FILMMAKER MOVIE REACTION!! Platoon (1986) FIRST TIME REACTION!! 

Need a not so crazy crazy view of the Vietnam War? Have you seen Good Morning Vietnam?

your video are comfy

p.s a lot of star's got their break in this movie

p.s.s Oliver Stone was in the real war

You MUST do --- THE DEER HUNTER --- It is the VERY BEST of ALL war films !!!!!

What else is in the 2%, so I can watch them.

Some that I liked, for different reasons: Band of Brothers, Blackhawk Down, Patton (I was in 3rd Army for a couple years), there are more I just can’t think of. Hacksaw ridge was good as a drama. Usually I avoid war films because they are just silly and lazy on the research side (Hurt Locker)

@@averitas also if you’re into documentaries, “The War” by Ken Burns is great.

@@matthewgunther782 a bridge too far

USMC in country 09/66/07/69. I saw two E-7’s shoot it out over nothing I could see.

Oh sweet! That’s awesome thank you for that!

I did not know that!

That, and the translator character is Johnny Depp.

AND he's actor, Danny Glover's, newphew...

@@MarkJones-rl9ph I heard there was no relation to him.

The thesis of life lmfao

lmao

I think that’s super damn awesome!

they make a joke about this in Hot Shots: Part Deux!

@@airinghouse "I loved you in Wall Street!" Hot Shots and Part Deux don't get enough credit.

Charlie Sheen's brother, Emilio Estevez was originally up for the part of Chris Taylor.

Apocalypse Now was Martin Sheen's big break through in his career!

Wow, I’m happy to hear this film did some justice. Respect to your father.

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@@JamesVSCinema why they didnt tell him or get close was the fatality rate and rotation originally to offset war fatigue from ww2, get close to the newbie he may die, there goes your new friend, from what I was told from Vietnam veterans.

The village scene is one of the most uncomfortable things I have ever watched onscreen.

I saw this in a theater when it first came out in 1986. I was 19 or 20 at the time. The only movie I have ever been to in a theater where , when it was over and the crowd dispersed, not one person said a word to anyone else. That's how hard it hit at the time.

@@88wildcat Agreed. I saw it at about the same age as you when it came out and it was silent in the theater afterward. As we walked out and past the people waiting to see it next there were a few who asked how it was. I remember seeing a few looks from those leaving but no one said a word. I think it was the first film that let people begin to understand a little about just how shitty war is, on many levels.

Really!?

@@JamesVSCinema Yeah. Big shame, I hate when a person's hard work doesn't recognised.

@@JamesVSCinema Definitely. Depp was actually considered for the lead role in Platoon as Chris, but Oliver Stone thought he was a little bit too young for the part. Stone also thought Depp was destined to become a big star. There are some more of Depp's scenes on youtube that were cut from the movie. Nothing too crazy, but there's definitely a bit where he gets some more speaking time with Charlie Sheen and Keith David, where they're talking about Elias and Barnes. I wish more of his scenes had been kept in. I always found it interesting that when Depp's character gets wounded in the 2nd firefight that Sheen's character spends time holding his hand and comforting him, because in the final cut we never got to see them share any moments together...but once I got older and found out they had more scenes filmed together, it made sense that they had more of a bond in that moment.

@@WhtMike2006 Charlie was 2 years younger than Johnny but I get what you’re saying, Oliver thinking maybe Charlie had the highest potential cause his father is Martin Sheen and Johnny had been in that phase where he wanted to be a musician instead of an actor even though he was in Nightmare on Elm Street.

@@deadmanwalking8740 no doubt. I get you. Also I wonder if Charlie just looked older and that what Stone meant. I was actually surprised to just read you say that Depp is older than Sheen. I wouldn’t have guessed based on Platoon

What a journey!

Staff Non Commissioned Officers, not Officers

Yeah... more like the clash between social (Elias) and anti social (Barnes).

That’s wild!

Elephant man from 1980, I do believe was the first time used for film!! That was another great movie as well

The Elephant Man is one of my favourite movies!

Platoon was the first time I heard Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings and I think the movie that brought it to the masses almost to the point it has become a cliché. A Very Natural Thing (1974) The Elephant Man (1980) El Norte (1983) Platoon (1986) Lorenzo’s Oil (1992) Wild Reeds (1994) Falling for You (1995) (TV) “ER” episode “Do One, Teach One, Kill One” (1995) The Scarlet Letter (1995) The Hunters (1996) “Seinfeld” episode “The Fatigues” (1996) The Closing Down of the Renault Factory at Vilvoorde Belgium - The Sexual Life of the Belgians - Part 3 (1999) “Red Dwarf” episode “Only the Good…” (1999) “Spaced” episode “Battles” (1999) Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000) Amélie (2001) S1m0ne (2002) 3 episodes of “The Simpsons”: “The Strong Arms of the Ma” (2003), “Marge Gamer” (2007), “Little Orphan Millie” (2007) Swimming Upstream (2003) Reconstruction (2003) “South Park” episode “Up the Down Steroid” (2004) Ma Mère (2004) Peace One Day (2004) Liubi (2005) Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny (2006) Sicko (2007) “Big Love” episode “Outer Darkness” (2009) “American Dad!” episode “In Country… Club” (2009) “How I Met Your Mother” episode “Jenkins” (2010)

It's stylised, but everything it shows happened in that war. Maybe not all to the same people. I know the general standards of discipline etc. pissed off Dale Dye (the guy who calls in the airstrike on himself at the end, also advisor on and actor in countless military movies like Band of Brothers and SP Ryan). In the end though, Oliver Stone was there, so while it might not be 100% accurate, he's got the right to tell the story.

