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

Charlie's father, Martin Sheen, played the lead role in Apocalypse Now

One of the most realistic war movies ever made, from a former infantryman’s point of view

Tom Berenger is such a great actor, it's a shame he's not cast much any more. Glad Nolan used him in INCEPTION.

My dad was drafted to Vietnam. As I was growing up, he very rarely ever talked about his own experiences (completely understandable), but anytime a movie like this or TV show (Tour of Duty) came out, we always watched it. He would talk about general things like how the rifles worked, and the transports, etc., & that was how I learned about the Vietnam War. I still remember being young & watching this when it came out and couldn't believe or understand how Tom Berenger's character could kill Willem Defoe's.

The Holy Trinity of Vietnam War films - Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket & Platoon.

No matter how horrible Hollywood makes it look, I'm sure it was 100x worse in real life.

The actors weren't coddled for this film, Stone made them rough it for a month in the jungle before shooting even begun, authenticity was everything to him for this film, he even made them all smoke weed for the party scene, they all look genuinely stoned because they all are genuinely stoned

My uncle who passed away this year fought in Vietnam, he was a gunman on the mekong delta, told me all the time that platoon was the most realistic depiction of the war. He passed back in March of 2021, and I appreciate your views on this movie. I got to re-live his stories and experiences and seeing your reactions was comparable to mine even listening to him telling his stories.

When Vietnam War Vets saw this movie, they applauded Oliver Stone for telling their story, and said that kids today or back then that they were lucky that they didn't experience what Veterans had gone through during the War.

This movie is a masterpiece. Always remember the music as it sums up how sad and pointless war is perfectly. I still remember my reaction when they're talking about killing barnes and then see that he's listening. "ohhh shit"

Back when Charlie Sheen wasn’t the butt of the jokes and was a dignified actor

Johnny Depp had a bigger role in this but stone thought he was too interesting and pulled focus from Charlie so most his scenes were cut

The Deer Hunter is a movie you must see. It features one of the most dangerous games ever known to man: Russian Roulette! Robert De Niro made a stellar and memorable performance 🎭. Oh yeah, and Christopher Walken, unbelievable actor. (Edited)

Charlie sheen was a more serious actor before he did his comedy stuff. And platoon is one of the most realistic Vietnam war films ever made. All the war parts were very similar to the real thing.

to quote the great Patrice O'Neal, I know I'm supposed to consider Apocalypse Now the ultimate Vietnam war movie, but I can watch Platoon any day.

An oscar winning film I higly recommend is 'Amadeus'. Definatly one of the greates Epic genre films. Plus one of the best soundtracks ever.

17:57 Dale Dye, the man who trained everyone for this movie and future war movies to come including Saving Private Ryan. Interesting reading here on IMBD.

The piece of music you refer to is "Adagio for Strings". It was composed by Samuel Barber for string orchestra and was completed in 1936.

I would love to see you guys react to... Apocalypse Now (1979) 🎥🪖

Every great director has got one Great War film in them. Oliver Stone has two: Platoon and Born On The 4th Of July.

One of the most impactful war films i have seen. The Thin Red Line is also a classic and pretty underrated.

When Willem Defoe's mother watched him (Elias) die... She immediately called him to make sure he was truly still alive. It's one amazingly well done death scene.

Oliver Stone has a cameo in the film. When one of the Viet Cong runs inside to bomb the command tent, Oliver Stone is the commander on the phone.

The cast of this movie alone!! Holy crap! The acting is phenomenal! This and Wall Street are Charlie Sheen's crowning achievements, that prove to any doubters that this guy is a great actor and can carry a movie even amidst other great actors.

14:30 «I hate that guy, and that guy, and that guy in real life» LMAO

Scenes of this movie horrified me as a child. Couldn't believe 'good people' were capable of such atrocities. Also, "Casualties of War" is just as scarring.

Just me praying for Unforgiven as the 90s film...

Since you guys are doing Best Picture winning films I cannot stress enough how great Amadeus is! A true masterclass of acting!

