Totally forgot Johnny Depp was in Platoon, Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, Kevin Dillon, Keith David and John C. McGinley totally remember those guys in that flick.
Yea I didn’t just forget I just never realised he was in it to begin with til a viewing a couple years ago, but to be fair that was the first time I’d seen the movie since I got glasses and could actually see what was going on hahaha
I saw Saving Private Ryan the day it opened. Theatre was full. At the end i went into the bathroom to piss.(Long film at the time) Full of men sobing and crying out loud!very humbling ,at that molment i knew it was going to be a iconic film.
In the theater I watched it in everyone in there stood clapped and cheered at the end..Till this day I've never experienced that for any other movie 😊👍🤙🍺
I saw this in the theater and as the audience prepared to leave, there was silence for a few moments as the realization that we just saw something we'd never experienced before and were pulled into it as if we'd fought with them in this moral struggle. We realized too, what exactly those young men went through and then came back to condemnation. Most of all, we felt the grief, the shock of that war. No one could move. When we finally began to leave, there were a lot of tears. It was amazing to see a film transform its audience like that. Respect, Oliver Stone, for this film and JFK as well. Just incredible. All those men were stellar. Every single one.
Sheens character was based off of Stone's real life experience. He dropped out of Yale in 65 to teach English in Vietnam. He wanted life experience and joined the Army, asking for the infantry. His parents were divorced and he was bitter about it (notice in the movie Sheen writes his gma and talks roughly about his parents)? Stone is in the movie, during the big ambush scene at the end. Hes in a tent on the radio, when an NVA soldier runs in and blows himself up, killing the officers inside. That ambush (where Red hides in a foxhole, and Barnes almost smashes Sheens head in before napalm is dropped all over the area) was a real experience Stone had during Tet. 400 or so dead NVA, which is where the bulldozers are pushing the bodies in mass graves. Dale Dye is another Vietnam vet. He played the Captain that called the air strike (hes also in just about every Stone movie and movie about Vietnam). Stone went back home and again dropped out of Yale (he was there at the same time as W Bush). His experiences are like Sheens in the movie. He hung out with all the stoners, like the weed scene where he takes a shotgun from the M16. Many vets considered this the first real Vietnam film. Stone wrote a book about it. A good read
Horrible, there is a documentary on CZcams about men who were admitted to psychiatric hospitals after WWII and how their mental health deteriorated. It's crazy asf, and sad
@@Mordecai9052 Bill Murray even said it was almost impossible to spend a length of time wth hunter and not find yourself emulating the man in every way
King (the first black soldier reacting) is the only one to look away and show some emotion... he was probably the most "normal" one of the platoon, with his humanity intact.
One of my all time favourites - first film to capture the brutality of the Vietnam war so intimately through the eyes of young men struggling to survive.
First thing come to my head after watching this short was Hamburger Hill, a very tense heavy movie that kept me on the edges of my chair, hoping my fav characters wouldn't get it in the end.
You should watch Apocalypse Now… that is one of the best movies ever made and shows you the insanity of people being pushed to their limits during war. Fantastic war film
Tom Berenger was *terrifying* in Platoon. The absolute role of a lifetime. You honestly believed that this character was either going to kill as many Vietnamese as possible, and was hell bent on dying if it meant doing just that.
It’s not about being intimidating it’s about not being present in the moment because your mind can’t comprehend the things you’ve seen. This film was made by two combat veterans of Vietnam, they knew what they were doing
@@llolinlaik I think my friend here is on about dueling scars, which people would purposefully give themselves as a sign of social status, but I'm at a loss about the horse hair and that
@@Gobbostopperdue to the social status being so great young men would get cut in fencing and I order to make a scare more pronounces they would stuff the would with horse hair to expand the wound and scar, and then remove it after it had began healing. Or so they say
@@Gobbostoppereah, it would keep the scars deep to show off the dueling. It was popular into wwii. Helped identify when they were trying to escape persecution
Got frustrated at a job on Friday. Left and went to the pub. Hung out at the bar with2 Nam vets. They talked about fishing. What animals they would eat and regular shit. I could sense the ghosts around them. They still had the stare even though they seemed happy enough. Helped me get my balance. My dad was a Nam Vet. Rest in peace Dave. You were a great provider, teacher, and buddy. Miss you
I respect all veterans but especially Vietnam and Korean if it was up to me I would give them all 100 percent service connection disability with retractive pay from the time they first filed a claim I gaurentee it would be alot but near as much as the amount of money and aid and support we are giving Ukraine take care of America first
Nam vets always have that stare. It never leaves them. My friends brother came home from nam, we were partying in the cellar . His brother just sat there shell shocked . I wondered what he was thinking as he never said a word . Just starred .
Such a powerful film. I was fortunate to see it in the theaters albeit I was too young. My father was a Viet vet so it had a different power for him. When the Vietnam memorial was launched it original got criticism because it didn’t see grand enough but my father seeing the names of his friends broke him. It broke all of us.
