This is one of the best war movies in 30 years.little sister 2071 (10 out of 10 )
Platoon, what can i say about it? For starters it was the funniest film I have ever seen because I nearly died with laughter. I love it also because it is such a family film, I even let my 1 year old baby watch it and she loved it. Go platoon you are the best.Jose (10 out of 10 )
I don't care what people say. Platoon of 1986 is and might probably forever be the best war movie ever made.Gajowy (10 out of 10 )
Probably the best war movie - but, is there really only war? Maybe only war - but war in platoon doesn't mean only fighting of armed men, look at the last words of Chris. These two men (Burns and Elias - evil and good) will be always fighting in his memories.Platoon love (10 out of 10 )
I think it was a great movie, lots of war. But hey that is what I watched it for!kevin (10 out of 10 )
This is a good movie, hard to watch. But I got sucked in. After this movie I watched bat21, it was horrible.David Grossman (1 out of 10 )
I served with the 82nd from 66-68in Vietnam. This movie does not at all represent what things were like over there. To hear Oliver Stone tell it, all we did was shoot each other in the backs and stay high on drugs while raping the the locale populace. I can assure you no one in our platoon behaved that way, if they did they didn't stay alive very long. This movie and other like it better represent Hollywood's attitude towards the military and those who served in combat overseas.Jesse (8 out of 10 )
Great move, especially the scene were Elias is left behind. We still got one on the deck. Horrible. You guy's think that Rhah survived the war?ash (8 out of 10 )
This movie was sweet but why leave Elias behind?kelta (8 out of 10 )
Wow, such an amazing movie. I love it but I still say that Saving Private Ryan is better. It's a close tie though.houssam (10 out of 10 )
I think that platoon is more than a fight between the good and the evil. Platoon is more about reality. I never fought in a battle but I lived war. I knew the deep impact on the soul caused by an explosion made by other human beings, I believe in platoon, it is pretty real.Navychick53 (7 out of 10 )
I dont believe that it accurately depicts what actually happened in the war, but the struggle between good and evil and the complexity of how it effected the unit was interesting. As for that, other platoons may have been struggling with similar issues, (it's not unrealistic to think that illegal killings took place) but, the movie didnt actually depict the war. I see this as a movie aimed at Hollywood. beedub (2 out of 10 )
PLATOON rhymes with CARTOON. It was a caricature, pure and simple. This isn't the best war movie ever made -- it's not even the best VIETNAM war movie ever made. FULL METAL JACKET kicks seven shades of C-Rations out of PLATOON. Kubrick > Stone by a country mile.Ryan Davis (18) (9 out of 10 )
My first war movie I actually sit down and watch the whole way. I absolutely love this movie!! Since this the only one I watched so far, this is the best war movie of all time!! Definitely one of my top 10 movies, maybe 5!!! Oliver Stone really shows the realism of war (since he knows first-hand). The characters (all of them are great and shows most people in real life) this movie will question your humanity and sanity like another great movie I know (American Psycho). This movie can really some life lesson in a history class someday and I hope someone can alot from not only this, but all great war flims..craig (7 out of 10 )
Platoon... metaphor film. Stone made it look real though. I agree with the guy from the 82nd (David Grossman) I was a gunner on a Spooky so did not have my "ass in the tall grass" like David. I too saw little in this film that represented my experience except the 24 hr fear, the heat, the tension and some the bullshit we all saw and heard from Command. A very good film though. It was, I think, concentrating on Stone's own personal experience and some of the guys he served with. I think Stone was in country in the 70's??. David (82nd) and I were there early on. The troops in the 60's were better mentally and we had a some seasoned Korea and WW11 experienced officers and senior NCO's.. By the early to mid 70's it was different. Lots of drugs, many professional soldiers rotated out. wounded etc. Anyway, I said it was a metaphor.. actually it looks more like a diary. Good line from Barnes " There's the way things are and there's the way things otta be"... Nam sucked for sure.. 58K plus of my brothers KIA and many many thousand have lost their lives since the war ended to drugs, agent orange, suicide ...and you'll never see their names on that wall...they should be..they are casualties of that war as well. Not to mention how many "them' we wasted. David G will have to agree with me on this...Charlie had only two ways home - death or victory. Tough SOB's those Slopes. We could use a couple of Divisions of NVA in Iraq. The towel heads would be no match for the gooks I shot at in Nam. God speed to all my Nam brothers and sisters. welcome home.
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