Full Metal Jacket (1987)

catbox_9 · Subject: Full Metal Jacket (1987) Tue Sep 30, 2008 2:37 pm

Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket is a Vietnam War movie. The first half of the film follows a bunch of recruits in boot camp and the second half of the film looks at some of those recruits now that they are in Vietnam. While both halves had their fair share of moments, I wasn't overly-impressed with either part of the film. The boot camp section was pretty good, but got rather repetitive as the film progressed. The second half had some good battle sequences, but I'm not really sure it accomplished much.

A film of this type is bound to have quite a few actors, and this film is no exception. While there are a few main characters, none of them really stood out much with one exception - R. Lee Ermey played the drill instructor rather brilliantly. He was a former drill instructor in real life so that's probably part of the reason he played the character so well, but he still deserves credit for his work.

Overall, this was a solid film, but it is neither my favorite Kubrick film, nor is it my favorite war film. It seems like most well-regarded war films have a strong message, usually an anti-war message, behind them but I'm not really sure this film had much of a message. It didn't really portray war in a positive manner, but I think the film could have done more in this aspect. It's a good film, but needs to do more to be great.

78/100
C+

UP NEXT: Another Kubrick film - either Paths of Glory or The Killing.

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catbox_9 · Subject: Re: Full Metal Jacket (1987) Tue Sep 30, 2008 2:43 pm

gs78 wrote:

80 for Full Metal Jacket

Got it!

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gs78 · Subject: Re: Full Metal Jacket (1987) Tue Sep 30, 2008 2:56 pm

1975?

I thought it was made in the 1980's

1986? or 1987?

Maybe I am wrong

catbox_9 · Subject: Re: Full Metal Jacket (1987) Tue Sep 30, 2008 3:24 pm

Whoops! I don't know how the hell I typed 1975. I meant 1987 Smack

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tigersaint · Subject: Re: Full Metal Jacket (1987) Sun Oct 26, 2008 3:13 pm

Hey GI, you got girlfriend in Vietnam??

Me so horny....love you LOOONG time!!

Vincent D'Onofrio was BRILLIANT as Private "Pyle" in this movie. I think the message was about the pointlessness of war.

I am a big Kubrick fan though.....

catbox_9 · Subject: Re: Full Metal Jacket (1987) Mon Oct 27, 2008 12:14 am

tigersaint wrote:

I am a big Kubrick fan though.....

Have you seen Paths of Glory? I watched the two back-to-back and Paths of Glory made this film seem less impressive.

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tigersaint · Subject: Re: Full Metal Jacket (1987) Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:31 pm

I have it on my Netflix que for November.

Can't wait to see it then I will have seen ALL of Kubricks movies!!

catbox_9 · Subject: Re: Full Metal Jacket (1987) Wed Oct 29, 2008 12:10 am

tigersaint wrote:

Can't wait to see it then I will have seen ALL of Kubricks movies!!

I'm missing two: ashamed

Lolita and Eyes Wide Shut

I have seen ALL of Hitchcock's American movies (that's 30!)

I think I've seen parts of Lolita a bunch of times when I was little. I want to say it was on HBO a lot. I remember there was this creepy old guy in the movie and a little girl. I don't remember anything else because I never watched it.

My Kubrick ranking...
The Shining
A Clockwork Orange
2001: A Space Odyssey
Paths of Glory
Dr Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The Killing
Full Metal Jacket
Spartacus
Barry Lyndon
Killer's Kiss

Of those I only found Killer's Kiss to be bad. Barry Lyndon wasn't terribly interesting but the cinematography was about as good as it gets.

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tigersaint · Subject: Re: Full Metal Jacket (1987) Sat Nov 01, 2008 3:14 pm

Lolita is very slow and a little creepy regarding the relationship between her and Professor. Humbert.

Eyes Wide Shut is a mess but if you enjoy nudity (and LOTS of it...including Nicole Kidman), you will like it.

The soundtrack makes it even more disturbing. affraid

catbox_9 · Subject: Re: Full Metal Jacket (1987) Sat Nov 01, 2008 6:21 pm

tigersaint wrote:

Eyes Wide Shut is a mess but if you enjoy nudity (and LOTS of it...including Nicole Kidman), you will like it.

I'll see this one (and not just because of the nudity whistle

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gs78 · Subject: Re: Full Metal Jacket (1987) Sat Nov 01, 2008 9:43 pm

tigersaint wrote:

Hey GI, you got girlfriend in Vietnam??

Me so horny....love you LOOONG time!!

Vincent D'Onofrio was BRILLIANT as Private "Pyle" in this movie. I think the message was about the pointlessness of war.

I am a big Kubrick fan though.....

I like the Drill Sergeant that bullied Private Pyle

That guy was a riot

Best part of that movie is when the recurits were doing boot camp

There are clips of it on YouTube

They also have a clip of the mistakes in the movie

Including PVT Joker using a maglite flashlight

Some of that stuff I never noticed until it was pointed out