I saw platoon in the movie theater with my daddy. It was the only movie my father and I ever went to together and if you knew my father you know what a big deal that was. I was not brought up in a home with a lot of money or had an overly or verbally loving father. This movie means a lot to me because me and him got to sit in the movie theater together and share popcorn and watch a movie together. I miss you Pops God knows I do
Dale dye (who was a technical advisor for this and a lot of military movies after this and was a Vietnam vet himself) had the same thing happen to him at the end of the movie when all the bodies were being pushed in a massive hole to be buried and Oliver just knew that look so well that he gave him a close up for a couple of seconds
There's still good movies . Just gotta dig under the" blockbuster " bs . The cinema is still great .. just the media praises these shit can movies more than ever now .
@theeoddments960 the amount has slowed down considerably. Look at the best movies from each year starting in the 60s and 70s, work your way down to modern day movies.. then realize movies have turned mostly to trash and classics are few and far between. This is an opinion shared by many. You may have a difference of opinion... but are not watching movies like Platoon in 2023. Far from it, save for MAYBE the rare gem.
@Wolfsburge I dig, I just feel there's less left to find.. for my tastes at least. Luckily it gives me time to find old classics I've missed since it's not often there's something current peaking my interests. Best part about the drought, really. Watch a few movies every year I really enjoy, then look back at a stacked year from a better decade and realize we had it so so good before
Platoon is one of my all time favorite movies. I used to live in a little one bedroom apartment. No cable, but had a VCR and 3 movies. Platoon, Friday and Casino. I watched those 3 movies so many times. Platoon was my favorite. I had a roommate for a little bit and we knew the lines to Platoon by heart. We ended up moving into a house with his sister. She took us to Blockbuster one night to rent a movie. What did we pick from an endless supply of movies. Yeah we choose Platoon.
My favorite movie I felt so bad for those kids over there they were way over their head and everything and everybody was against them for doing their job it’s a wonder anyone came back home
This made me realize it'd be cool for a war movie to have this kind of informal monologue, like the main character is recounting the story to some stranger or something.
@@alexr6913 This is my personal Top 5, in order: 1. Platoon 2. Saving Private Ryan 3. Black Hawk Down 4. Full Metal Jacket 5. We Were Soldiers Fury would definitely be in my Top 10, though. It’s a masterpiece.
In 5th grade I decided to befriend the weird kid in class because I thought he was just awkward. He was telling me about this hilarious movie called "platoon." I had heard of it but had never seen it, you know, because I was ten and all. Then he shows it to me at his house and just squeals with laughter the entire time. Shit creeped me out to the core.
Im at a loss. That's a graphic movie even for a 10 yr old. He really had some issues. Did you still stay friends with him tho or did you just stopped talking to him? I might have a theory, he probably came across the movie after finding it from his siblings n him not fully mature enough to understand the themes and context of the movie he probably just saw it as just a bang bang boom movie with gore in between n he was caught up in the special fx and stuff blowing up. When youre a kid n going from watching cartoons to serious adult type movie stuff it's all foreign to you n you just go along with it. Just my theory.
@@Daniel-ou4fb i had to reflect after reading your comment n writing mine up that i believe that as kids when we come across something that is unlike anything we seen before n we don't know how we react to it we just try n laugh it off as a coping mechanism. In the case of that kid you watched it with he probably didn't know how to process it n most likely his parents had no idea of the kind of crap he was watching n he was so desensitised to it after watching it on repeat that he wasn't taught n shown what was appropriate n not. After watching it with him did you try to explain to him that it was pretty violent n not something to get excited about? I don't blame you if you don't remember being it was a long time ago.
@@ZootyZoFoim old with ingrown toenails and hemoroids and shit. What does LRRP mean praytell? I know the old LARP acronyms but thats a new one for me??
@@Ugo2sleep - Long range reconnaissance patrol, they go deep into enemy territory. And cut those goddam toenails square so they don’t become ingrown, simple solution.
My dad is a Nam vet and thank god he’s still with us. He, my uncle, and me saw this in theaters when I was young. Dad stepped out to take a leak and didn’t return. Not a word after. Seemed in a fine mood. Just only got snippets of what he went thru there in my adulthood and wow. Just… holy sh*t. He says remembers dogs and frogs. Especially after nasty firefights. U can imagine. God bless our savage vets. 🤜🤛
I've always wondered if professional actors get so good at faking emotions that they accidentally fake them in everyday life. Like they know how they're supposed to behave and they just fall into that character. The joyous boyfriend, the grieving son, the vengeful lover... Just a thought.
Many have said that they are more or less crazy. Johnny depp is one of those people I think. The man has gotten so used to acting that I think he finds it hard to shut it off.
@@jackf1830 well after 30 years I probably would too. It makes me question if I am just acting. If I was brainwashed into programmed responses and now I mistake it for how I actually feel
That's crazy because my stepdad was in the army around the time of desert Storm and every time he smoked a cigarette he would put the cigarette butt in his pocket and he said that the army trained him to do that and it all makes sense now
After Wall Street and all he had accomplished, I thought Charlie was going to go on to be a multi Oscar winner past Al Pacino, and De Niro. It’s a shame what happened to him. What he did to himself
Oscars are given not earned. There are many actors that should have gotten more than one, but never got one. Then there are those that shouldn't have even been nominated, but actually won. If you're not part of the Hollywood BS, they will never give you one.
