I know it is your so right! Its disgusting how they were ripped apart! Ron Kovic is a hero a real hero he never gave up but Tom Cruise did an amazing job! He was nominated for an oscar he lost
The machine that was keeping blood flowing in his paralyzed leg wasn't working, the staff couldn't fix it, and they were about to amputate. Then the machine starts to suddenly work again. The randomness of his existence made him scream.
my childhood Neighbor Was A vietnam Veteran God rest His soul He drank himself To death He told me horror stories About the Hospitals It was A generation that was Murdered and forgotten about!
That scream goes right through you. This film was so powerful. Tom Cruise really took that role and ran with it. He made you feel for him and the agony he lived through. This movie was so disconcerting.
This scene is hard to watch and I felt so bad for Ron and how he was so betrayed by his family, and his own country! DAMN no wonder he screamed because he was in hell!
I am a retired soldier, disabled veteran, and a volunteer at my local VA Hospital. I work one-on-one with our hospitalized veterans and will do anything I can to help our patients. I average around 600 hours a year a VA Volunteer.
I salute what you do. However, the way the African-American male nurse treated Ron was unacceptable here. The government funding is unacceptable too but that is a different story.
@@wilsor90 the longest I have been on duty at my local VA Hospital as a volunteer was just over 24-hours, straight. We had three veterans in the Hospice that were on their last hours of life. We have a No Veteran Dies Alone program for patients who do not have family in the area. I was so tired when I went home the next day.
@@jvolstad I salute your good work. I take it you wouldn't be rude or unpleasant to your veterans unlike the nurses in the clip. I know they are overworked and underpaid but you still have to be humane and understanding.
The VA has it's good and its bad... My Dad had some rough years, but I was by his side through it all. There was some great staff and then there were those that most vets wanted to wring some necks. It was frustrating at times, but we stuck it out.
About three of the major categories in 1989's Academy Awards was robbed. Driving Miss Daisy was great, but not like Born on the Fourth of July, which I also loved as great too.
To those IDIOTS who doubt how bad it was, my father was a VA nurse for 32 years since 1973. He told me stories worse than this how staff would torture patients mentally and physically just for their own pleasure. He recorded some of it and showed me when I was 14. PTSD patience were beaten behind locked doors (teach him a lesson) if the staff got annoyed with him. It was bad.
I'm a VA Nurse. I've never seen a veteran abused or harmed. While it's hard to fire a federal employee, it's aN unspoken rule that theft of narcotics or abusing a veteran are a sure ticket out. Not saying that this scene isn't accurate, as I've heard some facilities were run down post Vietnam.
These conditions still exist in VA hospitals. Denial of care, vermin and even catheters running from patients and into drains (unacceptable in any modern facility) in the floor are common. The buildings are often blighted and many had no women's restrooms for much of 2001-present period. Ron Kovic actually did experience horrible conditions at the Bronx VA.
That's horrible, something nobody should suffer. I get absolutely world class care from the VA in Northern California. They've saved my life. Excellent routine care and specialists. I'm very fortunate.
Tom Cruise hasn't won an Oscar? The guy is an absolute powerhouse. What a masterclass in performance. By then end of the scene my heart was racing and palms sweaty.
The part where Kovic is recovering in the VA hospital still gives me shivers down my spine. I can only imagine the pain him and the other vets feel at that nasty ass hospital. I'm so glad we have clean hospitals with decent medical care now.
The fact this scene is too real, my grandma served in the army too in 1950’s-60’s(before my mom was born) and she was treated similarly before she died in 2012...at the VA God bless her soul 😢
One day your a young man with nothing but high potential. Has the world in his hands. And then comes back completely broken and ripped apart. This movie touched me. Soo sad
This movie is one of the most horrifying to me. It always reminds me of situations when I temporary lost my ability to speak, to hear, to see, to move my legs. When I thought I was going to die. It is horrifying.
2 actors from platoon appeared in this scene.The Orderly named Marvin (Played by Corkey Ford). Ford played the ill fated Manny in Platoon (who gets kidnapped by the NVA and was castrated just before the village scene). And Mark Moses (The Doctor) who of course plays Lt. Wolfe.
I'm a fan of horror movies like Hellraiser, Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday The 13th, etc.; but this SCENE, especially the ending, is more horrific than all those. 100% Nightmare fuel.
