Countdown: Best Films of All-Time

25) In America

24) Platoon (1986)
Theme: War! What is it good for? Absolutely Nothing!
This is perhaps the best Oliver Stone film ever made (with JFK at a close second). Let’s face it, war is far from the censored news clips we see on TV on a nightly basis. In Platoon, we see soldiers fighting on foreign land over a war that no one truly understood. We see enemies from all sides of the spectrum. We see the abuse of power and man’s weaknesses when placed under tremendous pressure. War is an unstable environment where anything and everything happens with absolutely no purpose or reason. This film is the best Vietnam War movie every made.

Favorite Line:
“Somebody once wrote: ‘Hell is the impossibility of reason.’ That's what this place feels like. Hell.”
- Chris Taylor (played by Charlie Sheen)

Next Up: #23
Hint: Holland’s masterpiece