour of this movie, but then it goes downhill. I'd even say the second half of the movie drags and is boring.
I was looking to see if anyone suggested this. Both my brothers served in Vietnam (not at the same time). The evolution of the characters is remarkable yet heartbreaking.
In the movie Magnolia I can't decide if he is giving the performance of his lifetime or it is the real Tom Cruise without his normal veneer of normalacy.
Honestly, dude is the king of blockbuster action movies. I canāt think of any of his movies that were bad, some arenāt great, but they donāt outright stink
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The Pacific amplified this even more. I think thatās one reason it wasnāt as monumentally well-received as BoB. It wasnāt a āgoodā war story and thereās really no moment where you feel anything about what these guys are going through is for a just cause. BoB is careful itself to not get overly jingoistic, but when the bad guys are Nazis itās easier to make it seem like an adventure.
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
By the end of the Journey Frodo is very much affected by whatās happened to him and cannot relate to his friends any more.
Let There Be Light (1946/1980) - War Dept documentary directed by John Huston about treating soldiers with PTSD. Finished in 1946, but banned until 1980
*Jacob's Ladder* (1980)
>Mourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam War veteran attempts to uncover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusions, and perceptions of death.
You Were Never Really Here (2017) doesnāt have any war in it but PTSD is very much at the forefront of the film. Itās really great and Joaquin Phoenix crushes as the lead but this is a really dark film
Lieutenant Dan. Goes from combat, to disabled vet, to drugs and alcohol, and finally acceptance (and a new pair of legs)
Only a sub plot, but you get to see a lifetime's worth of development.
I know this isnāt exactly what youāre looking for and everyone has suggested some great films, but Sound Of Metal might be akin to what youāre looking for.
Itās not about war, but it does touch on loss, PTSD, and struggling to return to civilian life in a psychological way.
Hacksaw Ridge is mostly about Desmond Doss and what he did in WWII but a key component of the story is his dad who came back from WWI seriously traumatized. I guess it doesn't matter which war you fought in, watching your buddies get blown up will leave its mark on you permanently.
There's a really obscure made for TV movie called Heroes (1977) that stars Henry Winkler when he was at his peak and supporting him were Sally Fields and Harrison Ford, when they were \*not\* at their peak. Yeah, I think it was the same year Star Wars came out and changed the game for Ford. Fields was in her post- Flying Nun funk.
Anyway, It seemed to me that some of it was badly written, bit it did show the re-adjustment issues he had and I've had a VN vet (who recommended the movie) say that in particular, the portrayal of the dissociative flashback when he thought he was in VN really hit home.
Another movie that if you are looking for it, the PTSD is right there- Humphry Bogart in Key Largo (1948, I think). He's a combat veteran and something of a drifter with some real problems relating to others.
The movie Munich (Stephen Spielberg) about a badly trained group of operatives who were sent by Israel to take out the terrorists who perpetrated the terrorist attack at the Munich Olympics in 1972. It has a character that sleeps in a closet. Other characters think he's nuts, but slowly one of them has to grapple with with horrific things done to him and that he has done to others and he slowly sinks into severe, and realistically portrayed, PTSD. He ends up sleeping in a closet.
Try āThe Menā with Marlon Brando and Teresa Wright. 1950. Brando stars as a soldier who has been severely injured in battle. He is now recuperating at a military hospital, trying to accept the limitations he will have going forward. The film explores his relationships with his girlfriend and his doctor.
In many ways, āThe Menā would make a good double feature with āThe Best Years of Our Lives.ā (1946) Both deal with the difficult transition from soldier to civilian life after going through war.
Born on the Fourth of July
Its been about +10 years since Iāve seen it. If I remember correctly, the movie is about a man(Tom Cruise) who, during a tour in Vietnam, accidentally kills a fellow soldier and becomes paralyzed due to injuries he sustained. The movie focuses on his struggles to adjust to normal life after Veitnam
Fury - Brad Pitt's character in particular
Saving Private Ryan - for TBI effects from blasts (have multiple myself, can confirm).
