Apocalypse Now vs Platoon!

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   yeah.. slam dunk here...  funny for both touch upon the same themes as the two did in the current poll. A noisy gloriously loud vivid technicolor display of the Insanity of war (and set to Wagner haha) -  upon the destruction of one's youth and innocence on the indivdual and personal level.

Apocalypse Now by a light year in this one...  but only by a hair against Deer Hunter..

Poll Question: Apocalypse Now vs Platoon.
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Apocalypse Now!	16	[76.19%]
Platoon.	2	[9.52%]
Both.	3	[14.29%]
Neither.	0	[0.00%]
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micky Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 02 2005 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 46838	Posted: April 30 2017 at 06:06
	yeah.. slam dunk here... funny for both touch upon the same themes as the two did in the current poll. A noisy gloriously loud vivid technicolor display of the Insanity of war (and set to Wagner haha) - upon the destruction of one's youth and innocence on the indivdual and personal level. Apocalypse Now by a light year in this one... but only by a hair against Deer Hunter..

Machinemessiah Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: April 02 2005 Location: Santiago, Chile Status: Offline Points: 594	Posted: April 30 2017 at 11:00
	Both. I saw Platoon as a kid... came to see Apocalypse Now! in my early twenties. I like the more conventional, classic, epic, realistic, romantic portraiting of the Vietnam war in Platoon; it's like oneself had went there and lived the situations that very likely had to take place, seen through the eyes of the rookie Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen): an incompetent lieutenant, the divising factions in the platoon around two very opposite natural leaders: Elias and Barnes; having to make a decision in which to belong (with survival at stake). The music is sublime and, imho, captures marvelously the high drama of war, the sadness and meanness of ultimate treason... also, the great scene at the end, at the battlefield, when Taylor, hardened by his experience and stating his views, takes his resolution. Also it brings memories to me of when I used to see Tour of Duty on tv, with that echoing guitar at the end and the soldiers marching in the sunset... If I had to choose, it would almost be Platoon by a hair but I take both quite happily Edited by Machinemessiah - April 30 2017 at 11:01