PLATOON - Full Length Reaction!
Added 2025-06-16 16:00:20 +0000 UTCHere's the full length reaction to Platoon! This one definitely was intense! Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger, and Charlie Sheen were all so great in this. Enjoy!
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I also served from 78 to 81, I was stationed in Wurzberg Germany. I was a 54Echo Chemical Specialst.
Harry S
2025-06-19 13:29:29 +0000 UTCI found the movie interesting. I first saw it in the theatre when it first came out, I was a 2LT Training Officer in charge of a Basic Combat Training unit. I was also prior service before my commissioning and served from 1978 to 1981 as an enlisted military police I was obviously too young for Vietnam but most of the E-6 or above and field grade officers, I served with were Vietnam Veterans in the infantry. Oliver Stone served from 67-68, so what I found compelling about the movie if it was accurate of his service, that morale was so low already in 1967, and soldiers were already fragging superiors or each other and committing atrocities and they knew that early only 2 years since the start of the war that it was a lost cause. Many Vietnam Vets I served with found the movie accurate, but for the period 68 to 71 and by 1970 it was just a shit show. My Battalion Commander when I was in basic in 1978 and my Professor of Military Science in college a major, were both company grade officers in Vietnam both had CIB's, airborne, ranger and special forces in Vietnam and it was hard to see that piece of s*it lieutenant depicted in the film and these two professional officers. As an officer myself when I saw the movie, that lieutenant in the film really bothered me, He abdicated any authority or leadership he was supposed to have, and he acted like a private. That was the main problem with that Platoon, its officers were poor leaders. Now that is just how it was directed. In real life the company commander as well as Stone were Vietnam Vets. I would have loved to interview Dale Dye, the actor who played the company commander who was in real life a highly decorated US Marine during the war and ask him what was his experience in terms of company morale and if/when did he see a Platoon deteriorate the way the one in the film did. But the film did have everything, atrocities, self-inflicted wounds, fragging, cowardice, extreme bravery, futility, murder, all in the space of two hours.... WOW!
Lana Gorgeous
2025-06-17 23:09:03 +0000 UTChope you watch Oliver Stone’s "Born on the 4th of July" another great movie by Stone
John A
2025-06-17 04:28:23 +0000 UTC