They're were a lot of folks that hated the Vietnam war and a lot of them took it out on the soldiers. It wasn't like today where you barely hear anyone disrespect a soldier. Oliver Stone should know better than anyone since he was a Vietnam vet.
I love this movie. I also happen to love my VA health coverage. I get excellent care through the VA in Northern California, absolutely top-notch. Besides routine care, they've helped me with at least 2 significant health issues and I'm active in their support / wellness community.
this is wat you get , in any army! im german , but its fact , when u a healthy young men , ur politcans want you , to go to save ur country , and your a great human. but then when u come back , and your injured or something like that , the politcans and goverment dont think one time about you .. the most people they come back ... never get some respect or money ..
Like my grandfather who fought for Germany under the Wehrmacht army. Prisoner of war for 7 years and still treated like shit when he came back to Germany.
This movie rips on the hospital staff but it was no picnic for them either. Imagine being surrounded by guys like that *every day* blaming *you* for staffing shortages and faulty equiptment. How would you like to sponge-bathe those guys and empty their bedpans every day? Whether it's obesity or Covid-19, take care of your health. Doctors and nurses are under enough stress already.
It's stuff like this that makes me wonder why so many people still fall for that old "fighting for your country" shit. Fighting for what? Freedom that we were born with? Politicians who want young, healthy people to risk their lives so they can get fatter wallets in the meantime since War is a HUGE profit? For benefits so you can actually get an education / housing without owing debt to EVERYONE? Fighting for situations like this? Where you come back from a violent battle, only to be in a run-down hospital with ONE PUMP that barely works...so instead of getting proper treatment (which should have obviously been prepared considering many of these people were DRAFTED...forced to kill other human beings), and all they get is a non-working pump that causes them to lose a leg? FOR WHAT? FREEDOM? Blow me, that is the biggest pile of horseshit ever. I sympathize with these veterans because they SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN THERE. Even after all the terrible things this country has done (besides not taking care of vets, or anyone really unless you own a few mansions), people STILL think we are "fighting for our freedom" PEOPLE STILL FALL FOR IT. It's really sad....and I'm sure SOMEONE will reply giving me all their hate and saying "they ARE fighting for your freedom, have some respect" NO...I have respect, which is why I'm speaking the truth. If any of you want to sit here and believe we are occupying countries for OUR freedom, you are full of shit. Besides...shouldn't it now be about THEIR freedom? Why is it always about OUR freedom? why is it NEVER another country's freedom? The Middle East could possibly be saved if dont correctly, yet ALL I STILL here is "we are over there to fight for our freedom" THAT is when you know somebody is clueless....so now it's not even remotely about other people any more...or THEIR struggles as a country, it's still ALL ABOUT US....OUR freedom. WE FUCKING HAVE FREEDOM, they don't! Why is it NEVER "Fighting for THEIR freedom"??? It never will be, we are too selfish and greedy and WE want the freedom, WE want the money, WE want a future. Sure they do too..but we ARE NOT fighting for THEIR freedom remember? We are fighting for OUR FREEDOM. Now send more young people over there and start murdering!!!
Just know that people volunteer to do it. So you don't have to. Because if it weren't for soldiers to die, you would be drafted. They do it so you don't have to. You can hate the government. But don't hate the soldiers.
Well written mark. I'd kill myself rather than become forth of July fodder for wall st. Any young man thinking of throwing his life away should view....born on the forth of July. Tom cruise what a brill actor
This is the movie I thought about when I ended up in the ICU after suffering a haemorrhagic stroke ,as I believed I would never be able to walk again . I do have to use a wheelchair, but I can manage some waking with crutch.However,I also suffer from a weak left hip , causing a Trendelenburg gait
Also when the doctor told Ron that he wouldn’t be able to have kids due to his T-6 paralysis, Ron says “I wanna walk again! I know I’ll walk again!” in a similar cadence like Dustin Hoffman’s Rain Man.
@@Gustavo-fm2vm Yep. He could have walked away after only one tour, felt good about having done his part and gone home. A good gambler knows when to take his winnings, get up from the table, and just walk away. ;)
I could swear l remember seeing a scene wear Ron is praying too god just before the machine starts back up and that’s why he screams. Anyone else remember this ?