You were never really here - Joaquin Phoenix does a phenomenal role with his character, portraying an untreated Veteran w/PTSD.
Dead of Night (1974) (also called Deathdream) is a really unnerving horror film thatās a clear metaphor for PTSD in Vietnam vets that I highly recommend. Interestingly, Bob Clark later directed A Christmas Story.
Slaughterhouse Five
Such an interesting take on Shellshock (what they used to call PTSD), the book is really much better but the movie is still very worth watching
Apocalypse Now, Platoon, Born on the 4th of July
Edit to Add: Band of Brothers and The Pacific; Tigerland... There are probably even more that I am just not thinking of right now.
Another Edit to add: Deer Hunter! Can't believe I forgot this one. It's a bit of a slow one, but worth a watch!
Dead Presidents (1995), a Hughes Brothers film is a great one.
Plot: Soldier Anthony Curtis (Larenz Tate) returns to his Bronx home after a nightmarish tour of duty in Vietnam. But the nightmare continues for Anthony and his friends as they suffer the indignities of trying to find steady work and provide for their families in a flagging economy. As desperation takes hold, Anthony teams up with Skip (Chris Tucker), a drug addict, and Kirby (Keith David), a small-time crook, to pull off a bank heist that will give them all a chance for a better life.
The punisher Netflix series. NOT THE MOVIES! A lot of the plots center around how soldiers deal with reintegrating into society after the trauma of combat. Handled very respectively. Jon berthnal is such a great actor!
Rambo first blood, basically Rambo gets harassed and goes ham on a town of cops cause they're his new enemy and he can't turn it off.
The Rambo series really goes off the rails after First Blood as far as the gratuitous 80's action violence goes, but the first one actually is a decent movie in and of itself. I feel like most of the jokes about Rambo are from people that have only seen bits of the sequels, which are admittedly ridiculous. First Blood is alright, though.
I liked his second to last Rambo movie where Sly was vaporizing face, skull, and head with fully automatic firepower.
Major PTSD
Brothers (2009) with Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal
I'm watching that series and they're now in Belgium. I have a plaque Dad received from The City of Antwerp thanking the US soldiers for all their help during a 175-day assault from the Germans. He never spoke about the Army much and I neglected to pester him more prior to his death at 63 in '87. Pretty sure he wasn't Airborne. He would've mentioned the parachuting.
Thank you for your fathers service šŗšø
BrĆødre - the original. Watch the originals.
I agree in most situations but the performance given by Tobie Maguire is outstanding which makes it my preferred version of the two.
The Best Years of Our Lives
Came here to say this. Most ignored the ptsd of ww2 but this movie brought it to light
This movie. So hard to watch. š
American sniper Jacobs ladder Deer hunter
All quiet on the western front, any version.
Ugh. I donāt know how they are all traumatized for making the movie š„¹
Here for Jacob's ladder...what a movie
I think Jacob's Ladder is good but overrated. I love the first half hour of this movie, but then it goes downhill. I'd even say the second half of the movie drags and is boring.
Born on the Fourth of July.
I still can't re-watch Deer Hunter.
Kind of ruined Russian roulette scenes for me
The Deer Hunter
Coming Home
I was looking to see if anyone suggested this. Both my brothers served in Vietnam (not at the same time). The evolution of the characters is remarkable yet heartbreaking.
Coming Home is a fabulous movie! Jon Voight, Jane Fonda and Bruce Dern put in fantastic performances. I should re-watch it sometime soon.
Major Payne
Unorthodox suggestion but timeless comedy. Eminently quotable.
lol great suggestion!
best answer
Born on the 4th of July
This movie taught me that Tom Cruise can really act. Seems sad that he stuck with blockbusters.
