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 Full Metal Jacket (DVD)
 Full Metal Jacket (DVD) ... Baldwin ... / DVD released 01 June, 2006 at Warner Home Video / Features of the DVD: Dubbed, Full Screen, PAL / One of a series of revisionist Vietnam cinema released in the late 1980s, Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket is essentially split into two stories linked by a number of characters. The film follows new recruit Joker (Matthew Modine) and his fellow soldiers through their basic training and into combat in Vietnam. The first half is a chilling portrayal of military brutality and de-humanisation, mainly at the hands of Sgt Hartman (played at a level of staggering intensity by ex-Marine Lee Ermey), that centres around the tragic character of Private Pyle, a young man pushed to the edge of his endurance. The tone of the film is no less harsh when transported to the combat zone as we see the results of the training process in action: the young men turned into unquestioning killing machines. Joker is perhaps the one exception, a soldier with "Born to Kill" written on his helmet who also sports a peace sign on his lapel. But the film finds itself caught in the trap of many of the war movies of the time--how to create audience empathy with characters who are essentially in the wrong. It's a dilemma that Full Metal Jacket never really solves, although as a spectacle the film is a masterpiece. Made in the days before CGI became the norm, the battle sequences--filmed, rather bizarrely, in London's Docklands before its redevelopment--are hugely realistic and are perhaps the key moments of the movie, heightening the disorientation and fear felt by the soldiers. By offering no more than a snapshot of the Vietnam conflict (the action deals with one individual skirmish), Kubrick cleverly leaves any judgement on the war to the audience, although clearly attempting to influence them. The fate of the characters who survive is also left in the balance, but we can perhaps imagine what awaits them. On the DVD: Part of a series of Kubrick DVD reissues, Full Metal Jacket has been treated to the full remastering and restoration treatment. The battle sequences have benefited the most, gaining a new audio and visual crispness and clarity that adds to their already impressive sense of realism--you can almost feel the heat searing from the screen and the explosions detonating around you. Maybe not the best war film ever made, as some may claim, but certainly one to take you right to the heart of the action. --Phil UdellNewest Review: ... a strange, unreal comic-book quality about them that is deliberately at odds with the often brutal violence and senseless ... more ... killing that the film frequently reveals.
Joker takes pity on a clumsy, overweight recruit named Private Pyle, (Vincent D'Onofrio), and tries to protect him as best he can from noth the other recruits and the excellent R Lee Ermey, a real-life US army drill instructor who is utterly mesmerising here as Sergeant Hartman, a spectaculary over the top and charicatured figure who spouts numerous brilliant and highly memorable one-liners whenever he is onscreen.
The first segment of the film document's Pyle's slow descen...more |
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Full Metal Jacket (DVD): An intelligent and darkly funny war film (483 words)
by - written on 21/11/09 (Very useful, 10 readings)
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Stanley Kubrick's 1987 Vietnam War film 'Full Metal Jacket' is an absolute tour de force. The film is split into two halves following the progress of an intellectual raw recruit known as 'Joker' (Matthew Modine) who finds himself first at a US army training camp and then finds himself shipped out and fighting in the jungles of Vietnam. The first half of the film sees the recruits getting stripped of their psychological make-up and turned instead into unquestioning killers, whilst central protagonist 'Joker' narrates his experiences in first-person. There is evident from the off a dark and coarse humour evidenced by all involved, and both halves of the film ... Read the complete review
Full Metal Jacket (615 words)
by - written on 06/08/09 (Very useful, 7 readings)
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Synopsis: Stanley Kubrick does the Vietnam war - from hell in the barracks to hell on the battlefield Full Metal Jacket shows Vietnam from a different perspective, no longer are the soldiers and officers heroes and honorable. Many officers even fact have an air of ludacris about them - especially the hooker officers - and the Marines are know as kids who are unaware of what or where they are. The sometimes rediculous nature of this film can be found in many of its famous scenes; the marines naming their rifles, the meeting with drill sergeant, shaving the marines heads or my personal favourite, the speach about marine marksman that Lee Ermey's character tells ... Read the complete review
Full Metal Jacket (DVD): The dead know only one thing: it's better to be alive. (673 words)
by - written on 29/06/09 (Very useful, 56 readings)
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It is safe to say that this film is really two films in one. The first part (roughly 45 minutes) shows a group of new Marine corps recruits going through basic training with drill-instructor-from-Hell Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermey, who was a drill instructor in real life too and served 14 months in Vietnam), who are being made into full-blown marines to serve in the Vietnam War. Private James T. "Joker" Davis (Matthew Modine) serves as the focal point for the majority of the film. He's made mentor of Leonard "Gomer Pyle" Lawrence, an overweight, rather dimwitted recruit who is picked on by Hartman almost immediately for his ... Read the complete review
Kubricks Legacy ! (1362 words)
by - written on 04/09/02 (Very useful, 1256 readings)
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Based on a novel by Gustav Hasford Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick Michael Herr Gustav Hasford Produced by Stanley Kubrick Directed by Stanley Kubrick Cast List: Matthew Modine Private Joker Arliss Howard Private Cowboy Adam Baldwin Animal Mother Vincent D'Onofrio Leonard Lawrence / Private Gomer Pyle Lee Ermey Gunnery Sgt. Hartman Dorian Harewood Eightball Kevyn Major Howard Rafterman Ed O'Ross Walter J. Schinoski / Lt. Touchdown Jon Stafford Doc Jay John Terry Lt. Lockhart Kirk Taylor Payback ... Read the complete review
Full Metal Jacket (DVD): Harsh, Bleak and Uncompromising - Stanley Kubrik's Full ... (1054 words)
by - written on 11/05/01 (Very useful, 356 readings)
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Stanley Kubrik's Full Metal Jacket is an uncompromisingly bleak study of the horrors or war. This is no 'glossy' Saving Private Ryan' experience, but a movie which asks the viewer plenty of questions and offers no answers, no hope and has little meaning. This is a masterpiece of modern cinema and one which I doubt this review can do justice, but here goes... Full Metal Jacket is split into two distinct parts. The first features THE most realistic scenes ever filmed on the dehumanizing process of the boot camp. We follow a group of new recruits, being introduced to a few who will be the focus of this section of the movie. The dehumanziation ... Read the complete review
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