Full Metal Jacket (Deluxe Edition) [Blu-ray]

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Studio: Warner Home VideoRelease Date: 10/23/2007Run time: 170 minutesRating: Pg13

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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

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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

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Customer Reviews

Rating: - Widescreen is cropped version of Full Screen version
I bought the Blu-ray version of Full Metal Jacket thinking this would be a true widescreen version, but it's not. The movie is actually a cropped version of the Full Screen version. After comparing the two versions, the Blu-ray version seems cramped and lacks the visual composition of the original Full Screen version.

This rating has nothing to do with the quality of the story or the audio, which is excellent.

The rating has everything to do with releasing this movie as ... Read More
Rating: - Reality of War is Painful - This Movie Brings it Home
This is a movie that I've viewed repeatedly over the years and still enjoy very much as it is strikingly genuine versus most Hollywood presentations of War.Having been drafted myself in 1969 and took an extra year to determine my vocational choice versus being dictated.Military was very different as there was no volunteer system yet - you found yourself serving next to teachers and engineers and other professionals because of the draft.The presentation of Boot Camp is so real in this movie ... Read More
Rating: - fast delivery
the product came as advertised. it was clean with no scratches and wrapped nicely. the package arrived on time or sooner than expected.
Rating: - Impressive and good quality blu-ray movie.
Although a movie over 30 years old, i think this blu-ray version is up to quality.
Sound also ok!
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