This is definitely a movie you want to see. It contains some outright irreverant humor, some of it rather crude to say the least, but it provides contrast to this with a relatively well-managed love story and a poignant and thought-provoking critique of the Vietnam war. Unlike most movies of this day, there is no senseless violence. All of it serves some purpose to push the plot forward. There are two especially wonderful scenes. One, where he finally decides to fight against the scenario and reads aloud all of the news that "wasn't", of all the real deaths and explosions that were really happening. Another, possibly the best of the movie, is where he airs the song "It's a Wonderful World". While it is playing, the movie cuts to several scenes of first the beauty of the country, and then how it is ravaged and destroyed by the war waged in it. Overall, this is not a movie that you would ever want to miss.