You gotta rewatch the video multiple times, tune in to each characters reaction to the body, were they reacting with fear, anger, disbelief.. were they thinking about themselves? Or contemplating existence? Or was their ego struggling to face and register their own mortality? So many versions of “the stare”, so many little hints about each individual that give such an intrusive look into each characters soul and outlook on life, reality amazing scene, one of my favorite movies too no doubt
After seeing Johnny Depp and reading your comment, i couldn't help but read it in Raoul Dukes voice from Fear and Loathing, as if Hunter S. Thompson wrote that comment.
Despite being born in 1966, while growing up I had a peculiar dream that took place during the war. In the dream, I found myself walking through a village with only one other individual from my unit. The area was bustling with people, but the sound of gunshots could be heard in the distance. Both of us had green uniforms, and my companion's helmet had a small white marking, possibly a stripe (not sure). In the dream, I was feeling very wired (like on drugs or feeling stressed) and had a persistent ringing in my ears. I couldn't determine our mission or objective in the dream. The locals appeared to be unconcerned and continued to go about their business. Weird.
That's actually heartbreaking. My grandpa died in Vietnam. He was a professional Hungarian soccer player that fought the communists in Hungary, Korea and Vietnam. Never met him.
No sheen wasn’t. The Leo of this time was River Phoenix. They even started using Leo in roles river would’ve played. I know whoever made the above comment about sheen is some millennial or gen Z that don’t know shxt about shxt lol sheen is the og decaprio lol okaaay 🥴🥴
Oh man that's like some Tropic Thunder type shit. Out in the jungle filming a Vietnam War movie with a Vietnam Vet director who occasionally would go on PTSD trips.
That stare you are referring to comes from deep within, staring at all the beautiful shades of green, standing very still, searching for anything, any sound, any movement… VVA Chapter 858 member SEMPER FI 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I have yet to see Forest Whitaker in an interview about the film. He hasn't appeared in any documentaries of it either. Great movie and it's very well made. One of my favorites about the conflict in S E Asia.
There were a few real good thousand yard stares: The soldier Taylor sees staring at him in passing as they arrive, "The Roach" in Coppola's, 'Apocalypse Now', and Christopher Walken in, 'The Deer Hunter'.
Esta pelucula le he visto 72 veses....me siento familuarisado...recuerdos oscuros de muerte en la guerra delos años 1983...en las calidas montañas de Nicaragua..
this is one of my favorite movies EVER, when berenger shoots willem dafoe and thinks hes dead and hes running from the vietcong, wen he falls to his knees and puts his arms and hands up toward the helicopter, its so iconic
The thousand yard stare. You've mentally and emotionally crossed a threshold that humans shouldn't generally, and your mind is holding it together best it can. Though you may move on, and live your life, you're still there deep down, in the deepest part of your grey matter. Part of you always will be.
people forget because of all this most recent antics Charlie Sheen was a phenomenal actor and was in some phenomenal movies in the late '80s early 90s I never knew Johnny Depp was in the movie even as I watched it
Platoon was an awesome movie. Friend of mine was in that platoon that that movie was made about. It was really kind of like the last stand at the Alamo. The big difference in how the movie ended and how the actual fight ended was the fact that nobody, not one single person came out of there alive. You know in the movie they showed Charlie Sheen and some others flying out on an evac helicopter, that didn't actually happen. My friend Frank to this day still carries guilt because he transferred out the day before the attack happened and everybody that died over there in that attack were all friends of his.
Absolute classic! Never loved( nor hated)Charlie sheen but love this. Berenger's performance is fucking legendary! Dafoe. McGinley. Candyman. Whittaker. Depp. Dillon. One of my top war movies.
I got to know Martin Sheen Charlie's dad at the track in California He likes to bet the ponies too This was after or maybe during the filming of Apocalypse now I just didn't put the 2 together for a few years
When I watched Platoon here in Brazil and saw Sergeant Barnes I remembered Sergeant Orizonte Mariner when I served the Brazilian Navy from 1982 to 1985!😮😮😮
I found out like a month ago that Johnny Depp was even in this movie and I've seen it several times!? I can't believe I never realized that was him!? LOL!? 🧐🤔🤦🏼🙄😒😆🤷🏼👏🏻
The village, which has stood for maybe 1,000 years, didn't know we were coming that day. If they did, they would have run. Barnes was at the eye of our rage. And through him, our Captain Ahab. He would set things right again. That day we loved him.
The best damn war movie in Hollywood history. The tension, the fear, the raw morality, and all the chaos and dirtbag moves are laid out in this flick. Oliver Stone keeps it real, pouring his own experiences into it.
Totally forgot Johnny Depp was in Platoon, Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, Kevin Dillon, Keith David and John C. McGinley totally remember those guys in that flick.
Yea I didn’t just forget I just never realised he was in it to begin with til a viewing a couple years ago, but to be fair that was the first time I’d seen the movie since I got glasses and could actually see what was going on hahaha
Yeah. He's the interpreter in the bogus My Lai analog.
Forest Whitaker too
And Tony Todd (candyman, the rock, the crow..)
@@DarkMatterX1 Lerner
The end of Platoon was the only time I've heard a grown man break down sobbing in a movie theater.
