human
Could you convert this from English to Dutch for me: Every single film critic's review of this I could find - Leonard Maltin and Roger Ebert being two of these critics whom I particularly respect - have given it a pitifully low rating. I can't completely figure it out, but I think the reason this movie failed to garner better reviews might have had something to do with the timing of its release; one must remember that the Vietnam War was still an open scab for this country in the mid-'80s, and all the film treatments of the war up until then had been pointed tragedies - from "The Deer Hunter" to "Apocalypse Now", "Coming Home", and even director Sidney J. Furie's other 1978 Vietnam film "Boys in Company C." So, audiences and critics were probably not very open at that time to a film about a romantic relationship in the middle of the war with a semi-happy ending. However, in hindsight this movie deserves a second look, and seems to have received one, as indicated by the positive reviews I have read from virtually every amateur online reviewer, which would qualify this movie as a sleeper 20 years after its original release.Essentially, the movie has an old-fashioned storyline with 1980s sensibilities - the type of movie that would have been more at home in the post-WWII era along with such films as "From Here to Eternity" or "The Best Years of Our Lives." I disagree with Ebert's review, which said this was simply one of those ridiculous movies where "the whole world was a stage, and millions of people were fighting and dying so that these two goofballs could swap spit?"
gpt
Alle recensies die ik erover heb gelezen  en Leonard Maltin en Roger Ebert zijn twee van die recensenten voor wie ik bijzonder veel respect heb  hebben het een meelijwekkend laag cijfer gegeven. Ik kan er niet helemaal achter komen, maar ik denk dat de reden waarom deze film geen betere recensies heeft gekregen iets te maken heeft met het tijdstip waarop hij werd uitgebracht. Je moet niet vergeten dat de Vietnamoorlog halverwege de jaren tachtig nog een open wond was voor dit land, en alle films die tot dan toe over de oorlog gingen, waren duidelijke tragedies  van 'The Deer Hunter' tot 'Apocalypse Now', 'Coming Home' en zelfs de andere Vietnamfilm uit 1978 van regisseur Sidney J. Furie, 'Boys in Company C'. Dus het publiek en de critici waren in die tijd waarschijnlijk niet erg open over een film over een romantische relatie in het midden van de oorlog met een semi-gelukkig einde.