Full Metal Jacket
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Actor: Adam Baldwin, Bruce Boa, Harry Davies, Tim Colceri, Vincent D'OnofrioBrand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Douglas Milsome
Composer: Abigail Mead
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 116 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-15
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of Full Metal Jacket
DVD Review: The 16x9 widescreen version is available -- elsewhere on amazon
Summary: 4 Stars
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.
Your money, your choice. Yes, Kubrick did approve the full screen version for home video, but that was in the days of standard definition television, VHS video, etc. We have better options now. Again, your choice.
DVD Review: Rifle, gun and the blockbuster
Summary: 5 Stars
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 training in the Marine Corps into the assignment at Vietnam, into the War-zone and into the dead face of the VietCongs. From the opening scene itself you see the actors and their fate in their eyes. The first 40 minutes is sheer brilliant delight; you can't miss a word of dialogue and you can't take your eyes off the regimental training.
From a man to a Marine. R. Lee Ermey who was a Marine trainer was hired on set as a consultant to make accurate depiction of Marine Corps training. His mean brilliance led to Kubrick casting him in the movie as the drill sergeant - he played on film what he did before retirement to real recruits of the Army. From a man to a killing machine.
The movie moves next as the recruits are assigned to the battle-zone. Actor Matthew Modine ends up as a journalist for "Stars and Stripes", the official military newspaper.
And then the Tet Offensive starts in Vietnam. Under fire, on duty in the field, Modine's character "James Joker" is asked to join in with a rifle.
"This is my rifle this is my gun...this is for fighting this is for fun" sang the boys holding their rifle and crotch in each hand during their training run.
The drill sergeant has taught them well. They need to remember what they learnt because otherwise "...you would be a dead Marine; and a Marine cannot die without permission".
Awesome, mindblowing stuff!
The soldier Leonard (also played by a first time actor who worked as a bouncer and gained 80 pounds weight for the role of a fat idiot) steals the show along with the sergeant Hartman in the first half of course.
The last half belongs to James Joker and Animal Mother (actor Adam Baldwin). The last 40 minutes is equally as engaging and spellbinding as the first.
You would think that this accuracy would mean it was shot on location in some South East Asian country. No, Stanley Kubrick did not like to be farther than 10 miles from his home. So the movie was shot in East London in a old location which was being torn down for rebuilding. So the broken buildings are real and they were being blown up gladly by the cast and crew of "Full Metal Jacket" at no objection. Modine is brilliant explaining why he wears a peace button on his uniform while his helmet has "Born to Kill" written on it. "...duality of man" he explains before he joins the ranks of combat Marines. Kubrick showcased not just another movie on Vietnam War. No, what he did was to show how an ordinary American man is turned into a crazed killer for waging War.
Watch this and learn the horrors of War.
Weirdly after watching this movie I have a strange compulsive urge to enlist myself in the US Marine Corps.
Sadly all of Hasford's books are OUT OF PRINT !
Sign the petition to bring them back at http://www.gustavhasford.com/
DVD Review: Great Movie - Requires Certain Perspective
Summary: 5 Stars
This review contains some spoilers - read only if you've seen this movie.
I've served in the armed forces, but not during Vietnam. I was discharged honorably and even extended an extra year because I liked the experience and was treated with high regard.
After my first year in the military, I was introduced to this movie. Like most viewers, I thought the basic training sequence was incredible - I'm sure most drill instructors today copy R. Lee Ermey, his performance was so spot-on.
Then, I got to the Vietnam scenes. Being Asian, I found the racist remarks rather offensive in the second half. Furthermore, I didn't get Kubrick's point. There seemed to be no direct moral message, no overarching theme to communicate. So, I treated it like two different movies - an incredibly good portrayal of boot camp, and a mess of a Vietnam experience for the second half.
Years pass. I pull this movie out again and look around for what others (especially Kubrick himself) thought of the movie. Now, it all makes sense. This movie does have a point - its aim is to make an accurate portrayal of an intelligent soldier's life from boot camp to the jungles of Vietnam. Without thinking about whether or not war is good or bad, without thinking about metaphors or symbolism, stripped of anything but the raw images on the screen, this movie in its entirety finally struck me for what it is, and it is a masterpiece. It is hard to discern whether or not the troops agree that war is good or bad (notice that when Joker does his guilt-ridden 1000 yard stare, someone in the background says "F*****G hardcore man" in approval). It is hard to discern if the soldiers actually enjoy what they are doing, and whether or not they take pride in their profession (note the television interviews, where you have guys like Animal Mother reveling in his duty, and guys like the medic who did not). In fact, it is hard to discern a single coordinated, comprehensive thought during most, if not all, of the Vietnam sequence, and if this was done purposefully (which I now believe it was, especially if you include the ending), it indeed accurately portrays the bewilderment not only in the physical environment of war, but also the bewilderment in the minds of the soldiers - and in this sense, this bewilderment, if purposefully done, is indeed what makes this movie a masterpiece in my mind as well in its portrayal of war.
Add to that Kubrick's hidden images (there is an excellent, albeit radioactively liberal analysis of symbolism in FMJ on youtube called "the Hidden Hand"), and you get something that deserves multiple replays. First time around, no matter who you are, you'll be mesmerized by R Lee Ermey and Vincent D'Onofrio. A couple more times, and especially if you served, you'll get the rest as well. Then, you'll find yourself watching the entire movie over again, and it gets better every time you do.
DVD Review: Full Metal Jacket
Summary: 4 Stars
The product was delivered in timely matter and the condition of the DVD was without scratches. I will be happy to buy from this person in the future. Also I live over seas and have an APO- FPO address, I like that the delivery was not cancelled.DVD Review: Great opening scene too!
Summary: 4 Stars
The opening scene in Full Metal jacket has been hailed by many as being priceless. I agree.
Based on the novel by Gustav Hasford, director Stanley Kubrick creates a fascinating movie from the equally fascinating screenplay by Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford. The writers and the director accomplished a very difficult task with a difficult subject matter.
The cast treats us to memorable performances. Notably, Matthew Modine, who is perfect and extracts sympathy as a private in the military. Vincent D'Onofrio with his complex portrayal as Pvt. Pyle. And of course, R. Lee Ermey in his unforgettable portrayal as the sergeant.
Loved the music also.
Description of Full Metal Jacket
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.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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