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Which character did you hate the most?


For me that would be O,Neill. A douchebag and a coward...not a great mix.

Others I didn't like were Junior and Wolfe....although they at least cop it at the end. Barnes was a bastard, but he was a tough bastard and a fairly strong leader so I didn't completely hate him.


Add your choices if you wish

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Definitely junior, his weasel a** deserved that death. Bunny was a close 2nd but at least he went down like a true soldier and didn't abandon his post

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Bunny, by far... Barnes may have been turned into something resembling a psychopath by the war, but Bunny was the real deal. He just couldn't wait to murder, rape and pillage. He loved the war because he could get away with anything, he even says so. Loathsome character.

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Yeah I remember a war memoir by Matthew Brennan (he did three tours with the 1st Air Cav's recon unit, the 1st of the 9th); he mentioned a cavalryman who served in his scout platoon he named 'Gould'--a tough, very very canny soldier but he really thrived in combat. In fact, he said 'Gould' looked more boyish and innocent at the end of his tour than at the start. And as he put it, 'don't cross him.'






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Wolfe

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O'Neill was a major league douche bag. Please click on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOkWg2d2W4g
for the best of O'Neill.

I loved how every time Barnes put a cigarette in his mouth O'Neill would hurry to light it. It reminded me of when I was a teenager. Whenever a pretty girl put a cigarette in her mouth horny guys would hurry to light it.

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tex. the guy was a douche the whole movie. "YOU BETTER NOT FALL ASLEEP OR I'LL SLING YOUR SORRY ASS!"

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Tex got his hand blown off in that first ambush didn't he?



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I think it was his legs.... from a grenade *beep* tossed by O'Neil. "TAKE THE PAIN!!!".

I was never fond of Gartner. Couldn't get his ass up that hill, the fat *beep*

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I thought I saw Tex's hands bloodied up & getting bandaged but it's been nearly 10 years since I last saw it so who knows, maybe I saw wrong?



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O'Neil - The permanent lighter of Barnes' cigarettes, along with all his other attributes.

"Chicken soup - with a *beep* straw."

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