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Summary: Great Vietnam Film
Review: Platoon is a great film.It is about a platoon of soldiers in Vietnam who are not only fighting the enemy,they're fighting each other.Half side with Seargent Barnes,an extremely hard nosed soldier with a scarred face.The other half is with Seargent Elias who is compassionate and tired of the war.Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe are excellent as the two very different seargents.Charlie Sheen does a good job as a young soldier,too.I think this is Oliver Stone's best film,he was in Vietnam,which makes it all the more realistic.I loved the musical score.Overall,this is an excellent movie, and is my second favorite film about Vietnam after Apocalypse Now.
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Summary: Great Story, So-So DVD
Review: Platoon is unquestionably one of the most powerful movies I've seen within the last twenty years. Though I was too young to remember the horror that was the Vietnam War, this movie captures the emotion and tragedy of what was a dark era in our nation's history. Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe all put in strong performances. (Sheen, in particular, is excellent as the young private who is baptized into the ways of war.) In a sense, this is "Lord of the Flies" set in 1967 Vietnam. The visual transfer to DVD is very good, but it's the audio that brings the film down a notch. Yes, the cover case indicates 5.1 Dolby Surround, but you can hardly tell even with the sound cranked up. It might as well be in monaural. The explosions are muffled and the gunfire is almost too frequently indistinguishable. (I guess after viewing "Saving Private Ryan" on DVD I'm somewhat spoiled.) Also, there are no deleted scenes or notable "extras" included in the DVD. I give the DVD 5 stars for content and 3 stars for technical details.
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Summary: A very good film with very bad sound!
Review: This film is essentially very good for most people. But if you are an audiophile, you will be very very disappointed with its sound effect. The film's sound effects of shots, explosions and helicopters are very meager, nerveless and positionally indeterminable. Furthermore, the LFE hardly function! I even think its DD5.1 is a humbug! If you want to experience the real feeling among the battlefield, the "Platoon" will absolutely not be a good choice. Try "Saving Private Ryan"!
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Summary: An outstanding movie
Review: I was a little shy of reviewing this movie as I didn't want to offend anyone that had been to vietnam as I haven't, but then again thats what this movie was made for, for people like myself to learn about it and try and get an insight into the sorts of conditions soldiers experienced. Although its not really a movie you enjoy, you can't really enjoy a war movie, as war isn't enjoyable, its definately an outstanding movie and I recommend it to anyone. It follows a new soldier as he joins a platoon and begins his tour in nam. You see the platoon split in two over moral issues and although its easier for us at home in our chairs to see the righteous side you can see under their conditions how right and wrong begin to blur and even the enemy becomes unknown, this causes a serious division in the platoon. Charlie Sheen playing our new solider is forced to choose a side in the now divided platoon and has to wrestle with his inner emotions. The movie is incredibly well done, the soundtrack is simply awesone, extrememly well chosen and enchances the movie tenfold, music by Samuel Barber. This movie definately stirs a lot of emotions, happiness at friendships that develop, sadness as you see humans doing ugly things sorrounded by an ugly war, anger, betrayal. Its one of two DVD's I have ever hought, that says it all, 5 out of 5.
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Summary: The Conflict is Within Us.
Review: I was working in a Vietnamese refugee camp when this movie came out. The movie had a huge impact on me because I was doing work that was still part/aftermath of the Vietnam conflict. The movie is a classic. Excellent acting performance by Charlie Sheen here as Pvt. Chris Taylor, Tom Berenger as Sgt. Barnes, and William Defoe as Elias. The movie is about a young recruit's tour of duty in Vietnam. The recruit slowly transforms from a young, innocent college student to an experienced combat soldier who still maintains a sense of idealism and morality amidst the chaos and brutality of this unpopular war. This is not your Rambo type of movie. In fact, you might even be disappointed about the lack of firefight scenes in the movie. But firefight scenes don't make a good war movie. A good war movie must also send a message and this movie did it. Is this an anti-war film? I didn't think it was an anti-war film. The message I got in this war movie was man's conflict is not in the field of battle but the conflict that exists within us. Like at the final words in the movie: the enemy is within us. The DVD format was quite decent except for the sound effects. Get this movie.
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Summary: A GREAT MOVIE, A MASTERPIECE...
Review: Not being a Vietnam vet myself, and not being able to say wheather this movie is actually true to the horrors that were experienced in Vietnam, I can say that Platoon is a hell of a movie. Seing this movie once is simply not enough. The performances of Willem Defoe, and Tom Berenger are breathtaking. How many movies can make a perosn cry halfway through the film, and again at the end? The bitter feud that ensues between Berenger, and Defoe is something that is truely hard to explain. Each man believing that he is doing right in a time of wrong, and charlie Sheen and the platoon are seemingly caught up in the battle by the two platoon seargeants, divideing the platoon, and the morale of the men. This is one you won't want to miss.
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Summary: courage is an enemy
Review: platoon shows the vietnam war as a mean war when the americans hate one another, when a young vietnam american boy goes to war and doesn't now anything but to go to war to make his granma pround, end's up takeing drugs and a big machine gun killing many vientnams he realises how many mistakes he made, when a lot of his friends died in the war, his courage starts to fade away and starts to get frighten and not care if his life is taken away or not.
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Summary: This movie is very realistic...
Review: This movie is one that I find realistic and very sad. This is a movie that will make your heart drop because of what actually happened during the Vietnam War and also what happened to our troops. Many people do not realize the price or troops paid for our freedom, this movie will help them to realize this price paid for us. I found the ending of this movie to be great and at the same time very sad. This is a movie I find very sentimental and that I think everyone show watch. I would like to give my thanks to all War veterans who fought for my freedom. Thank You! HOO-YAH!
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Summary: There was no «innocence» to lose in the first place.
Review: «Loss of innocence?» - There was no «innocence» to lose in the first place! This movie contains the most incredible collection of totally disgusting characters I have ever seen. I had to force myself to watch it all the way to the end, in the hope that, against all probability, I might at last come upon some redeeming feature. In vain: the cheap sentimental platitudes eked out at the very end for the sake of placating what's left of dignity in the viewing public will only deceive the thousands and thousands of gullible suckers who helped this whole thing become a commercial success in the first place. I am not talking about the war and the violence, nor am I talking about whether it was warranted or not. That is just the context, - a context that's been shown much better and much more dramatically hundreds of times before in literary works as well as in movies. I am talking about the way the human characters involved in that context are pictured as reacting to the situation. The utter vulgarity of their language and of their attitudes to one another is clearly the artificial creation of sick minds that feed with relish on that sort of thing: even escaped convicts, if caught in such a tragically serious situation, would have behaved in a more civil way. My impression is that the sinister jokers responsible for this movie (let their names be erased and forever forgotten) must have had their brains stewed in tobacco smoke for a very long time before they could come up with such a totally gratuitous and unreal human monstrosity. Worse still: after reading the many ravingly favorable reviews praising this movie (including those of current high priests of cinematic taste like Roger Ebert and Leonard Maltin), I must say that I cannot but have serious doubts about the sanity of a population that seems to have lost its reflex to vomit even when presented with such patently nauseating garbage.
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Summary: A great movie, but substantially inferior to earlier DVD
Review: This is actually the second DVD release of platoon on DVD, and this later version is very poor compared to the first edition. There is no commentary from either Director Oliver Stone nor Dale Dye, the military consultant, even though both these alternate tracks were available in the first release. Still a great movie, but I am at a loss to explain why you would put out a DVD with less features than before.
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