Platoon (1986) MOVIE REACTION! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!
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Charlie's father, Martin Sheen, played the lead role in Apocalypse Now
Which leads to an amazing scene in Hot Shots Part Deux where they both pass by each other on a Vietnam river doing their own narrating.
@@Rmlohner "I loved you in Wall Street!"
@@Rmlohner Thanks for mentioning this flick. Havan't seen it in centuries...
Tom Berenger is such a great actor, it's a shame he's not cast much any more. Glad Nolan used him in INCEPTION.
I liked him in a movie called "Shattered" (suspense/thriller). It's not a great film but it's one of my favorites with him in it.
He was also great in Betrayed.
This is so true, he owned this part so well it probably typecast him a bit. Being a truly great bad guy is a blessing and a curse but among actors it is truly honored and it should be.
@@doclewis8927 I love that movie! Great end, awesome concept! I remember thinking it was boring, then I saw the end and I had to rewatch the whole movie again. Now I watch it every time it's on TV. You're right, it's not the best movie ever, but it's fun and memorable. That's the movie that put Tom Barenger on my radar.
That's not true. Tom's cast all the time. Only in shit, mind you, but still, he's always working.
The Holy Trinity of Vietnam War films - Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket & Platoon.
I would add Hamburger Hill
@@tonyyul703 Hamburger Hill is eclipsed by Full Metal Jacket and Platoon.
No love for M*A*S*H? Yes, it technically takes place in Korea, but it was in response to Vietnam
@@Sandy-gg7to Good Morning Vietnam needs a mention too.
Casualties of War is another Vietnam War movie that hits hard
My dad was drafted to Vietnam. As I was growing up, he very rarely ever talked about his own experiences (completely understandable), but anytime a movie like this or TV show (Tour of Duty) came out, we always watched it. He would talk about general things like how the rifles worked, and the transports, etc., & that was how I learned about the Vietnam War.
I still remember being young & watching this when it came out and couldn't believe or understand how Tom Berenger's character could kill Willem Defoe's.
I don't know your dad, of course, but it sounds like he would talk about the "practical" aspects of the war as a way of keeping an emotional distance or detachment from the deeper, more traumatizing stuff. Almost like a distraction from the things he didn't want to think/talk about. I mean that in the most respectful way possible. I could be wrong, and if I am, my sincerest apologies.
One of the most realistic war movies ever made, from a former infantryman’s point of view
@Move_I_Got_This Nixon resigned August 8th of 74', The US started pulling troops out of Vietnam almost a Full year before that so You're barely half right.
@Move_I_Got_This Yes, it is. *Multiple* combat veterans had to step out of theaters screening this on christmas day because of how realistic it portrayed the pointless misery of Vietnam jungle combat and the life of a grunt.
@Move_I_Got_This
A nice quote from an American officer talking to a Vietnamese officer
'You know, you never beat us in the field.'
"That may be true, but it is also irrelevant."
I was artillery, their reactions 🤣 kill me.
@Move I Got This For the most part Yes but it was also because even the American public was sick of the War even the most ardent Anti-Communist Conservatives wanted a way out and maybe a better solution than Nixon's but I digress LBJ or maybe any other Politician would've done worse than Nixon but I still feel there could've been a better outcome than Nixon's solution because then over two years later the North Vietnamese Communists just took over the entire south and it didn't seem like we saved face. 🙄
The actors weren't coddled for this film, Stone made them rough it for a month in the jungle before shooting even begun, authenticity was everything to him for this film, he even made them all smoke weed for the party scene, they all look genuinely stoned because they all are genuinely stoned
My uncle who passed away this year fought in Vietnam, he was a gunman on the mekong delta, told me all the time that platoon was the most realistic depiction of the war. He passed back in March of 2021, and I appreciate your views on this movie. I got to re-live his stories and experiences and seeing your reactions was comparable to mine even listening to him telling his stories.
