Platoon

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Joseph C @Movieman245 Apr 29 Platoon is a 1986 movie that i personally feel is one of the best oscar winning motion pictures of all time. It resembles the vietnam national battalion academy very well and is a story about grunt kids who feel they need a purpose and sense of importance in one of the most guerillaiest war ever Vietnam. Charlie Sheen plays Chris taylor and Tom Berenger play Sgt. Barnes This movie is a exceptional must see and it matters to those who dedicated their lives to going over to Vietnam and the Phillipines. I really love this movie. See more Kevin P @RT55971421 Apr 12 Very influential and famous movie about the Vietnam War. It's the quintessential Vietnam War movie, as it's often been praised for its accuracy. It really shows onscreen with the daily grunt work and jungle conditions that the crew have to endure day in and day out. It's a heart wrenching and tense war movie that effectively puts the audience into the boots of the young inexperienced soldiers. The film has an all-star cast. The soundtrack is great. It's hard to see unprepared soldiers untrained and used and cannon fodder. Many of the drafted recruits are the leftovers of society forgotten and unwanted. The fighting is chaotic and unstructured. Willem Dafoe's character is very likable and is arguably the moral center of the film. The village interrogation is a harrowing scene and it really divides a hard line between everyone's integrity. The climactic battle is very tense. It's a harrowing, emotionally driven war film and easily one of the best depictions of the Vietnam War. See more Stephen C @bob25009 Mar 27 The worldwide gross is $138,545,632.00 over a budget of $6,000,000.00. See more J F @Youreabxer Mar 16 Wrong. And has no room to be token ever for freedom or other way. See more Alejandro E @Alex970 Feb 27 From the wonderful years of Oliver Stone. The Vietnam War from the perspective of a rookie soldier who was unprepared for a futile war is an exercise that hits like a sledgehammer. One of Mr Stone's essentials from the 1980s. See more Tom F @RT55173143 Feb 25 The story is a bit clunkier than I remember from my original viewing when it came out, but the message of how war robs men of humanity remains a strong antidote to the desire to frame soldiers’ stories in a warm haze of patriotic nostalgia. See more Read all reviews

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