I finally watched this, and liked it. I feel like the music theme was overused, but otherwise it was great. I need more Vietnam kino, discuss this or rec more
Platoon
I finally watched this, and liked it. I feel like the music theme was overused, but otherwise it was great. I need more Vietnam kino, discuss this or rec more
Reminder that Barnes was right about everything
No he wasnt. Shooting the old lady was unnecessary
Barnes did nothing wrong, she was making a move, he had to get it on.
What did killing her solve other than creating dissension among the platoon
One less asiatic.
theres no win other than saving your soul, charlie sheen was right, it's hell. So let the lady go, sleep at night. Elias knew this.
Sounds like a bunch of homosexual hippie commie pacifist bullshit. Kill em all and let god sort em out.
Sounds like you would rather serve a ZOG
The problem with todays military doctrine is no one wages total war anymore. Its how Rome built its empire. An enemy can only be defeated if they either accept defeat or are totally destroyed.
Taylor and Elias were stoner homosexuals. Barnes is reality, therefore he’s right.
Barnes was self deluded and in a constant state of justifying his sins
You’re missing the point. To win wars like vietnam, you need people like Barnes.
Vietnam was never winnable though, it was literally set up to fail, the Gulf of Tonkin was admitted by the US government to be a psyop
Yes and Barnes knew this. His idea of winning was keeping his men alive. Probably the best example of this is when Ace, the radio guy gets impaled by some shrapnel and Barnes rushes to help him instead of waiting for a medic. He burns his own hand in order to save his fellow soldier.
>inb4 muh ELIAAAAAAAAAS
Elias was a bad influence on the platoon with his hippie shit. He might’ve been a good soldier but he didn’t belong in nam, even he admitted he didn’t believe in what he was doing. Barnes was doing the Platoon a favor.
> Vietnam was never winnable though
Yes it was, the NVA never recovered from the terrible offensive.
> it was literally set up to fail, the Gulf of Tonkin was admitted by the US government to be a psyop
moronic line of reasoning
Elias is reddit.
If they admit, theyre VC, if they deny, theyre very well disciplined VC.
You want some pie?
>Old lady
She was vc
Barnes and bunny were the only people not terribly miscast.
> not terribly miscast
Tom Berenger was kino as frick in Platoon. No one could ever top his performance as Sgt. Barnes.
I thought the bootcamp scenes were very good, but the Vietnam scenes felt very bland and did not give a good sense of what warfare actually looks like.
Highly overrated film.
Wait, I'm moronic, that's Full Metal Jacket.
Platoon is a much better movie than FMJ.
Helps that I haven't seen either in a decade
Rewatch Platoon anon. The more you rewatch it the more you appreciate it.
FMJ is reddit tier
Most plebbit post of the day. Nice work
>bootcamp scene
>platoon
Check out deer hunter if u havent seen it. Super kino
no it isn’t it has a wedding scene that takes up half of the movies run time and accomplishes nothing
stfu schizo
Fair enough, but the vietnam part of themovie is good
Nope, it’s shit.
Hamburger Hill is a poor man's Platoon but it's pretty good. Siege of Firebase Gloria is a good low budget Vietnam movie with R Lee Ermey.
It's a Masonic film. The symbolism is very overt.
Post one example of this. I will wait.
> Verification not required.
Ok, I will provide you with a single example.
Ending scene, at around 1:40, the character Rhah(Ra) is seen raising his staff towards Charlie Sheen's character.
what exactly does this prove? genuinely asking because i don’t know what that egyptian looking thing is….
It's allegedly an ancient Egyptian deity named Ra.
this is masonic…..how exactly??
According to Masonic lore: Ancient Egyptian symbolism came into freemasonry through Hermetica. Hermes Trismegistus was a powerful magician linked to the two figures of Thoth and Hermes (himself linked with Anubis). Books written by Hermes Trismegistus continued to be read throughout the medieval period and into the Renaissance and beyond.
But what *exactly* does it symbolise
You have to familiarize yourself with the concept of analog thinking. The idea is that if two things are similar in one regard(here, appearance), then they are similar in more regards.
