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Platoon
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301115438
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
ISBN: 6301115430
Label: Live / Artisan
Languages: English (Original Language), AnalogVietnamese (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Live / Artisan
Publisher: Live / Artisan
Release Date: August 19, 1997
Studio: Live / Artisan
Theatrical Release Date: December 24, 1986
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Editorial Review:
Platoon put writer-turned-director Oliver Stone on the Hollywood map; it is still his most acclaimed and effective film, probably because it is based on Stone's firsthand experience as an American soldier in Vietnam. Chris (Charlie Sheen) is an infantryman whose loyalty is tested by two superior officers: Sergeant Elias (Willem Dafoe), a former hippie humanist who really cares about his men (this was a few years before he played Jesus in Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ), and Sergeant Barnes (Tom Berenger), a moody, macho soldier who may have gone over to the dark side. The personalities of the two sergeants correspond to their combat drugs of choice--pot for Elias and booze for Barnes. Stone has become known for his sledgehammer visual style, but in this film it seems perfectly appropriate. His violent and disorienting images have a terrifying immediacy, a you-are-there quality that gives you a sense of how things may have felt to an infantryman in the jungles of Vietnam. Platoon won Oscars for best picture and director. --Jim Emerson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Vietnam. FUBAR!!
I've read a couple of reviews that downgraded this film as being unrealistic. Of, course only the most sensational aspects of the war are portrayed. Duh, it's a movie. I wasn't over there. The war mercifully ended weeks before I would have been. I do have numerous friends who were. Many will not really talk about it (just like my dad who served 4 years in WWII and saw heavy action. Only after his death have I realized how scarred he was by that experience). I know a guy who used to tell me horror ... Read More
Rating:  - lame
Rather than being about the Vietnam war as it really was, this film is basically an exercise in what America wants the vietnam war to be. Despite endless comments to the contrary, there is nothing "realistic" about the film. The characters and plot are almost cartoonish. Its like a postmodernist John Wayne movie with different politics.
In real life, things don't break down into "good" soldiers and "evil" soldiers. Real life and real people are about shades of grey. The war also changed ... Read More
Rating: - Truly Essential for War flick buffs.
Actually, a must have for anyone who enjoys a good picture. All star cast, great story, truly moving in an emotional sense (watch the Bunker Scene, with Smokey Robinson's "Tracks of My Tears"). WATCH THIS MOVIE!!
Gonzo
Rating: - A Must See...
Its an Oliver Stone Semi-Autobiographical of his time in Vietnam. Throw in Dale Dye as a Technical Advisor a man that served 3 tours in Nam with 31 engagements and you can bet the film is as real as it gets in its accounts on man vs everything thrown at him.
This is my favorite movie and has been since I seen it.
God Bless everyone that served in Vietnam.
Rating: - The stars... there's no right or wrong in them. They're just there
Oliver Stone directed this powerful film about the Viet Nam War. It is dedicated to the soldiers who fought there, but it depicts a horrible morass, a moral quagmire, that questions the mission, and our whole involvement in that sorry chapter in our nation's history. I saw the Viet Nam memorial in Washington, D.C., and it is very moving, and a fitting monument to that war. It is just a black stone wall with lots of names, the numerous soldiers who died there. Why is that so fitting? It is a black wall, ... Read More
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