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REVIEW: ‘Heartbreak Ridge’
When Platoon was released at the end of 1986, I was in college, and the level of excitement was immense. A few months after rah-rah, blah-blah Top Gun had been largely ignored by my fellow left-leaning students, we were all finally going to be shown what it meant to be "in the shit," as Max Fischer would say with awe to Vietnam vet Herman Blume in Rushmore. I didn't see Top Gun until years later, and I hated Platoon. The military movie of the era that spoke to me, an unlikely ROTC cadet who wou…
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