watching platoon
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cimorenehey! willem ass! although this movie's not looking so great otherwise. i am none too sure about war movies.
aw. he takes care of the men. in a... what's the word i want? he's so knowing, and charming and all-american. although wow, rather ugly, especially with that hair. they went out of their way to do that. although i supppose he has a face that can go either way. he said something like 'i have a perfect boy next door face if you live next door to a graveyard.'
charlie sheen's fucking HAIR. it's awful. ah, and here comes his voiceover. he's not such a great actor, is he? at least, not for voiceovers, but those are tough on anyone i suppose. (they were fabulous in the lord of the rings. and jeremy brett's was the next i sat up and listneed to. i suppose i've been spoiled.) (my sister: it's a bad sign when they show geckos climbing on statues. omg ewwwwww. bugs! bugbites! this is gross, man!)
AHAHAHAHAHAH they take him into this little voodoo hut filled with candles, sandbags and christmas lights and willem's half-naked lounging in a hammock in the corner and he FLUTTERS his hand. ahahahahahah. he does gay well. haha, charlie's never gotten high before! and willem's totally stoned. and now... he's aiming a gun at him. now he's cocked the gun and makes charlie suck the end and blows smoke out of his own mouth ghrough it. 'put your mouth on THIS!' while charlie's looking skeered. aww.
'simple. free your mind, your ass will follow.'
'ain't nothin like a piece of pussy. except maybe the indy five hundred.'
o'neill and the lieutenant are soooo gay. in a repulsive way. 'i'll ah... catch you men later? enjoy yourselves tonight!' he looks like he just stepped off the damn tennis court.
WHO is willem dancing with? like, ballroom dancing and singing. and smoking. and drinking budweiser. this movie is... weird. ahahah. 'then we walk through the jungle... like ghosts in a landscape.' mr. sheen sounds like joe, the little poetry-writing darling of my ib class. an odd mix of likeable and asshole who completely cut off communication with everyone sophomore year... ahh! willem again! what's that smoke?
please, please, willem, step away from the bandanna. oh. nice. he's creeping through shallow water in the dark, holding up a flashlight in one hand, a gun in the other--highlights his facial structure (i.e., skeleton. which is rather what he looks like, except more shaggable).
now willem's snuck into ... the hospital. (i was like, what's that hanging thing? it's a drip-bag of blood.) and someone's lying in a hammock dead with his bare chest covered in blood. the nurse or something? ooooh, nice big snake--charlie's having a minor freak out. no, he's suppressing like a man.
we're back with willem and he seems to be in a cave, examining it very carefully... oh! he shot somebody! there's an intruder. or there was one. SHIT, a bomb. willem jumps up... is it an ambush? and willem's the only one who realized it? oh, that wasn't a hospital, it was their... basecamp. or... away from base camp. it was a hut and a hole in the ground where they were keeping their injured. now they're on the phone. an explosion--they need help. move your ass! let's go! willem's grabbed the lieu. we need... reinforcements? this place is full of traps. which indeed it is.
now charlie and scarface are meeting one another's eyes in great sadness. scarface smokes, no big surprise there. and here's our pal o'neill. he's not the reinforcements i'd have picked. a lit cigarette on the forest floor. willem's on the trail of something. he keeps looking up to the sky in this intelligent way.
the end of the mystery, a thousand yards from the village, was... a guy tied to a tree with his throat cut? what mystery? oh, maybe he was tortured. yeah. into giving away the location of their base camp. hahah, for revenge they destroy the innocent village? how typical. i mean, of what i've heard of vietnam.
