Getting ready to watch "Platoon" again.

[DemoTex]

Popcorn: check.

Wine: check.

Kleenex: check.

Mind-set: check.

Here we go, into the HoBo Woods ................

[lost-in-nj]

1. What is your major malfunction?????????

Great movie...
I think you have everything....


lost

[rockymountaindem]

2. Isn't that from Full Metal Jacket?

[DemoTex]

3. Wrong movie ...

That's the great "Full Metal Jacket." Great scene there, too. I had a guy in my basic training company (Ft. Polk 1968) blow his brains out at the rifle range. Back to the movie ..

[lost-in-nj]

8. Yup.....sorry..... but here is the best minute and a half

of this movie

it starts at 2 minutes in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytgTvbJQKK0


This is where I fell in love with Adiago for strings.....

omg... what a beautiful piece of music.....


lost

[datasuspect]

4. git sum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S06nIz4scvI

[DemoTex]

6. YP-13 inspired, Life Magazine April 1965 (Farley at the gun).

Larry Burroughs' greatest work.

[Twillig]

5. "..That and the Indy 500."

"You're hanging with Audie Murphy."

My favorite K. Dillon quotes. (remembered, not googled.)

[DemoTex]

12. Bunny ..

.

[driver8]

7. I met Oliver Stone at work...

I work at Warner Bros. Studios and we were doing some work on one of his Director's Cuts -- forgot which one, but I think it was that piece of shit "Alexander."

Anyhow, I was heading up the stairs and there was a guy standing there waiting to get in the door. (We have key card locks). I recognized him immediately, and I had just finished reading an interview that day with Oliver Stone about the making of Platoon. I mentioned the article to him and told him how much I loved the movie. He thanked me and we chatted for a few moments...I thought that was pretty cool.

[Inchworm]

9. Feeling good is good enough...

:smoke:

Good flick!

:hi:

[DemoTex]

10. Remember, "Platoon" is an Oliver Stone semi-autobiography.

And that area 30 miles NW of Saigon inspired other authors too. Larry Heinemann comes to mind (Paco's Story and Black Virgin Mountain). Back to the flick.

[CGowen]

11. The actors had to go to boot camp for 2 weeks in the Philippines and a civil war broke loose ,

as far as I remember. And with the sticky clothes right into the filming....

[Boojatta]

13. What about a Bible with a bookmark in Ecclesiastes?

And a Willem Dafoe action figure?

[DemoTex]

14. Just watched the drug scene, back at the base camp.

DaFoe "shotgunning." Heavy shit, even for Viet Nam. I have to take this film in short doses, it upsets me so.

[Aristus]

15. Still Oliver Stone's best film. I read a film magazine article recently

that claims "Platoon" has not stood the test of time, and no longer lives up to the acclaim it received upon release. I disagree. I have it on DVD, and still think it's a masterful film. I had the unsettling honor of seeing it for the first time back in 1986 with a Vietnam veteran. A really nice guy my Mom was dating at the time. I'd heard stories that the realistic depiction of jungle combat was causing veterans to fall to the floor and crawl out of the theater in a panic. Nothing that dramatic happened when he and I saw the movie. What did happen was more subtle, but very telling. Bill was a very nice, laid back, genial, talkative guy. On the drive home, after that mind-blowing final battle scene, he was silent. Completely quiet. Never said a word until he dropped me off at my house.

Still an amazing film. I appreciate the way Stone cast Willem Dafoe against type. Dafoe's Mephistophelian face usually got him cast as a bad guy, but as the Christ-like Elias, he simply shone. He was incredible.

Hi, Mac! :hi: Enjoy the movie! Well, not 'enjoy', but, you know...

[DemoTex]

16. Coming up for air again, Aristus.

Whew. I was there and this wrecks me. Back to it.
Mac

[Swede]

17. Love that movie.

YOU IGNORANT ASSHOLE! - What the fuck coordinates you giving!
You killed a bunch of people with that fucked up fire mission!
You know that?

[DemoTex]

18. Mean Motherfucker

Great actor. Back to the flick.