I saw Saving Private Ryan the day it opened. Theatre was full. At the end i went into the bathroom to piss.(Long film at the time) Full of men sobing and crying out loud!very humbling ,at that molment i knew it was going to be a iconic film.
In the theater I watched it in everyone in there stood clapped and cheered at the end..Till this day I've never experienced that for any other movie 😊👍🤙🍺
They say platoon is the most realistic depiction of Nam to date.
And when I say they I mean real life Nam Marines.
@@davecrupel2817too bad it’s about an Army unit (25th Infantry Division- Tropic Lightning Division)
@@mgway4661 lol. Got him
I just finished watching a crazy Charlie Sheen interview, so to see him here so still and serious is wild
"winner winner SHEEN dinner!"
His serious looks comical though
He is amazing
That Charlie Sheen with the goatee is about 25 years ago.
He himself uploaded an even more unhinged edited version with responses that he filmed
Tom Berengers best performance
He never rivalled this one for sure great performance
What a performance it was amazing
Oscar worthy performance by both him and Dafoe. Just a totally tremendous film. Perhaps m my favourite film ever.
I saw this in the theater and as the audience prepared to leave, there was silence for a few moments as the realization that we just saw something we'd never experienced before and were pulled into it as if we'd fought with them in this moral struggle. We realized too, what exactly those young men went through and then came back to condemnation. Most of all, we felt the grief, the shock of that war. No one could move. When we finally began to leave, there were a lot of tears. It was amazing to see a film transform its audience like that. Respect, Oliver Stone, for this film and JFK as well. Just incredible.
All those men were stellar. Every single one.
@@maureenobrien9815 In total agreement. It was from the heart and crept into your soul. The rivalry between Barnes and Elias was mind numbing.
Oliver Stone saw combat in Vietnam. He knows that stare well
Sheens character was based off of Stone's real life experience. He dropped out of Yale in 65 to teach English in Vietnam. He wanted life experience and joined the Army, asking for the infantry. His parents were divorced and he was bitter about it (notice in the movie Sheen writes his gma and talks roughly about his parents)?
Stone is in the movie, during the big ambush scene at the end. Hes in a tent on the radio, when an NVA soldier runs in and blows himself up, killing the officers inside. That ambush (where Red hides in a foxhole, and Barnes almost smashes Sheens head in before napalm is dropped all over the area) was a real experience Stone had during Tet. 400 or so dead NVA, which is where the bulldozers are pushing the bodies in mass graves. Dale Dye is another Vietnam vet. He played the Captain that called the air strike (hes also in just about every Stone movie and movie about Vietnam).
Stone went back home and again dropped out of Yale (he was there at the same time as W Bush). His experiences are like Sheens in the movie. He hung out with all the stoners, like the weed scene where he takes a shotgun from the M16. Many vets considered this the first real Vietnam film. Stone wrote a book about it. A good read
Oliver Stone was a Vietnam Vet
@@Seabee156 that’s what I said
Horrible, there is a documentary on CZcams about men who were admitted to psychiatric hospitals after WWII and how their mental health deteriorated. It's crazy asf, and sad
The Thousand Yard Stare, Every Combat Veteran gets it when they see some Fuck up Shit @ War
back when johnny depp didn’t talk like jack sparrow all the time lol
I think it goes deeper; it's that Hunter S Thompson effect.
@@Mordecai9052 yes you totaly rigth!
@@Mordecai9052 Bill Murray even said it was almost impossible to spend a length of time wth hunter and not find yourself emulating the man in every way
LOL that's always been his true character.
@Mordecai9052 i Googled this but unable go find what this means.. can you explain please?
King (the first black soldier reacting) is the only one to look away and show some emotion... he was probably the most "normal" one of the platoon, with his humanity intact.
I loved his speech at the end of his tour, "everything after this is gravy!"
@@ralphalvarez5465 Me too. That speech, in a way, helped me get through some hard times of my own.
@@ralphalvarez5465 keep your powder dry and your pecker hard😅
I think the stare shows a mich deeper mix of emotions. Rage, guilt, sadness, revenge, disgust, pity.
Yeah king one of my favs he took Taylor (Charlie sheen) under his wing. ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
One of my all time favourites - first film to capture the brutality of the Vietnam war so intimately through the eyes of young men struggling to survive.
also he showed US soldiers trying to r word children in the film. Never forget what some of those baby killers did
movie name?? i’ve seen it probably but was younger
@@YxngSteeze Platoon
First thing come to my head after watching this short was Hamburger Hill, a very tense heavy movie that kept me on the edges of my chair, hoping my fav characters wouldn't get it in the end.
You should watch Apocalypse Now… that is one of the best movies ever made and shows you the insanity of people being pushed to their limits during war. Fantastic war film
Tom Berenger was *terrifying* in Platoon. The absolute role of a lifetime. You honestly believed that this character was either going to kill as many Vietnamese as possible, and was hell bent on dying if it meant doing just that.
Best villain ever
What movie is this??
I remember watching Platoon in high school about 15 years ago and being scared of Barnes. Watch it again recently and I was still scared of him.
it is astonishing how good he is in this role.
It's the facial scar
Berengers face was the only intimidating one
Na. That's just the look of a backstabbing filthy traitor.