The Deer Hunter is a movie you must see. It features one of the most dangerous games ever known to man: Russian Roulette!
Robert De Niro made a stellar and memorable performance 🎭.
Oh yeah, and Christopher Walken, unbelievable actor.
(Edited)
Plus Christopher Walken!
All about Walken! "What...it's Nicky. One shot?"
Christopher walken made that movie. The traumatized and idled mind performance by him was superb and I think it's definitely oscar worthy
deer hunter is a must watch
The Deer Hunter is criminally under-reacted on youtube.
This movie is a masterpiece. Always remember the music as it sums up how sad and pointless war is perfectly. I still remember my reaction when they're talking about killing barnes and then see that he's listening. "ohhh shit"
When Vietnam War Vets saw this movie, they applauded Oliver Stone for telling their story, and said that kids today or back then that they were lucky that they didn't experience what Veterans had gone through during the War.
Did they also express regret over what they did to the Vietnamese? I don't think I've ever heard a vet say a kind word about them...
@@SpaceCattttt More Republic of Vietnam soldiers were killed by the Communist North (200k) than Americans who died (50k). They worked with each other, so not surprising many vets would not be recording themselves saying kind words about the North, or speaking on behalf the entire country about civilians who were affected by violence of both sides.
@@SpaceCattttt Why not talk about the atrocities of the VC? Like the 5000 civilians they killed leading up to the Tet offensive.
@@cyclone8974 Why not talk about everything? That's my point.
The Americans feel too embarrassed about admitting that they didn't win, so they instead choose to only focus on worshiping their vets rather than take a closer look at the mess they made and how shameful it is that they fought in Vietnam in the first place.
Yeah I've seen him talk about on the Joe Rogan Experience, that was a damn good episode and having Oliver Stone Come on and talk bout his experience.
An oscar winning film I higly recommend is 'Amadeus'. Definatly one of the greates Epic genre films. Plus one of the best soundtracks ever.
They just need to make sure they watch the theatrical release and not the director's cut.
Seconded. Fantastic movie. If someone mentions Best Picture Oscar, that's the first film I think of.
My personal favorite film and I think it won something like nine Oscars. Genius movies are my favorite genre and Amadeus is my favorite genius film, with Good Will Hunting a close second.
YES YES YES!! my favourite film of all time :D
@@reservoirdude92 I think the director's cut including the scene between Salieri and Constanze makes it better. Makes the final scene better and is necessary to understand why they act the way they do in the end.
No matter how horrible Hollywood makes it look, I'm sure it was 100x worse in real life.
Except the director actually experienced it first hand.
You can't translate the smell and the physical feelings no matter how much you try.
@Rene Ramirez Alright man, chill. She probably didn't know about the directors personal experience of it, she was just pointing out that sometimes things, whether movie or TV, can never tell, show or give the full experience and reality of it all.
This movie is about as close as I ever want to get to war
@Rene Ramirez Okay Mr Know-it-all!! I meant no disrespect!! JFC!!
Johnny Depp had a bigger role in this but stone thought he was too interesting and pulled focus from Charlie so most his scenes were cut
too interesting? to good looking you mean
@@kongvinter33 I'd say more charismatic.
@@mikevoisine2886 Id say too pretty for war. hehe
@@kongvinter33 As was Brad Pitt as a stuntman loll
@@mikevoisine2886 hahaha agree
Charlie sheen was a more serious actor before he did his comedy stuff. And platoon is one of the most realistic Vietnam war films ever made. All the war parts were very similar to the real thing.
The Hot Shot movies were pretty funny
@@tonymatrisin4328 they were long after he did platoon
@@tonymatrisin4328 he did hot shots way after platoon
The piece of music you refer to is "Adagio for Strings". It was composed by Samuel Barber for string orchestra and was completed in 1936.
Sadly, too many people think it was composed for the movie. Stay in film school, kids :/
@@michaelschwartz8730 And that's despite its being prominently used in The Elephant Man a few years earlier.