'yeah! you got him, sarge.' gag.
dude, these people, the villagers, don't speak english. and now this freak just shoots a pig for fun? they're chasing through the village poking through rice with their guns and herding the people out. are they hiding vietcong? there was a blind on the ground covered with grass--a woven one. and underneath a hole in the ground. no, just a storm cellar. innocent people hiding. but they stick them in a pig pen and shoot and... toss a GRENADE down? what the fuck is this? oh my god! there's a kid in there! was it in the hole? i think they are looking for cong. but there aren't any. they're all children and farmers--well, okay, the vc were guerrillas, so maybe any given village were working for them. i mean it wasn't impossible. but how do you say no when they're probably your third cousins on one side and second on the other? and they have guns?
they drag out an old lady and he says 'well, well. what have we here?'
now charlie is starting to lose it. he's dragged a crippled kid out of some kind of pig hutch on the floor and is beating him up, and he's all, 'why the fuck didn't you listen to me? what did you smile at? why didn't you come up? were you scared of me? you thought i was going to hurt you? i wasn't going to hurt you!' the guy's only got one leg and charlie's shooting at his feet to make him jump. what a stupid freak! don't they realize that these people don't speak english? now the other dude's like, 'sure you're sorry. you're crying your hearts out about our friends.' why should they even know about his friends?
OMG, the freaky guy beat the crippled kid's head in with the butt of his gun! the other dude's going to barf. did he shoot the old granny through the stomach? 'did you see that head break apart? i've never seen brains like that.' 'let's get outta here. you didn't see anything.' 'let's do this whole fucking village.'
ah, so they *were* stockpiling rice and weapons. are americans really always this stupid and ... self-centered and... just... stupid and evil! yes. i'm sure they were.
someone else wants to 'do the whole village.' willem's not there--he just arrived to find scarface/barnes holding a gun to a little girl's head. 'barnes! what the fuck do you think you're doing?'
he tells him to stay out of it and willem jumps him.
yeah! now they're rolling around fighting on the ground. he's got willem's hair! ah, thank you, no more bandanna!
the lieutenant says 'what the fuck are you talking about?' when willem asks why he didn't do something about barnes threatening the little girl with the gun. 'you know what the fuck i'm talking about.' 'no, i don't know what the fuck you're talking about.' now they're all off to torch the whole place. charlie's shellshocked. oh the horror! dude, you just did the same thing! remember beating up a crippled kid in the last scene?
okay, torching the rice too? geez. morons. 'round up all suspected vc,' so they round up the little girl? or is it her dad? i think it's the dad. only now charlie's following the sounds of children screaming and crying. i think we're going to find out what the sounds were... . he beats two soldiers off another little girl. they were going to rape them! there were two LITTLE girls! the guys, on being tossed off, are like 'what are you, a homosexual? they're vinks.' says charlie, 'they're HUMAN BEINGS!' but the guys just don't fucking get it.
there's willem again, looking like christ. and again. i don't like the guys-carrying-huge-guns image. even willem!
so it's sergeant barnes. willem is also a sergeant. this must be the captain, and he's telling barnes (aka scarface) and elias (that is, willem) to cease fire. but if there was an illegal killing there will be a court martial, he says! i hope so. where's the gay and stupid lieutenant? he's between sergeant and captain in chain of command.
ahahah. 'i don't know, man. a christian don't go around a village cuttin off heads and shit.'
and lieutenant is apologizing to scarface now. 'don't worry about it, elias won't be able to prove a thing.' what, willem's a fuckin rat, according to scarface? i guess you shouldn't've been trying to kill people. hah! what THEY don't know is that charlie will testify!
now charlie and willem are cuddling and star-gazing. well, okay, not really cuddling. now they're eyefucking though. oh man. that's a really nice mouth. more blue light please. willem knows we're going to lose this war. 'we've been kicking other people's asses so long i figure it's time we got ours kicked.'
i don't want willem to die!... willem's veins are standing out on his bare pale biceps (farmer's tan!) like he's on steroids. ew.eww a leach on charlie's face. all bloody! gross! 'don't drink that, asshole, you're gonna get malaria!' 'yeah, i hope so.'
lillian left the room crying a bit ago. mom: 'war is horrible.' um, duh?
ooh an ambush! some guy is still twitching! and still. for a long time. although... i don't know who it is who's twitching. yay, junior's dead. i didn't like him. is that charlie shooting? and where's willem, huh? someone's really gross. and bloody. stomach wound. ew, man, EW. ahah, there he is. or--no, nm--there he is! a grenade, slow mo, a whole lot of shooting. ew. come on, how aabout something happening? oh, who's that sniping? oooh, whose grenade? willem! what are you doing?
