I have to admit, I'm not much of an Oliver Stone admirer - I think he overblows everything with so much style that the story gets lost sometime. However, to say that Platoon is a glorification of violence? This is probably, I think, the one movie that Stone did the best job with, in terms of showing violence and how horrible it really is to people who have found themselves in it, and unable to control it. It's extremely anti-war, showing how war can change people to the extent that they can do bloody, sadistic, even cowardly things they would not otherwise have been capable of. And except for Berenger and Dafoe, none of the characters are ALL good, or ALL bad (though Bunny comes pretty close, although he has that killer quote about the Indy 500...). Most war movies have the good guys in the platoon, and the bad ones, and they're very clearly marked from the beginning - they weren't here. Maybe I'm prejudiced about the effect of this movie - but try watching it with a Vietnam Vet sometime, and see if they think it makes Vietnam look glorious. No way - my husband says that it's one of the most accurate depictions he's seen of the war, but he still can't watch it all the way through. As far as great anti-war movies, though, also add The Big Red One, which is just terrific and the role of Lee Marvin's life; and for a great war movie altogether, A Walk in the Sun, which just follows a platoon on patrol in WWII (and from which I think Oliver Stone might have gotten some of his plot...) *************************************************************** Sally G. Waters, Queen of Reference / "Dignity. ([log in to unmask]) / Always dignity." Stetson Univ. College of Law Library / 1401 61st St. S. / --Don Lockwood St. Petersburg, FL 33707 /