I have always loved platoon because it gave me a feel of some of the things my brother went through when he served in Vietnam with the 82nd Airborne Division but that feeling became reality when I served in Afghanistan and Iraq with the Air Force. No veteran had to tell me what it was like to get attacked by the enemy. Platoon wasn't my first war movie, my first was TORA TORA TORA which my dad took me to at 17 two years before I joined the Air Force. When I saw platoon in 1987 I already completed 7 years in the Air Force out of my 29 years and 3 years in the Army. I take satisfaction in watching war movies or movies where it depicts Veterans struggling with PTSD because the struggle is real and it's life long and with amputees as well. It maybe triggering for some Veterans but everyone processes trauma differently.
I remember walking along rusty, long defunct train tracks in the Centerville district of my hometown after seeing this film at a matinée screening. 14 years old. There was a pit-dark blackness of the jungle that viewers took with them after seeing Platoon. Not until the D-Day invasion scene in Saving Private Ryan, 12 years later, did audiences feel war in their guts while watching a film. Today with Band of Brothers, We Were Soldiers and The Pacific in our collective rearview mirrors we’ve come to anticipate and expect that war feeling. But it was Platoon that first peeled back that musty, OD green canvas curtain to detonate a Claymore glimpse in our faces. All reasonable people should hate war. Yet we never seem to learn. Whether visceral presentations from our finest artists or flag wrapped caskets passing by a disinterested “president” we just never seem to learn.
this one is pretty special for me, i am 11 bravo, this is my favorite war movie of all time. (and i love many) overall i am happy with the way it turned out. hope you like !!
@@benkurtz1773 your welcome, really appreciate that , i will always be ready to defend this country, i love the flag , the enemy first and flag burners second on my list :)
I just ETS's out of the 25th Infantry Division when I went to go see this movie. In fact 1 yr. prior to me ETSing out, I was in the Philippines for a training deployment. It was the hardest 3 mos. of my life. Until you humped the bush in the jungle, you really can't say you are a Light Infantryman. Humping stateside is one thing, but the Jungle...man different animal. The jungle is a brutal adversary even without combat. Being a Light Infantryman is a rigorous life style and Platoon showed that. I swore I was back in the Army again when I saw this movie. What was interesting when I got out, we were still using a lot of Vietnam era equipment. We still had the M16A1s, no A2s yes, still had the M60, Jungle boots and we even got issued the Jungle Fatigues when we were there. Other than the Combat it was dead on. We had a Staff Sergeant, I won't say his name. When we landed at Clark Air Base he was back in the Nam...he had this look until this day I will never forget.
I was 14 years old when this came out. It's my favorite war movie of all time! Ive literally watched it well over 100 times.Staff Sargent Barnes was my favorite character.
I too was 14 years old when I watched this masterpiece here in Perth, Western Australia. I grew up with a Vietnam vet father. US Army Air Cav 1965-67. I joined up in 91'. For Dad the combat was over, but a bit of the war came home with him. Vietnam Vet families are part of this tragic story, we kinda fought the war as well...just in a different way. Yes, SSGT Barnes stole the show. Tom was epic.
I never really thought about it back then but now I see that this movie was made by military men, Oliver and Dale. Therefore you’re getting the most real aspect of its theme and why I loved it so much. The other thing is, I understand the name “waiters” much better now
I was an 11bravo with the 25th infantry division in our forever wars. The 25th doesn't get much love from really anybody, especially not the media and hollywood. It was nice to see our patch front and center for once instead of the 101st or 10th mountain or the big red one etc.
Thanks for your service brother, i have a Korean war movie im working on now. I try and get as much as i can when it comes to military movies & documentaries. Thanks for watching !!
As a combat medic who earned my Purple Heart after one AK-47 bullet passed through my neck just missing my spine causing me to lose at least a quart of blood on my last Eagle flight to another big dog fight..Platoon really came so close to to the interactions of those warriors that came together from all fifty states to face our enemies together as a team of for real warriors that risked their lives to uphold their oaths to our nation and over 58,000 payed that price to do or die trying..The problem that flipped me off for is the end of that movie showing the Confederate flag to the rescue when it was thee flag of the United States that flew me to the war zone and others sailed in ships and all those KIA were sent home wrapped in the flag of the nation that sent millions to the war zone over 10 years..And hopefully all those warriors are with God..,Doc..🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
My father was a medic who served 6 or 7 tours of Vietnam. I doubt that he would have done so if it was such a "hell on earth." Every director wants to portray the Vietnam War in the worst way possible because they want to sell theater tickets.
