- Alternative Character Interpretation: When Doc is having his White Guilt rant toward the FNGs, there are two equally likely takes on it: either he's sincere and when called out by Beletsky he realizes he's in the wrong... or it was a Secret Test of Character and he ultimately bonded with Beletsky because the latter passed the test. Or maybe even both.
- Cult Classic: Not particularly well-received, didn't made a killing in the box office and basically chalked up as "yet another Vietnam war movie" that oversaturated the market back in the day... but Hamburger Hill still found its own audience thanks to distinctive characters and memorable dialogues, chiefly thanks to home media releases and countless reruns in the TV.
- Ensemble Dark Horse: Pretty much every review of the film cites Courtney B. Vance's performance as Doc as a highlight.
- Memetic Mutation: The iconic teeth-brushing scene is often used for various "PTSD flashback" montages, always in a humorous way.
- Spiritual Adaptation: Of All Quiet on the Western Front. It not even trying to hide strong anti-war message, while very strictly following the themes of alienation of soldiers in civilian life, Too Dumb to Live tendencies of New Meat, how useless the training is (and what kind of quirky things veterans do to survive) and how tightly knit the older soldiers became despite having nothing in common beyond staying alive together for so long. And obviously, almost every character ends up dead, maimed or at least completely broken by the end of it.
- Tear Jerker:
- A soldier savouring a letter from his girlfriend, only for it to say that she won't be writing him anymore as she has been told his service is immoral.
- Frantz and Motown comforting Doc as he's dying.
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