The Greatest Beer Run Ever (2022)

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Title: The Greatest Beer Run Ever (2022)

Tagline: Friendship has no last call.

Genre: Comedy, War, Drama

Director: Peter Farrelly

Cast: Zac Efron, Russell Crowe, Bill Murray, Kyle Allen, Jake Picking, Will Ropp, Archie Renaux, Ruby Ashbourne Serkis, Will Hochman, Christopher Reed Brown, Joe Adler, MacGregor Arney, Hal Cumpston, Kristin Carey, Paul Adelstein, Matt Cook, Shirleyann Kaladjian, Kevin Tran

Release: 2022-09-30

Runtime: 126

Plot: Chickie wants to support his friends fighting in Vietnam, so he does something wild—personally bring them American beer. What starts as a well-meaning journey quickly changes Chickie’s life and perspective. Based on a true story.

 
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they got a long way to go and a short time to get there, they're gonna do what they say cant be done.
i wonder who the VC version of this guy will be.
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Burns

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This actually looks pretty good from the trailer. Maybe they can pull off a similar film to Good Morning Vietnam in terms of comedy and seriousness in a war zone.

Hopefully they payed a historian consultant to look over anything to prevent any major mistakes.

In order to double check my memory, I was looing it up anyway, so here is a little background on the war during the time of the film (late 1967 into early 1968):

1967
  • US
  • April 15 - first large scale national protests by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam in NYC at the UN (100,000+ people)
  • October 16 - start of "Stop the Draft" week, a protest in front of the Draft centers in 30 US cities. (estimated 10,000+ people participated in Oakland alone)
  • October 21 - second major protest by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam in Washington DC (~70,000 people)
  • November 11 - A Gallup poll found that 59% of Americans favored continuing the war with 55% saying the U.S. should increase its military effort and involvement.
  • November 21 - General Westmorland (in charge of all forces in Vietnam), while back in D.C., told the National Press Club "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing... we have reached an important point... when the end begins to come into view."
  • Vietnam
  • Seek and Destroy missions dominate the first years of the war. American & allied forces (ARVN, Korea, Australia, etc.) would go on patrol to find Vietcong and/or NVA; clearing sectors and villages during the day. Vietcong would move back in at night. Most major cities were relatively safe with small attacks, here and there, by Vietcong forces.
  • November and December saw a reduced frequency of Vietcong offensive actions (note: Vietcong are the guerilla force only in South Vietnam, not official members of the North Vietnamese Army).
  • November 3 to 23 - battle of Dak To: in a feint to draw American & ARVN troops, NVA regulars march down the Ho Chi Minh trail and attack a province on the boarder of both Laos and Cambodia, in central South Vietnam. Eventually driven back after mounting casualties.
  • November 18 - Vietcong leadership announce willingness to honor a ceasefire for the upcoming Tết holiday.
  • November 19 - South Vietnam president Thiệu wrote to Ho Chi Minh to request secret talks to start a dialogue between the two countries to start the peace process.
  • December 15 - The South Vietnamese government announced that they and their allies would observe a 24-hours stand-down during Christmas Day; this would be followed by second cease-fire between December 31 and January 2.
  • Various Seek and Destroy operations by US forces kill 10,000+ NVA & VC troops from October to December.
1968
  • US
  • January 5 - The "Boston Five" Michael Ferber, Dr. Benjamin Spock, William Sloan Coffin, Mitchell Goodman and Marcus Raskin were indicted by a Grand jury in Boston on charges of conspiring to counsel young men to violate draft laws.
  • February 27 - after a month traveling around Vietnam, Walter Cronkite gave a special 2 hour report, at the end of which he stated "We Are Mired in Stalemate" and that negotiation is the only way the US will ever get out of the war: "...that the only rational way out, then, is to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could."
  • March 31 - President Johnson declares that he will not run for reelection.
  • Vietnam
  • January - In the first two weeks of 1968, PAVN/VC forces shelled 49 district and provincial capitals in South Vietnam and temporarily occupied two of them. General Westmoreland described the fighting to Time magazine "as the most intense of the entire war." MACV claimed that 5,000 PAVN/VC had been killed.
  • January 4 - US forces in the Đắk Tô District captured a classified five-page North Vietnamese document, titled "Urgent Combat Order No. 1", that described the strategy for a series of attacks to take place in Pleiku in conjunction with the upcoming Tết holiday.
  • January 9 - US recon notice NVA & VC forces amassing in the providences north of Saigon, prompting command to cancel upcoming Seek and Destroy operations near the boarder, and move those forces closer to Saigon.
  • January 21 - start of the Battle of Khe Sanh (just south of the DMZ) NVA troops initially attack, are driven back and surround US forces; 30,000 US troops are diverted to try to break the siege.
  • January 26 - In Time magazine, General Westmoreland said, "the Communists seem to have run temporarily out of steam."
  • January 29 - start of the Tết offensive: Vietcong units surge into action over the length and breadth of South Vietnam. In more than 100 cities and towns, shock attacks by Vietcong sapper-commandos are followed by wave after wave of supporting troops. By the end of the city battles, 37,000 Vietcong troops deployed for Tet have been killed. Many more had been wounded or captured, and the fighting had created more than a half million civilian refugees. Casualties included most of the Vietcong's best fighters, political officers and secret organizers; for the guerillas, Tet is nothing less than a catastrophe. But for the Americans, who lost 2,500 men, it is a serious blow to public support.
 
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This was alright. Dragged on quite a bit though. If this wasnt a true story it would of been a pretty dull movie.
 
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