Good Morning, Vietnam (DVD)

This film is set during the early days of he Vietnam conflict and opens with DJ Adrian Cronauer played by Robin Wlliams being posted from Cyprus to host one of the armed forces radio station broadcasts. Before his arrival the material broadcast had been heavily censored and the DJ 's stuck to a rigid playlist of approved musc. Cronauer is a bit of a rebel and immediately starts playing his own rock and roll music and his fast talking on air soon upsets his straight laced military bosses. However he becomes so popular with the troops that they are forced to stick with him. Soon however he begins to fall in love with a local girl and he gets dragged into the ...  Read the complete review

I used to love M*A*S*H* and fondly remember those evening curled up on the sofa laughing at the loveable Hawkeye. This programme represented my limit of knowledge on the various wars of the world. Having never taken history at school my knowledge of the worlds political history is admittedly dire. A now glowing example is that I started talking about MASH to lead into talking about Good Morning Vietnam - thinking that both the Korean War and the Vietnam war were the same. In fact as I watched the film last night I realised that I had no idea when Vietnam happened or why or even where Vietnam is. They are things I will have to go and look up after I've finished this ...  Read the complete review

When I searched for this film and saw it was only given 3 stars I suffered much confusion! Good Morning, Vietnam is a classic! I like war films, and I like comedy, and this manages to combine the two without creating a parody such as Hot Shots, and I feel as funny as M*A*S*H. The events are loosely based on the real life story of Adrian Cronauer. The Plot (briefly) --------------- The year is 1965 in Saigon, where American forces are fighting the Vietcong in Indochina. Directed by Barry Levinson, the film starts with the arrival of Adrian Cronauer, a disk jockey, from Crete to bring some zest to the forces radio station in Asia. He is met on arrival ...  Read the complete review

This is a very funny look at a very difficult period in american history for a generation brought up on peace and love. The film is set in Viet Nam during the conflict of the 60's and 70's and based around the life story of a "shock Jock" DJ called Adrian Cronehower played by Robin Williams. The radio station that Cronehower works for is a Armed Forces Network station providing information to the soldiers fighting the war. To brighten up their lives, Cronehower starts broadcasting material of sensitive nature and is asked to tone it down. He also sees the news being altered so it does not demoralise the troops. This he feels is unfair and ...  Read the complete review

What a brilliant film starring Robin Williams. So plot... It follows a radio DJ, Adrian Cronauer (Robin Williams), who has arrived from Crete and is positioned in Vietnam at AFRS (Armed Forces Radio Saigon). He makes friends with a member of the VC and is dislike by middle management but loved but the top brass. This film is full of great one liner quotes that you just end up saying at random times during day-to-day living. I don't get a lot of the jokes though mainly because I'm not American and also because it was made before I was born. It does contain lots of jokes based around American politics but it is made up for in the one liner quotes that ...  Read the complete review