Platoon

The ‘80s were pretty much a grey smudge on history. Blown out hair, keyboard guitars, and cocaine binges ravaged the cultural landscape and led to more than a few weird experiments. Despite all of that, and probably thanks to cocaine, we got Oliver Stone’s Platoon in 1986. Platoon is the story of Charlie Sheen and his two dads in Vietnam. Willem Dafoe and Tom Berenger star as the two dads, his squad and platoon leaders, and polar opposites of the moral compass, and Sheen must decide to either keep his humanity or lose it to endure hell. Or maybe that’s just me. Platoon made a whopping $138 million from a $6 million budget and received critical acclaim and recently was selected for preservation in the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry. But does it hold up? (feels like a weird question after all that, right?) Listen in as Jon, Colin, and Brent debate if feeling good is good enough as we decide whether this one holds up or gets overrun.