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Platoon (Special Edition)
starring: Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Keith David, Johnny Depp, Kevin Dillon

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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: SHEEN,CHARLIE
EAN: 0027616862815
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 05, 2001
Running Time: 120 minutes
Sales Rank: 4144
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: December 24, 1986

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Winner* of 4 Academy AwardsÂ(r), including Best Picture, and based on the first-hand experience of OscarÂ(r)-winning** director Oliver Stone, Platoon is powerful, intense and starkly brutal. 'Harrowingly realistic and completely convincing' (Leonard Maltin), it is 'a dark, unforgettable memorial' (The Washington Post) to every soldier whose innocence was lost in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam. Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is a young, naive American who, upon his arrival in Vietnam, quickly discovers that he must do battle not only with the Viet Cong, but also with the gnawing fear, physical exhaustion and intense anger growing within him. While his two commanding officers (OscarÂ(r)-nominated*** Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe) draw a fine line between the war they wage against the enemy and the one they fight with each other, the conflict, chaos and hatred permeate Taylor, suffocating his realities and numbing his feelings to man's highest value life.

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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

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- 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 stories similar to those portrayed in this movie. 10 years ago he would tell these stories like jokes and laugh like crazy. I would think "That is one hardcore SOB!" Nowadays he can't talk about Vietnam without breaking down and sobbing and crying. I can see now that he has been living in hell for 30+ years. Maybe this film is unrealistic in the fact that this wasn't the average soldier's experience. I think about 50,000 ... Read More

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- 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 over time. Oliver Stone served in 1967 but the movie is often showing situations that were more out of 1971 with which he had no personal experience.

What a real film about vietnam would show is ordinary people doing a tough job day after day and doing the best they could. Its not about archtype evil officers, good/evil "father" figures and long political monologues.

About the only thing this ... Read More

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- 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.

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