A Terrible Episode In US History.

Rating: Null/10 (29 July 1999)

Looking back on "Platoon" Americans feel a collective darkness. Despite mass protests across the nation against films as dire and unoriginal as this, those in control went ahead and subjected countless thousands of young men (and a few unfortunate woman who were dragged along) to an inhumane experience of almost two hours excruciating tedium. All moral obligations were abandoned in the lust for cinematic recognition, any concern for the "post terrible film stress disorder" was dismissed as quackery. Many of the young actors involved still suffer appalling casting to this day.
After "Platoon" America was never the same again. In the realms of plagerized, phony, xenophobic screenwriting the first, second and last casualty is always the paying cinema goer.