Full Metal Jacket [Blu-ray]
starring: Adam Baldwin, Bruce Boa, Tim Colceri, Vincent D'Onofrio, Harry Davies
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Studio: Warner Home VideoRelease Date: 09/05/2006Run time: 117 minutesRating: R
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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 realisticportrayals of the Vietnam War asPlatoon and The Deer Hunter. Certainly, Kubrick gave audiences plenty ofreason to wonder why he made the film at all: essentially a two-part drama that begins on aParris Island boot camp for rookie Marines and abruptly switches to Vietnam (actually shoton sound stages and locations near London), Full Metal Jacket comes across as a seriesof self-contained chapters in a story whose logical and thematic development is oblique atbest. Then again, much the same was said about Kubrick's 2001: A SpaceOdyssey, a masterwork both enthralled with and satiric about the future's role in theunfinished business of human evolution. In a way, Full Metal Jacket is the whollygrim counterpart of 2001. While the latter is a truly 1960s film, both wide-eyedand 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' hungerfor experience and consciousness that fulfilled itself in violence. Lee Ermey made filmhistory as the Marine drill instructor whose ritualized debasement of men in the name oftribal 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 andfulfillment go hand in hand, and it's no wonder Kubrick kept his steely distance from thematerial to make the point. --Tom Keogh
Amazon.com:
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
Studio: Warner Home VideoRelease Date: 09/05/2006Run time: 117 minutesRating: R
Amazon.com essential video:
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 realisticportrayals of the Vietnam War asPlatoon and The Deer Hunter. Certainly, Kubrick gave audiences plenty ofreason to wonder why he made the film at all: essentially a two-part drama that begins on aParris Island boot camp for rookie Marines and abruptly switches to Vietnam (actually shoton sound stages and locations near London), Full Metal Jacket comes across as a seriesof self-contained chapters in a story whose logical and thematic development is oblique atbest. Then again, much the same was said about Kubrick's 2001: A SpaceOdyssey, a masterwork both enthralled with and satiric about the future's role in theunfinished business of human evolution. In a way, Full Metal Jacket is the whollygrim counterpart of 2001. While the latter is a truly 1960s film, both wide-eyedand 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' hungerfor experience and consciousness that fulfilled itself in violence. Lee Ermey made filmhistory as the Marine drill instructor whose ritualized debasement of men in the name oftribal 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 andfulfillment go hand in hand, and it's no wonder Kubrick kept his steely distance from thematerial to make the point. --Tom Keogh
Amazon.com:
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
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: 
- Hoo-ray for Blu-ray
This film is very close to the nerve centers of practically all Marines because it so very realistically depicts their experiences in either boot camp and/or Vietnam. There isn't one that didn't feel a mysterious tingle in the back of his neck and a shiver down his spine when he first heard Lee Ermy calling cadence in the boot camp segment of the movie.Nuf said about the film except to say that the video and audio transfer to blu-ray is outstanding.The anamorphic treatment that allows it to ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent Blu-Ray!
This is an EXCELLENT Blu-Ray conversion of this classic Kubric movie, must see on Blu-Ray with the remastering 1080P quality and all the special features. Great buy!
Rating: - One of the best war films of all time.
Full Metal Jacket is one of the best, and most powerful war films of all time.
If you don't "get it", read the novel it was based on:
"The Short-Timers", by Gustav Hasford.
If you've read the book, you'll understand the way the movie seems to "jump" from one setting to the next, mentioned in other reviews here.
Short-Timers consists of three acts, "The Spirit of the Bayonet", "Body Count", and "Grunts." The first act is fairly accurately reproduced in the ... Read More
Rating: 
- half good, half bad
Full metal Jacket is really two movies in one. The first movie is a very realistic journey through the boot camp process for the marines. The reason why its so realistic is that Kubrick found a DI who could act and let the process run as if it were real. The only flaw in it is the murder-suicide at the end. Its just not realistic. It would have been more belevable as an ordinary suicide. The other thing that didn't quite catch is that DIs and the process don't just punish the weak. They go after the ... Read More
Rating: - more than satisfied
The movie came earlier than predicted. It came in brand new condition at an amazing price nowhere else I looked could even touch. R. Lee is amazing, and this movie is an instant favorite. The Bluray makes even the most shocking or violent scenes so clear and beautiful it's impossible to look away. I would definitely buy from this seller again.
- Hoo-ray for Blu-rayThis film is very close to the nerve centers of practically all Marines because it so very realistically depicts their experiences in either boot camp and/or Vietnam. There isn't one that didn't feel a mysterious tingle in the back of his neck and a shiver down his spine when he first heard Lee Ermy calling cadence in the boot camp segment of the movie.Nuf said about the film except to say that the video and audio transfer to blu-ray is outstanding.The anamorphic treatment that allows it to ... Read More
- Excellent Blu-Ray! This is an EXCELLENT Blu-Ray conversion of this classic Kubric movie, must see on Blu-Ray with the remastering 1080P quality and all the special features. Great buy!
- One of the best war films of all time.Full Metal Jacket is one of the best, and most powerful war films of all time.
If you don't "get it", read the novel it was based on:
"The Short-Timers", by Gustav Hasford.
If you've read the book, you'll understand the way the movie seems to "jump" from one setting to the next, mentioned in other reviews here.
Short-Timers consists of three acts, "The Spirit of the Bayonet", "Body Count", and "Grunts." The first act is fairly accurately reproduced in the ... Read More
- half good, half badFull metal Jacket is really two movies in one. The first movie is a very realistic journey through the boot camp process for the marines. The reason why its so realistic is that Kubrick found a DI who could act and let the process run as if it were real. The only flaw in it is the murder-suicide at the end. Its just not realistic. It would have been more belevable as an ordinary suicide. The other thing that didn't quite catch is that DIs and the process don't just punish the weak. They go after the ... Read More
- more than satisfiedThe movie came earlier than predicted. It came in brand new condition at an amazing price nowhere else I looked could even touch. R. Lee is amazing, and this movie is an instant favorite. The Bluray makes even the most shocking or violent scenes so clear and beautiful it's impossible to look away. I would definitely buy from this seller again.