shit, there's something on fire that's fallen inside the back of this guy's shirt and it's burning up his back. 'medic!' that wasn't willem, though. someone else with his same haircut. wow, that's gotta hurt. there he is.
okay, less of the near-death scenes and more of... well, okay, there's not really anything i want more of, although this stalking through the forest is something i can handle. barnes is screaming at the gay liutenant, who seems to be faintly retarded. willem's running through the bluelit rain. he's got his four men. they're trying to cover the rest of the platoon or something. 'they're coming!' the vc, one presumes. charlie is one of them! he says, 'can i go with you?' like a little puppy. willem gives this hideous grimacing smile, but it's sweet. 'no--i move faster alone.' now barnes is strong-arming the lieu into backing out which will leave elias & co cut off. 'what about elias?' says lieutenant dumbass. spinelessly. barnes isn't having any of it. you gave elias your promise, ass! someone's hit. charlie's stupid. he only hit two. barnes is planning to leave elias out there, clearly. he's come to get charlie and the wounded dude and send them back. 'what about elias? but elias is still out there, sarge,' says charlie. 'i'll get him; you go blah blah' says barnes. 'move!' and then sneaks off.
whoa, what's THAT baby? a rocket launcher? i'm not following this. willem's running. he got the rocket launcher guy and about three more cong. charlie's gone back to look for him i think; he's slinking about... . charlie's got a mild case of hero worship. oh dear, willem eyelashes! wet ones! they're blond, they only show up wet. what is it about eyelashes? okay, that wasn't charlie, it's someone else. but it's not barnes. he looks scared shitless. no, it is barnes. but now they've carried the wounded back charlie's off after elias too... and shit, barnes has seen him, he's aiming AT him. elias sees him. he meets his eyes and grins--welcoming or challenging? does he think this is joking? and barnes is still aiming and... they're facing each other down. he aims again. he shoots. three times. elias falls.
barnes just met charlie and told him rather matter of factly, 'elias is dead.' to get charlie to leave him. ah, barnes, you only wish it were that simple. 'you saw him? where?' barnes gets a little testy and tells him to go back. and, er, get moving. they leave him! that wasn't the most dramatic death scene i've ever seen. maybe that wasn't it after all. he did throw up his hands though.
a medic helicopter has arrived and charlie's carrying the wounded.harold's not dead after all! wtf is that symbol, praying hands with the lightning bolt behind? but but. where's willem? charlie's in the copter and he sees hordes of cong and elias isn't dead. he can see they have him captive. the lieu sees too and he orders the copter back down. no, not captive, running away, and shit, he's running really slowly. and the cong keep firing. he falls to his knees once, twice. he keeps trying to get up but he's full of wounds now. ouch, his little face! oh, man. okay, this is the best death scene, i mean, the coolest. i give in. hah. i think boromir's did a bit of a send-up. oooh. he's gone. charlie! charlie's little face! he looks at barnes and he's remembering how barnes acted when asked whether he was sure.
charlie knows it was barnes.
he wants to kill him tonight. because military justice isn't going to do anything.
barnes is going to come down on all of them--the four who were on the detail with willem? dunno--now cause they're in a position to suspect.
'barnes is a fucking murderer.' 'charlie, you're right.' but this guy doesn't think it's possible to kill barnes. oh dear, barnes was there and he heard it all. no, wait. that's not barnes. who is it? shit, is it the captain? he's high, though. really high. and half-naked. oh, no. it's barnes. gross. he thinks elias was a crusader full of shit. barnes has no trouble with those who do what they're told, because they don't break the machine down. he tells them that when you don't do what you're told the machine breaks down and then WE break down! he's just spit on charlie. he says to charlie, 'you all loved elias.' he invites them to kick his ass six against one. is this some freaky setup?
dude, DO kill him! charlie's thinking about it. the others are looking away though.
barnes: 'i shit on all of you.'
charlie jumps him. 'you motherfucker!' he slams his head into a pillar. barnes gets the better and holds a knife on him. but the other dude talks him off. he just cuts him under the eye. dude, why didn't they help him?
fuck, it's still not over?
