Brothers in Arms

I watched this documentary the other night because "Platoon" is one of my all-time favorite movies. While I enjoyed seeing my fave actors telling how they got the gig and experiences on set, I felt there was too much redundancy in having several actors repeat the same stories and would have preferred they spent more time sharing different, additional stories - unless maybe there just weren't any more of interest. But my main takeaway sadly was with the Director, Paul Sanches, who I pitied after watching his interviews, especially when he seemed to be on the verge of tears at one point. He came off like that star athlete in High School reliving his glory days. Looking at his IMDB page, I saw he was in an episode of The Son, which I totally love and have saved on my DVR, so I watched that episode again and was saddened to see the horrible acting he put out. To go from such potential in Platoon to that pathetic piece of acting was extremely sad. No wonder he made this documentary since it was obviously the highlight of his life. I also enjoyed the personal stories, though the best was Johnny Depp's interview.