John C Mcginley known from scrubs and Tony '' candyman'' Todd was in this movie.

Oliver Stone's commentary for this film is pretty amazing. Almost everything is taken directly from his own experience in the war, and sometimes he even slips into first person narration while talking about the character.

Cinema Rules: Every director has one good war film in them Stanley Kubrick: Hold my beer Paths of Glory, Dr Strangelove, Barron Lyndon, Full Metal Jacket.

What a great response to an Oscar winning film. Platoon is a great film. You guys did it justice.

15:34 that sudden cut to the dude yelling ‘FUCK IT ILL WALK’ has hade me crying laughing for 15 minutes

1950 was an epic battle: "All about Eve" vs. "Sunset Blvd." I love them both, but I think the latter is the bigger masterpiece.

Saw this one back in the day as a teenager at the movies. Whole class went to see it. Nobody spoke or could move when the credits roled.

The first time I saw this movie was in my 6th form history class. We were doing a module on the Vietnam war and our teacher decided that watching this was a great idea. I honestly think he would be fired if he tried that now, it might upset the kiddies. Our history teacher was awesome though, he told us loads of storys of his visit to Vietnam and nearly getting stuck in a tunnel because he was too big, and the rest of his adventures in the commuist countries he toured when he was younger. We also got to see Glory (absolutley brilliant movie, highly reccomend that one) even though we wern't studying the american civil war, I think the teacher wanted to see it so he got the whole class to go to the movies.

Platoon was Oliver Stone best work. Verry personal film, because this was based on Stone's experience from the vietnam war.

For your consideration: All about Eve, On the Waterfront, In the Heat of the Night, Midnight Cowboy, The Godfather, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Schindler's List, American Beauty .. thanks guys, love watching your channel!

"Just keep yo peckah' hard, and your powder dry...and the world will turn." Words I've loved for thirty years now.

I am a former Taxi driver living in California. In recent years, one of my passengers was an ex-Veteran of Vietnam. He disclosed that he was dispatched to do "body counts" in areas that had been cleared by U.S. Marines or Army soldiers. He also said that he observed entire villages which had been leveled by U.S. troops, and that women and children were the victims of those military sweeps!

Platoon is based on Oliver Stone's own Vietnam War experiences and it shows.

Your reactions and reviews keep being very enjoyable to watch. I like your themed approach too to selecting movies. Mind you, the Academy is known for regularly missing movies that became classics and instead honoring movies no one remembers today but I'm sure I will enjoy your picks.

I highly recommend parasite as it's an amazing film and also the first ever foreign film that won the best picture Oscar so it will be historic for the Oscar's

From someone who was born in 74 and grew up on the films of the 70’s and 80’s and regards it as a classic era in cinema, I’m loving these reviews 👍🏻

Some fun facts bout this movie, Defoe is holding the remote in his left hand to set off his own squibs for his death run, Also if u go back to the scene after Taylor kills Barnes, when the solider fine him, notice he was holding a grenade in his hand and he drops it as soon as they approach, on the commentary track for the DVD, Stone said that Taylor would had killed himself at that moment if they hadn't found him

If you guys want another couple of war films, I really recommend We Were Soldiers and The Siege of Firebase Gloria, both super underrated Vietnam films.

Five time Academy Award winning film. The Deer Hunter: great movie recommendation. Three small town friends going to Vietnam together. Next level acting, starring Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken & John Savage. You won't be disappointed.

Did you guys notice young Johnny Depp being one of the soldiers? He didn’t have a big role but he was there!😄

this has quite literally become my favourite RU-vid channel

The best Vietnam War movie ever. Many of the actors were superbly portrayed: O'Neal, Bunny, Junior, King, and especially Barnes.

Great reaction and nice comment about that shot of the beautiful deer, contrasting that with war and humankind. Fantastic.