Platoon is my favorite all time movie , i was at Ft Bragg when i first saw it in 86 ,,,,seen it a million times ,,,,there is one seen in the movie that was just weird ,,, just before the final battle Captain Harris (Dye) is telling the guy on ambush " Can you adjust fire son?" Soon after they show Barnes hanging out as artillery rd comes over and they show Lieutenant Wolf look over at Barnes and Barnes looks at wolf with a big shit eating grin almost a laugh...Up to this point you are not getting a grin from Barnes ,,,i know its just a movie but what did that big smile to wolf represent ?? Did Barnes Smile at Wolf because he knew the shit was getting ready to hit the fan and Wolf looked scared ??
The film where they throw Vietnamese bodies in to a ditch mass grave like old meat is disgusting, these were also people, with fathers, mothers, brothers, wives , families, after all this was their country that was invaded. I was in War, it is horrifying. Nothing of it is great, no American no Vietnamese, we are all people and we lose complete respect for each others, even when dead, and specifically when dead. Platoon was a great movie.
Yeah the way they threw that VC body into the shallow grave right in front of the bulldozer with seconds to go before it covered up those boys (yes the VC were just boys as well) is some of the coldest shit I've ever seen. The boys bodies were treated as literal human trash! It's not easy to watch at all, and it makes me wonder how the Americans would have felt if it was their boys bodies getting slung in front of a dozer.. shit would have hit the fan big time! The location of those bodies were probably never recorded... How long would the families have hoped that one day their sons would return home and not knowing to this day what happened and where they are would be gut wrenching.
He tries to push others into danger and he literally hides beneath the bodies of his dead comrades and lets the enemy pass him by and go off to kill more of them. He did it to survive but it's cowardly.
I was astounded by this movie;it was very similar to my experience. Ollie Stone was in my div.,never met him though. I was in the Elias group of thought. I was Sig.support>Death/431>196LIB>Amercal Div.,I corp.🀄️
Over at SOGCast, John Meyer has some exciting interviews about the Vietnam War. He says we should say to Vietnam vets that we meet "Welcome home." Thank you for your Service. And Welcome Home. 👍🏽
I have always loved platoon because it gave me a feel of some of the things my brother went through when he served in Vietnam with the 82nd Airborne Division but that feeling became reality when I served in Afghanistan and Iraq with the Air Force. No veteran had to tell me what it was like to get attacked by the enemy. Platoon wasn't my first war movie, my first was TORA TORA TORA which my dad took me to at 17 two years before I joined the Air Force. When I saw platoon in 1987 I already completed 7 years in the Air Force out of my 29 years and 3 years in the Army. I take satisfaction in watching war movies or movies where it depicts Veterans struggling with PTSD because the struggle is real and it's life long and with amputees as well. It maybe triggering for some Veterans but everyone processes trauma differently.
I remember walking along rusty, long defunct train tracks in the Centerville district of my hometown after seeing this film at a matinée screening. 14 years old. There was a pit-dark blackness of the jungle that viewers took with them after seeing Platoon. Not until the D-Day invasion scene in Saving Private Ryan, 12 years later, did audiences feel war in their guts while watching a film. Today with Band of Brothers, We Were Soldiers and The Pacific in our collective rearview mirrors we’ve come to anticipate and expect that war feeling. But it was Platoon that first peeled back that musty, OD green canvas curtain to detonate a Claymore glimpse in our faces.
All reasonable people should hate war. Yet we never seem to learn. Whether visceral presentations from our finest artists or flag wrapped caskets passing by a disinterested “president” we just never seem to learn.
this one is pretty special for me, i am 11 bravo, this is my favorite war movie of all time. (and i love many) overall i am happy with the way it turned out. hope you like !!
Thank you for this upload and your service to the country and community.
