Platoon (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo)

Platoon (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo) by MGM (Video & DVD)

Platoon put writer-turned-director Oliver Stone on the Hollywood map; it's nonetheless his most acclaimed and efficient film, most probably as a result of it's according to Stone's firsthand expertise as an American soldier in Vietnam. Chris (Charlie Sheen) is an infantryman whose loyalty is examined by using two superior officers: Sergeant Elias (Willem Dafoe), a former helloppie humanist who actually cares about his men (this was once a couple of yrs sooner than he performed Jesus in Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ), and Sergeant Barnes (Tom Berenger), a moody, macho soldier who may have long past over to the dark side. The personalities of the two sergeants correspond to their fight medication of choice--pot for Elias and booze for Barnes. Stone has grow to be identified for hellos sledgehammer visual model, however in this film it seems completely acceptable. His violent and disorienting pictures have a terrifying immediacy, a you-are-there quality that supplys you a sense of how things will have felt to an infantryman in the jungles of Vietnam. Platoon received Oscars for best picture and director.. Read more Platoon (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo)

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Winner* of 4 Academy Awards®, together with Best Picture, and in conserving with the first-hand expertise of Oscar®-winning director Oliver Stone, Platoon is highly effective, intense and starkly brutal. "Harrowingly reasonable and fully convincing" (Leonard Maltin), it's "a darkish, unforgettable memorial" (The Washington Post) to each soldier whose innocence was lost in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam. Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is a younger, naive American who, upon hellos arrival in Vietnam, speedy discovers that he should do fight no longer simplest with the Viet Cong, but also with the gnawing concern, physical exhaustion and intense anger growing inside hellom. While his two commanding officers (Oscar®-nominated Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe) draw a nice line between the conflict they wage against the enemy and the one they battle with each and every other, the battle, chaos and hatred permeate Taylor, suffocating hellos realities and numbing hellos feelings to man's perfect worth lifestyles.

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