Fantastic movie, often put down because of Oliver Stone

Rating: Null/10 (30 May 1999)

I saw this movie the first weekend it came out in 1986. It was the firm movie that I ever walked out of at the end where the crowd was dead quiet. Not a word. That never happened again until Shindler's List. I was 18 at the top, prime drafting age and thought of war as exciting and would jump at the chance. After watching Stone's Platoon I was completely scared of war and had a real "fall from innocence". The movie gets bashed often, I think because of the distaste for Oliver Stone that many people seem to share. The movie is really good on its own and is Charlie Sheen's best work.