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In the next decade or so "Apocalypse Now," "Platoon," "Full Metal Jacket," and "Born on the Fourth of July" all received nominations and awards from the Academy.

Yet as art this revisionist movie, grimly effective as some of it is, doesn't hold a candle to the remarkable cycle of pictures in the late seventies and the eighties which captured the discordant character of a tragic war—"The Deer Hunter," "Apocalypse Now," "Platoon," "Full Metal Jacket," and the rest.

The final script was developed to satirize Vietnam War films such as Apocalypse Now, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Hamburger Hill, and The Deer Hunter.

The late 1980s saw a spate of Vietnam War movies ("Platoon," "Full Metal Jacket," "Casualties of War") as filmmakers and the country began processing in earnest the consequences of that conflict.

James Christopher Monger of allmusic compared the music to other film's soundtracks such as Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, and Forrest Gump and called it "...a fun but slight listen that plays out like an old late-'70s K-Tel compilation with a few bonus cuts from the future".

Complaints vary from reinforcements consisting of a platoon full of drag queens to walking in on "Man-Love Thursdays," weekly gay-sex parties in the barracks where the freshest recruit is essentially dolled up to be the centerpiece of a gang bang.

The details illuminate an experience that had yet to be explored by movies such as Platoon, Hamburger Hill, Full Metal Jacket and the rest, of young boys smoking hash and listening to the Doors and watching Bob Hope cavort with Playboy bunnies in the countdown to their probable annihilation.

Which I'm not sure if you've ever seen the movies Platoon or Full Metal Jacket, but there was nothing peaceful about that situation.

Moreover, the surrounded Soviet forces were not destroyed, as some of the encircled troops escaped in groups ranging in size from platoons to full rifle divisions.

The war lasted from 1955 to 1975: The Deer Hunter appeared in 1978, Apocalypse Now in 1979, Platoon in 1986, Full Metal Jacket and Good Morning Vietnam in 1987, Born on the Fourth of July in 1989 and We Were Soldiers in 2002.

Only Lieutenants Fox and Sweeney in Five and Six Platoons had a full complement of officers and NCOs.