+Space Monkey He Is Screaming Because He Is Losing His Sanity , He Has Been Lying In Bed For Four Months Paralyzed , Reality , His Life Is Forever Changed He Will Never Be Able To Have A Normal Life , He Is Grieving His Life Of What Is To Come , Life In A Wheelchair , Never Be With A Woman Sexually , Never Will Be Married With Children , He Will Never Be Able To Walk , Dance , Have Fun , He Is Realizing The Reality Of His Future , He Is Handicap , Very Heartbreaking !
Is there a scene in this film where Ron is placed into a bathtub? I have a weird memory from childhood of a movie about a Vietnam veteran with a scene where he is being carried to a bath that I want to say was filled with ice. It’s been driving me crazy for years.
Marvin and Ron are arguing (Majorly!)....Nurse screams "Marvin now!" and he's comes immediately....it just seemed so real!, amazing acting all around...does anyone know the name of the Nurse Actress?
I love how they selected the same actor who played the incompetent "LT. Wolf" in Platoon to play the uncaring doctor! Well played, Mr. Stone! Well played!
I saw 3 movies with Mark Moses: this, Platoon and Someone to watch over me by R. Scott. He always plays the naive, young unexperienced and confused character.
I understand all the hate for him putting the blame on others for his problems and his legs. But realistically how else are you going to be able to express yourself when your in pain as well having that guilt of shooting Wilson. No one should ever be looked at differently for expressing how they feel.
I’m surprised this movie wasn’t “censored” by UA-cam policy of removing anything that criticizes the US government. Who has the balls to make a movie about the 442 & 101?
Right. There's an earlier scene where Kovic / Cruise is trying to walk but he slips and CRACKS his leg open. His options are either amputation or sit in bed for four months until the bone heals. If the machine stops working, fluid will back up in his bloodsteam and probably kill him.
A girl in my class told me to not do the book report on this and to choose something different and that I think I’m entitled for choosing a marine story due to the fact I have family in marines. and how I’m trying to make others feel bad about marines. Extremely disrespectful considering I have marine family members and she doesn’t know that. Once I told her she said I don’t care your still making an opinion on this and influencing others. Idc what this jealous 19 year old girl who is years younger then me thinks. I will always stand up for my family and stand up for my country. I don’t know if her parents were former hippies or if she’s throwing shade cause she hates me since I met her friend that hated me. It was literally sad that another student could hate on me without having prior knowledge and manners
![Ron Kovic (Born On The Fourth Of July) INTERVIEW 1977 [Reelin' In The Years Archive]](/img/n.gif)
It's disgusting the way Vietnam veterans like Ron Kovic get treated.Makes you sick.
it is disgusting
I know it is your so right! Its disgusting how they were ripped apart! Ron Kovic is a hero a real hero he never gave up but Tom Cruise did an amazing job! He was nominated for an oscar he lost
and he should have won best actor.
That's the way ordinary russian people are treated now in our hospitals!
Vietnam was just disgusting in general
The machine that was keeping blood flowing in his paralyzed leg wasn't working, the staff couldn't fix it, and they were about to amputate. Then the machine starts to suddenly work again. The randomness of his existence made him scream.
Yeah I was wondering why he would wail at a time like that.
I think the drugs kept him asleep. But imagine being sober having your leg drained. Even Without Pain, the realization of it is beyond uncomfort.
Thank you! I thought he was in pain.
@@K3v114 this a good movie tho
It looked like a nasty coffee machine
The real Ron Kovic gave Tom Cruise his Bronze Star for his performance in this movie
That's worth more than all the Oscars put together.
he has ptsd Ron kovic
Wow. What an honor
my childhood Neighbor Was A vietnam Veteran God rest His soul He drank himself To death He told me horror stories About the Hospitals It was A generation that was Murdered and forgotten about!
That scream goes right through you. This film was so powerful. Tom Cruise really took that role and ran with it. He made you feel for him and the agony he lived through. This movie was so disconcerting.
"Ran with it."hehe
Scarier than any horror film.
Saw it lastnight and had nightmares
@@jager5796 what kind of nightmares?
Because it's true and can happen to anyone of us......
The range of emotions in this scene. I wish Tom Cruise would make more movies like this.
he shoulda ratheer than all the other crap
This scene is hard to watch and I felt so bad for Ron and how he was so betrayed by his family, and his own country! DAMN no wonder he screamed because he was in hell!