[at this point, God and my sister interceded to kick me off the computer and onto the couch.]
aw. he takes care of the men. in a... what's the word i want? he's so knowing, and charming and all-american. although wow, rather ugly, especially with that hair. they went out of their way to do that. although i supppose he has a face that can go either way. he said something like 'i have a perfect boy next door face if you live next door to a graveyard.'
charlie sheen's fucking HAIR. it's awful. ah, and here comes his voiceover. he's not such a great actor, is he? at least, not for voiceovers, but those are tough on anyone i suppose. (they were fabulous in the lord of the rings. and jeremy brett's was the next i sat up and listneed to. i suppose i've been spoiled.) (my sister: it's a bad sign when they show geckos climbing on statues. omg ewwwwww. bugs! bugbites! this is gross, man!)
AHAHAHAHAHAH they take him into this little voodoo hut filled with candles, sandbags and christmas lights and willem's half-naked lounging in a hammock in the corner and he FLUTTERS his hand. ahahahahahah. he does gay well. haha, charlie's never gotten high before! and willem's totally stoned. and now... he's aiming a gun at him. now he's cocked the gun and makes charlie suck the end and blows smoke out of his own mouth ghrough it. 'put your mouth on THIS!' while charlie's looking skeered. aww.
'simple. free your mind, your ass will follow.'
'ain't nothin like a piece of pussy. except maybe the indy five hundred.'
o'neill and the lieutenant are soooo gay. in a repulsive way. 'i'll ah... catch you men later? enjoy yourselves tonight!' he looks like he just stepped off the damn tennis court.
WHO is willem dancing with? like, ballroom dancing and singing. and smoking. and drinking budweiser. this movie is... weird. ahahah. 'then we walk through the jungle... like ghosts in a landscape.' mr. sheen sounds like joe, the little poetry-writing darling of my ib class. an odd mix of likeable and asshole who completely cut off communication with everyone sophomore year... ahh! willem again! what's that smoke?
please, please, willem, step away from the bandanna. oh. nice. he's creeping through shallow water in the dark, holding up a flashlight in one hand, a gun in the other--highlights his facial structure (i.e., skeleton. which is rather what he looks like, except more shaggable).
now willem's snuck into ... the hospital. (i was like, what's that hanging thing? it's a drip-bag of blood.) and someone's lying in a hammock dead with his bare chest covered in blood. the nurse or something? ooooh, nice big snake--charlie's having a minor freak out. no, he's suppressing like a man.
we're back with willem and he seems to be in a cave, examining it very carefully... oh! he shot somebody! there's an intruder. or there was one. SHIT, a bomb. willem jumps up... is it an ambush? and willem's the only one who realized it? oh, that wasn't a hospital, it was their... basecamp. or... away from base camp. it was a hut and a hole in the ground where they were keeping their injured. now they're on the phone. an explosion--they need help. move your ass! let's go! willem's grabbed the lieu. we need... reinforcements? this place is full of traps. which indeed it is.
now charlie and scarface are meeting one another's eyes in great sadness. scarface smokes, no big surprise there. and here's our pal o'neill. he's not the reinforcements i'd have picked. a lit cigarette on the forest floor. willem's on the trail of something. he keeps looking up to the sky in this intelligent way.
the end of the mystery, a thousand yards from the village, was... a guy tied to a tree with his throat cut? what mystery? oh, maybe he was tortured. yeah. into giving away the location of their base camp. hahah, for revenge they destroy the innocent village? how typical. i mean, of what i've heard of vietnam.
'yeah! you got him, sarge.' gag.
dude, these people, the villagers, don't speak english. and now this freak just shoots a pig for fun? they're chasing through the village poking through rice with their guns and herding the people out. are they hiding vietcong? there was a blind on the ground covered with grass--a woven one. and underneath a hole in the ground. no, just a storm cellar. innocent people hiding. but they stick them in a pig pen and shoot and... toss a GRENADE down? what the fuck is this? oh my god! there's a kid in there! was it in the hole? i think they are looking for cong. but there aren't any. they're all children and farmers--well, okay, the vc were guerrillas, so maybe any given village were working for them. i mean it wasn't impossible. but how do you say no when they're probably your third cousins on one side and second on the other? and they have guns?
