Full Metal Jacket
starring: Adam Baldwin, Bruce Boa, Tim Colceri, Vincent D'Onofrio, Harry Davies
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The story of an 18-year-old marine recruit named Private Joker - from his carnage-and-machismo boot camp to his climactic involvement in the heavy fighting in Hue during the 1968 Tet Offensive.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 085391163114 Manufacturer No: 116311
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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
The story of an 18-year-old marine recruit named Private Joker - from his carnage-and-machismo boot camp to his climactic involvement in the heavy fighting in Hue during the 1968 Tet Offensive.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 085391163114 Manufacturer No: 116311
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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When talking about Full Metal Jacket, it is helpful to break things down into two.That is, a really outstanding depiction of the dehumanizing of basic training recruits in a Marine boot camp.This part of the movie is the best Hollywood representation of the boot camp experience ever made.
Things break down significantly in the transition from boot camp to Viet Nam."Part two" is detached, makes no sense if you were ever in Viet Nam.And, the landscape is grossly inauthentic.The ... Read More
Rating: - a classic about the Marines in Viet Nam singing mickey mouse club
A movie in two parts: boot camp with a finish that was maybe wanted
by every one with a tough DI and a TET offensive
close up of Marines beating back the NVA.
A Viet Namwoman sniper kills three of the patrol
and writer gets
blood on his camera.
The irony of soldiers who will be using full automatic M16's
in battle using the M14 to train still kind of sticks with me;
the enemy used AK47 that could penetrate light armor and buildings.
This movie ... Read More
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- Movie Review
This is one of the greatest movies ever made. I bought it for a very reasonable price. It arrived at my home in a timely and military manner. I would recommend this seller to anyone interested in buying DVDs.
Rating: - The 16x9 widescreen version is available -- elsewhere on amazon
As noted, this product is the 4:3 aspect ratio (full screen) edition.
If you have a home theater with a wide screen display, you may prefer the 16x9 "Deluxe Widescreen Edition" that appears elsewhere on amazon.com (no panning, scanning, or letterboxing). Full Metal Jacket (Deluxe Widescreen Edition) This is only available new or used from amazon marketplace sellers, but it is readily available. This version will fill the screen of your widescreen television. It is the theatrical aspect ratio. ... Read More
Rating: - Rifle, gun and the blockbuster
So you thought you have seen the best War movies with "Apocalypse Now", "Black Hawk Down", "The Bridge on the River Kwai", "Three Kings" and "Courage Under Fire" and the others ? Well think again soldier! Because this movie will blow the pajamas off your yellow behind. This is a realistic depiction. This is a life of a man turned into a killing machine. This is a true-cold-blood War movie.
The story based on the novel "The Short-Timers" by Gustav Hasford follows a bunch of new recruits from their ... Read More
- Half good half badWhen talking about Full Metal Jacket, it is helpful to break things down into two.That is, a really outstanding depiction of the dehumanizing of basic training recruits in a Marine boot camp.This part of the movie is the best Hollywood representation of the boot camp experience ever made.
Things break down significantly in the transition from boot camp to Viet Nam."Part two" is detached, makes no sense if you were ever in Viet Nam.And, the landscape is grossly inauthentic.The ... Read More
- a classic about the Marines in Viet Nam singing mickey mouse clubA movie in two parts: boot camp with a finish that was maybe wanted
by every one with a tough DI and a TET offensive
close up of Marines beating back the NVA.
A Viet Namwoman sniper kills three of the patrol
and writer gets
blood on his camera.
The irony of soldiers who will be using full automatic M16's
in battle using the M14 to train still kind of sticks with me;
the enemy used AK47 that could penetrate light armor and buildings.
This movie ... Read More
- Movie ReviewThis is one of the greatest movies ever made. I bought it for a very reasonable price. It arrived at my home in a timely and military manner. I would recommend this seller to anyone interested in buying DVDs.
- The 16x9 widescreen version is available -- elsewhere on amazonAs noted, this product is the 4:3 aspect ratio (full screen) edition.
If you have a home theater with a wide screen display, you may prefer the 16x9 "Deluxe Widescreen Edition" that appears elsewhere on amazon.com (no panning, scanning, or letterboxing). Full Metal Jacket (Deluxe Widescreen Edition) This is only available new or used from amazon marketplace sellers, but it is readily available. This version will fill the screen of your widescreen television. It is the theatrical aspect ratio. ... Read More
- Rifle, gun and the blockbusterSo you thought you have seen the best War movies with "Apocalypse Now", "Black Hawk Down", "The Bridge on the River Kwai", "Three Kings" and "Courage Under Fire" and the others ? Well think again soldier! Because this movie will blow the pajamas off your yellow behind. This is a realistic depiction. This is a life of a man turned into a killing machine. This is a true-cold-blood War movie.
The story based on the novel "The Short-Timers" by Gustav Hasford follows a bunch of new recruits from their ... Read More
