Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Posted : 2 days, 9 hours ago at Nov 18 15:34

These really are good movies, it just sucks that they're under one roof. If Full Metal Jacket was somehow a two-part film, it would be a masterpiece. Now after about 50 minutes we cut from one great film to another great film, with no common theme or development. It's obvious that the focus of the training segment is Pyle, even if Joker is the main character. The loss of this focus when the war segment begins hurts the film in the way that it then has to create another focus for us. This makes this break in the structure a very obvious and painful one. It feels as if someone would reboot the entire movie in the middle of the proverbial action. Make no mistake however; from the fantastic over-the-top performance from Lee R. Ermey to the often absent, but yet powerful score, Kubrick's Vietna...Read more

Rating : 9/10

Posted : 11 months, 3 weeks ago at Nov 30 13:58

''The deadliest weapon in the world is a marine and his rifle. It is your killer instinct which must be harnessed if you expect to survive in combat. Your rifle is only a tool. It is a hard heart that kills. If your killer instincts are not clean and strong you will hesitate at the moment of truth. You will not kill. You will become dead marines and then you will be in a world of shit because marines are not allowed to die without permission. Do you maggots understand?'' Story follows a group of Marine recruits from the harrowing experience of boot camp to the horrifying battlefronts of Vietnam. Matthew Modine: Pvt. Joker Adam Baldwin: Animal Mother I was not expecting Full Metal Jacket to live up to expectations but thankfully i was wrong. Stanley Kubrick generally does s...Read more

Rating : 8/10

Posted : 2 years, 2 months ago at Aug 24 18:09

Along with Platoon, this has to be one of the best Vietnam war films around. Starting at the training camp, FMJ follows a Vietnam-bound squad through training at the hands of one of the most recognisable and memorable characters in film history - played by R. Lee Ermey. His rants are the stuff of legend, and out of anything in this film, his character will probably make the most lasting impression. The second half of the film follows Private Joker during the war. He eventually meets up with a former academy friend and his platoon. As a photogropher, Joker sees some of the most outrageous sights of the war, but when his platoon gets lost and devastated by a sniper, he has to swap his camera for a rifle and transform into the type of person he has almost looked down upon for the rest of ...Read more

Rating : 8/10