excellent

Rating: 9/10 (20 March 2006)

ohh man! i bought this film on DVD just because i've just seen Alexander (directors cut) and I though it was great...so I thought to my self, this oliver stone guy is really great, i gotta see more of his films...so I bought Platoon...I knew Stone fought in Vietnam and was wounded twice, him being in Vietnam gives the film a very realistic feeling...and though I've read some reviews sating that it is stupid to assume that America lost the war because they where not fighting the gooks but they where fighting themselves...it must not be the reason, but that is what stone saw in the war, it might not have happened in all of the platoons but it did happen in some way or another...I read somewhere that the scene where they are smoking Mary jane doesn't look real...well my friends the truth is that for that scene the cast really smoked weed...in fact oliver stone smokes weed...I thats why his filmaking is so great...it is like pink floyd...without drugs there wouldn't be a pink floyd...without weed there's no oliver stone...I think. great movie anti-war movie...just hope it doesn't happen again...although Iraq is becoming the new Vietnam. think about it.