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Matthew Modine
R. Lee Ermey
Vincent D'Onofrio
Adam Baldwin
Kevyn Major Howard
Dorian Harewood

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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.

08/20/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Not a Major Malfunction!!

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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4/4 

01/17/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

The most 're-watchable' movie that Kubrick ever made. It was also the least Kubrick-y movie that he made, in other words it does not have the signature color scenes, strange lighting, ultra odd characters or strange story twists.

This movie made the career of Ron Ermey, he has so many on liner insults in this movie that you could fill a book with them. He fit the part so perfectly because he spent over 10 years in the Marine Corps. In fact this movie has been so watched that a true fan can mouth along with most of the insults. Ermey's part in this movie has made him immortal, he will be forever linked to this movie.

The supporting cast was also excellent, this movie showed the rise of excellent actors such as Matthew Modine and especially Vincent D'Onofrio. D'Onofrio's part as Priva...

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4/4 

09/17/2008 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Duality of Man -- A Great War/Human Film

I expected this movie to be great because Stanley Kubrick never fails to impress me, but I’ve read a lot of critiques that claim that this is one of Kubrick’s weaker pictures so I was anticipating for the film to slip eventually. Thankfully, it never did. Sure, the dark and sharp humor can be found in the first half of the film only, and the other half features the battlefield. At first, I was kind of thrown off as well, but a character makes an insightful comment about the duality of man. And that’s when it all clicked: this film is about two extremes… and how those extremes come together. I don’t want to list all the scenes I thought embodies or supports that idea, but the one aspect that stood out for me the most was the use of humour in situations that are nothing short of serious. Ot...

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4/4