Platoon (1986)

Posted : 1 year, 5 months ago at Jan 17 21:09

"Are you smoking this shit so's to escape from reality? Me, I don't need this shit. I am reality. There's the way it ought to be, and there's the way it is. Elias was full of shit. Elias was a crusader. Now, I got no fight... with any man who does what he's told. But when he don't, the machine breaks down. And when the machine breaks down, we break down. And I ain't gonna allow that... in any of you. Not one." I find it hard sometimes to get into war films, this was one of them. I'm not saying it was bad, I just didn't like it quite as much as some other people did. Maybe if I watch it again sometime I might like it a little more, but for now it leaves me satisfied, nothing more. The movie is based around a man, Chris Taylor, who has volunteered to fight for his country in the Vietna...Read more

Posted : 1 year, 8 months ago at Nov 3 19:56

A superb Vietnam war film packed with characters you might not traditionally associate with the soldier's role. Watching this film through again today, you see a handful of actors who went off on to bigger and better things, including a blink-and-you-miss-him cameo from Johnny Depp. The story-line is memorable and haunting. I remember the scene where the American GI's invade a small Viatnamese village ("which had probably stood for over a thousand years") and went on to torture, rape and murder the population before burning it to the ground. It's an extremely profound scene. No doubt one of the most memorable moments of the film is the scene which gives the film its DVD cover, and the superb accompanying music which features upon Sheen's arrival and departure from the Vietnamese jungle....Read more

Rating : 9/10