they drag out an old lady and he says 'well, well. what have we here?'
now charlie is starting to lose it. he's dragged a crippled kid out of some kind of pig hutch on the floor and is beating him up, and he's all, 'why the fuck didn't you listen to me? what did you smile at? why didn't you come up? were you scared of me? you thought i was going to hurt you? i wasn't going to hurt you!' the guy's only got one leg and charlie's shooting at his feet to make him jump. what a stupid freak! don't they realize that these people don't speak english? now the other dude's like, 'sure you're sorry. you're crying your hearts out about our friends.' why should they even know about his friends?
OMG, the freaky guy beat the crippled kid's head in with the butt of his gun! the other dude's going to barf. did he shoot the old granny through the stomach? 'did you see that head break apart? i've never seen brains like that.' 'let's get outta here. you didn't see anything.' 'let's do this whole fucking village.'
ah, so they *were* stockpiling rice and weapons. are americans really always this stupid and ... self-centered and... just... stupid and evil! yes. i'm sure they were.
someone else wants to 'do the whole village.' willem's not there--he just arrived to find scarface/barnes holding a gun to a little girl's head. 'barnes! what the fuck do you think you're doing?'
he tells him to stay out of it and willem jumps him.
yeah! now they're rolling around fighting on the ground. he's got willem's hair! ah, thank you, no more bandanna!
the lieutenant says 'what the fuck are you talking about?' when willem asks why he didn't do something about barnes threatening the little girl with the gun. 'you know what the fuck i'm talking about.' 'no, i don't know what the fuck you're talking about.' now they're all off to torch the whole place. charlie's shellshocked. oh the horror! dude, you just did the same thing! remember beating up a crippled kid in the last scene?
okay, torching the rice too? geez. morons. 'round up all suspected vc,' so they round up the little girl? or is it her dad? i think it's the dad. only now charlie's following the sounds of children screaming and crying. i think we're going to find out what the sounds were... . he beats two soldiers off another little girl. they were going to rape them! there were two LITTLE girls! the guys, on being tossed off, are like 'what are you, a homosexual? they're vinks.' says charlie, 'they're HUMAN BEINGS!' but the guys just don't fucking get it.
there's willem again, looking like christ. and again. i don't like the guys-carrying-huge-guns image. even willem!
so it's sergeant barnes. willem is also a sergeant. this must be the captain, and he's telling barnes (aka scarface) and elias (that is, willem) to cease fire. but if there was an illegal killing there will be a court martial, he says! i hope so. where's the gay and stupid lieutenant? he's between sergeant and captain in chain of command.
ahahah. 'i don't know, man. a christian don't go around a village cuttin off heads and shit.'
and lieutenant is apologizing to scarface now. 'don't worry about it, elias won't be able to prove a thing.' what, willem's a fuckin rat, according to scarface? i guess you shouldn't've been trying to kill people. hah! what THEY don't know is that charlie will testify!
now charlie and willem are cuddling and star-gazing. well, okay, not really cuddling. now they're eyefucking though. oh man. that's a really nice mouth. more blue light please. willem knows we're going to lose this war. 'we've been kicking other people's asses so long i figure it's time we got ours kicked.'
i don't want willem to die!... willem's veins are standing out on his bare pale biceps (farmer's tan!) like he's on steroids. ew.eww a leach on charlie's face. all bloody! gross! 'don't drink that, asshole, you're gonna get malaria!' 'yeah, i hope so.'
lillian left the room crying a bit ago. mom: 'war is horrible.' um, duh?
ooh an ambush! some guy is still twitching! and still. for a long time. although... i don't know who it is who's twitching. yay, junior's dead. i didn't like him. is that charlie shooting? and where's willem, huh? someone's really gross. and bloody. stomach wound. ew, man, EW. ahah, there he is. or--no, nm--there he is! a grenade, slow mo, a whole lot of shooting. ew. come on, how aabout something happening? oh, who's that sniping? oooh, whose grenade? willem! what are you doing?
