Platoon (1986) Full Length Reaction!
Added 2023-10-31 08:19:33 +0000 UTCEven though this is releasing early relative to Veterans Day, Happy Veterans Day everyone! The struggle our soldiers face is unimaginable, a big THANK YOU to them! and a big THANK YOU to each and every one of you here showing support, it truly means so much to us, we continue as always to be extremely grateful and appreciative! Here is our Full Length Reaction to "Platoon"! Hope you enjoy!
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Many of the scenes in the film are based on real events. News crews embedded with the soldiers recording things like that village scene is part of what turned more Americans against the war. This movie was controversial when it came out because in the 80s it was still so fresh people didn’t want to talk about Vietnam. The fact that Oliver Stone actually fought in the war is what persuaded them to green light the movie. This was definitely Charlie Sheen’s breakout role. He starred in Wall Street, Oliver Stones next film which was another highly recognized film. Tom Berenger gets to play a more likable soldier as the Union General in the movie about the Battle of Gettysburg.
Jonathan
2023-11-07 12:04:16 +0000 UTCWhat made Vietnam different was this wasn’t a war we got into because we were attacked. It was a war to fight communism and mainly to keep up the depiction of American military superiority. By the point in the war depicted in the movie most of the people were draftees who didn’t want to be there, unlike WW2. Part of the training was to make the soldiers not think of the Vietnamese as humans so these soldiers who don’t want to be there can kill since this wasn’t really a war about claiming territory as much as a war about inflicting pain till they surrender which they never did.
Jonathan
2023-11-07 11:04:26 +0000 UTCNot sure if I mentioned this in a livestream that you guys did, but Platoon was the movie that they were walking out of, smiling, in the date montage in The Naked Gun 1. Which was the joke, that you guys missed having not seen Platoon yet, that they would leave a movie like Platoon happy. Or even that they were so happy that even Platoon couldn’t ruin their mood. 😂
TLJScrewjob
2023-10-31 14:33:53 +0000 UTCWait...what? Have you guys already reacted to Platoon? Dang! That was fast! I thought you guys would only start to do the reaction on the first week of November and post it in time for Veterans Day 😄 Oh well... My lucky day then 😁😉
Amir Hamzah Sulaiman
2023-10-31 10:09:02 +0000 UTC