The look of a man hellbent on revenge
It’s not about being intimidating it’s about not being present in the moment because your mind can’t comprehend the things you’ve seen.
This film was made by two combat veterans of Vietnam, they knew what they were doing
That says more about what you’re able to perceive than anything else. Plus, as others have said, that’s not even the point here
@@rustyshackelford934 I don't think any actor can capture it. Even somebody who has experienced disassociation probably can't show it on command.
When I was a kid I thought for sure Tom Berringer got the role of Barnes because those scars were real. Very convincing makeup.
Crazy how the Nazis stuffed stuff like horse hair in there cuts to get that exact same look isn't it? haha .
@@chaosdweller what
@@llolinlaik I think my friend here is on about dueling scars, which people would purposefully give themselves as a sign of social status, but I'm at a loss about the horse hair and that
@@Gobbostopperdue to the social status being so great young men would get cut in fencing and I order to make a scare more pronounces they would stuff the would with horse hair to expand the wound and scar, and then remove it after it had began healing. Or so they say
@@Gobbostoppereah, it would keep the scars deep to show off the dueling. It was popular into wwii. Helped identify when they were trying to escape persecution
Got frustrated at a job on Friday. Left and went to the pub. Hung out at the bar with2 Nam vets. They talked about fishing. What animals they would eat and regular shit. I could sense the ghosts around them. They still had the stare even though they seemed happy enough. Helped me get my balance. My dad was a Nam Vet. Rest in peace Dave. You were a great provider, teacher, and buddy. Miss you
How old were they
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I respect all veterans but especially Vietnam and Korean if it was up to me I would give them all 100 percent service connection disability with retractive pay from the time they first filed a claim I gaurentee it would be alot but near as much as the amount of money and aid and support we are giving Ukraine take care of America first
Nam vets always have that stare. It never leaves them. My friends brother came home from nam, we were partying in the cellar . His brother just sat there shell shocked . I wondered what he was thinking as he never said a word . Just starred .
"Thousand Island stare......" - Stavros Halkias
I was looking for someone BRAVE enough to say this
My fav gay nam vet
@@neverpass04 no vietcong ever called me a fattot
Lmaooo my ñame is Adam and im gay
Not a big fan of my stay at the Hanoi Hilton…… BUT THE BREAKFAST
-SGT Stavros “Stavvy” Halkias
Such a powerful film. I was fortunate to see it in the theaters albeit I was too young. My father was a Viet vet so it had a different power for him. When the Vietnam memorial was launched it original got criticism because it didn’t see grand enough but my father seeing the names of his friends broke him. It broke all of us.
Thankful for his service 🤝🏾
That's why they added the statue monuments to the soldiers and nurses. It's not an art project.
I saw platoon in the movie theater with my daddy. It was the only movie my father and I ever went to together and if you knew my father you know what a big deal that was. I was not brought up in a home with a lot of money or had an overly or verbally loving father. This movie means a lot to me because me and him got to sit in the movie theater together and share popcorn and watch a movie together. I miss you Pops God knows I do
Yes I know me and your father were very close
Glad u have that great memory. Keep it!
I'm happy you got that time with him. One of the best films of All time
Oliver was reliving a dark time in his life in that particular moment. He was in the belly of the beast. Great War movie
His greatest achievement was JFK, though...
@@garyaugustus690 I've actually never seen JFK.
Dale dye (who was a technical advisor for this and a lot of military movies after this and was a Vietnam vet himself) had the same thing happen to him at the end of the movie when all the bodies were being pushed in a massive hole to be buried and Oliver just knew that look so well that he gave him a close up for a couple of seconds
1,000 yard stare = trauma/dissociation
wrong
Right
My dad was a Vietnam vet. He had the stare then when my son battled 9 years of cancer he said I had the stare too.
@@DisAccountizaMiracle its a genetic thing then
@heshiehershel what? It has literally nothing to do with genetics
Man. Movies used to be so good.
There's still good movies . Just gotta dig under the" blockbuster " bs .
The cinema is still great .. just the media praises these shit can movies more than ever now .
What do you mean “used” to be lmao masterpieces are coming out every year
@theeoddments960 the amount has slowed down considerably.
Look at the best movies from each year starting in the 60s and 70s, work your way down to modern day movies.. then realize movies have turned mostly to trash and classics are few and far between.
This is an opinion shared by many.
You may have a difference of opinion... but are not watching movies like Platoon in 2023. Far from it, save for MAYBE the rare gem.
@Wolfsburge I dig, I just feel there's less left to find.. for my tastes at least. Luckily it gives me time to find old classics I've missed since it's not often there's something current peaking my interests. Best part about the drought, really. Watch a few movies every year I really enjoy, then look back at a stacked year from a better decade and realize we had it so so good before
@@theeoddments960 No, not really. Most movies coming out now are pretty crap. It’s really not like it used to be.
Platoon is one of my all time favorite movies. I used to live in a little one bedroom apartment. No cable, but had a VCR and 3 movies. Platoon, Friday and Casino. I watched those 3 movies so many times. Platoon was my favorite. I had a roommate for a little bit and we knew the lines to Platoon by heart. We ended up moving into a house with his sister. She took us to Blockbuster one night to rent a movie. What did we pick from an endless supply of movies. Yeah we choose Platoon.