I am a retired soldier, disabled veteran, and a volunteer at my local VA Hospital. I work one-on-one with our hospitalized veterans and will do anything I can to help our patients. I average around 600 hours a year a VA Volunteer.
That's terrific. It's really horrible that there are wars. This world is a really messed up place.
I salute what you do. However, the way the African-American male nurse treated Ron was unacceptable here. The government funding is unacceptable too but that is a different story.
@@wilsor90 the longest I have been on duty at my local VA Hospital as a volunteer was just over 24-hours, straight. We had three veterans in the Hospice that were on their last hours of life. We have a No Veteran Dies Alone program for patients who do not have family in the area.
I was so tired when I went home the next day.
@@jvolstad I salute your good work. I take it you wouldn't be rude or unpleasant to your veterans unlike the nurses in the clip. I know they are overworked and underpaid but you still have to be humane and understanding.
The VA has it's good and its bad... My Dad had some rough years, but I was by his side through it all. There was some great staff and then there were those that most vets wanted to wring some necks. It was frustrating at times, but we stuck it out.
Too bad Cruise didn't win an Oscar for this.
+websurfin2010 Because at that year Daniel Day Lewis was exceptional in My Left Foot.
He should have he got robbed!
Two hours of him screeching that's why.
About three of the major categories in 1989's Academy Awards was robbed. Driving Miss Daisy was great, but not like Born on the Fourth of July, which I also loved as great too.
This comment is gold!
To those IDIOTS who doubt how bad it was, my father was a VA nurse for 32 years since 1973. He told me stories worse than this how staff would torture patients mentally and physically just for their own pleasure. He recorded some of it and showed me when I was 14. PTSD patience were beaten behind locked doors (teach him a lesson) if the staff got annoyed with him. It was bad.
Really wow
I'm a VA Nurse. I've never seen a veteran abused or harmed. While it's hard to fire a federal employee, it's aN unspoken rule that theft of narcotics or abusing a veteran are a sure ticket out. Not saying that this scene isn't accurate, as I've heard some facilities were run down post Vietnam.
+rbryant100 yeah your a modern VA nurse. You don't know how it was back then
These conditions still exist in VA hospitals. Denial of care, vermin and even catheters running from patients and into drains (unacceptable in any modern facility) in the floor are common. The buildings are often blighted and many had no women's restrooms for much of 2001-present period. Ron Kovic actually did experience horrible conditions at the Bronx VA.
That's horrible, something nobody should suffer. I get absolutely world class care from the VA in Northern California. They've saved my life. Excellent routine care and specialists. I'm very fortunate.
The black male nurse was the same guy who played Manny Washington (the man who the men found tied to a tree in the movie Platoon).
Sergeant Barnes was also the Marine recruiter, and Lt Wolfe is the doc in this scene. Stone had a bunch of his Platoon guys come back for this movie
Alan Young and don’t forget about Elias
Yeah, the you can see the guy that played the medic in Platoon during the scene where they’re all watching tv at the VA.
Oliver Stone like Spike Lee reuses a lot of the same actors in his movies.
Jr. (from platoon) :
Manny where u at ?
Tom Cruise hasn't won an Oscar? The guy is an absolute powerhouse. What a masterclass in performance. By then end of the scene my heart was racing and palms sweaty.
He can't win any rewards because he's with that church of scientology
The part where Kovic is recovering in the VA hospital still gives me shivers down my spine. I can only imagine the pain him and the other vets feel at that nasty ass hospital. I'm so glad we have clean hospitals with decent medical care now.
Dream on...
*WHAT COUNTRY? DISABLED VETS NEED HELP, DONATIONS FROM PUBLIC*
do we? Cause i'm not vet, but i can tell you all of us in a hospital is just a chart...
not so fast there bud……..
When I first saw this scene it sent a chill down my spine that I’ll never forget
Not too far off from the hospital scene in Jacob's Ladder.
The fact this scene is too real, my grandma served in the army too in 1950’s-60’s(before my mom was born) and she was treated similarly before she died in 2012...at the VA
God bless her soul 😢
I'm so sorry about that. I have just moved in to a assisted living facility that sucks 😕 This seen made me cry 😢 for all veterans.
The shock of hearing that ones deeds means nothing.
The doctor played the lieutenant in Platoon
MrJimmy3459 double dosage of the nam man!
