Born on the fourth of July - Opening credits

[pum760]

are the first few seconds from terminator soundtrack?

[RogueRotting360]

@pum760 Nope.

[Workman271]

The scene where the firecrackers are going off and the vets in wheelchairs are flinching is pretty powerful

[roachy333]

When you see the opening shots of this movie and see the kids playing war, messing about with guns etc....It is then, that you can see the real extent of our problem and how deep it goes!!! This opening scene is a brillianrt social comment and this film is easily Stone's best and most important work.

We are programmed to accept war (whether it be noble or otherwise)....from a very early age, it all starts here imo.

[zachedwards92]

this should have won best picture.

[NeonicFilm1138]

@zachedwards92 This should have won Best Original Score too!

[Bobbylatope]

WE AS AMERICAN

[NeonicFilm1138]

Every time I watch this, especially 6:30, it makes me cry. Every time. What happened to those days where times were fun and carefree???

[queggy1]

That music is heartbreakingly beautiful. Another awesome job by maestro John Williams.

[THESTAFFIECHANNEL]

Man its so devastating that History is allowed to repeat itself.This film is so sincerely sad.

[crookstudios421]

Thats funny, i went to school with the little kid who plays Tom Cruise's character in end of scene.

[hommechauvesouris]

once upon a time in america....

[CTyankee4277]

I love this movie, but the opening scenes with the parade I always thought were powerful - I mean that whole sense of Americana, the sense of pride in town and nation. What's interesting is I've been to Massapequa many x's and that's still how it is now - nice to see how some things haven't changed. :)

[DEARMINTA]

wow do boys really organize war play thins well.. not my boy or his friends.. video game killed the inner child....

[HaliacetusLeuco]

LIke the dolphin who guides you~* you bring US aside you~* Happy independencece day my son~*

[HaliacetusLeuco]

+he EASY RIDER~+~+~*

[Silverwire100]

The most emotionally devastating film ever made. Oliver Stone perfectly captures Ron Kovic's transformation from a naive patriot to a paralyzed, cynical anti-war activist. Stone is equally effective at depicting the changing tide of the nation as a whole.

[roachy333]

Cruise's display from his outright naivety through to his full cynicism...is an incredible performance of transformation. His display of innocence early in the film is quite breathtaking imo.

He was robbed by Day Lewis imo.

[ChrisMiran]

JFK's inaugural speech took place in January...That day it was a cold winter day...Hmm ...Massapequa, NY there looks like a sunny warm day...

[Willhur881]

I'm not a van of Tom Cruise but he did a good job here.

[mrmonkeyisland1]

Such a powerful film. The true horror of war, and the human cost of feeding the war machine.

[katbulooo]

The scene @ 4:35 is the best part of this movie, and the one that every american who loves his/her freedom had damn well never forget!

[WastedPo]

I remember Siskel and Ebert once did a special show about the Forrest Gump phenomenon and each one picked a movie that they thought would make a good double-bill with Gump. I think it was Ebert that chose this movie, Born on the Fourth of July. I think that was a good choice.

[neonitenick]

I saw this film when it was first released to theatres and went back repeatedly week after week. The film is devastating. The beautiful score and haunting scenes seared in my brain for all time. Listening to the music today still moves me to tears. Just about the most powerful story and music ever put on film.

Cruise was robbed at the Oscars. He deserved the award for this role but lost to Daniel Day Lewis for "My Left Foot." Since then I've lost a good deal of respect for the Oscars.

[catherinefan32]

@neonitenick ocsars are all political, people feel this film is too obscene and only shows what the USA is doing wrong. Slumdog Millonaire in 2009 swept the oscars cuase its a film that looks down on the society of anotehr country, But hey is got a great oscar for awesome musical score and something else.

[seamushan]

@neonitenick Day Lewis was extraordinary in my left foot though, Cruises performace should be rightly commended here as well though

[rpnetz]

4:20-5:00 is a powerfull display

[crixxxxxxxxx]

Long Island looks pretty warm and summery on inauguration day, January 20th, 1961.

