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Product Details of Full Metal Jacket
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Stanley Kubrick's 1987, penultimate film seemed to a lot of people to be contrived and out of touch with the '80s vogue for such intensely realistic portrayals of the Vietnam War as Platoon and The Deer Hunter. Certainly, Kubrick gave audiences plenty of reason to wonder why he made the film at all: essentially a two-part drama that begins on a Parris Island boot camp for rookie Marines and abruptly switches to Vietnam (actually shot on sound stages and locations near London), Full Metal Jacket comes across as a series of self-contained chapters in a story whose logical and thematic development is oblique at best. Then again, much the same was said about Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, a masterwork both enthralled with and satiric about the future's role in the unfinished business of human evolution. In a way, Full Metal Jacket is the wholly grim counterpart of 2001. While the latter is a truly 1960s film, both wide-eyed and wary, about the intertwining of progress and isolation (ending in our redemption, finally, by death), Full Metal Jacket is a cynical, Reagan-era view of the 1960s' hunger for experience and consciousness that fulfilled itself in violence. Lee Ermey made film history as the Marine drill instructor whose ritualized debasement of men in the name of tribal uniformity creates its darkest angel in a murderous half-wit (Vincent D'Onofrio). Matthew Modine gives a smart and savvy performance as Private Joker, the clowning, military journalist who yearns to get away from the propaganda machine and know firsthand the horrific revelation of the front line. In Full Metal Jacket, depravity and fulfillment go hand in hand, and it's no wonder Kubrick kept his steely distance from the material to make the point. --Tom Keogh
Quick Glance
Media Format: DVD
Genre: Drama, Military & War
MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Creative Design Art
General
Media Format: DVD
Genre: Drama, Military & War
MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Reviews on Full Metal Jacket
Full Metal Jacket
I have to give the movie some credit because it actually mirrored experiences I went through at Paris Island and Nam,anybody out there remember the hot-locker.Full Metal Jacket can be credited with letting part of the secrets out the real story is yet to be told,after all it was only a movie.Lets-Git-Some!
Full Metal Jacket
Great movie, but the language was overkill. I am sure that is pretty close to how a gunnery would talk though, Aye numbah?
Full Metal Jacket
A definite 5, but bowwow makes a point- not quite as good after the Parris Island Part (which was actually filmed at MCRD San Diego).
Full Metal Jacket
Great movie. I really felt bad for "Gomer Pile". This movie warms the heart. The second half of the film provides some good battle footage and more nerve-racking drama. I'm not a drama guy myself, but some dramas are so good, you can't help but get sucked in. I couldn't quite give this film 5 stars, but I can give it 4 and a half.
Full Metal Jacket
The basic training part hits too close to home (sans the suicide part). Visions of Drill Sergeants dancing in my head. Great movie.
Full Metal Jacket
Great, great Vietnam War movie. It had many lasting impressions on me. From the basic training shock and R. Lee Ermey's ultra-effective acting (really, it was probably an easier role for him then I would think, as he probably has a lot of real life experience in the suck), to Animal Mother and the other messed up soldiers the war had created (especially the unknown helicopter gunner, firing at...
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Full Metal Jacket (1987) receives an overall TopTenREVIEWS rating of 3 out of 4.00. It is ranked the #1,097 movie of all time, #15 movie from 1987 . The rating and ranking is based on an average of 48 critic scores, awards and other criteria. To see a breakdown of the movie ranking, read individual critic reviews, or see how other movies ranked, click on the link below.
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Full Metal Jacket
Probably the best film portrayal of the Vietnam War thus far. The boot camp portion was perfect and the later part about the Tet offensive in the Northern portion of South Vietnam was pretty good. The bit where the door gunner shoots random civilians was too stereotypical of non-vets opinions of our soldiers in that War. Could have happened? Yes. Happened that casually? No. Would have more likely...
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