Love Willem Defoe in this! He’s also in Boondocks Saints... another great movie you should react to please 😊 Also Saving Private Ryan. That ones based on the true story of a woman who had 4 sons that went to war and when 3 of them died, they sent a unit to save the last surviving brother. Such a good movie

Great film. My favorite character was King. I love the exchange at the end before King gets out: Chris Taylor: It's the way the whole thing works, people like Elias get wasted, people like Barnes just go on making up the rules any way they want. So what do we do? Sit in the middle and suck on it. We just don't add up to dry shit, King. King: Whoever said we did, man? All you got to do is make it out of here. It's all gravy, everyday the rest of your life, gravy.

Great reaction guys, this film showcases not only the horrors of war but how one's innocence and moral compass can easily change through war, excellent discussion & a fair summary & rating of the movie. Did you notice Tony Candyman Todd in a small role? What is strange is Ocean Software actually made a computer game in the 80s because i owned it on my ZX Spectrum +2. A bit weird producing a game that feals with psychological warfare.

I used to watch Platoon a lot when I was a teenager. I actually had a crush on Elias and hated watching it after he died. When he dies that is the end of the movie for me. 🥺😭

It disturbs me that so few people seem to understand that you, me, any of us, if we experience enough mental strain, fear, horror, physical exhaustion, anger at seeing your friends maimed and killed, frustration at never being able to find the enemy that keeps bleeding you relentlessly-at some point Everyone is susceptible to the temptation to lash out and be the monster. Under the right circumstances most all of us are capable of just about anything. We delude and lie to ourselves if we believe otherwise.

Great vidoes !! Keep up the content !!

The village scene was based on the My Lai massacre. The villagers had it the worst because they got it from the Americans and the Viet Cong.

great review. I'm glad you didn't blame Americans for the way people are treated, but instead you blamed war itself.

Many Vietnam veterans have said when they watched it they could feel that heat and pain of it all over again. This and Casualties of War starring Michael J Fox, he is amazing in his role. P.s look up a Vietnam veteran called Roy Benevedas his story from his first tour is crazy enough but what he did 2nd time inspired two movies one is Rambo and the other is Forrest Gump. He got the Purple heart for what he did. An absolute legend, hero and absolute warrior.

The Americans became the very thing they said they were fighting against and this film shows it.

Luv this film which was shot in the Philippines. although the country that time was politically unstable, they pursued to have the film on location as double to Vietnam. There was also a brewing war at that time in the Philippines. Happy to see the young Johnny Depp there :)

Interesting thing about the filming of Platoon, they filmed it in the Philippines though it was almost cancelled because there was a revolution happening right before they started. I believe they mention this in the commentary.

Beautiful movie , great vídeo ! Congrats from Brazil 👏.

Tom (spreading arms like Willem Dafoe): "I think I've seen that scene somewhere before..." Yes Tom it's literally the cover! (lol)

My fav war movie of all time..this captures the true horror of war...alot of war films have alot of melodrama but this film doesn't do that which is why it's fantastic

This film has such great cinematography. One of my favorite shots is towards the beginning when the camera is filming the shafts of light breaking through the trees. In the end Private Chris Taylor has the look of the one soldier that he locked eyes with at the beginning. He's now become world-weary from his experiences in combat. The tag line for this film was "The first casualty of war is innocence." This is both a brilliant film and a great analysis & review.

It was made for only 8 million. The actors also acted as film crew, carrying equipment ect, to keep it rolling. Filmed in under 60 days.

Charlie Sheen's character's VOs are not supposed to be just internal exposition. Some of them are narrations of what he was writing to his grandmother. Of course, they can't ALL be. Some of them would've been clipped by the censor board for containing sensitive information.

Bonus to the filmaholics who peeped the director (oliver stone )himself in a cameo in platoon as the staff sag.i think not sure his actual rank but he was the one who is the bunker on the sat phone that was blown up by the kamkazi vietcong soldier.

A really cool project! Maybe you should pick one from a different decade each week. I'd wait on the Deer Hunter as that's another Vietnam movie (though very different from Platoon) until some time has passed. Kind of curious of your take on Gandhi, Ordinary People, Midnight Cowboy, Casablanca, On the Waterfront, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Apartment...