Hahahahah awesome, simpler times
3 Great Movies 🍿
Lol. Quality bro. Yh i LOVE them 3 films. Good story
We’ve ALL been there …
Different movies though !
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My favorite movie I felt so bad for those kids over there they were way over their head and everything and everybody was against them for doing their job it’s a wonder anyone came back home
So many absolutely classic actors at such a young age in this movie
This made me realize it'd be cool for a war movie to have this kind of informal monologue, like the main character is recounting the story to some stranger or something.
Yeah it is cool how this was done. I think Sheen is talking to his Grandmother in this film but aloud so We can be part of it
It had been done before the way Frances Ford Coppola wrote it for Charlie's father Martin, did similar dialog in Apocalypse Now.
The G.O.A.T of war films.
and Deer Hunter, Casualties of War, Heaven & Earth & Full Metal Jacket
I’d say Saving Private Ryan, Full Metal Jacket, and the new version of All Quiet on the Western Front are the best war films.
Fury with Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeaouf or Bernthal? Anyone?
@@alexr6913 This is my personal Top 5, in order:
1. Platoon
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Black Hawk Down
4. Full Metal Jacket
5. We Were Soldiers
Fury would definitely be in my Top 10, though. It’s a masterpiece.
@@popeye5274 Haven’t seen All Quiet yet so I’m glad you endorsed it, I’m going to check it out this weekend.
In 5th grade I decided to befriend the weird kid in class because I thought he was just awkward. He was telling me about this hilarious movie called "platoon." I had heard of it but had never seen it, you know, because I was ten and all. Then he shows it to me at his house and just squeals with laughter the entire time. Shit creeped me out to the core.
Hoholyy shit.
Im at a loss. That's a graphic movie even for a 10 yr old. He really had some issues. Did you still stay friends with him tho or did you just stopped talking to him?
I might have a theory, he probably came across the movie after finding it from his siblings n him not fully mature enough to understand the themes and context of the movie he probably just saw it as just a bang bang boom movie with gore in between n he was caught up in the special fx and stuff blowing up. When youre a kid n going from watching cartoons to serious adult type movie stuff it's all foreign to you n you just go along with it. Just my theory.
@nicktubara no he was twisted. No siblings either. He laughed at it the way a 10 year old boy would laugh at jackass or beavis and butthead.
@@Daniel-ou4fb i had to reflect after reading your comment n writing mine up that i believe that as kids when we come across something that is unlike anything we seen before n we don't know how we react to it we just try n laugh it off as a coping mechanism. In the case of that kid you watched it with he probably didn't know how to process it n most likely his parents had no idea of the kind of crap he was watching n he was so desensitised to it after watching it on repeat that he wasn't taught n shown what was appropriate n not.
After watching it with him did you try to explain to him that it was pretty violent n not something to get excited about? I don't blame you if you don't remember being it was a long time ago.
@@professormancaptain4210 Holy shit indeed..
This was one of the best war movies of all time "war is hell"
Movie name ?
@@deinleiblichervater4114 The movie from the video is Platoon :).
The scene w Sheen and King is one of the best. ". You just make it outa here - the rest of your life is gravy man! "
This was polite version of how Americans were displayed after being captured.
Stone was on LRRP missions, he was in the shit
He went through LRRP training but never served as a LRRP, was a grunt who got two Purple Hearts and a bronze star.
Good job he missed the landmines
@@ZootyZoFoim old with ingrown toenails and hemoroids and shit. What does LRRP mean praytell?
I know the old LARP acronyms but thats a new one for me??
@@Ugo2sleep - Long range reconnaissance patrol, they go deep into enemy territory. And cut those goddam toenails square so they don’t become ingrown, simple solution.
@mikehunt5126 thanks 👍 looks like your right on the money
Tom Berenger with that iconic, chewed-up-and-spat-out face. He is an amazing actor. Everybody loves to hate his character in Platoon. CLASSIC.
My dad is a Nam vet and thank god he’s still with us. He, my uncle, and me saw this in theaters when I was young. Dad stepped out to take a leak and didn’t return. Not a word after. Seemed in a fine mood. Just only got snippets of what he went thru there in my adulthood and wow. Just… holy sh*t. He says remembers dogs and frogs. Especially after nasty firefights. U can imagine.
God bless our savage vets. 🤜🤛
One of best real movies ever for a soilder to watch...
Barnes is a fuckinng badasss
The only thing that can kill Barnes… is Barnes
He's got a few issues
Makeup did a great job on him too with those scars.
* psycho
"Ya smoke this shit to escape from reality? Me, I don't need this shit.. I am reality."
I've always wondered if professional actors get so good at faking emotions that they accidentally fake them in everyday life. Like they know how they're supposed to behave and they just fall into that character. The joyous boyfriend, the grieving son, the vengeful lover... Just a thought.
I often wonder this too!
Many have said that they are more or less crazy.
Johnny depp is one of those people I think. The man has gotten so used to acting that I think he finds it hard to shut it off.