Lt. Wolfe
There are also Barnes and Elias in the movie
Mark Snow ..
@@hispanico9037 And Tom Berenger in the beginning of the movie.
This scene stressed me out so much!
thanks oliver stone for drilling this scene in my mind
Damn, Lt. Wolfe did make it out of the final fire fight at the Firebase to become a Doctor at the VA!
I've watched dozens of Cruise's movies...this one is my absolute favorite
One day your a young man with nothing but high potential. Has the world in his hands. And then comes back completely broken and ripped apart. This movie touched me. Soo sad
Imagine how the 680 who were left in Vietnam to die felt. The real enemy is right here on our own soil.
This movie is one of the most horrifying to me. It always reminds me of situations when I temporary lost my ability to speak, to hear, to see, to move my legs. When I thought I was going to die. It is horrifying.
5 years but can i ask what happened?
the deer hunter is the only vietnam movie that comes close to this one. great movie. tom cruise deserved an oscar.
Mark Moses, great actor. He did some great roles in Oliver Stone movies.
Tom Cruise should have got an Oscar for his role as Ron Kovic. I've seen My Left Foot but it isn't half as good as Born on the Fourth of July!
I do like both but Tom is genius here
i agreee toms acting much deeper than lewis
2 actors from platoon appeared in this scene.The Orderly named Marvin (Played by Corkey Ford). Ford played the ill fated Manny in Platoon (who gets kidnapped by the NVA and was castrated just before the village scene). And Mark Moses (The Doctor) who of course plays Lt. Wolfe.
You also forgot Willem Dafoe and Tom Barringer
@@elijahvigil7467 Although they were in this film. They do not appear at this scene.
How anyone could treat a war veteran that way is absolutely shameful!!! Veterans deserve respect!!❤
The actor who portrays the doctor in this scene also portrated the lieutenant in PLATOON.
Mark Moses, such a great actor.
I'm a fan of horror movies like Hellraiser, Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday The 13th, etc.; but this SCENE, especially the ending, is more horrific than all those. 100% Nightmare fuel.
Sometimes i think why they dont do movies like this anymore. Guess why? yes ... you are right.
They're were a lot of folks that hated the Vietnam war and a lot of them took it out on the soldiers.
It wasn't like today where you barely hear anyone disrespect a soldier.
Oliver Stone should know better than anyone since he was a Vietnam vet.
i am ashamed of this country for treating it's soldiers the way it did during the vietnam era. absolutely reprehensible
3:04 When your phone is 1%
I love this movie. I also happen to love my VA health coverage. I get excellent care through the VA in Northern California, absolutely top-notch. Besides routine care, they've helped me with at least 2 significant health issues and I'm active in their support / wellness community.
this is wat you get , in any army!
im german , but its fact , when u a healthy young men , ur politcans want you , to go to save ur country , and your a great human.
but then when u come back , and your injured or something like that , the politcans and goverment dont think one time about you ..
the most people they come back ... never get some respect or money ..
But young people still dont get it. They dont get it that they are only fighting for politicians and rich people interest.
Like my grandfather who fought for Germany under the Wehrmacht army. Prisoner of war for 7 years and still treated like shit when he came back to Germany.
Whatever u say...But its cool cos its not like Germany ever won.
+Marcio de la Getto what exactly is he in
War knows no nation.
0:52 Always made me laugh 😂
Me too hahahaha.
This movie rips on the hospital staff but it was no picnic for them either. Imagine being surrounded by guys like that *every day* blaming *you* for staffing shortages and faulty equiptment. How would you like to sponge-bathe those guys and empty their bedpans every day?
Whether it's obesity or Covid-19, take care of your health. Doctors and nurses are under enough stress already.
A legend such a amazing actor
Tom Cruise's greatest performance ever and considering his resume of films he's been in that's something
It's one of the greatest performances from ANY actor in ANY film!!
If it wasn't for My Left Foot, that Oscar was Cruise's.
It's stuff like this that makes me wonder why so many people still fall for that old "fighting for your country" shit. Fighting for what? Freedom that we were born with? Politicians who want young, healthy people to risk their lives so they can get fatter wallets in the meantime since War is a HUGE profit? For benefits so you can actually get an education / housing without owing debt to EVERYONE? Fighting for situations like this? Where you come back from a violent battle, only to be in a run-down hospital with ONE PUMP that barely works...so instead of getting proper treatment (which should have obviously been prepared considering many of these people were DRAFTED...forced to kill other human beings), and all they get is a non-working pump that causes them to lose a leg? FOR WHAT? FREEDOM? Blow me, that is the biggest pile of horseshit ever.
