Full Metal Jacket | 
 enlarge | Actors: Adam Baldwin, Bruce Boa, Tim Colceri, Vincent D'onofrio, Harry Davies
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 2968
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 116
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 116311
UPC: 085391163114
EAN: 0085391163114
ASIN: B000P0J09C
Theatrical Release Date: 1987
Release Date: May 15, 2007
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The story of an 18-year-old marine recruit named Private Joker - from his carnage-and-machismo boot camp to his climactic involvement in the heavy fighting in Hue during the 1968 Tet Offensive.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 085391163114 Manufacturer No: 116311
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Stanley Kubrick's 1987, penultimate film seemed to a lot of people to be contrived and out of touch with the '80s vogue for such intensely realistic portrayals of the Vietnam War as Platoon and The Deer Hunter. Certainly, Kubrick gave audiences plenty of reason to wonder why he made the film at all: essentially a two-part drama that begins on a Parris Island boot camp for rookie Marines and abruptly switches to Vietnam (actually shot on sound stages and locations near London), Full Metal Jacket comes across as a series of self-contained chapters in a story whose logical and thematic development is oblique at best. Then again, much the same was said about Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, a masterwork both enthralled with and satiric about the future's role in the unfinished business of human evolution. In a way, Full Metal Jacket is the wholly grim counterpart of 2001. While the latter is a truly 1960s film, both wide-eyed and wary, about the intertwining of progress and isolation (ending in our redemption, finally, by death), Full Metal Jacket is a cynical, Reagan-era view of the 1960s' hunger for experience and consciousness that fulfilled itself in violence. Lee Ermey made film history as the Marine drill instructor whose ritualized debasement of men in the name of tribal uniformity creates its darkest angel in a murderous half-wit (Vincent D'Onofrio). Matthew Modine gives a smart and savvy performance as Private Joker, the clowning, military journalist who yearns to get away from the propaganda machine and know firsthand the horrific revelation of the front line. In Full Metal Jacket, depravity and fulfillment go hand in hand, and it's no wonder Kubrick kept his steely distance from the material to make the point. --Tom Keogh
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 Brutally Honest, and Still Relevant April 21, 2008
1 out of 9 found this review helpful
This movie has been described enough to leave that part out. What has not been stated is the power of the film considered in the context in which it was created. I fear that many of the reviewers who agree that the movie is over the top in some way or unrealistic or flawed have not read much in the way of Viet Nam war history. Even if you discount the fact that Michael Herr (author of Dispatches) and Gustav Hasford (author of The Short Timers) helped Kubrik write the screenplay(!!), you can read any of a number of histories on the war and read similar testimonies.
This movie's power lies in the realistic portrayal of what it meant to be a Marine in Viet Nam. All the horror, some of the dark humor produced, and the true human behavioral ambiguity of surviving a war zone. These were some of the bravest men alive, also some of the scariest, some of the funniest, and some of the craziest. This movie and Kubrik's talent lies in the representation of the men that reveals the training that created them, and then how that translates into real war actions. None of this is to detract from the power of Platoon or Apocolypse Now - also superb movies - but to make sure the fact is known that Full Metal Jacket is equal to their power... actually, if you are a Viet Nam war history scholar as I am, you should have all three for an acurate trifecta of experience!
If you watch the movie - and chat with a few Viet Nam Marine vets - and still do not feel convinced for some reason that this movie is brilliant, check out these great books:
Dispatches - Michael Herr
The Short Timers - Gustav Hasford
Patriots - Christian G. Appy
Bloods - Wallace Terry
A Bright Shinning Lie - Neil Sheehan
Great! April 21, 2008
0 out of 8 found this review helpful
I'd seen this at the movies. I liked it, but, at the time, not as much as "Platoon". Remember? There were several Viet Nam movies close together, plus the TV series "Tour of Duty". After having aged some, I like "Full Metal Jacket" at least as good, but it's different. I ALWAYS liked the first part - BASIC TRAINING. Now I like the second part - THE BATTLE OF HUE - even more than before. This is a great movie, that explores the personalities and relationships of the different Marines more than some other movies. I also like that the fighting is in a developed area (Hue), because a lot of the fighting wasn't in the jungles, and often that's forgotten. This is on par with "Platoon" (but different) and way better than "Hamburger Hill" which was lame.
True to life military film which is why it's my favorite Kubrick film April 8, 2008
1 out of 13 found this review helpful
Full Metal Jacket is one of the best films , Stanley Kubrick ever made. The film has humor, gut wrenching war scenes and brilliant acting. Matthew Modine is great as Joker, but it's Vincet D'Onforio and R.Lee Emery as Pyle and the Drill Sgt. The chemistry between these two actors is of David and Goliath calbiar. The film makes you feel like you're in basic training with the troops and although the film is violent it's still an art form. **** out ****.
As a former Marine, this movie holds a bit of nostalgia for me March 20, 2008
7 out of 13 found this review helpful
I spent 1992-2001 in the Marine Corps Infantry. And this movie is a favorite among Marines no matter where they are.
While I think that it is absolutely inappropriate for children, you will have to make that decision on your own as a parent. But be warned, the language in this movie is very harsh.
R. Lee Ermey plays the part of Senior Drill Instructor Gunnery Seargeant Hartman (that's a mouthfull), his euphemisms, mannerisms and behavior are perfect. He absolutely nailed it.
If you've got any friends, relatives or acquaintances that are in the Corps, this is always a winner of a gift. Particularly if they are getting ready for deployment (ship life is a drag).
A caveat about reality...with the demise of conscription and the institution of the "all volunteer force," Drill Instructors no longer administer corporal punishment (i.e. they do not strike the recruits). Anyone who tells you otherwise is either a former recruit trying to embellish the experience (for amorous purposes no doubt), or smear the Marine Corps (for nefarious purposes no doubt).
Great Quality; Great Price; Great Service January 18, 2008
0 out of 17 found this review helpful
The movie arrived just 2 days after ordering and came in perfect condition. The movie quality (picture, sound, etc.) is exactly what it should be.
As for the movie itself, it was a gift for my Dad and he absolutely loved it. I however don't know enough about the film to comment on it.
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