Platoon [SteelBook] (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 A
- Released: September 18, 2018
- Originally Released: 2018
- Label: Shout Factory
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe & Tom Berenger | |
Performer: | Keith David, John C. McGinley, Johnny Depp, Francesco Quinn, Forest Whitaker, Richard Edson & Kevin Dillon | |
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: 3.5/4 --
Oliver Stone based his movie on his own experiences and attempted to make a more "realistic" Vietnam movie, simpler and more grounded than things like Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter... and he succeeds, truly making this war look like hell.
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Combustible Celluloid
4 stars out of 5 -- [A] phenomenon....Importantly, Stone captured something of what it felt like to fight in the war.
Uncut
...Intense....Very effective scenes....An impressive-looking production in all respects...
Variety
Nothing that Oliver Stone has done before...is preparation for the singular achievement of his latest film, PLATOON....A major piece of work, as full of pasion as it is of redeeming, scary irony...
New York Times
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
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)
Rating: A+ --
Platoon (1986) is a harrowing, visceral, ultra-realistic, gutsy, visually-shattering Vietnam-war film, based on the writer/director's own first-hand knowledge as a Vietnam combat-infantry soldier. The insightful Best Picture-winning war film
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AMC Filmsite
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.
Keywords:
Action
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Vietnam
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Good Vs. Evil
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Jungle
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Recommended
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Military
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Disturbing
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Theatrical Release
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Vietnam War
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Essential Cinema