Old Man Orange

Spencer and Dave are starting up Oliver Stone's Vietnam War Trilogy, with the first film, Platoon from 1986. An all star cast with Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Keith David, Forest Whitaker, John McGinley, and Johnny Depp to name just a few of the young buck actors. The movie holds up like no other and is really the start of the modern war film look and feel. Once you start up this film, it's hard to press pause. Platoon's plot follows Chris Taylor, a young American volunteer who arrives in Vietnam and is quickly stripped of his idealism as he’s thrown into the brutal reality of jungle warfare. Serving in an infantry platoon, Chris finds himself caught between two opposing sergeants: the compassionate, weary Elias and the ruthless, hardened Barnes, whose moral clash mirrors the larger conflict tearing the platoon apart. As ambushes, patrols, and civilian encounters grow more violent and chaotic, the men become increasingly divided, and Chris is forced to confront the psychological tol