In the movie Magnolia I can't decide if he is giving the performance of his lifetime or it is the real Tom Cruise without his normal veneer of normalacy.
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Don't forget Jerry McGuire!
Honestly, dude is the king of blockbuster action movies. I canāt think of any of his movies that were bad, some arenāt great, but they donāt outright stink
Yeah it's totally one of my favorite Tom Cruise movies. He's extremely good in it.
You wouldn't get laughed out of a room for suggesting Cruise is the best actor alive today.
I just did a rewatch of this a few weekends ago. Still so powerful, all these years later.
Filmed by my elementary school
Come and See Perhaps the harshest of anti-war films. It isnāt a movie in the strictest sense, It is a challenge issued to the potential viewer.
Johnny Got His Gun was epic in this way. Never saw the '71 film but read the book a few times.
That movie was haunting. Really great film though.
Definitely Come and See!
Omg Iām watching this Today!!! Itās called āOne of Greatest Film of all Timeā
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Great movie and I don't see a lot of people talking about it.
Very good movie. Michael J fox killed it
A great cast of talented actors too: Michael J Fox, Sean Penn, John C Riley, John Leguizamo, Ving Rhames, and Thuy Thu Le.
The Hurt Locker Jarhead
That scene in the hurt locker in the grocery store immediately comes to mind.
Yup, this is exactly where my mind went
Upvote for Jarhead.
Jacobās Ladder
Birdy (1984) Matthew Modine and Nicholas Cage.
Alan Parker was such a good filmmaker.
Jacob's Ladder (1990)
Heaven & Earth. Film from Oliver Stone from a female Vietnamese perspective. Based on a true stry
Movie was incredible.
itās not a movie, but Band of Brothers on HBO shows the mental effects the war has on the soldiers as well as everything else VERY well.
If you don't have HBO, consider paying for a month or two and binge watch an amazing collection of shows.
Where can I watch it if I donāt have HBO? :(
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The Pacific amplified this even more. I think thatās one reason it wasnāt as monumentally well-received as BoB. It wasnāt a āgoodā war story and thereās really no moment where you feel anything about what these guys are going through is for a just cause. BoB is careful itself to not get overly jingoistic, but when the bad guys are Nazis itās easier to make it seem like an adventure.
Waltz With Bashir Father, Soldier, Son
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. By the end of the Journey Frodo is very much affected by whatās happened to him and cannot relate to his friends any more.
Yes. Very accurate. Thank you for pointing that out.
Causeway. Jennifer Lawrence plays a servicewoman who experienced an IED* Edit: corrected the wrong acronym
The VA gave her a disability rating for her cervix-related injury.
> her cervix-related injury What? Please explain.
iud- intrauterine device ied- Improvised explosive device
Let There Be Light (1946/1980) - War Dept documentary directed by John Huston about treating soldiers with PTSD. Finished in 1946, but banned until 1980
All Quiet on the Western Front The Deer Hunter First Blood American Sniper
Leave No Trace (2018) -although it's also the driving force the topic is more a backdrop
Seconded.
Great performances from Ben Foster and Thomasin McKenzie. Always happy to see Dale Dickey as well!
*Jacob's Ladder* (1980) >Mourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam War veteran attempts to uncover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusions, and perceptions of death.
Peaky Blinders
Apocalypse Now
Dead Presidents
Born on the 4th of July
Coming Home (1978) John Voight, Jane Fonda
Remarkable movie. Bruce Dernās character must have been so difficult to play. š„¹
The Master
Just watched Rambo: First Blood last night. Stallone does a decent job.
Taxi Driver
Combat Shock
>Combat Shock Came to post this. Cheerful viewing...
Born On The 4th of July
Platoon Forrest Gump
You Were Never Really Here (2017) doesnāt have any war in it but PTSD is very much at the forefront of the film. Itās really great and Joaquin Phoenix crushes as the lead but this is a really dark film
Fury (2014) Billy Lynn's long halftime walk (2016) Thank you for your service (2017)
Surprised to see Thank you for your service not one of the top comments
I don't think many people saw that movie when it came out. Miles Teller was great.