@@michaelschwartz8730 I saw this as a young teen in the early 90s I developed a love of the music and went out and bought a classical music CD that had it on alongside music from Beethoven, Mozart, Holst and Elgar and I've been listening to classical music ever since.
Must have been a bit weird for my parents, having to listen to Adagio for Strings or Ode to Joy blaring out of my bedroom one minute and then Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins and Soundgarden the next. :D
@@Rmlohner Also in the last scene of the movie Gallipoli.
One of the most impactful war films i have seen. The Thin Red Line is also a classic and pretty underrated.
Hated it. Boring.
Born on the fourth of July was a good different take on war
The Thin Red Line is considered one of the best films ever far from underrated
Platoon is much better than The Thin Red Line.
Hamburger hill was great
17:57 Dale Dye, the man who trained everyone for this movie and future war movies to come including Saving Private Ryan. Interesting reading here on IMBD.
Appears in Saving Private Ryan, and much more prominently, in Band of Brothers (Colonel Sink)
Loved his "nice fucking war were having"comment .
Watch the DVD extras.
After the big battle, you see his character looking like a father grieving for his lost sons.
That scene, according to Dyle and Stone, was shot while Dye wasn't really paying attention to any directing.
He was just back in the moment he experienced the same stuff in Vietnam.
At that moment he wasn't an actor who was also military advisor to the director.
He was back in the 'Nam.'
to quote the great Patrice O'Neal, I know I'm supposed to consider Apocalypse Now the ultimate Vietnam war movie, but I can watch Platoon any day.
Yup the big real one knew his shit.rip patrice o.niel
Exactly
Every great director has got one Great War film in them. Oliver Stone has two: Platoon and Born On The 4th Of July.
Back when Charlie Sheen wasn’t the butt of the jokes and was a dignified actor
Charlie Sheen saving those girls from being raped. Yeah that's realistic.
Being hooked on on drugs is no reason to make fun of him.
He was a new face. Nobody knew him at that time. A blank slate.
@@AudieHolland Still good acting
@@lilaclunablossom "Platoon" is my favourite film. All of the cast, many of whom had no previous experience, gave stellar performances.
Oliver Stone has a cameo in the film. When one of the Viet Cong runs inside to bomb the command tent, Oliver Stone is the commander on the phone.
That's probably because Platoon is the best looking budget warmovie ever.
That fat Sergeant calling out those NVA sappers, thinking they were his own men, was actually the sound tech guy, who was also a Vietnam veteran.
I guess they ran out of money to get more actors so both the sound guy and Stone filled in.
All for the better in hindsight.
When Willem Defoe's mother watched him (Elias) die... She immediately called him to make sure he was truly still alive. It's one amazingly well done death scene.
Since you guys are doing Best Picture winning films I cannot stress enough how great Amadeus is! A true masterclass of acting!
yes yes yes!!! my favourite movie
The cast of this movie alone!! Holy crap! The acting is phenomenal! This and Wall Street are Charlie Sheen's crowning achievements, that prove to any doubters that this guy is a great actor and can carry a movie even amidst other great actors.
Scenes of this movie horrified me as a child. Couldn't believe 'good people' were capable of such atrocities.
Also, "Casualties of War" is just as scarring.
Couldn't stop thinking about it..I was too young to see that film...it left a negative American expression for me especially when the superiors wanted to cover it up.
@@housec8059 Agreed man, heartbreaking.
casualties of war is one of those movies that you can never forget
Yup same here
I would love to see you guys react to...
Apocalypse Now (1979)
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The Original. Redux sucks.
Cinema Rules: Every director has one good war film in them
Stanley Kubrick: Hold my beer
Paths of Glory, Dr Strangelove, Barron Lyndon, Full Metal Jacket.
And two of them are his best films, in general, that being Barry Lyndon and Paths Of Glory, respectively
Check him out on -- LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR -- . Amazing film !
and John Ford and Sam Fuller...