@@benkurtz1773 your welcome, really appreciate that , i will always be ready to defend this country, i love the flag , the enemy first and flag burners second on my list :)
I hope you’re an Elias not a Barnes
GREAT PICTURE!!!! CHARLIE SHEEN ❤
I just ETS's out of the 25th Infantry Division when I went to go see this movie. In fact 1 yr. prior to me ETSing out, I was in the Philippines for a training deployment. It was the hardest 3 mos. of my life. Until you humped the bush in the jungle, you really can't say you are a Light Infantryman. Humping stateside is one thing, but the Jungle...man different animal. The jungle is a brutal adversary even without combat. Being a Light Infantryman is a rigorous life style and Platoon showed that. I swore I was back in the Army again when I saw this movie. What was interesting when I got out, we were still using a lot of Vietnam era equipment. We still had the M16A1s, no A2s yes, still had the M60, Jungle boots and we even got issued the Jungle Fatigues when we were there. Other than the Combat it was dead on. We had a Staff Sergeant, I won't say his name. When we landed at Clark Air Base he was back in the Nam...he had this look until this day I will never forget.
I was 14 years old when this came out. It's my favorite war movie of all time! Ive literally watched it well over 100 times.Staff Sargent Barnes was my favorite character.
I too was 14 years old when I watched this masterpiece here in Perth, Western Australia. I grew up with a Vietnam vet father. US Army Air Cav 1965-67. I joined up in 91'. For Dad the combat was over, but a bit of the war came home with him. Vietnam Vet families are part of this tragic story, we kinda fought the war as well...just in a different way. Yes, SSGT Barnes stole the show. Tom was epic.
Still my favorite war film. This was interesting, never knew most of it
Absolutely phenomenal film.
First time I've seen Forest Whitaker get an interview about the film. One of my favorite movies about the conflict. SLOW SALUTE RIP DALE
There are all such good actors even their interviews are like acting
Hate to be that person as I know it's easily done but they are or they're not there are.
Was looking for this thank you for posting
I never really thought about it back then but now I see that this movie was made by military men, Oliver and Dale. Therefore you’re getting the most real aspect of its theme and why I loved it so much. The other thing is, I understand the name “waiters” much better now
Most fall into either two categories,,, either Barnes or Elias 🤠
And then there’s Gardner
😂@@robertgoldstein52
I’ll never forget leaving the theater, everyone crying outside
One of the best movies.
I was an 11bravo with the 25th infantry division in our forever wars. The 25th doesn't get much love from really anybody, especially not the media and hollywood. It was nice to see our patch front and center for once instead of the 101st or 10th mountain or the big red one etc.
Thanks for your service brother, i have a Korean war movie im working on now. I try and get as much as i can when it comes to military movies & documentaries. Thanks for watching !!
My alltime favorite movie
The best way to portray a war in a movie is to have the cast taste it.
Serious movie! Saw this when I was nine in the 80’s and it really gripped me, one of the best Vietnam movies ever! 🫡
On my top 5 Vietnam war movies list this one is 3rd
1st Apocalypse Now
2rd Full Metal Jacket
3rd Platoon
4th Hamburger Hill
5th we were soldiers
As a combat medic who earned my Purple Heart after one AK-47 bullet passed through my neck just missing my spine causing me to lose at least a quart of blood on my last Eagle flight to another big dog fight..Platoon really came so close to to the interactions of those warriors that came together from all fifty states to face our enemies together as a team of for real warriors that risked their lives to uphold their oaths to our nation and over 58,000 payed that price to do or die trying..The problem that flipped me off for is the end of that movie showing the Confederate flag to the rescue when it was thee flag of the United States that flew me to the war zone and others sailed in ships and all those KIA were sent home wrapped in the flag of the nation that sent millions to the war zone over 10 years..And hopefully all those warriors are with God..,Doc..🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
God bless you and thank you for your devoted service!🪽💜🇺🇸💜🪽
I watched platoon everyday for 3 weeks till I left for basic training to Ft. Benning lmao 🤣 did it help??? Yes!!! I think it did lmao
It still surprises me that Johnny Depp is in this movie. This isn’t his kind of work and it’s amazingly surprising.
He was very young and unknown, and was not in a position to pick and choose his roles. That came later.
You get no victory out of wars.
27:52. Powerful.
