Platoon/YMMV
< Platoon
- Alternative Character Interpretation: It can be argued that Barnes did care for the men in his command, but used extreme tactics to do so. All he wanted was for them all to survive, and to hell with anybody else.
- Anvilicious: It's still a very good film.
- Could be listed under Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped.
- Awesome Music: Adagio for Strings, used during and after the more intense moments in the film.
- Complete Monster: Bunny, who is a sadistic little psychopath. He beats a crippled Vietnamese boy to death just for fun, and does the same to the victim's elderly mother. Then he leads the gang-rape of a young girl in the bushes (which is interrupted by Chris).
- In the original script, Bunny did things like urinating on a dying Vietnamese baby.
- Moment of Awesome: Sgt. Elias Grodin's death, depicted on the cover and satirized many times since due to its memorable awesomeness.
- Moral Event Horizon: The village scene, to the point of Nightmare Fuel.
- Particularly for Barnes, who shoots the village chief's unarmed wife and almost kills his child, and Bunny, who beats a mentally handicapped boy to death, despite orders to leave, and then does the same to the boy's mother. The rest of the platoon also cross it, since they shoot the village animals for fun and, led by Bunny, gang-rape a teenage girl in the bushes outside. The only ones who come out of this scene with audience sympathies entirely intact are Elias and Chris.
- Tear Jerker