Tony Todd is in this movie ( before he went on to star in Candyman)
Just me praying for Unforgiven as the 90s film...
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How dare you - The Silence of the Lambs was Best Picture the year before that. And I think 2 years later Schindler’s List. Both arguably better than Unforgiven, I’m sorry
@@SansMerci1013 we’ve seen both silence of the lambs and Schindler’s list already so 🤷🏼♂️
@@CinemaRules just watch them again anyway
@@SansMerci1013 Schindler's List was the year after Unforgiven. Personally, I don't think you can compare the three. Apples and Oranges. All three are great films.
1950 was an epic battle: "All about Eve" vs. "Sunset Blvd." I love them both, but I think the latter is the bigger masterpiece.
Yes! I love them both.
love suset blvd!
What a great response to an Oscar winning film. Platoon is a great film. You guys did it justice.
It was a great viewing experience.
I highly recommend parasite as it's an amazing film and also the first ever foreign film that won the best picture Oscar so it will be historic for the Oscar's
Oliver Stone's commentary for this film is pretty amazing. Almost everything is taken directly from his own experience in the war, and sometimes he even slips into first person narration while talking about the character.
Platoon was Oliver Stone best work. Verry personal film, because this was based on Stone's experience from the vietnam war.
John C Mcginley known from scrubs and Tony '' candyman'' Todd was in this movie.
Saw this one back in the day as a teenager at the movies. Whole class went to see it. Nobody spoke or could move when the credits roled.
The audience was like that when I saw Schindler’s List in the theatre. I was frozen and empty inside.
I am a former Taxi driver living in California. In recent years, one of my passengers was an ex-Veteran of Vietnam. He disclosed that he was dispatched to do "body counts" in areas that had been cleared by U.S. Marines or Army soldiers. He also said that he observed entire villages which had been leveled by U.S. troops, and that women and children were the victims of those military sweeps!
The first time I saw this movie was in my 6th form history class. We were doing a module on the Vietnam war and our teacher decided that watching this was a great idea. I honestly think he would be fired if he tried that now, it might upset the kiddies. Our history teacher was awesome though, he told us loads of storys of his visit to Vietnam and nearly getting stuck in a tunnel because he was too big, and the rest of his adventures in the commuist countries he toured when he was younger. We also got to see Glory (absolutley brilliant movie, highly reccomend that one) even though we wern't studying the american civil war, I think the teacher wanted to see it so he got the whole class to go to the movies.
For your consideration: All about Eve, On the Waterfront, In the Heat of the Night, Midnight Cowboy, The Godfather, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Schindler's List, American Beauty .. thanks guys, love watching your channel!
Great list, sir.
We need an All About Eve reaction on TH-cam
"All About Eve" is my favorite movie. "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night."
14:30 «I hate that guy, and that guy, and that guy in real life» LMAO
Vietnam War movies timeline:
We Were Soldiers - 2002( Battle of La Drang - 1965 )
Platoon - 1986( takes place near the Cambodian border - 1967 )
Full Metal Jacket -1987( Basic training & The Tet Offensive - 1968 )
Hamburger Hill - 1987( Battle of Hill 937 - 1969 )
Apocalypse Now - 1979( covert Nung River mission into Cambodia - 1970 )
The Killing Fields - 1984( Fall of Saigon immediate aftermath - 1973 )
Green Eyes - 1977( A soldier's return to Vietnam to find his family left behind -1977 )
Please add to your lists. Thanks, guys. 😊
You missed The Deer Hunter (1978) the Vietnam sections take place in 1967. The others in 1975. It was nominated for 9 Academy Awards.
It won best picture along with 4 other categories.
Hamburger Hill doesn't get much attention nowadays sadly.
Your reactions and reviews keep being very enjoyable to watch. I like your themed approach too to selecting movies.
Mind you, the Academy is known for regularly missing movies that became classics and instead honoring movies no one remembers today but I'm sure I will enjoy your picks.