Awesome
My father was a medic who served 6 or 7 tours of Vietnam. I doubt that he would have done so if it was such a "hell on earth." Every director wants to portray the Vietnam War in the worst way possible because they want to sell theater tickets.
I'm not a fan of communism as much as the next guy, but man, 6 or 7? Balls of steel, respect.
Good film but my favourite is still Hamburger Hill.
thats a good one for sure. Thanks for watching!
Platoon is my favorite all time movie , i was at Ft Bragg when i first saw it in 86 ,,,,seen it a million times ,,,,there is one seen in the movie that was just weird ,,, just before the final battle Captain Harris (Dye) is telling the guy on ambush " Can you adjust fire son?" Soon after they show Barnes hanging out as artillery rd comes over and they show Lieutenant Wolf look over at Barnes and Barnes looks at wolf with a big shit eating grin almost a laugh...Up to this point you are not getting a grin from Barnes ,,,i know its just a movie but what did that big smile to wolf represent ?? Did Barnes Smile at Wolf because he knew the shit was getting ready to hit the fan and Wolf looked scared ??
Barnes was smiling because that was what he lived for.
Great vid’.
Underground “Hooch” not Hutch
The film where they throw Vietnamese bodies in to a ditch mass grave like old meat is disgusting, these were also people, with fathers, mothers, brothers, wives , families, after all this was their country that was invaded. I was in War, it is horrifying. Nothing of it is great, no American no Vietnamese, we are all people and we lose complete respect for each others, even when dead, and specifically when dead. Platoon was a great movie.
The South Vietnamese army fought and died in this war…you saying they were invaded, makes it seem like they never existed
Yeah the way they threw that VC body into the shallow grave right in front of the bulldozer with seconds to go before it covered up those boys (yes the VC were just boys as well) is some of the coldest shit I've ever seen. The boys bodies were treated as literal human trash! It's not easy to watch at all, and it makes me wonder how the Americans would have felt if it was their boys bodies getting slung in front of a dozer.. shit would have hit the fan big time! The location of those bodies were probably never recorded... How long would the families have hoped that one day their sons would return home and not knowing to this day what happened and where they are would be gut wrenching.
.my names Chris actually and i look like charlie sheen to a fair Degree but i am a Marine who served in Afghanistan For 2 Tours
I'm still wondering how I joined the Army AFTER watching this, smh....
O'Neill isn't a coward.
He tries to push others into danger and he literally hides beneath the bodies of his dead comrades and lets the enemy pass him by and go off to kill more of them. He did it to survive but it's cowardly.
@@johnmunro4952 No. This may be required if you are in combat.
Why the need for 2 different bts documentaries on this film saying the same things brothers In arms and this one
Luv this BTS . What is the name of the symphony music at 9:25 ?
dont know, but its the original soundtrack.
It's Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
IS Willem Dafoe's name pronounced WILL-EM or WILLIAM?
Willem. Its of Dutch origin.
Are you not entertained?
Aaaaaand we’re back
Turn the fucking music down or off it spoils the show….please
Did not know Oliver Stone was a real vietnam vet.
That's why it was so good. He knew what it was really like.
인간은 언제인간은 죽의 유레디 , 오리버 스톤 감사합니다
Platoon Leader much better movie
Of course that is ridiculous and not true.
This movie sucks I'm usmc viet field radio operator can't take sheen and these wacko actors
ㅔ과거로 돌아간 아카이브의 지네실이다
멋지다
전재의 객관화
람한여의돌 폭파해라
람한 여의 돌 폭파ㅙ라
람 한 여의돒폭차해라
람함여읟ㅎㅐ라람한여의돌폭파해라
람한요의돌 폭파해라
람헌여의돌폭파해라
람한 여의도를 폭파해라
란한여의골폭파해라
I was astounded by this movie;it was very similar to my experience.
Ollie Stone was in my div.,never met him though.
I was in the Elias group of thought.
I was Sig.support>Death/431>196LIB>Amercal Div.,I corp.🀄️
Over at SOGCast, John Meyer has some exciting interviews about the Vietnam War. He says we should say to Vietnam vets that we meet "Welcome home."
Thank you for your Service. And Welcome Home. 👍🏽
The best way to portray a war in a movie is to have the cast taste it.