Platoon: Good Movie or Not?
Steel Butterfly
26-01-2005, 00:20
I rented Platoon after I had found it randomly at Giant Eagle today, and it looked good. Add Willem Dafoe to the mix, an amazing actor, and I simply had to see it.
So, before I watch it later tonight...I want some opinions. What do you guys/gals think?
Chicken pi
26-01-2005, 00:21
Yeah, I've seen it and it was pretty good.
Drunk commies
26-01-2005, 00:23
Good movie. Story and characters were interesting. I wasn't in Vietnam so I can't comment on it's accuracy.
Mistress Kimberly
26-01-2005, 00:24
I've never actually suffered through it (not a big war movie fan), but my dad and my brother love it.
The White Hats
26-01-2005, 00:26
Good story telling and use of archetypes - it stays in the mind.
It may strike you as rather tame, but it was groundbreaking (for mainstream cinema) in its day.
El Nacho
26-01-2005, 00:30
I rented it from the library a while ago. It was okay, I guess. it had just the right amount of action, and the movie was pretty well-paced, but it isn't as gory and realistic as it should be. Still, it beats all the other Vietnam war movies I've seen, besides Full Metal Jacket.
Steel Butterfly
28-01-2005, 02:00
Elias's death was pretty moving...and Charlie Sheen doing a serious role was good as well. I did hate that bastard Barnes as well.
So I guess it was good by the fact that the characters stick with me.
GoodThoughts
28-01-2005, 04:23
As war movies go it is in my opinion one of the better movies around. I am not a vet, but I am quite sure that it did a good job of showing a small part of the war in a very realistic way. Another top-notch vietnam movie is Bat-21; another one that is really good too is, (I cant think of the name.) about a news crew that goes into the bush with a small group of special ops GI's. It is very good.