I sympathize with these veterans because they SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN THERE. Even after all the terrible things this country has done (besides not taking care of vets, or anyone really unless you own a few mansions), people STILL think we are "fighting for our freedom" PEOPLE STILL FALL FOR IT. It's really sad....and I'm sure SOMEONE will reply giving me all their hate and saying "they ARE fighting for your freedom, have some respect" NO...I have respect, which is why I'm speaking the truth. If any of you want to sit here and believe we are occupying countries for OUR freedom, you are full of shit.
Besides...shouldn't it now be about THEIR freedom? Why is it always about OUR freedom? why is it NEVER another country's freedom?
The Middle East could possibly be saved if dont correctly, yet ALL I STILL here is "we are over there to fight for our freedom" THAT is when you know somebody is clueless....so now it's not even remotely about other people any more...or THEIR struggles as a country, it's still ALL ABOUT US....OUR freedom. WE FUCKING HAVE FREEDOM, they don't!
Why is it NEVER "Fighting for THEIR freedom"??? It never will be, we are too selfish and greedy and WE want the freedom, WE want the money, WE want a future. Sure they do too..but we ARE NOT fighting for THEIR freedom remember? We are fighting for OUR FREEDOM.
Now send more young people over there and start murdering!!!
Herp Derp "support teh troops".
Trump 2016. Let's make America great again!
Just know that people volunteer to do it. So you don't have to. Because if it weren't for soldiers to die, you would be drafted. They do it so you don't have to. You can hate the government. But don't hate the soldiers.
Well written mark. I'd kill myself rather than become forth of July fodder for wall st. Any young man thinking of throwing his life away should view....born on the forth of July. Tom cruise what a brill actor
Vietnam wasn't about fighting for your country.
Just realized the actor who plays the doctor is Duck Phillips from Mad Men.
This is the movie I thought about when I ended up in the ICU after suffering a haemorrhagic stroke ,as I believed I would never be able to walk again .
I do have to use a wheelchair, but I can manage some waking with crutch.However,I also suffer from a weak left hip , causing a Trendelenburg gait
It's a damn shame how they treated veterans. Who fought for this country. And they get treated this way!
Most of them were drafted😥
This great scene is ruined by @movieclips for cutting the beginning off
Tom cruise is top 5 actors of all
Time
When Ron screams he sounds like Scrat in the Ice Age films!
Tom cruise screaming at the end sounds just like Dustin Hoffman in rain man
When he was trying to put him on a plane
Also when the doctor told Ron that he wouldn’t be able to have kids due to his T-6 paralysis, Ron says “I wanna walk again! I know I’ll walk again!” in a similar cadence like Dustin Hoffman’s Rain Man.
TOM =AMAZING
that hospital is a madhouse. sad way to treat a war veteran
He should not have went over there in the first place
He did two tours voluntarily.
@@Gustavo-fm2vm Yep. He could have walked away after only one tour, felt good about having done his part and gone home. A good gambler knows when to take his winnings, get up from the table, and just walk away. ;)
This was an Oscar, perfectly acted movie till this day, it was my first time watching in 2019.
Very sobering and sad scene of the VA system and Government abandoning those who fought for their country.
I could swear l remember seeing a scene wear Ron is praying too god just before the machine starts back up and that’s why he screams. Anyone else remember this ?
Whenever I am going through a tough time, I refer back to this movie. Ron shows me how tough a human can really be.
He screams because the machine starts working again and his leg will be saved.
+Jim Kim No. He screams from the frustration and absurdity of his situation.
+pup lover Im talking about the last part in the scene.
+Space Monkey He Is Screaming Because He Is Losing His Sanity , He Has Been Lying In Bed For Four Months Paralyzed , Reality , His Life Is Forever Changed He Will Never Be Able To Have A Normal Life , He Is Grieving His Life Of What Is To Come , Life In A Wheelchair , Never Be With A Woman Sexually , Never Will Be Married With Children , He Will Never Be Able To Walk , Dance , Have Fun , He Is Realizing The Reality Of His Future , He Is Handicap , Very Heartbreaking !
this part scared me as a kid. thats scream
I love the incredulity in his voice when he says 'It's my leg!' He's almost laughing at how much of a farce it all is.
