2/25/2023 0 Comments Shellshock nan 67Vietnam, for the Vietnam movies addict, is all about that chilling suspense and heavyweight action in the Platoon scene. Little Jimmy and his little friends had better be in bed before you whack this on. Parts of Shellshock will have Daily Mail readers' hair standing on end. First we had Illusion Softworks' underrated Vietcong, Atari's fairly rubbish Line Of Sight, and now the 18-rated Shellshock: Nam '67, a game likely cause genuine offence. Following what has been nothing short of overkill (if you'll excuse the pun) in the WWII genre, the me-toos of shooterdom have, in the last 18 months, run headlong into providing their definitive take on the bloody Vietnam conflict. In recent times, game makers have tried to do the same. Truly great filmmakers like Oliver Stone, Francis Ford Coppola and Stanley Kubrick have all presented absolute classics on the Vietnam war, with films such as Platoon, Casualties of War, Full Metal Jacket and Apocalypse Now showing point blank the pure, terrifying waste and unending fear involved in the conflict in a notoriously unflinching manner. In the rubbish stakes, Vietnam was the world's biggest landfill, a hugely tragic, pointless war bred from paranoia and filled with blind insanity and pure horror. Anyone who's seen Platoon will remember this scene for the atmosphere alone.īecause the atmosphere in Vietnam was severely rubbish, to be blunt. Charlie Sheen's face in the final shot looks like child who's seen a ghost. With the battle "won", the team desperately tries to revive the LMG gunner who's been shot in the gut, screaming at him, beating his chest, hissing at him to "take the pain". Tracer in the jungle makes for horrific viewing. Taylor hits a Claymore and begins one of film's most appalling, enthralling war scenes. Then he sees the straw hats, the VC in the milky atmosphere, ghosts in the trees. When Taylor wakes the rain is ceased and yellow mist drapes languidly over crystal moonlight, leaves and twigs and solid silence rolled with water drops. And they all drift away in the end, soaked and exhausted. Claymores hang in the trees and the dark. Taylor blames stinking heat and insects for his inability to sleep while the others watch. Oliver Stone shows his squad locking and loading and slides them into a mosquito hole with bulbous eyes and dripping skin. One of the first action sequences in Platoon chronicles Private Chris Taylor's first night in the bush.
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