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Full Metal Jacket (1987) Movie Information |
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Overall Rank: |
53 |
Avg. Rating: |
3.23/4 |
# of Ratings: |
795 |
Genres: |
War, Drama |
Rating: |
R |
Language: |
English |
Theater Date: | 06/26/1987 |
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Director: |
Stanley Kubrick |
Actors: |
Matthew Modine
R. Lee Ermey
Vincent D'Onofrio
Adam Baldwin
Kevyn Major Howard
Dorian Harewood |
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Plot Outline:
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The transformation of a young recruit from boot camp - where he witnesses a fellow recruit snap - to Vietnam, where he witnesses the brutaliy of war.
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mitchellyoung 01/30/2013 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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4/4 |
It's no surprise that a noted pacifist like Kubrick would make a film that, on its surface, seems to be an anti-war ode. Full Metal Jacket, though, is so much more - a multilayered coming of age story that touches on themes of courage, tragedy, and sacrifice, using war as a backdrop, and diving deeply and unflinchingly into its character's choices and actions. The film doesn't have many stars, but the acting is committed and true and the atrocity that Kubrick's camera captures will make you think long after the film is over. |
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mitchellyoung 01/30/2013 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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It's no surprise that a noted pacifist like Kubrick would make a film that, on its surface, seems to be an anti-war ode. Full Metal Jacket, though, is so much more - a multilayered coming of age story that touches on themes of courage, tragedy, and sacrifice, using war as a backdrop, and diving deeply and unflinchingly into its character's choices and actions. The film doesn't have many stars, but the acting is committed and true and the atrocity that Kubrick's camera captures will make you think long after the film is over. |
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02/26/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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"Full Metal Jacket" by Yojimbo |
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Stanley Kubrick turns his attention to Vietnam in this bleak and emotionally draining representation of a conflict that was the perfect subject for which to turn the accepted war movie cliches on their heads. It throws you in the deep end of marine boot camp where conscripts are stripped of all sense of individuality to be turned into killing machines, a process ferociously undertaken by one of the most evil and hateful characters you're ever likely to see on screen. You do not grow to admire and respect this man as you do in most militaristic flag wavers; he is a ruthless sadist who punishes every tiny error with the kind of physical and emotional abuse that would be deemed unconscionable in any other environment. He even holds up a mass murder and assassin as figures to be admired and o... |
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3.5/4 |
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12/10/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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Full Metal Jacket review |
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In the United States marine Corp. Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermey) gets tough in training his Corps. by calling his men with nicknames like Private “Joker” (Matthew Modine) and “Snowball” while a Private “Gomer Pyle” (Vincent D'Onofrio) gets it from him when he was grinning, couldn’t do a pull-up, and more. Pyle (Leonard) is assisted by Private Joker assigned by the difficult Sergeant. After the Sgt. discovers a donut he punished the whole Corps. They got back at Pyle by hitting him with bars of soap wrapped in towels. Platoon 3092 are about to graduate when Leonard shoots the Seargent and himself.
Sgt. Joker goes with Private First Class Rafterman (Kevyn Major Howard) a war photographer meets Lt. Touchdown (Ed O'Ross) and are sent to Phu Bai. "Cowboy" (Arliss Howard) becomes... |
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4/4 |
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08/20/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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Not a Major Malfunction!! |
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Throughout his life, director Stanley Kubrick made films that got people talking, both pro and con. FULL METAL JACKET is one such example. Though far less emotional and much more analytical than any film about the Vietnam war, this film is nevertheless a brilliant piece. The first 40 minutes of this film deal with Marine boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina. And they deal with it in a way that no previous film ever dealt with it, thanks to Lee Ermey's inventive and scathingly vicious, profanity-laden performance as Drill Instructor Hartman. We see the recruits torn down and built up into remorseless killing machines, praying for war. But one of them, the overweight Private Pyle (Vincent D'Onofrio), is about to show us how a remorseless killing machine can malfunction due to one slig... |
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