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Summary: MOVED TO TEARS AND SILENCED. HURRY UP AND RELEASE ON VIDEO.
Review: FRESH FACED AND OUTTA SCHOOL,BIG TIME CHARLIE POTATOES. WHAM, BAM, THANK YOU MAM...HAVE YOUR SON BACK NEW AND IMPROVED. TO DIE OVER AND OVER AGAIN WAS JUST ANOTHER 24 HOURS IN A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME... EVEN A STOPPED CLOCK GAVE THEM THE RIGHT TIME TWICE A DAY.
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Summary: THIS MOVIE IS A CLASSIC!
Review: "Platoon," represents one of the best movies made about the Vietnam War and the men who fought in it. Oliver Stone does an excellent job of developing the characters Alias (Willem Dafoe) and Barnes (Tom Berenger). Stone also provides the viewer with a very accurate picture of the Vietnam War. Everything from the physical elements - heat, humidity, monsoon, leeches, and mud: to the emotional elements - a surprise daytime ambush, fear, loneliness, friendship, frustration, and sadness (mourning). Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is the most vulnerable character at the beginning of the movie but soon learns the "hard" lessons about Vietnam. I feel that this is Charlie Sheen's best movie-to-date. The cast in this movie accurately portrays the "grunt" in the field and his constant flux of emotions. For a classic movie about the Vietnam War watch "Platoon!" You won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Great story about the mess of an americain platoon in Nam.
Review: Willem Dafoe rocks. He's one of the reasons I watched this movie ( which was so great!). The other reason is that I'm a Vietnamese, and what the soldiers did to the people in the village is true. My grand mother was one of them ( she was killed on the field because the soldiers found out that she helped the Vietcong to escape.). I'm waiting for another movie by Stone about Vietnam ( maybe some romance ).Anyway, Wllem's still the reason why I first watch this movie.
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Summary: Good Film
Review: I think this is a great movie. I read the review posted by the Bravo Company commander, and agree that maybe it is historically inaccurate. From what I heard Vietnam was not the butchery of American soldiers that people think it was in most cases; the average platoon would march, get ambushed and fire back, and keep marching. However I disagree with him that this is not a good movie, I thought it was very entertaining and emotional, and I like all of the characters in it (Willem Dafoe and Tom Berenger did two great jobs of acting). This movie is one of my favorites.
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Summary: Incredible action and intense storytelling
Review: This movie was full of some of the best war reenaction that I have ever seen. Being a vet, I'm sure that Oliver Stone knew how interactions took place between G.I.s, and he displayed that in an extremely interesting way in this movie. Platoon moved me in a way that no other movie has, so see it now!
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Summary: An Excellent Movie, bit sad at times, also lots of action
Review: I thought it was great, a bit on the long side, and very sad at times and it makes you appreciate what life you do have, and realise how sick some of the world we live in really is .. its worth watching
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Summary: Best movie I ever saw.
Review: It is so realistic that it explains some of the reasons guy came back from there like they did.
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Summary: Images of a War
Review: By and large the film goes to a large extent to prove that war is dehumanising and corrupts the soul of man,- possibly irretrievably. I liked the film and I feel that the character of Taylor shows just how fallible we can all be in that kind of a situation - thinking about his grandmother in the middle of chaos.Those who still feel that they can resort to violence and come out of it untainted only have to imagine the post-war life of Sergeant Barnes after the atrocities that he committed in the Vietnamese Village.Oliver Stone drives a very clear message home- that WAR IS BAD. Isaac Molema -Gauteng Province South Africa
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Summary: A very compelling and eerie film.
Review: This film is definitely not for the fainthearted. It shows how humans can be corrupted by just one person, how they can be compelled to do things they would not normally do. I loved the film and so did my boyfriend. My recommendation? Watch it.
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Summary: Stridently Antiwar Propaganda; NOT the Way It Actually Was!
Review: Speaking from the experience of two full tours in Vietnam and as Oliver Stone's company commander during his service in 25th Infantry Division (Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 22nd Infantry), I take serious exception to his portrayal of our soldiers as spaced-out, cruel dopeheads who routinely smoked dope, committed atrocities and tried to kill each other. My soldiers -- and soldiers in Vietnam in general -- were not like that at all. During that time, Stone was a good soldier, attested to by the facts that, to the best of my knowlege, I never had to punish him, and that he departed Bravo on 15 Jan 1968 by medical evac helicopter after being seriously wounded trying to take a bunker with two other men. His radicalism seems to have emerged after his tour in Vietnam. Whatever the reason, this movie does a gross disservice to the vast majority of American troops who went to Vietnam as ordered by their government, did the job given them the best they could, and returned home to become normal, productive citizens. I won't say that unsavory events did not occur in Vietnam -- as they have in every war -- but they were not typical. For example, My Lai occurred, a criminal act committed by a small group of soldiers who should have been soundly punished as the criminals they were. However, My Lai was an aberation, although movies like "Platoon" play it up as the norm.To give Stone his due, the really good part of the movie was the feeling of being there which he recreated: the heat and dehydration, humping heavy packs, red ant dances; the attempt to conduct an ambush while fighting fatigue, rain, mosquitoes, and having the VC sneak up on you because your lookout went to sleep. Those things were very real, and Stone did these better than anyone else. Stone ruins the film for those of us in Bravo Company (identified at the beginning of the film) -- and real Vietnam vets in general -- by throwing into this real ambiance all the antiwar images and rumors ever associated with Vietnam created by those violently opposed to the war. Stone says that he is a dramatist, and that he changes and shapes events to suit his views of those events; he says that he is not a documentarian, as I am. I guess that means that I record the true events, while he takes history and twists and shapes it into his kind of fiction. Therefore, if you want to learn the real history of Bravo Company during the time Stone and I were in the unit, and the truth about America's Vietnam soldiers and veterans in general, I recommend that you read two books: my book, "Platoon: Bravo Company" and B.G. Burkett's book, "Stolen Valor." Don't be afraid to find out the truth -- you owe it to those who served and died there.
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