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Platoon (1986)
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"I have a feeling this is one of those reviews I am going to get hate mail over, but I do not think that Platoon is a very good movie. Essentially a simplistic piece of propaganda, the film is too contrived and the characters too undeveloped to get into. This is the third film I have seen by Oliver Stone, and it's safe to say I am not going to be joining his fan club. The film is a sort of unofficial remake of All Quiet on the Western Front in Vietnam instead of World War One. The Lew Ayres part of the unassuming young man caught in the horrors of war is played by Charlie Sheen, as Private Chris Taylor. Unlike the rest of the grunts in the platoon, Taylor is not a poor draftee- he quit college and enlisted because he (correctly) thought the draft system was unfair. He regrets his choice almost immedaitley, as he finds Vietnam to be hell on earth. He is even denied the comaradie in a close-nit group of soldiers because of a "civil war" inside the platoon between the understandi ... "
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"I’ve always been conflicted by my hatred for war and my love for war films. But I can’t help being excited by cinematic combat. As Miguel Ferrer says in Hot Shots! Part Deux, “War … it’s fantastic!” Certainly his character is referring to the real-life action, but in a reflexive way he’s talking about war on film (he does break the diegetic space when he utters the statement, after all). And I have to say, in that context, no war film in recent years has been as fantastic as Nick Broomfield’s Battle for Haditha, which opened in New York yesterday. The difficult thing about war films is that, despite often being exciting action movies, they’re about real, tragic situations, even if they’re fictional stories set in an actual war (the opening of Saving Private Ryan is of course the epitome of war films’ ability to be at the same time both affecting and awesome). Broomfield’s film has the additional difficulty of being about a real battle from a war that is still goi "
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"I have never cried over a film, except from this one. There were two such moments. The one in the village, and...I reckon you know! "
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