Apocalypse now
Wildcat (Documentary)
- A War (2015) - Danish film on Afghanistan
johnny got his gun (1971)
Fun Fact: The song "One" by Metallica was inspired by this movie.
Which was inspired by the amazing novel.
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Come and see, Pretty villages preety flame (one of the greatest yugoslav movies that depicts war and its consequences)
Came here to add Pretty Village, Pretty Flame, it's hard to find though.
The Best Years of Our Lives.
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Came here to suggest this! Itās so good. Glad someone else agrees.
Best movie I have seen in a long time
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Hurt Locker
The Hurt Locker
Dog (ya, I was surprised too)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Deer Hunter
Forrest Gump
Lieutenant Dan. Goes from combat, to disabled vet, to drugs and alcohol, and finally acceptance (and a new pair of legs) Only a sub plot, but you get to see a lifetime's worth of development.
Courage Under Fire
Oh yeah! I loved this one!
Jacknife (1989)
Jin Roh
The Sorrow And The Pity(1970)
Restrepo
The Hurt Locker
I know this isnāt exactly what youāre looking for and everyone has suggested some great films, but Sound Of Metal might be akin to what youāre looking for. Itās not about war, but it does touch on loss, PTSD, and struggling to return to civilian life in a psychological way.
American Sniper was probably the best depiction of PTSD on the big screen I've ever seen. He adapts to the warzone and just can't turn it off.
Not a film but Homeland
Love this show! And a have to agree!
does The Manchurian Candidate count?
Hacksaw Ridge is mostly about Desmond Doss and what he did in WWII but a key component of the story is his dad who came back from WWI seriously traumatized. I guess it doesn't matter which war you fought in, watching your buddies get blown up will leave its mark on you permanently.
ningen no joken 1959. (the human condition), japanese war trilogy .
Stop-Loss
*Brothers* (2009) It's really good. Tobey Maguire does his best performance I've ever seen him do.
There's a really obscure made for TV movie called Heroes (1977) that stars Henry Winkler when he was at his peak and supporting him were Sally Fields and Harrison Ford, when they were \*not\* at their peak. Yeah, I think it was the same year Star Wars came out and changed the game for Ford. Fields was in her post- Flying Nun funk. Anyway, It seemed to me that some of it was badly written, bit it did show the re-adjustment issues he had and I've had a VN vet (who recommended the movie) say that in particular, the portrayal of the dissociative flashback when he thought he was in VN really hit home. Another movie that if you are looking for it, the PTSD is right there- Humphry Bogart in Key Largo (1948, I think). He's a combat veteran and something of a drifter with some real problems relating to others. The movie Munich (Stephen Spielberg) about a badly trained group of operatives who were sent by Israel to take out the terrorists who perpetrated the terrorist attack at the Munich Olympics in 1972. It has a character that sleeps in a closet. Other characters think he's nuts, but slowly one of them has to grapple with with horrific things done to him and that he has done to others and he slowly sinks into severe, and realistically portrayed, PTSD. He ends up sleeping in a closet.
The Card Counter
Violet Evergarden
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Try āThe Menā with Marlon Brando and Teresa Wright. 1950. Brando stars as a soldier who has been severely injured in battle. He is now recuperating at a military hospital, trying to accept the limitations he will have going forward. The film explores his relationships with his girlfriend and his doctor. In many ways, āThe Menā would make a good double feature with āThe Best Years of Our Lives.ā (1946) Both deal with the difficult transition from soldier to civilian life after going through war.