Harrowing. Frightening. Moving.
isnt the doctor lt. wolfe from platoon? :D
And Marvin is Manny Washington too! The two primary sergeants from Platoon were in this movie too!
@@dannythomas417 and Tom Berenger in the beginning of the movie.
Duck doing his best for Ronnie.
hugs, ya'll! happy fourth!
I can't believe the young doctor is Duck Phillips
That nurse at the start looks like Chris rock in a wig.
LMFAOO
So was the yell at the end a mixture of joy that the machine was working and the insane situation of the hospital?!
I would have sued
Babies in any public place: 3:04
Lmao I use to always bust in tears when he would scream
I just looked at my last few comments here. And I see nothing has changed.
Is there a scene in this film where Ron is placed into a bathtub? I have a weird memory from childhood of a movie about a Vietnam veteran with a scene where he is being carried to a bath that I want to say was filled with ice. It’s been driving me crazy for years.
No, no, no. That is Jacob's Ladder. A movie about a Vietnam vet who's having hallucinations. With Tim Robbins. It's a great movie.
1:14 bucket gone....aaaand 1:21 bucket there again.
2:53 The moment I found out that Half Life 3 was cancelled.
The moment I found out COVID was gonna take over our lives two years ago.
Marvin and Ron are arguing (Majorly!)....Nurse screams "Marvin now!" and he's comes immediately....it just seemed so real!, amazing acting all around...does anyone know the name of the Nurse Actress?
0:52 - It’s a brutal scene but that guy made me laugh! 😂
1:55 "You are a doctor right?"
he wasn't suppose to go.
Oscar winning performance.
Dr called him Eddie
Anyone else notice the doctor is the LT from Platoon? Oliver Stone's other vietnam movie.
3:04 His Scream 😂😂😂
🔥 problem
What is so funny about it? Would you laugh and smile if you were in the same situation?
I love how they selected the same actor who played the incompetent "LT. Wolf" in Platoon to play the uncaring doctor! Well played, Mr. Stone! Well played!
That scream at the end lol
I saw 3 movies with Mark Moses: this, Platoon and Someone to watch over me by R. Scott. He always plays the naive, young unexperienced and confused character.
At 3:04, he realizes his Obamacare deductible is $5500.
When you step on a lego 3:04
Was it here that he was starting to have a realization of the truth about the war & the country he loves?
This movie made me anxious
No Oscar for Tom Cruise?
WTF???
What about it?
He was up against Daniel Day-Lewis that year for my left foot, who won that year.
his desperation is scary
Ok, I actually found this quite hilarious
What was the pump near his bed for?
I understand all the hate for him putting the blame on others for his problems and his legs. But realistically how else are you going to be able to express yourself when your in pain as well having that guilt of shooting Wilson. No one should ever be looked at differently for expressing how they feel.
DAISY RIDLEY BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY....FEBRUARY 26TH...1965
I’m surprised this movie wasn’t “censored” by UA-cam policy of removing anything that criticizes the US government.
Who has the balls to make a movie about the 442 & 101?
im sorry im not well medically informed? what is that pump that looks like a coffee machine? is it meant to remove bad blood in his leg area?
Right. There's an earlier scene where Kovic / Cruise is trying to walk but he slips and CRACKS his leg open. His options are either amputation or sit in bed for four months until the bone heals. If the machine stops working, fluid will back up in his bloodsteam and probably kill him.
@@r5t6y7u8 so its a filter for medication and blood flow so it regulates threw his system properly? Antibiotics and steriods etc- ?
A girl in my class told me to not do the book report on this and to choose something different and that I think I’m entitled for choosing a marine story due to the fact I have family in marines. and how I’m trying to make others feel bad about marines. Extremely disrespectful considering I have marine family members and she doesn’t know that. Once I told her she said I don’t care your still making an opinion on this and influencing others. Idc what this jealous 19 year old girl who is years younger then me thinks. I will always stand up for my family and stand up for my country.
I don’t know if her parents were former hippies or if she’s throwing shade cause she hates me since I met her friend that hated me.
It was literally sad that another student could hate on me without having prior knowledge and manners