Platoon | | Cast : | Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen | | Director : | Oliver Stone | | Studio : | MGM/UA Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | December 24, 1986 | | DVD Released Date : | June 05, 2001 | | Language : | Spanish (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 03, 2005 | | Summary | Set in Stone... | Content
 | Wow! Ranks as one of the most interesting and thought provoking war movies of all time. I loved this movie for a number of reasons. One, i'm a big Sheen fan. Two, i like war movies. And three, it was interesting to see how war affects the minds of seemingly normal and innocent men, and turns them into killing machines. Sheen who plays the 'new boy' so to speak has his morals and his standards when he first starts out, and it was interesting and sad to see him struggle to keep hold of them when all around him he was faced with this inhumanity. Stone, i think this was great. Enjoy! |
| Rating | | | Date | July 31, 2005 | | Summary | cuss kill | Content
| Cuss, kill, cuss, get high, cuss, get killed, cuss, kill, cuss, get high, cuss, get killed ... That's it. Sorry for giving away the plot. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 24, 2005 | | Summary | Great for 1986, but a bit outdated for now | Content
| This show hit raves when it came out. Tom Berenger and Wilem Defoe do still shine in their performances. But there are some inaccuracies and the show itself was highly dramitized.
For those new to Viet Nam movies, it is still watchable and I will continue to keep it in my library. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 17, 2005 | | Summary | A Great Film!! A Great DVD!!! | Content
| Having never been to Vietnam, it is hard for me to say that this is the most accurate Vietnam film made. My cousin was in Vietnam and he described the place to me and it definitely sounds like the movie. I also have friends who have said this was a very accurate film. Oliver Stone's main objective in writing and directing this film was to show people what it really was like in Vietnam. He said in an interview that Hollywood had their idea of what Vietnam was like and it never was on cue, (the closest being "Apocolypse Now").
To create some of the realism, Stone had the cast and crew do some military training in the Phillipines, which is where the film was shot. Charlie Sheen is quoted as saying, "It was so tiring, and when we were done we thought we'd be given a catered meal, but we're given military meals-ready-to-eat instead. We slept in two man foxholes that we dug. Stone wanted to grab the feeling of exhaustion and confusion, and did it exceptionally by putting the cast through rigorous conditions. As you watch the movie, you might find yourself saying, "Man, they look tired." It's because they are.
Oliver Stone used several of his own experiences in Vietnam in this film, especially the scene where Charlie Sheen is so frustrated with the situation, he starts shooting his M-16 at the feet of a Vietnamese villager to make him dance. He also said that the drug use in Vietnam had never really been accurately portrayed in Hollywood.
Great actors, a great script, and a great director, Platoon is a great film, that was the big winner at the 1986 Academy Awards Ceremony. I recommend it highly. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 13, 2005 | | Summary | A Descent Into Hell | Content
| I think Platoon is meant to be an allegory. Stone, Dye and everyone else involved took aspects of their own Vietnam War experiences & experiences they knew about and mixed all the experiences into one movie. Platoon is a catalogue of the horrors of war. Certainly, it is impossible for one Company to be so completly cursed. As displayed in Platoon, Charlie Company is just about the worst company in the history of the US Army. Every loser, incompetent, brown noser, shirker, pothead, psycho, idiot and degenerate seems to have managed to get into Charlie Co. Also, they are cursed with the worst luck imaginable. Ambushes, booby traps and being overrun seem to be the order of the day for these guys. Their fatality and injury rate is appalling. The leadership is nonexistant & the soldiers never learn. If I served in Charlie, I'd demand a transfer. Platoon plays like all the absolute worst possible experiences one could have rolled into one miserable six week (or so) tour of duty. Defoe & Berenger are excellent & the village scene is one of the most emotionally intense & difficult to watch scenes I've ever seen. Platoon is less about an according-to-hoyle description of a tour of duty in Vietnam & more about what it felt like to be there. |
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