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  Review by amanda ★★★★ 14

  willem dafoe young hot shirtless man good hero sexy cool high stoner mister sexy nice fun admirable veiny arm schlong hot willem dafoe

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★★ 1

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  Incident to incident. Snake slithering around foot. Lizard crawling on head of stone. Smoke against foliage against blood against the deepest cries of anguish. Screams in the dark. Flares and claymores. An environment and a moment in history which will not and cannot be explained to us. One of the few narrative war films that not only doesn't apologize for its slaughter (the Vietcong aren't simply Otherized, in addition abstracted among nature's wrath - humans retaliating because they need to), but doesn't offer the tools to comprehend the images laid out in silent, foreboding succession. Why should it? Vietnam happened. America let it happen. We're lucky Oliver Stone could display such a coherent political framework within the infantry depiction…

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  Review by Sam Meltzer ★★★ 15

  Oh… So it wasn’t just recently that Willem Dafoe was being robbed of awards.

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  Review by Jacob Elijah Tucker ★★★ 1

  Why is he called Willem Dafoe when in this movie it's obvious it should be Willem Dafriend

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  Review by Tom Brady ★★★★ 2

  "put your mouth on this" - Willem Dafoe <3

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  Review by Esteban Gonzalez ★★★★½ 7

  “I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy; we fought ourselves. And the enemy was in us.”

  If all war films were as good and sincere as Platoon it would probably be one of my favorite genres, but there are very few exceptions where the material is treated right as most directors tend to either be incredibly biased debating either in favor or against the war. It’s strange I make this claim since Platoon is obviously an anti-war film, but it treats the material with an honesty you don’t find in other films of the genre. It is much easier to make a statement like this in a war that everyone considers was a terrible mistake to…

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  Review by James Dudfield ★★★ 11

  Doesn't have the fleshed-out characters of The Deer Hunter.
  Doesn't have the satirical commentary of Full Metal Jacket.
  Doesn't have the film-making mastery of Apocalypse Now.

  And just quite a dull and uninteresting film overall.

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★★½

  Beyond setting a great deal of the template for how movies would look at this conflict going forward or being a reportedly excruciatingly faithful recreation of "what it was really like", this manages to touch on so many slivers of context. Race and socioeconomic pressures on the grunts back home and in military heirarchy, intelligence and administrative failures, nuts-and-bolts technical stuff, on and on. Often further evidence of Stone's widely humanist intentions, too. What tends to be dismissed as a lack of subtlety is often an attempt to articulate the broadest possible experience. This time it even kind of reminded me of Sade's "Justine"*, aka "The Misfortunes of Virtue". Not taking pleasure in the torture but understanding it on the…

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  Review by alina ★★★½

  *blows a kiss to the stars* for willem dafoe

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  Review by Nico ★★★★

  i relate to charlie sheen in that i too, would do anything shirtless young willem dafoe asked of me, including but not limited to putting my mouth on the muzzle of a gun that he‘s pointing directly at my face

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  Review by Justin Peterson ★★★★½ 9

  An excellent depiction of the boots on the ground soldier experience of being 'in the shit' of the Vietnam War.

  "What happened today was just the beginning. We're gonna lose this war ... Come on. You really think so? Us? ... We been kicking other people’s asses for so long, I figured it's time we got ours kicked."

  Having grown up as a ‘G.I. Joes’ fan 80s kid, I always enjoyed watching action-packed war movies. So now revisiting these movies as an adult, it is staggering to experience them again with the perspective of how truly awful war is. You will often hear people comparing Platoon to Kubrick's 'Full Metal Jacket', and because of that rivalry growing up I always…

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  Review by Matt The Snapper ★★★★ 4

  Apocalypse Now: Martin Sheen in a Vietnam movie that explores human duality in the war.

  Platoon: Charlie Sheen in a Vietnam movie that explores human duality in the war.

  Like father like son I guess...