Full Metal Jacket
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Movie Review: Full Metal Jacket
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is a must to watch from an informational point of view. If you need to find information on tactics, uniforms, weapons,etc-this is the one. This the one,if you want to understand what this war was about. About real soldiers,who actually had to fight in Vietnam:18-19 years old kids,who were drafted and without any choice were thrown into a foreign country to play a strange game of survival : the one , who kills first, will win another chance to play this game again...and again.All we wanted was simple- just to go home ... alive. I was lucky to see my home, but many of my friends didn't. It Shows you the stupidity of military officers , who never went there ... the ones , who are the heroes now . Showes you the shortest line between love and death ... Shows you the brutality and pain ... do I need to say more ?!
The REAL words from someone , who knows : Dead or alive , we are all coming home together ...!
The last words of a kid : I died for my country ... the same country , which protested and abandoned us ... the baby killers ...
I had my world ...From the highschool classroom to the warzone. I didn't know , I am sad ... untill I woke up , and dreamt ... dead ... I realised - I need help .
I wrote my book not for you ... I wrote it for myself...
When some journalist tryed to brake me down ... I told him - too late . You can't ... He didn't believed me ... he was wrong !?
I put it in another side of me , the side which I do not remember ... but I will never forget .?.?.?
I throwed the key to this side away , but it always returns ... Now it is melted in the pain of other soldiers who spilled their guts on the ground and gave everything they had , who didn't find the way to get rid of it ... And who is lucky ?! The ones , who found it ... or the ones , who couldn't lose it ?
Movie Review: BORN TO KILL
Summary: 5 Stars
Full Metal Jacket is the gritty, psychologically disturbing tale of the process that turns humans into trained killers. The film is essentially diveded into two halves, with the first taking part during marine recruit training where the would-be soldiers are molded into remorseless killing machines. The performance by Vincent D'onofrio highlights this intense first half. The second half follows Private Joker to Vietnam and the combat of Hue City. Surprisingly, the violence of war pales in comparison to the dehumanization process and build-up of the recruit training. Despite losing some momentum(which would have been almost impossibe to keep up) it completes the story by showing how the training has effected them mentally. The combat scenes feature great cinematography among the backdrop of countless burning buildings. This is a welcome change from the scenery of the jungle of most nam films. The end is cold, calculated and surprising, culminating in an extrordinary experience. The film also contains a unique feel to it, credited to director Stanley Kubrick. The acting of Mathew Modine carries the film and the now infamous character of Sg. Hartman make this an unforgetable film. Definitely worth the purchase for the fact that it can be viewed many times because of its deep layers of meaning. The Stanley Kubrick Colection also features the origional cinematic trailer. In short, if you're looking for a film about vietnam then skip this, but if you're looking for a film about the dehumanization of war then this classic fits the bill. The film was nominated for best adapted screenplay and was voted second best picture of the year by the late critic Gene Siskel.Movie Review: Harrowing and Disturbing
Summary: 5 Stars
Kubrick does a wonderful job by reaching into exactly how the armed forces operate and ripping it's proverbial skeleton out to expose the true horrors that exist in war. The method to turn human man into a killer, to strip away all humanity that he has is clearly outlined in this film, and exposes war for what it is.War is not a glorious, fun, great, and honorable thing. It dehumanizes and strips emotions from a man, to keep him killing the enemy until they are all dead or until he is killed himself. Joker, in this movie, is a peace loving man...He narrarates the first half of the movie, which is Marine training. As disquieting as this segment is, I've found it to be truthful, too. While talking to someone about it, they commented on how when they had been at marine bootcamp, that it was exactly the way it is protrayed in Full Metal Jacket. Unforgiving.
While on deployment in 'nam, Joker, along with the rest of his troop (he is a journalist for the marines, if my memory serves correctly) and is sent with another stationed troop to "see what war is really like." He wears a pin that has a peace sign, and then on his helmet is written "Born To Kill."
The ending of the movie is, (I must agree with other reviewers) a disturbing end...Joker is moved to kill someone, something he has literally vowed not to do, as his anti-war mentality is slowly ground down and after months of the drumming into his mind that he must kill the enemy, he believes it. Full Metal Jacket defines what a war movie should be, and not a glorified, candied and fakely thrown together plot as many others are. It is honest and brutal.
Movie Review: The best war film ever made!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is my favorite Kubrick film to watch because it is his most "extreme"- in language, violence, and subject matter.What makes this movie so much better than all other war movies is the fact that it doesnt concentrate on one facet of war, such as a battle, man or mission. It focuses on the complete process of dehumanization of men in war.From drilling it into their heads in basic training, to "pacifist" Joker wasting the sniper, and thus, completing the process.Kubrick really seems to capture the essence of men in the Vietnam War. Commanders only intent on creating killing machines, soldiers simply killing for amusement, and no one thinking of the consequences for anyone. I've read a lot of criticism of the second half of this movie-the battle scenes-for being boring(compared to the first half) and unrealistic. I feel I must point out that the first half is so savagely brutal that the revelation of the meaning of life would probably be a letdown. As for it being unrealistic, Vietnam is not just one big jungle, and war is not made up simply of planes flying overhead and bombs being dropped. These scenes, I feel, capture the isolation and sense of terror in being in a situation in which you have little or no control, and can be killed at any moment. I hope that those of you who don't lile the second half will go back and rewatch it. It is certainly worth the extra effort, for it is what makes the film a classic.Movie Review: great film, shown in proper ratio!
Summary: 5 Stars
Look, all these people going on about how it's not letterboxed and that's the only way to see it don't know what they're talking about. Kubrick used a a film stock (as Scorcese did with Age of Innocence) that has lines that show the director what the widescreen dimensions are, but is not a widescreen format, like, say, Panavision. What Kubrick has done in asking MGM to release the DVD full screen is to present the entire picture he saw through the viewfinder. This is NOT pan-and-scan. Very little information is lost on the sides, and a great deal is added to top and bottom--if anything the staging is more attractive this way. For example during one training scene, the DI is way off to the right and a flag is foreground before the trainees. In the theater, you saw only half the flag--here you see the DI, the flag, everything in a perfectly composed picture. The film itself is great, but to really appreciate it's power as part of Kubrick's ouevre you must also see Paths of Glory (which is an emotional as Full Metal is cool) which also ends with the face of a young woman and a lot of soldiers looking at her (to completely different effect) and Clockwork Orange, which sets the stage for the theme of men as killing machines and the danger of trying to control them. The sound is mono, but very vivid. Also Vincent D'Onofrio is totally brilliant.