[Murphster]

haha the clown at 3:56

[gasman396]

This movie was a masterpiece,this film showed the homefront so well and how life was like in small town america and how that war devasted this country and a whole generation of men.Our Vietnam vets are a special group of men who deserve the utmost in respect for what they did and I am proud of each and every one of them and consider ALL of them heroes.

[queggy1]

Really? You consider ALL of them heroes??? The ones who killed innocent villagers too? Or the ones who issued an order to wipe out an entire village killing between 300 and 500 people who were unarmed (My Lai massacre, March 16th, 1968)? FANATIC IDIOTS LIKE YOU MAKE ME SICK! TOO MUCH PATRIOTISM OBVIOUSLY DAMAGES YOUR BRAIN (IF YOU HAVE ONE AT ALL)!

[gasman396]

I am sorry for you.

[cripplehawk]

Real Ron Kovic at 4:15. (the veteran on the right)

[pooleemiller]

hey marcosrogeriofff learn english then try to insult us, you piece of shit. i hope you rot in that shit hole of a country you call brazil

[marcosrogeriofff]

i m soldier american in war brazil forget by govern american fuck all american this world

[vespamerica]

definitely not a pretty picture of American history...but this is such a beautiful movie!

[NewWaveFan1]

"I just want to be a man again". One of the best lines from this film. Poor ron Kovac, he is a fighter.

[Returnoftheking82]

A fantastic movie allthough heartbreakingly sad. Ronnie Kovic has since done well in life but it still gets to me when you follow his development from being his mothers "yankee doodle boy" to finally arguing with her after his return from Vietnam pulling out his catheter after which she cries out that she hates him.

[BuriedAliveByLove999]

post the rest of the movie

[Mctrav]

ah, so poignant- the idealism that was Americana - we lost so much more with the death of Kennedy than just a President- we lost our golden age...

[cigarmikey1]

that is well put "the golden age"...

[Mctrav]

Thanks!

[TechNoir1982]

Absolutely brilliant, Stone, Williams, Cruise all at their peak.

[Rycon973]

I have friend serving in Iraq. It's so sad. I don't want them to die just so Bush and his buddies could privatize Iraq's oil field and shell out private contracts to business partners. The men and women of our armed forces are seen as disposable. It's so fucking sad. This is the third time we've overthrown a regime in Iraq. When will it stop? Saddam was on the CIA pay roll since his earlier 20s. please no more lies.

[KHlovechild]

Too true. I had an uncle serving, I'm from the UK. The US never invades a country to "help" but rather for their own selfish interests. And the UK only follows the US in because we cling to them to have influence in the world - we're like their lap dog. And the parallels between Iraq and Vietnam go on and on...

[Zorn76]

Not exactly. 4,300 American dead in Iraq in 6 yrs there. Over 50,000 by the same measure in Vietnam. But beyond the numbers, two totally different situations. And the the power exchange is now beginning, with the U.S. steadily handing over control back to Iraq now.

[forsaletoday]

What was the selfish interest in Vietnam?

[KHlovechild]

Minerals, natural resources, dollar imperialism, and to save face showing that the millions invested in the country was not wasted.

[ferryboatfilms]

Under the veil of halting communism.

[peter23403]

mainly to stop the spread of communism through south east asia

[MountDoomPictures]

@Rycon973

We're not fighting only because of oil, did you ever hear of a little thing called 9/11. We're trying to stop terrorism, ever since Iraq there hasn't been ONE terrorist attack on America, if we didn't fight wars we would have been taken over long ago. And the men and women are not seen as disposable.

[reflectivegoat]

@MountDoomPictures. Rycon's meaning was that our servicemen and women are seen and treated as disposable by those who would send them to die for purposes other than the defense of our country.

[mATtT121292]

im watchin th is movie in my english class.. its awsome

[PerchedAssassin5]

this movie's incredible...

[mindbodylightsound10]

Great! Thanks for posting. I'd love it if someone were to post a full movie upload.

[for1rest]

10/10