Movie "Platoon" Part II

Okie... i know i am lame... posting so many post about the same thing...

But it's interesting... and i am talking about the 1986 (more than 21 years ago) movie "platoon".

Found some more interesting pictures and "quotes" from websites...

Above: Quite a nice scene of a machine gunner watching a huey chopper coming in with ammo supplies on a knoll.

Above: Another nice scene, whereby they are going out on a patrol to an ambush site, with the lighting striking in the back ground. In the SAF exercies, it's Cat 1 and all troops will be under some shelter...

Above: Awesome view of the sun setting, while Chris Taylor having a smoke break from latrine duties. Taking out the shit buckets and setting fires to them... A super nice scene...

Above: One of the saddest part of the movie. Sarge Elias was shot by his own people (SGT Barnes), and left to be hunted by the NVA (North Vietnamese Soldiers), while the rest are watching helpless from the choppers.

Above: Sgt Barnes, with full fury in his eyes as he was about to club Taylor.

Above: And Taylor, at the mercy of Sgt Barnes as he was about to be clubbed.

And the "quotes"

Junior: "Hey, white boy. What you waiting for? That hole ain't going to dig itself."
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Barnes: "Yo. Saddle up. Lock and load."
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Taylor: "I figured why should just the poor kids go off to war and the rich kids always get away with it."

King: "Oh, I see. What we got here is a crusader."
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Captain: "And I can promise you something. If I find out there was an illegal killing, there will be a Court Martial. Right now I need every man in the field."
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Wolfe: "Hey, don't worry about it, Sergeant. Elias won't be able to prove a thing. He's a troublemaker. Elias is..."

Barnes: "Elias is a water walker, like them politicians in Washington trying to fight this war with one hand tied around their balls."
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Taylor: "Well, Elias is still out there, Sarge."

Barnes: "Taylor, I'll get him. You get Crawford in now before you Article Fifteen both your asses."
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Rhah: "Barnes been shot seven time and he ain't dead. Does that mean anything to you, huh? Barnes ain't meant to die." (87K)
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Taylor: "They sent us back into the valley the next day, about two thousand meters from Cambodia, into a battalion perimeter. It felt like we were returning to the scene of a crime."
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Taylor: "Somewhere out there was the entire a Hundred and Forty First NVA Regiment"
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Captain: "Where are you going to pull back to? They're all over the perimeter. Now you be advised, you will hold in place and you will fight. That means you, Lieutenant. Bravo Six out."
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Taylor: "I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy, we fought ourselves and the enemy was in us."

Movie: "Platoon"

I finally got something that i had been looking for a long long time...

A super long time!!!

I got the movie, "Platoon", starring Charlie Sheen!!!

Oh yeah!!!

First time i watched this movie is at Ngee Ann Polytechnic library, when i was a student there, where i used my breaks in between to watch movies.




And i watched it last night. And as per normal, the thoughts of the lead, Chris Taylor came floating back in my mind... It's so applicable to all of us nowadays.



A review of that show can be found here...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platoon_(film)
The pictures are all from wikipedia website.

I still remember what Taylor had thought of when leaving the final battlefield...

"I think now, looking back...

We did not fight the enemy. We fought ourselves...

And the enemy was in us.

The war is over for me now, but it will always be there for the rest of my days..."

To those readers whose are having internal conflicts, anywhere, bear in mind that you all are supposed to work towards a common goal, and not to have internal conflicts. You can only progress if you all work together, and scare your enemy off for good.

The Secret

================================================
Short talk:

1) Yesterday (20/08/2007) was the 8th anniversary of me enlisting into NS. I went was enlist 8 years ago. How time flies....

2) Enountered another RTA at BP. Single casualty, not serious. This is my 18th RTA that i had helped out. Learnt something new about the SCDF vehicles also...
=================================================

Went for a early movie. The secret, starring and directed by Jay Chou.

I was stunned. Very shocked.

For someone who starring in a movie for the second time, and directing a movie for the first time, the whole show is fantestic. Much better beyond my expectations.

Jay is totally suitable for that character. A new student, fantestic guy on the piano, who met and fell in love with a gal who has a secret.

The plot is good. Storyline is good. And there are 2 best scenes, one during the piano battle and the other is at the end.

At the end of the movie, there's a few questions hanging above my head. There's a few unanswered questions.

I kept thinking the whole night, and finally, this morning as i woke up, i realised the answer to some of them.

It's like when you wake up to a brand new day, it's like entering into something new. Just like in the movie. And of course, the answer comes naturally to you.

A show that is worth watching.

NDP celebrations (Part III, The post celebration)

After NDP, i went for a movie with Viper, AF and CS.

The movie which i wanted to watch. Badly.

The Bourne Ultimatum.


The movie was cool, but it's kinda too predictable, but overall, Jason Bourne as per normal, did what he knows best.


But one thing that bothers me. In that show, Jason Bourne was seen travelling around and around... To different countries. By air, sea and land. How he got money for all his expense?? He's ain't working right?

But as the story goes, it just keeps getting better.

2 movies again

Watched 2 movies since the last time i blogged about the movies.

1) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

This is the very first Harry Potter show that i am watching, and seeing all the people going absoluting bonkers over Harry Potter movies, books, i was expecting something great in the movie. Great graphic, great story, great cast, great fighting scene.

Alas. To be very frank, i am disappointed with the show. Very limiting fighting scene, the graphics are so-so, there's not much humor.
Hmmm... first Harry Potter movie i watched and it turns out to be that way....

2) Who slept with her.

Went to AMK hub to watch it with AP. It's a Korean movie, and like the typical Korean movie, it's bustling with humor, but unlike the typical Korean movie, there are no touching scenes, the ones that can make you cry.

Basically, you just go in and laugh your head off. And i do pity that discipline headmaster. Such a poor fellow, but then, he does deserve it.

And his (discipline headmaster) way of punishing and interrogating the students can put the CIA, KGB and even the Japanese Secret Police during the Second World War to shame.

Imagine if those kind of punishments comes to Singapore Education System. It will cause an uproar over the parents.

Live free or die hard

Enjoy yet another movie, "live free or die hard" by Bruce Willis.

Another action film by Bruce Willis, who plays the character, John Mclane. It has been a long time since he came out with die hard 1, 2.

And if are expecting some changes in the movie coz of the age of Bruce Willis, you couldn't be more wrong. This movie is a action-packed almost from the beginning to the end.


And besides the actions, there's also the few funny parts of the film, mostly the dialogues between John Mclane and the villians, and his daughter.


Sure to enjoy the movie. Worth the money.

One of the best part of the movie (besides the fighter jet scene)

Damm solid!! Good movie!!