@@jackf1830 well after 30 years I probably would too. It makes me question if I am just acting. If I was brainwashed into programmed responses and now I mistake it for how I actually feel
“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players”
Oh like Will Smith ?? Yeah I'd say so.
I have Barns on a shirt that says
I AM REALITY
and it's him with that stare
VC tracked Americans by following the trail of cigarette butts.
Hmmm makes sense.
Has anyone heard of field strip cigarettes?
That's crazy because my stepdad was in the army around the time of desert Storm and every time he smoked a cigarette he would put the cigarette butt in his pocket and he said that the army trained him to do that and it all makes sense now
actually...a trail of coco puffs and lucky charms.
@@todd4300 what is that?
Oliver Stone makes Masterpieces.
Such a classic film. A True piece of art.
After Wall Street and all he had accomplished, I thought Charlie was going to go on to be a multi Oscar winner past Al Pacino, and De Niro. It’s a shame what happened to him.
What he did to himself
What do you mean by, “it’s a shame what he did to himself”?
Oscars are given not earned. There are many actors that should have gotten more than one, but never got one. Then there are those that shouldn't have even been nominated, but actually won. If you're not part of the Hollywood BS, they will never give you one.
You gotta rewatch the video multiple times, tune in to each characters reaction to the body, were they reacting with fear, anger, disbelief.. were they thinking about themselves? Or contemplating existence? Or was their ego struggling to face and register their own mortality? So many versions of “the stare”, so many little hints about each individual that give such an intrusive look into each characters soul and outlook on life, reality amazing scene, one of my favorite movies too no doubt
After seeing Johnny Depp and reading your comment, i couldn't help but read it in Raoul Dukes voice from Fear and Loathing, as if Hunter S. Thompson wrote that comment.
Forest Whitaker’s got a haunting thousand island stare in this film
Thousand island? 😂🍤
You mean Thousand Yard stare. The guy you copied was autocorrected.
Yeah Whitaker has a 2 Thousand Yard stare!! One for each eye 😎
@DirtyBerdt ....
Very funny, but just wrong...
Despite being born in 1966, while growing up I had a peculiar dream that took place during the war. In the dream, I found myself walking through a village with only one other individual from my unit. The area was bustling with people, but the sound of gunshots could be heard in the distance. Both of us had green uniforms, and my companion's helmet had a small white marking, possibly a stripe (not sure). In the dream, I was feeling very wired (like on drugs or feeling stressed) and had a persistent ringing in my ears. I couldn't determine our mission or objective in the dream. The locals appeared to be unconcerned and continued to go about their business. Weird.
Sounds like you might have died in Vietnam in your previous life, in 1965
@@sach1732 Makes you wonder. I've had a few talks with Vietnam vets over the years. One fellow even asked me if I was in the military in the past.
That's actually heartbreaking. My grandpa died in Vietnam. He was a professional Hungarian soccer player that fought the communists in Hungary, Korea and Vietnam. Never met him.
My condolences 🌹
My condolences on your loss. Your dad is a hero in my eyes.
So your grandpa was an antisemetic imperialist, shame he procreated.
Stone went through some serious shit.
The levels of brilliance in this movie don’t stop.
Charlie sheen was the original Leonardo DiCaprioin his time.
Why? Did leo knowingly pass HIV to unsuspecting women too?
What the hell does that stupid comparison even mean??
No sheen wasn’t. The Leo of this time was River Phoenix. They even started using Leo in roles river would’ve played. I know whoever made the above comment about sheen is some millennial or gen Z that don’t know shxt about shxt lol sheen is the og decaprio lol okaaay 🥴🥴
@@hec53 no, women can’t get HIV until they turn 27
What Sheen was giving was NOT a thousand yard stare, it was a look of constipation
One of the best movies ever!
Love for Big T Berrenger in that movie.Best bad guy of all time.🙏👍🙏🇬🇧🇺🇸
One of wilem Dafoe's best performance he got nominated for an oscar
He & Berenger cancelled each other out
Who beat him that year? Anyone knows?
@@Lyndonswing Michael Caine
This was my all-time favorite movie in my twenties
Phenomenal movie because of the phenomenal cast !!
Oh man that's like some Tropic Thunder type shit. Out in the jungle filming a Vietnam War movie with a Vietnam Vet director who occasionally would go on PTSD trips.
Why are you comparing this serious drama film with a stupid comedy? Be quiet man.
Do you mean LSD?
This is why people who actually experienced a thing should be the ones making a movie about it
Bullshit.
Thank God George Lucas was born a long time ago in a galaxy far away
@@dim_kk Yeah, and Steven Spielberg was actually a prisoner at Auschwitz in the 40s. Of course, that's after he found the lost ark in the 30s.
That stare you are referring to comes from deep within, staring at all the beautiful shades of green, standing very still, searching for anything, any sound, any movement…
VVA Chapter 858 member
SEMPER FI 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Welcome home soldier.
@@ericjones9699 Thank you very much, Sir!
There is a lotta Marines out here that just need to hear those words…
Vietnam films from late 89’d & the 90’s were some of the best movies ever.
None of those are better than apocalypse now or deer hunter. Made in the 70s.
I have yet to see Forest Whitaker in an interview about the film. He hasn't appeared in any documentaries of it either. Great movie and it's very well made. One of my favorites about the conflict in S E Asia.