That is WILD.

The forces we were fighting over there had already been fighting for their country's liberation from France and Japan for decades. They made those jungles a nightmare, and so our guys lashed out at them and each other. They didn't want us there, and most of our guys didn't want to be there either. Just a self-reinforcing cycle of hatred.

@@dmwalker24 Also the rotation. As one guy aptly put it: 'We didn't fight in Vietnam for 10 years, we fought in Vietnam ten times, one year each.' Also keep in mind the guys who went there often were not much older than 18 or 19.

@@DerOberfeldwebel My Dad and Uncle served in the late 60's, early 70's. My Uncle was a helicopter mechanic in the Army right out of high school. Just a kid really, and there's still a lot of (entirely understandable) resentment about it.

That’s insane!

@@JamesVSCinema yep. Oscar winning masterpice the Platoon.

Completely different film but the first 20 minutes sets a tone.

I love Full Metal Jaket

Please check out We We’re Soldiers

Casualties of war. Didn't get the acclaim but again depicted a real life event

@@yvonnesanders4308 I thought about that movie too. James would be seething, but then again, who wasn't.. 🤬😒

And his other son Emilio Estevez was in "The War at Home" together with his dad Martin Sheen, who actually plays his dad in the movie. It's also a movie about Vietnam.

And it's spoofed perfectly in Hot Shots Part Deux

Charlie was an extra in Apocalypse now too.

They were both in Stockade with Larry fishburne

Check out the Sam Mendes film Jarhead if you haven't already.

Yep. Hurry up and wait is the OOD.

Wild Thing! LOL. Such a great movie.

Such a fun movie!

Wall Street was next then Major League.

Stone also appears in the film. He gets blown up in the last firefight.

And in Band of Brothers... His personal influence on war movies as both an actor and trainer for other actors can't be overlooked.

Yep. I think they just started using Dale Dye in basically every other military movie. He's also in The Rock, and a ton of other Michael Bay movies as some type of high-level military officer. He's often giving expository dialogue, explaining the mission, or the stakes, etc. But it's still always awesome to see him on screen.

@@WhtMike2006 If I recall correctly he was tech advisor for Platoon and several other projects.

I heard that Captain Dye served with Gustav Hasford, who wrote the book "the Short Timers", which the movie "Full Metal Jacket" was based on.

Only the winners get to prosecute war crimes.

Great film.

I don't get the deer hunter I think it's awful

@dizgroontled Just because you don’t understand the movie, it doesn’t make the movie awful

@@akilaappuhamy5428 oh genius over here.

dizgroontled Thanks

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Lol, for some reason I mixed up the pianist with the piano teacher and I was like "Jesus christ, I don't remember that being about war and that's a bit fucked up for a reaction channel" lol, still, viciously good performances but, yeah, the piano teacher is a whole other level of messed up, spent half that movie deeply uncomfortable...

@@andrewhussey4538 Oh dear, no, I would not recommend that one! Wouldn't wish to give anyone a mental crisis xD

100% Tony! I’ve been feeling myself becoming more intelligent with the craft that I’m in because of this channel! Thanks brother!

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Ah thank you so much! Glad to have you along.

100%. I also found a bit of irony in Berenger's monologue about war and death, because he talks about them smoking weed to escape reality, as he himself is slamming a bottle of Jack Daniels.

Great answer!

Agreed, but the characterization is the most important for me. A quality war movie is one where the actors don't seem like they're acting, on a set that doesn't seem or feel like a set, or when a scene doesn't come with the audio/visual clues that some shit is about to pop off.

@@Farscryer0 Agreed, good point

Peace brotha!

@@JamesVSCinema Since my parents first took me to the drive-in to see it, I'm not lying when I say I've seen Kelly's Heroes more times than any other film and certainly more than I can count. It has some of the finest casting and direction ever. (Although most of the soon-to-be "all-star" cast would probably be unknown to you).

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Sheen said he stole that line from a scene Tom Cruise did in the movie 'Taps'.

@@jimirayo makes sense.

Never Forget "WindTalkers"

Since James is into editing it might be interesting to note that Terrence Malick's process is to shoot a ton of footage and then "discover" the film in the editing room. For Thin Red Line, for example, Adrien Brody signed up to be the star but ended up barely being in the movie as Malick shifted the focus to Caviezel.

MIne as well.

That’s so awesome, wow thank you!

@@JamesVSCinema my pleasure mate! All the way from the UK 🤟, also love how you live for the punisher's grunts like I do haha

My man! Thank you! 🙏🏽

Adagio for Strings, I believe.