This film provides a very necessary contrast to the lighthearted depictions of the Vietnam war, like "Good Morning, Vietnam!" and the flower-children flicks, like "The Doors," "Hair," and so-on. There were very real choices to be made, between conscription and enlistment, and the consequences of going to war, versus becoming a fugitive for refusing to do so. War isn't pretty or valiant, and the young men who were drafted to fight were quite screwed-up; PTSD is a terrible consequence, that affected a lot of guys back then.

The Vietnamese villagers were actually tourists whom Stone chanced upon in the Philippines. Their families had fled Vietnam after the end of the war in 1975 so they were no professional actors and yet they portrayed Vietnamese villagers who hated the Americans. Damn, that is some of the best acting.

I didn't know Johnny Depp was in this movie. Such a baby face!

Love this BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER reaction idea!!!!!!! I am so ready.

My offensive line coach back in high school was an old school Italian in his 60s. On his left arm he had an eagles head tattoo with the phrase "Nam 65-66" underneath it. On his right arm he had an old English USMC tattoo with the phrase "Nam 67-68" underneath it. To this day it still boggles my mind how he made it out alive.

The Deer Hunter: great movie recommendation. Three small town friends going to Vietnam together. Next level acting, starring Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken & John Savage. You won't be disappointed.

Worth tracking down Scorsese’s The Big Shave and of course Taxi Driver. Rumour has always been that both Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver and the nihilism of The Big Shave were inspired by his and Paul Schrader’s interactions with Oliver Stone at film school - which he attended with his GI Bill after getting out of Vietnam after volunteering.

Feels this list is going to be epic! I myself is watching movies from IMDB:s top 100 list that I have missed and you get so many styles and genres that you never would watch otherwise 🙂

The Mi Lai seen is so disturbing. I'm not usually a Stone fan, but this film is amazing.

Great reaction guys.

The last battle was based off of a real battle Oliver Stone was in called the New Years Eve Battle of 1968... for years he thought he dreamed up this battle, that it never happened, because no one ever talked about it because around the same time the Tet Offensive was occurring. It wasn't until years later when he ran across a fellow soldier did they inform him that the battle did indeed occur.

This is one of the most realistic depictions of what american serviceman endured over there

In case no one has mentioned it, the music you're referring to is Barber's Adagio for Strings op. 11. Very famous piece. Actually, I believe it was featured in a film you recently-watched, The Elephant Man. Sorry, I'm THAT nerd:)

This and apocalypse now are my favorite War/Vietnam films

At 19:01, be sure to note that Chris was about to pull the pin on a grenade.

The Charley Sheen character is based on Oliver Stone's, the director of the film, experience in Vietnam.

With any war will come atrocities as seen in Platoon. And when the War itself is an atrocity, war-crimes become par for the course. Some think these are isolated incidents. But the truth is far more horrific.

One of the best war movies ever made and great review from you guys.

Great reactions guys, I haven't watched this in years, but I think it's one of those movies that doesn't require repeat viewing cause it's so harrowing to the point you know certain images with the movie will stays with you. Personally I preferred the other war movie, The Thin Red Line cause the cinematography is simply sublime.👍

I wish I could smoke some weed with Willem Dafoe

Saw this when I was about 14. Really got to me. So much so, I've not seen it again since. That was 33 years ago!

You guys gotta watch Das Boot (1981)! The best war movie ever made.

Hard to believe that a few years before this was filmed Charlie was a child in The Philippines while Martin was filming Apocalypse Now. Now that is one you have to review!

Fun. Great reaction. By the way, the nominees for best picture are equally as good. Just an idea for a future theme.

Q: How many Vietnam vets does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: How would you know? You weren't there man!

Great choice of film and reaction guys. Well done. I pray that one of you has chosen "12 Angry Men" (1957). A magnificent film and one of the best ever made (IMO).

R.I.P. Francesco Quinn (1963-2011)

This American was rooting for "A Room with a View" at the Oscars that year.

My recommended war film is Paths of Glory by Stanley Kubrick. As far as I'm concerned, it's the best war film of all time. Brilliant direction.