"Just keep yo peckah' hard, and your powder dry...and the world will turn." Words I've loved for thirty years now.
From someone who was born in 74 and grew up on the films of the 70’s and 80’s and regards it as a classic era in cinema, I’m loving these reviews 👍🏻
Some fun facts bout this movie, Defoe is holding the remote in his left hand to set off his own squibs for his death run,
Also if u go back to the scene after Taylor kills Barnes, when the solider fine him, notice he was holding a grenade in his hand and he drops it as soon as they approach, on the commentary track for the DVD, Stone said that Taylor would had killed himself at that moment if they hadn't found him
The best Vietnam War movie ever. Many of the actors were superbly portrayed: O'Neal, Bunny, Junior, King, and especially Barnes.
If you guys want another couple of war films, I really recommend We Were Soldiers and The Siege of Firebase Gloria, both super underrated Vietnam films.
Five time Academy Award winning film. The Deer Hunter: great movie recommendation. Three small town friends going to Vietnam together. Next level acting, starring Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken & John Savage. You won't be disappointed.
15:34 that sudden cut to the dude yelling ‘FUCK IT ILL WALK’ has hade me crying laughing for 15 minutes
15 minutes is a very, very long time to spend laughing. Unless you’re drunk, or high.
Platoon is based on Oliver Stone's own Vietnam War experiences and it shows.
Great film. My favorite character was King. I love the exchange at the end before King gets out:
Chris Taylor:
It's the way the whole thing works, people like Elias get wasted, people like Barnes just go on making up the rules any way they want. So what do we do? Sit in the middle and suck on it. We just don't add up to dry shit, King.
King:
Whoever said we did, man? All you got to do is make it out of here. It's all gravy, everyday the rest of your life, gravy.
It disturbs me that so few people seem to understand that you, me, any of us, if we experience enough mental strain, fear, horror, physical exhaustion, anger at seeing your friends maimed and killed, frustration at never being able to find the enemy that keeps bleeding you relentlessly-at some point Everyone is susceptible to the temptation to lash out and be the monster. Under the right circumstances most all of us are capable of just about anything. We delude and lie to ourselves if we believe otherwise.
I used to watch Platoon a lot when I was a teenager. I actually had a crush on Elias and hated watching it after he died. When he dies that is the end of the movie for me. 🥺😭
Tom (spreading arms like Willem Dafoe): "I think I've seen that scene somewhere before..."
Yes Tom it's literally the cover! (lol)
Tropic Thunder.
Many Vietnam veterans have said when they watched it they could feel that heat and pain of it all over again. This and Casualties of War starring Michael J Fox, he is amazing in his role. P.s look up a Vietnam veteran called Roy Benevedas his story from his first tour is crazy enough but what he did 2nd time inspired two movies one is Rambo and the other is Forrest Gump. He got the Purple heart for what he did. An absolute legend, hero and absolute warrior.
Did you guys notice young Johnny Depp being one of the soldiers? He didn’t have a big role but he was there!😄
True😊 but he was the only one who spoke vietnamese😊
He had a bigger role but the director thought he took the limelight from sheen. Fyi Depp started out in a nightmare on elm street
@@stephenmillergbl Ik Nightmare was his first movie but Platoon was his 3rd movie. He was still a new actor
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Love Willem Defoe in this! He’s also in Boondocks Saints... another great movie you should react to please 😊 Also Saving Private Ryan. That ones based on the true story of a woman who had 4 sons that went to war and when 3 of them died, they sent a unit to save the last surviving brother. Such a good movie
My fav war movie of all time..this captures the true horror of war...alot of war films have alot of melodrama but this film doesn't do that which is why it's fantastic
The Vietnamese villagers were actually tourists whom Stone chanced upon in the Philippines.
Their families had fled Vietnam after the end of the war in 1975 so they were no professional actors
and yet they portrayed Vietnamese villagers who hated the Americans.
Damn, that is some of the best acting.