In reality he was pissed cause these guys were stoned out of their minds and they had the biggest budgeted day scheduled ahead of them.
A thousand yard stare isn't "focused". It's vacant
There were a few real good thousand yard stares: The soldier Taylor sees staring at him in passing as they arrive, "The Roach" in Coppola's, 'Apocalypse Now', and Christopher Walken in, 'The Deer Hunter'.
*I love thousand yard stares.*
Esta pelucula le he visto 72 veses....me siento familuarisado...recuerdos oscuros de muerte en la guerra delos años 1983...en las calidas montañas de Nicaragua..
Sheen is a very underrated actor
One of the best films I've ever seen
Barnes hard as fuck!
Oliver Stone was a Vietnam vet he was in the jungle he was in the shit
this is one of my favorite movies EVER, when berenger shoots willem dafoe and thinks hes dead and hes running from the vietcong, wen he falls to his knees and puts his arms and hands up toward the helicopter, its so iconic
Great movie 🎥
Great film
The thousand yard stare.
You've mentally and emotionally crossed a threshold that humans shouldn't generally, and your mind is holding it together best it can. Though you may move on, and live your life, you're still there deep down, in the deepest part of your grey matter.
Part of you always will be.
We call it the thousand yard stare.
That’s what it says
Listening to a bunch of actors talk about their “war” experience is f-ing priceless!
Ha! At first I thought this was Tropic Thunder.
Not even close
two very different movies lol
@@sampuckett3161 that's why he said "At first, I thought..."
And it's pretty close. It's a movie about war, Platoon is also a movie about war. See?
@@trip4923 "The Little Rascals" and "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" are both about kids, so that makes those movies pretty close too... :^)
Tropic Thunder is better
Great movie
Fantastic acting
Half the looks are cheesy, Kubrick was able to get actors to do that stare properly
Platoon is an amazing piece of art 😎 it captures and personifies the terror of life in war
These guys did one heck of a job in this movie.
people forget because of all this most recent antics Charlie Sheen was a phenomenal actor and was in some phenomenal movies in the late '80s early 90s I never knew Johnny Depp was in the movie even as I watched it
He's learner. A Corman
That was a good movie. Damn where have the years gone?
Just a legendary movie.
I love that behind the scenes movie about how they made "Platoon"!
one of my fav movies and at the end i always get choked up cuz i think about how my dad had to go thru 4 years of it.
Platoon was an awesome movie. Friend of mine was in that platoon that that movie was made about. It was really kind of like the last stand at the Alamo. The big difference in how the movie ended and how the actual fight ended was the fact that nobody, not one single person came out of there alive. You know in the movie they showed Charlie Sheen and some others flying out on an evac helicopter, that didn't actually happen. My friend Frank to this day still carries guilt because he transferred out the day before the attack happened and everybody that died over there in that attack were all friends of his.
Absolute classic! Never loved( nor hated)Charlie sheen but love this. Berenger's performance is fucking legendary! Dafoe. McGinley. Candyman. Whittaker. Depp. Dillon.
One of my top war movies.
I was in the 173rd airborne in Vietnam Charlie Sheen dad that was the commander in Apocalypse now!
I got to know Martin Sheen Charlie's dad at the track in California He likes to bet the ponies too This was after or maybe during the filming of Apocalypse now I just didn't put the 2 together for a few years
one of thee greatest films of all times
Salute to the Vietnam Veterans that were there and are here. TO the ones that never survived or ever came back .
One of my favourite movies.
This movie affected my soul as an 18 year old in highschool Drama in 1986 when we did a play called Tracers about the Vietnam war.... 😊
One of the greatest movies of all time imo.
When I watched Platoon here in Brazil and saw Sergeant Barnes I remembered Sergeant Orizonte Mariner when I served the Brazilian Navy from 1982 to 1985!😮😮😮
Best Vietnam movie cast, since Apocalypse Now.
My favorite childhood movie omg
I found out like a month ago that Johnny Depp was even in this movie and I've seen it several times!? I can't believe I never realized that was him!? LOL!?
🧐🤔🤦🏼🙄😒😆🤷🏼👏🏻
Johnny Depp was absolutely beautiful. His hair, his eyes, his smile, his everything.
The village, which has stood for maybe 1,000 years, didn't know we were coming that day. If they did, they would have run. Barnes was at the eye of our rage. And through him, our Captain Ahab. He would set things right again. That day we loved him.
I love This movie oliver stone and the whole cast
I dont remember johnny Depp being in platoon, I've definitely gotta rewatch it now
He's the interpreter
Also a scene when they torch a village.
He walks through the scene.
Platoon was without any doubt the film that changed the way war was viewed and it took a veteran to make it
The greatest Vietnam movie ever made , With Deer Hunter next followed by Apocalypse Now and Full metal jacket also !!!
The best damn war movie in Hollywood history. The tension, the fear, the raw morality, and all the chaos and dirtbag moves are laid out in this flick. Oliver Stone keeps it real, pouring his own experiences into it.
What. A. Film. Platoon will always be my favourite war film
Oliver and Dale did a perfect job training these actors
Track’s of my Tears 🌹☘️