Platoon

In right upper corner, when they are "emptying the shitter.

" Visible above King's head when he lights his cigarette.

Sgt.

Barnes' T-shirt when confronted by Chris at the end.

Set in 1967, features Bunny listening to 'Merle Haggard' (qv)'s "Okie from Muskogee," not released until 1969.

Taylor arrives in Vietnam wearing the unit insignia of the 25th Infantry Division.

Low-ranking enlisted infantry replacements did not arrive in Vietnam with unit assignments, or insignia, but were assigned to line units as required.

When the platoon finds the bunker complex, the Lieutenant sends Taylor and Washington out to guard the flank.

Washington has a pack of Marlboros stuck in his helmet.

Once he reaches his position, it is a pack of Kools in his helmet.

The "drug den" uses miniature Christmas lights.

They only had 7-watt c-7 Christmas lights in 1968.

When the men are wrestling through the foliage in a rainstorm near the beginning, the rain sounds like it has an echo, as if it were inside a stage.

At the bunker complex, Sergeant Elias goes into the tunnels.

In one shot he goes through some water, but in the following shots he is dry.

The position of the bandoliers worn by King in the goodbye scene with Chris just before the climactic battle.

When the booby trapped device (box with Vietcong maps) in the bunker explodes, it rips off the arms of one of the soldiers.

When he stumbles out of the bunker and dies, his hands are clearly visible hanging out under his T-shirt.

Staff Sergeant Barnes and Sergeant Elias both carry Cold Steel brand knives, which were not manufactured until the 1980s.

After the last battle Chris has obvious injuries to the face and arms, skin burns etc.

As he is stretchered out, his face and arms no longer have the blackened marks In the last battle, as well as in the patrol in the very beginning, Captain Harris was seen wearing the nylon Y-shaped suspenders, which was not issued until the 1970s.

In the third battle (Ambushed by VC), the machine gunner (Morehouse) was hit spot on by an artillery shell from friendly fire and was shattered into pieces by the explosion.

When the troops evacuated, his quite complete body, although charred, was the first one taken out.

During the last battle, Sergeant O'Neill hides behind a dead body.

As he pulls the body over him, the body's eyes are closed but when we see O'Neill peeking out, the eyes are open.

The position of Barnes' dead body after the tank approaches.

Exploding pack under Barnes' T-shirt when Taylor shoots him.

When the soldiers are celebrating in the tent early in the film, they are drinking Budweiser from two-piece stay-tab cans with UPC symbols.

Container companies introduced the two-piece can in 1974, the stay-tab in 1975 and the UPC symbol in 1978.

Budweiser introduced the can style used in the movie in 1981.

Staff Sergeant Barnes and Sergeant Elias use the Colt Model 653 which was not available until 1973.

When leaving the burning village, SSG.

Barnes' left eye is black.

When he and Sgt.

Elias return to base camp and have a discussion with the Captain, Barnes' right eye is black.

We see a view from the helicopter of Elias running as he gets shot by the Vietcong, and during this shot he raises his arms up, but when it goes to a close up shot of him, his arms are suddenly down and then raised up as he dies.

After the first firefight, the blood "M" the medic puts on Private Gardner's forehead disappears.

During the scene when Bunny beats the villager to death with his shotgun, Seargent O'Neill's cigarette varies from long to short each time it cuts back to him.

When Bunny is in the tent talking to Junior, he opens his beer can with a "church key" (can opener).

But when Lieutenant Wolfe walks in and Bunny bites a piece out of the can, it has a pop-top and shows no sign of having been opened with a "church key".

The length on the soldier's cigar when they are in the bunker looking at the Viet Cong maps, right before the booby trap blows.

As Chris is firing at the villagers feet in the hut, no fired shell casings are being ejected from the rifle although we hear it firing.

While the troop are in the VC village, interrogating the villagers, searching for weapons, etc; it is obvious that their rifle bayonets are rubber.

When the M60 machine gun is being fired the rounds on the ammo belt are clearly blanks; the ends of the cartridges are crimped and there are no bullets.

In the attack on the camp, we see two NVA/VC soldiers acting as suicide bombers (one falls and explodes, the other makes it into the communication bunker before blowing up).

In the script, these two men are identified as sappers.

NVA and VC Sappers were specially trained combat engineers/reconnaissance commandos who used stealth to infiltrate a camp's defenses and take out strategic targets, such as barbed wire obstacles or bunkers, with explosives before the main attack.

Although there were indeed reports of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops using suicide bombers during the war, sappers were never used as suicide bombers because they were considered too valuable to expend.

After the final battle Francis stabs himself in the right leg.

He has a bandage on his left leg when seen on the evacuation helicopter.

The uniformed VC/NVA troops are often depicted wearing steel helmets; steel helmets were only worn by NVA anti-aircraft troops protecting base camps in Cambodia, Laos, and North Vietnam.

The VC/NVA troops ought to be wearing either floppy "boonie-hats" or the standard NVA sun helmet.

Even if the body of Elias was recovered and it was discovered he had been shot with 5.

56mm ammunition it still wouldn't prove he was shot by an American soldier, as North Vietnamese soldiers often used captured American weapons in battle.

At one point, a character is warned not to drink from a river because he might get malaria.

While drinking the water could cause any number of diseases, malaria is not one of them, as it can only be transmitted by insect bite.

The characters in the movie are in the Army, but on the cover, the dog tags that make up the two "O"s in Platoon read USMC.

In the opening credits, the military technical advisor Captain Dale Dye is mistakenly credited as belonging to the US Marine "Corp.

" instead of "Corps".

The "US Marine Corps" is a military organization, not a corporation.

The day after Sergeant Barnes cuts Private Taylor under his eye during the tent scene, neither a cut or scar is visible.

When Sandy and Sal are investigating the bunker they come across a reused ammo-box filled with maps.

The map shown is actually of the British Isles with Ireland, most of England and northern France plainly visible.

A local VC/NVA unit would have no interest in detailed maps of Europe.

During Bunny's last stand he is seen carrying his shotgun, but in the next shot he is carrying an M16 just before he's shot.

Both SSG Barnes and SGT Elias are seen carrying M16A2 rifles (round hand grips and collapsible stocks).

These rifles were not available until the early 1980s In the scene where the men are playing cards, one of the men is looking at a Playboy from March 1971, despite the film taking place in 1967.

When Sal and Sanderson are examining the ammo box, Sal's cigar is short, than long, then short again.

Directed by Oliver Stone. Starring Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, John C.

To be quite honest, the first time I saw Oliver Stone's "Platoon" I was disappointed. Perhaps it was the fact that the presence of Charlie Sheen in the lead role invited comparison to "Apocalypse Now", starring his dad.

The best and most accurate movie made about the Vietnam War before the Tet Offensive of 1967-68. SHOT IN THE PHILIPPINES IN 1986?

Finally caught this on cable, and it lived up to the hype. Masterpiece.

Who are the losers that sit around watching these movies 17,000 to catch these so called goofs? Many aren't goofs.

Simply a fantastic film! I have developed a hatred for director Oliver Stone, largely due to rubbish like Natural Born Killers, but I am glad I gave him a second chance.

Ok guys, if you are lucky enough to be watching this masterpiece for the first time. It most certainly exceeds it's 8.

It was one of the best anti-war films I've ever seen.

As a pacifist, I don't find myself watching a war movie too often. That being said, I found Platoon, the 1986 Best Picture winner written and directed by Oliver Stone to be an engaging film.