19:12
this has quite literally become my favourite TH-cam channel
Great reaction and nice comment about that shot of the beautiful deer, contrasting that with war and humankind. Fantastic.
Great reaction guys, this film showcases not only the horrors of war but how one's innocence and moral compass can easily change through war, excellent discussion & a fair summary & rating of the movie.
Did you notice Tony Candyman Todd in a small role?
What is strange is Ocean Software actually made a computer game in the 80s because i owned it on my ZX Spectrum +2.
A bit weird producing a game that feals with psychological warfare.
This film provides a very necessary contrast to the lighthearted depictions of the Vietnam war, like "Good Morning, Vietnam!" and the flower-children flicks, like "The Doors," "Hair," and so-on. There were very real choices to be made, between conscription and enlistment, and the consequences of going to war, versus becoming a fugitive for refusing to do so.
War isn't pretty or valiant, and the young men who were drafted to fight were quite screwed-up; PTSD is a terrible consequence, that affected a lot of guys back then.
great review. I'm glad you didn't blame Americans for the way people are treated, but instead you blamed war itself.
Interesting thing about the filming of Platoon, they filmed it in the Philippines though it was almost cancelled because there was a revolution happening right before they started. I believe they mention this in the commentary.
My offensive line coach back in high school was an old school Italian in his 60s. On his left arm he had an eagles head tattoo with the phrase "Nam 65-66" underneath it. On his right arm he had an old English USMC tattoo with the phrase "Nam 67-68" underneath it. To this day it still boggles my mind how he made it out alive.
Most of the men who served in Vietnam got out alive.
Over 58,000 killed out of roughly 550,000 men who were sent there.
Overall number of killed on the part of the Vietnamese, both North and South was over 3,000,000.
It was made for only 8 million. The actors also acted as film crew, carrying equipment ect, to keep it rolling. Filmed in under 60 days.
Luv this film which was shot in the Philippines. although the country that time was politically unstable, they pursued to have the film on location as double to Vietnam. There was also a brewing war at that time in the Philippines. Happy to see the young Johnny Depp there :)
Bonus to the filmaholics who peeped the director (oliver stone )himself in a cameo in platoon as the staff sag.i think not sure his actual rank but he was the one who is the bunker on the sat phone that was blown up by the kamkazi vietcong soldier.
The Deer Hunter: great movie recommendation. Three small town friends going to Vietnam together. Next level acting, starring Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken & John Savage. You won't be disappointed.
The village scene was based on the My Lai massacre. The villagers had it the worst because they got it from the Americans and the Viet Cong.
Charlie Sheen's character's VOs are not supposed to be just internal exposition. Some of them are narrations of what he was writing to his grandmother. Of course, they can't ALL be. Some of them would've been clipped by the censor board for containing sensitive information.
The Charley Sheen character is based on Oliver Stone's, the director of the film, experience in Vietnam.
The last battle was based off of a real battle Oliver Stone was in called the New Years Eve Battle of 1968... for years he thought he dreamed up this battle, that it never happened, because no one ever talked about it because around the same time the Tet Offensive was occurring. It wasn't until years later when he ran across a fellow soldier did they inform him that the battle did indeed occur.
Worth tracking down Scorsese’s The Big Shave and of course Taxi Driver. Rumour has always been that both Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver and the nihilism of The Big Shave were inspired by his and Paul Schrader’s interactions with Oliver Stone at film school - which he attended with his GI Bill after getting out of Vietnam after volunteering.
A really cool project! Maybe you should pick one from a different decade each week. I'd wait on the Deer Hunter as that's another Vietnam movie (though very different from Platoon) until some time has passed. Kind of curious of your take on Gandhi, Ordinary People, Midnight Cowboy, Casablanca, On the Waterfront, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Apartment...
"Gandhi" is dull and boring. It's like "Lawrence of Arabia" but without the style or energy of that film.
