Full Metal Jacket
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Actor: Adam Baldwin, Bruce Boa, Harry Davies, Tim Colceri, Vincent D'OnofrioBrand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Douglas Milsome
Composer: Abigail Mead
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 116 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-15
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Full Metal Jacket
Movie Review: The 16x9 widescreen version is available -- elsewhere on amazon
Summary: 4 Stars
As noted, this product is the 4:3 aspect ratio (full screen) edition.
If you have a home theater with a wide screen display, you may prefer the 16x9 "Deluxe Widescreen Edition" that appears elsewhere on amazon.com (no panning, scanning, or letterboxing). Full Metal Jacket (Deluxe Widescreen Edition) This is only available new or used from amazon marketplace sellers, but it is readily available. This version will fill the screen of your widescreen television. It is the theatrical aspect ratio.
Your money, your choice. Yes, Kubrick did approve the full screen version for home video, but that was in the days of standard definition television, VHS video, etc. We have better options now. Again, your choice.
Summary of Full Metal Jacket
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.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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