Platoon (Blu-ray) R
The first casualty of war is innocence.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 4, 2011
- Originally Released: 1986
- Label: Mgm (Video & Dvd)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe & Tom Berenger | |
Performer: | Francesco Quinn, Kevin Dillon, Johnny Depp, Keith David, Forest Whitaker, John C. McGinley & Richard Edson | |
Directed by | Oliver Stone | |
Edited by | Claire Simpson | |
Screenwriting by | Oliver Stone | |
Composition by | Georges Delerue | |
Produced by | Arnold Kopelson & A. Kitman Ho | |
Director of Photography: | Robert Richardson | |
Executive Production by | John Daly & Derek Gibson |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1986 -
Best Director: Oliver Stone
Academy Awards 1986 -
Best Film Editing: Claire Simpson
Academy Awards 1986 -
Best Picture: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1986 -
Best Sound: Multiple
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
Precisely because Stone forces you to experience a grunt's tunnel vision and rage, Platoon is a film of inspiring empathy and awesome force. Curiously, that same tunnelvision in the end compromises Platoon.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Loosely based on Stone’s experiences as a U.S. infantryman in Vietnam, this is an unvarnished, shock-to-the-system look at the chaos and insanity of war.
Chicago Sun-Times
Platoon is not the definitive Vietnam statement that Stone may have intended, or that others are already claiming it to be. But it is a powerful document about that sad war, and a riveting piece of moviemaking.
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Philadelphia Daily News
Rating: 3.5/4 --
There are images in Platoon so powerful that they seem, rather than simply imprinted on celluloid, to have been burned into memory.
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Chicago Tribune
...This is movie-making with a zealot's fervor....[Stone] may have achieved a remarkable bridge with PLATOON. He has personalized a war for us...
Los Angeles Times
It's not a film that will make film history, but intelligently takes advantage of that history to provide a shred of light to a sordid and still American debate. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Although Platoon is not the easiest film to watch, it is one of the best at reminding us that the cinema is not always interested in evading or distorting history. Sometimes it tells the truth.
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Boston Globe
Product Description:
In PLATOON, Oliver Stone draws on his experience as an infantryman in Vietnam to convey the brutality of guerrilla warfare: the heat of the jungle, the brushes with such wildlife as snakes and leeches, and, most powerfully, the presence of the unseen enemy. Charlie Sheen stars as Chris, a raw recruit, or "new meat," who serves as the film's narrator. At first he wilts under the rigorous conditions of jungle life, freezes up in a fire fight, and wonders whether he'll be able to survive. But he gradually adapts and, as time goes by, begins to see that the platoon is divided into two groups. One consists of lifers, juicers, and subintelligent whites, the other of blacks and heads. Sgt. Barnes, a combat-loving burnout (Tom Berenger), is the informal leader of the lifers, and Sgt. Elias, a free spirit (Willem Dafoe), leads the latter group. When the platoon takes some gruesome losses, an enraged Barnes kills some Vietnamese and orders the burning of their village, outraging the temporarily absent Elias. As the conflict between these two reaches its tragic climax, Chris must decide what he really values. Widely regarded as one of the finest war films ever made, PLATOON reflects not only the United States' division over Vietnam but the timeless truths of battle: terror, disorientation, exhilaration, and horrible loss.
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