Platoon

And to say you "have no idea how real" his take on Vietnam was in Platoon is obscenely dumb.

Oliver Stone's W Completes Casting, Starts Filming « FirstShowing.net 2008

If he did, then Stone's "Platoon" is a masterful continuation of this theme.

What are your favorite "Opposing Father Figures" movies and tv shows? trinfaneb 2009

Surname: Dafoe, American film actor who played the Oscar-nominated role of Sergeant Elias in "Platoon" and the controversial title role in "The Last Temptation of Christ".

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference 2008

I felt like Charlie Sheen in Platoon, discovering Vietnam for the first time.

Matthew Frankel: Today the Future Begins Matthew Frankel 2010

I felt like Charlie Sheen in Platoon, discovering Vietnam for the first time.

Matthew Frankel: Today the Future Begins Matthew Frankel 2010

I felt like Charlie Sheen in Platoon, discovering Vietnam for the first time.

Matthew Frankel: Today the Future Begins Matthew Frankel 2010

Smokey Robinson - Tracks of My Tears (in Platoon) #46 POSTED BY Greg, Oct 13th, 2008 3: 28 pm

Top 10 Uses of Pop Songs in Movies » Scene-Stealers 2008

Thoughtful, mature for their years, and astonishingly racially integrated, they bore little resemblance to the disgruntled draftees in Platoon or Apocalypse Now.

Daimnation!: How Saddam spent the war 2003

It's a less common occurrence in the supporting actor category, where 16 films have had multiple nominees -- none since 1986's "Platoon" -- though three films have boasted three nominees in the category: 1972's "The Godfather," 1974's "The Godfather: Part II" and 1954's

Variety.com 2009

Eighties Hollywood was still grappling with the Vietnam War — in Platoon (1986) and Full Metal Jacket (1987), among other films — but the rumpled liberal truth-seekers who raced, wide-eyed, through the thrillers of the ’70s were increasingly replaced by the likes of Tom Cruise dogfighting with Russians in Top Gun (1986) or Patrick Swayze leading his “wolverines” to victory against Soviet invaders in Red Dawn (1984).

The Return of the Paranoid Style 2008