Your top 5 movies from the 80's are?
5. Weird Science
4. Taps
3. Blade Runner
2. Aliens
1. Platoon
4. Taps
3. Blade Runner
2. Aliens
1. Platoon
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Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
Hamburger hill was as depressing as hell !! But it did show the futility of what they were doing.
Platoon.....liberal ? Never saw it that way. The deer hunter i always thought was a better movie. Way too long and massively over budget it cost Cimino any future movie career i think. But did show a different side to the gung ho G:I that appears in most war stories.
Platoon.....liberal ? Never saw it that way. The deer hunter i always thought was a better movie. Way too long and massively over budget it cost Cimino any future movie career i think. But did show a different side to the gung ho G:I that appears in most war stories.
USMCGUY · 46-50, M
I think the thing that qualifies it as liberal was the anti war theme told through the eyes of both a rich white kid and his non Anglo platoon mates.
The morale of the story is that even a war that many though was justified turned everyone who came in contact with it evil. Young boys slaughtered VC and suspected VC and those who believed in peace (Sgt Elias) were killed and betrayed by those who believed in war (Sgt Barnes).
It tried to paint a picture that there are some people that are so bent on killing others that they would even kill their own kind to be able to do so.
If you want a contrast watch the true story of "we were soldiers" based on the book "we were soldiers one, and young" by Lt Gen Moore.
Platoon was less of a movie that glorified the best in fighting men and more of highlighted the dark and evil side of war.
I am not a propagandist and I don't think war is all nice and logical but to think Stone didn't have a slant to his story is to have not really understood what the movie was about.
The morale of the story is that even a war that many though was justified turned everyone who came in contact with it evil. Young boys slaughtered VC and suspected VC and those who believed in peace (Sgt Elias) were killed and betrayed by those who believed in war (Sgt Barnes).
It tried to paint a picture that there are some people that are so bent on killing others that they would even kill their own kind to be able to do so.
If you want a contrast watch the true story of "we were soldiers" based on the book "we were soldiers one, and young" by Lt Gen Moore.
Platoon was less of a movie that glorified the best in fighting men and more of highlighted the dark and evil side of war.
I am not a propagandist and I don't think war is all nice and logical but to think Stone didn't have a slant to his story is to have not really understood what the movie was about.
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
I never saw it as anti-war.
I saw it more as a metaphor or maybe an explanation of the struggle in Stone's mind about the myths and the lies that folk at home were told and the badness of good men, or the goodness of bad men out in the field under certain conditions.
Just my take.
I saw it more as a metaphor or maybe an explanation of the struggle in Stone's mind about the myths and the lies that folk at home were told and the badness of good men, or the goodness of bad men out in the field under certain conditions.
Just my take.