Platoon (DVD, 2009, Special Edition; Single Disc Version)

You probably may be wishing to learn about the sacrifice and pain that others have gone through in the name of freedom. This movie will put many things into perspective about the time honored truths about the futility of war and how it has shaped so many lives.

Oliver Stone was the director of this film. However, you may not have known that Oliver Stone actually served our country in Vietnam. Not only that, but received a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart during his tours of duty.

How best to honor the fallen men, women, children, and MIAs and POWs of this great conflict.

Oliver Stone wanted to make a film that embodied the undeniable irony of the total futility of this war through the eyes of Chris (Charlie Sheen). In doing so, he captured the pure essence of innocence turned into terror.

No one man can totally encapsulate a feeling of this war better than Oliver Stone. Everyone needs to see this movie and its historical value in the context of other great moments in history.

I met a veteran of Korea and Vietnam the other day. He was 77. He told me much about his time there. Lucky him. Look, Listen, and Live respecting these last remnants of foreign wars. I loved my Grandfather so much when he would tell me his WWII stories, and sometimes it would take him a very long time to GET several words out in a row.

PLATOON has won the right to be in the top 100 films of The American Film Institute standing on its own at # 83.

This film has a very strong adult content and is not for everyone in the family, however I will say that it will always be a part of my history. Perhaps as a lucky young man that never had to experience these things is why I would recommend this movie to anyone interested in serving your country in any capacity.

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I purchased this DVD as a gift for my boyfriend who had been watching a VHS version of Platoon for years. Someone taped the movie off the TV, so he had to fast forward through these HORRID old commercials and the quality of the VHS copy, as I'm sure you can imagine, was simply intolerable. So I was very excited to find this DVD special edition. We were even MORE elated once we put it in, to see all the behind the scene bonus features, etc that it included. More impressive, was the clarity of this film on DVD. It was like watching it for the first time. We watched it in widescreen mode and the sound and effects were AMAZING in comparison to what we had been watching. I scored many points with him and it required little effort to do so. It was shipped nicely, and quickly. I can't say anything bad about it.

This is yet another piece of Oliver Stone garbage that was produced with nothing more than a political slant. I got up and walked out of the theatre when this movie first came out and a week later, the base commander banned this piece of garbage from being played at the base theatre. Anyone who thought that this movie was great and portrayed Vietnam, needs to talk with a veteran of the conflict and then apologize for being brainwashed by Stone. This movie made it appear that everyone in Vietnam was raping women, killing children, using drugs and never left the field. Oliver Stone took every last possible stereotype of the conflict and made it happen in one movie. This is a discredit to our military and once again spits in the face of every soldier that ever served during Vietnam. If you want to see a Vietnam era movie, then watch "We were soldiers". At least the movie didn't have a political slant and honored those that served or lost their lives during the conflict. A 1/5 rating is too good for this waste of film and a better representation would be a 0/5.

This movie was one of those great war movies. A must have in any collection. Has all of the big named stars when they were young. You get to see the Vietnam war from a point of view. Lots of action. The special edition has a documentary of the actors as they were making the film, what they had to go thru etc..
This movie is a classic and i recommend it to anyone.

I have a sort of sad soft spot for stories, both factual and fictional, from the Vietnam war. This was the war of MY time, and will always exert some influence on me. Friends died there or as a result of having served there, and my sense of the betrayal of a generation won't leave me alone. "Platoon" is a story that speaks directly to me, suggesting the nature of the nightmares of my friends. For me it's always moving, and a rendering of a story that warns of recurrent dangers both physical and moral.

That this is a "Special Edition" isn't really that important to me. I didn't notice any extra footage, which is about all I would notice, since I seldom view the "Special Features".

It's a great and important story for any generation.