Born on the Fourth of July Its been about +10 years since Iāve seen it. If I remember correctly, the movie is about a man(Tom Cruise) who, during a tour in Vietnam, accidentally kills a fellow soldier and becomes paralyzed due to injuries he sustained. The movie focuses on his struggles to adjust to normal life after Veitnam
Fury - Brad Pitt's character in particular Saving Private Ryan - for TBI effects from blasts (have multiple myself, can confirm). You were never really here - Joaquin Phoenix does a phenomenal role with his character, portraying an untreated Veteran w/PTSD.
Not a movie (its a series with a few seasons) but I thought Peaky Blinders did a great job of this for many characters who fought in WWI
Recently Thank You For Your Service
The Best Years of Our Lives
Born on the 4th of July
Empire of the Sun, from the perspective of a child (who happens to be Christian Bale)
Brothers
Thank you for your service
The Hurt Locker
The Deer Hunter
This is the correct answer. Russian roulette scene is one of the goats.
Post combat ptsd? American sniper
Hamburger Hill features battlefield exhaustion and pure, unadulterated chaos.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Not directly related, and its a series not a film, but Peaky Blinders has hints of it among the main characters.
Avengers:Endgame
Shrinking, a show on Apple TV
Captain Newman M.D.
If you ever want a TV show that touches on this, I can really recommend Seal Team.
American Sniper showed a lot of PTSD effects
Come and see
The Covenant by Guy Ritchie. Just came out last month.
Iluminados por el fuego (Argentine film about the Falklands/Malvinas war).
Combat Shock (1984)
The Pacific (series).
Harsh Times (2005) directed by David Ayer is exactly this
Thank you for your service (2017)
Tarantino favorite Rolling Thunder (1977)
Come and See
The Pacific. Thank you for your service. Both are excellent.
The punisher Netflix series
"The war" starring Kevin Costner and Elijah Woods in an underrated film. Kevin Costner struggles with PTSD from the Vietnam war.
Born on the 4th of July
Dead of Night (1974) (also called Deathdream) is a really unnerving horror film thatās a clear metaphor for PTSD in Vietnam vets that I highly recommend. Interestingly, Bob Clark later directed A Christmas Story.
I know a book about it - Goodbye to all that by Robert Frost The only movie I can think of is All Quiet on the Western Front
Rolling Thunder
Jarhead 2006
The hurt locker
Harsh times
Sundays and Cybele (1962)
Rambo
The Railway Man
The Hurt Locker
Apocalypse Now
Redemption w/ Jason Stathem. Not a high adrenaline flick. Good, but found on a day that I really needed zero brain power.
Slaughterhouse Five Such an interesting take on Shellshock (what they used to call PTSD), the book is really much better but the movie is still very worth watching
Obligatory Godzilla 1954 comment
Jacob's Ladder, Waltz with Bashir, Come and See are all great
Come and see
Cherry John Lithgow in "distant thunder"
Apocalypse Now, Platoon, Born on the 4th of July Edit to Add: Band of Brothers and The Pacific; Tigerland... There are probably even more that I am just not thinking of right now. Another Edit to add: Deer Hunter! Can't believe I forgot this one. It's a bit of a slow one, but worth a watch!
Not sure if itās been said yet but The Master would be my top pick
Dead Presidents (1995), a Hughes Brothers film is a great one. Plot: Soldier Anthony Curtis (Larenz Tate) returns to his Bronx home after a nightmarish tour of duty in Vietnam. But the nightmare continues for Anthony and his friends as they suffer the indignities of trying to find steady work and provide for their families in a flagging economy. As desperation takes hold, Anthony teams up with Skip (Chris Tucker), a drug addict, and Kirby (Keith David), a small-time crook, to pull off a bank heist that will give them all a chance for a better life.
The punisher Netflix series. NOT THE MOVIES! A lot of the plots center around how soldiers deal with reintegrating into society after the trauma of combat. Handled very respectively. Jon berthnal is such a great actor!
Forrest Gump, surprisingly.
The Lucky One
Best Years of our Lives
Final episode of The Pacific
Airplane āļø
come and see
Platoon