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Full Metal Jacket [1987] [DVD]
One of a series of revisionist Vietnam cinema released in the lat ... Last Update 20.12.2009 05:41
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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
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
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
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
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





