Platoon and Apocolypse were both phantasm movies, not war.
Agreed. As I mentioned in another post, I tend to view both of those in exactly that light, or similar to the way I watch Sci Fi movies...I suspend my intellect to a degree so that I can watch it without saying all the time “Aww...that would never happen!”
Because I do sometimes have a tendency to do that.
The bigger problem with those is that there are many who can’t understand that is Hollywood and not reality. There are a lot of people who look at those movies nearly as documentaries, which is exactly what the people making them had in mind.