The ultimate war movie that explores the juxtaposition of man, war and nature would be "The Thin Red Line" (1998) by director Terrence Malick. Incredible cast and a compelling take on the battle in the Pacific Theater during WW2.
Boring fucking movie.
It may be a boring fucking movie, but it's a fucking beautiful film.
This film has such great cinematography.
One of my favorite shots is towards the beginning when the camera is filming the shafts of light breaking through the trees.
In the end Private Chris Taylor has the look of the one soldier that he locked eyes with at the beginning. He's now become world-weary from his experiences in combat. The tag line for this film was "The first casualty of war is innocence."
This is both a brilliant film and a great analysis & review.
I didn't know Johnny Depp was in this movie. Such a baby face!
At 19:01, be sure to note that Chris was about to pull the pin on a grenade.
The Americans became the very thing they said they were fighting against and this film shows it.
Hacksaw Ridge surprised me. You guys might like that one too. True story of a soldier who didn't want to carry a gun in battle. He was a medic and got stuck behind enemy lines and ended up saving a lot of guys. Amazing story!
This is one of the most realistic depictions of what american serviceman endured over there
The Mi Lai seen is so disturbing. I'm not usually a Stone fan, but this film is amazing.
Stone also made Oscar winner Wall St. , with Michael Douglass, Charlie Sheen and his Dad, Martin Sheen.
In case no one has mentioned it, the music you're referring to is Barber's Adagio for Strings op. 11. Very famous piece. Actually, I believe it was featured in a film you recently-watched, The Elephant Man. Sorry, I'm THAT nerd:)
Saw this when I was about 14. Really got to me. So much so, I've not seen it again since. That was 33 years ago!
This and apocalypse now are my favorite War/Vietnam films
The Adventure of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 2005- Full Movie HD what movie name
Same. Apocalypse Now (the theatrical or redux, not the extended edition) is one of my favorite movies of all time.
R.I.P. Francesco Quinn (1963-2011)
Oliver Stone's "JFK" is probably his best work to date.
Agreed. It’s a much better film than Platoon that’s for sure
@@mercurymachines4311 I think they're two different kinds of films and I don't know if you can really calculate which is better. Given the scope of JFK and its technical qualities, it's definitely the more ambitious of the two and definitely more entertaining.
But Platoon has an intensity and pathos that JFK doesn't and I don't know that one is better than the other
@@Shiny7054 I agree 100% .... Like comparing oranges with apples !
@@Shiny7054 I think that’s a fair point but JFK is the higher quality film for me, especially the acting performances.
Absolutely bananas crazy conspiracy theories, wrapped in great acting, inside an enigma.
My recommended war film is Paths of Glory by Stanley Kubrick. As far as I'm concerned, it's the best war film of all time. Brilliant direction.
Hard to believe that a few years before this was filmed Charlie was a child in The Philippines while Martin was filming Apocalypse Now. Now that is one you have to review!
Q: How many Vietnam vets does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: How would you know? You weren't there man!
You guys gotta watch Das Boot (1981)! The best war movie ever made.
Don't be too high on expectations for "Best Picture" films. The Oscars get just as wrong as they do right.
Driving Miss Daisy and \shakespeare in Love were great ...
Feels this list is going to be epic! I myself is watching movies from IMDB:s top 100 list that I have missed and you get so many styles and genres that you never would watch otherwise 🙂
With any war will come atrocities as seen in Platoon. And when the War itself is an atrocity, war-crimes become par for the course. Some think these are isolated incidents. But the truth is far more horrific.
This American was rooting for "A Room with a View" at the Oscars that year.
18:22 - "just shots like that, a really simple image of life juxtaposes this stupid, futile war." The wonderful film The Thin Red Line by Terrence Malick is full of these sorts of scenes and is probably the most beautiful war movie I've seen (though I don't recall whether it's an Oscar winner). Great cinematography and an amazing cast.
Fun. Great reaction. By the way, the nominees for best picture are equally as good. Just an idea for a future theme.