Futility

via Orion Pictures For obvious reasons, it took audiences and critics a while to become receptive to movies revolving around the Vietnam War in the aftermath of the conflict, but Platoon already had a serious advantage over its contemporaries after Oliver Stone became the first filmmaker who actually served during the conflict to make a feature about it. As well as the in-depth knowledge and realism he brought to the table, the writer and director also happened to deliver one of the greatest cinematic war…