Anon but what is Rah supposed to symbolise…
The character in the movie, Rhah, is linked to the Egyptian God Ra. I don't know if there is any specific significance to this, but taken together with other symbolism present in the movie, it becomes a kind of mystical allegory, probably related to some masonic ritual of personal transformation.
Are there any other characters with masonic names?
The name Elias(Willem Dafoe in the movie) is from the old Testament. Johnny Depp's character is called Gator Lerner, and Gator could be shorthand for Alligator, maybe referencing the Egyptian God Sobek, with a Crocodile's head. The movie is choke-full of occult/masonic symbolism, and I didn't make it, nor do I really know a lot of the specifics of those practices, so I can't tell you what exactly it means, or if it even has any other purpose than to link the characters with mythology.
Damn. Wish there was a complete list of all the masonic symbols in the movie
How is this Masonic in any way?
The staffs used in freemasonry are never held in this way or used like this.
>t.mason
>I figured why should just the poor kids go off to war and the rich kids always get away with it.
Frick off Stone you fricking hack
It was preachy but the point was that Taylor was in over his head, I think you missed the point. Taylor was obviously wrong.
No one would ever volunteer for that reason. Comic book tier shit just like everything else that israelite has spewed out.
Everyone who was on Barnes' "side" died apart from O'Neill, whereas from team Elias, King, Rhah, Francis and Chris survived
Therefore Elias was better. Simple as.
> every soldier who was actually doing their job died or got injured
> the ones who were too busy smoking pot and slow dancing with each other lived
SHOCKING
Those guys lived, they won. You cannot refute this.
>doing their job
Junior literally died because he was a retreating pussy and ran into a tree lmao. This also got Bunny killed as he was distracted and lost the extra firepower
And Francis stabbed himself because he’s a little weak Black person who wanted out even though it was his duty to keep fighting. What’s your point?
Francis survived, debate over
>debate
Hi plebbit troony
no argument
Same poster here. Forgot to mention I’m trans
no argument
Reddit tier response
>reddit
>troony
Do you ever get bored typing this over and over? Legit question
Maybe go back to r/troony if you don't like it. homosexual.
So you're just a schizo then? You seem to know more about reddit than me, maybe you should go back?
quit your yapping and get off my board.
Reddit tier question
>characters die in a movie
And according to you who was “Team Barnes”?
if you say Junior unironically youre a homosexual
Junior "was" team Barnes to begin with, but then obviously was buck broken by the time the final battle begins
Name one scene where Barnes and Junior are seen together and acting friendly with one another. Name one scene where Junior is talking highly of Barnes.
Junior was a part of the rape squad, wasn't exactly friends with Barnes but chose to hang around with his crew
Except Barnes wasn’t part of the “rape squad” kek. Stop being disingenuous Black person
Go Tell the Spartans. Early Vietnam. US advisors. Bleak, but underrated and all but forgotten.
Undeniably better than Full Metal Jacket
Sergeant Barnes is undeniably the hero of this movie
Imagine fighting a war for asiatics them finding out the same israelites who were sponsoring the commies were in control of your own country the entire time.
Maybe ~~*Stone*~~ could've explored that more.
Hamburger Hill, which I think is actually one of the best Vietnam movies
9th Company is a better "anti-war" movie, IMO.
anon we don’t watch platoon because of its anti-war messaging, we watch because sergeant barnes is based…..
Not really. It would be good if it wasn’t so over the top and so ahistorical. But all Russian war movies are like that I suppose.
Berenger is so handsome in this movie
Damn it anon I thought I was the only one who thought this. Legit had to take a second and think back if i typed this.
no homosexual tho
Nope, also Mel Gibson in Mad Max is the only other time I thought to myself this guy is really good looking.
Impeccable taste anon. The first mad max is good but for me it’s road warrior.
I think the scars were supposed to have the opposite effect
The scars are the best part anon
>Whaddya say there, chiefaroni?
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Did he deserve it?
redneck noise