A true classic of its time

Rating: 9/10 (4 June 2019)

Even if you never heard of this movie, chances are you know its theme song a lot. Oliver Stone's best picture winner Platoon is very dramatic real and sad. It shows the real side of the Vietnam War in movies, which started in the late 1960s just as US Troops started getting hammered during the second longest war in US history. It was the second Oscar win for Orion, which continued to dominate until Silence of the Lambs won and made Orion bankrupt until MGM revived it as a full time studio.