shit, there's something on fire that's fallen inside the back of this guy's shirt and it's burning up his back. 'medic!' that wasn't willem, though. someone else with his same haircut. wow, that's gotta hurt. there he is.
okay, less of the near-death scenes and more of... well, okay, there's not really anything i want more of, although this stalking through the forest is something i can handle. barnes is screaming at the gay liutenant, who seems to be faintly retarded. willem's running through the bluelit rain. he's got his four men. they're trying to cover the rest of the platoon or something. 'they're coming!' the vc, one presumes. charlie is one of them! he says, 'can i go with you?' like a little puppy. willem gives this hideous grimacing smile, but it's sweet. 'no--i move faster alone.' now barnes is strong-arming the lieu into backing out which will leave elias & co cut off. 'what about elias?' says lieutenant dumbass. spinelessly. barnes isn't having any of it. you gave elias your promise, ass! someone's hit. charlie's stupid. he only hit two. barnes is planning to leave elias out there, clearly. he's come to get charlie and the wounded dude and send them back. 'what about elias? but elias is still out there, sarge,' says charlie. 'i'll get him; you go blah blah' says barnes. 'move!' and then sneaks off.
whoa, what's THAT baby? a rocket launcher? i'm not following this. willem's running. he got the rocket launcher guy and about three more cong. charlie's gone back to look for him i think; he's slinking about... . charlie's got a mild case of hero worship. oh dear, willem eyelashes! wet ones! they're blond, they only show up wet. what is it about eyelashes? okay, that wasn't charlie, it's someone else. but it's not barnes. he looks scared shitless. no, it is barnes. but now they've carried the wounded back charlie's off after elias too... and shit, barnes has seen him, he's aiming AT him. elias sees him. he meets his eyes and grins--welcoming or challenging? does he think this is joking? and barnes is still aiming and... they're facing each other down. he aims again. he shoots. three times. elias falls.
barnes just met charlie and told him rather matter of factly, 'elias is dead.' to get charlie to leave him. ah, barnes, you only wish it were that simple. 'you saw him? where?' barnes gets a little testy and tells him to go back. and, er, get moving. they leave him! that wasn't the most dramatic death scene i've ever seen. maybe that wasn't it after all. he did throw up his hands though.
a medic helicopter has arrived and charlie's carrying the wounded.harold's not dead after all! wtf is that symbol, praying hands with the lightning bolt behind? but but. where's willem? charlie's in the copter and he sees hordes of cong and elias isn't dead. he can see they have him captive. the lieu sees too and he orders the copter back down. no, not captive, running away, and shit, he's running really slowly. and the cong keep firing. he falls to his knees once, twice. he keeps trying to get up but he's full of wounds now. ouch, his little face! oh, man. okay, this is the best death scene, i mean, the coolest. i give in. hah. i think boromir's did a bit of a send-up. oooh. he's gone. charlie! charlie's little face! he looks at barnes and he's remembering how barnes acted when asked whether he was sure.
charlie knows it was barnes.
he wants to kill him tonight. because military justice isn't going to do anything.
barnes is going to come down on all of them--the four who were on the detail with willem? dunno--now cause they're in a position to suspect.
'barnes is a fucking murderer.' 'charlie, you're right.' but this guy doesn't think it's possible to kill barnes. oh dear, barnes was there and he heard it all. no, wait. that's not barnes. who is it? shit, is it the captain? he's high, though. really high. and half-naked. oh, no. it's barnes. gross. he thinks elias was a crusader full of shit. barnes has no trouble with those who do what they're told, because they don't break the machine down. he tells them that when you don't do what you're told the machine breaks down and then WE break down! he's just spit on charlie. he says to charlie, 'you all loved elias.' he invites them to kick his ass six against one. is this some freaky setup?
dude, DO kill him! charlie's thinking about it. the others are looking away though.
barnes: 'i shit on all of you.'
charlie jumps him. 'you motherfucker!' he slams his head into a pillar. barnes gets the better and holds a knife on him. but the other dude talks him off. he just cuts him under the eye. dude, why didn't they help him?
fuck, it's still not over?
[at this point, God and my sister interceded to kick me off the computer and onto the couch.]
