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Movie Reviews of Full Metal Jacket
Movie Review: IT'S REAL
Summary: 5 Stars
I was in Marine Boot Camp in 1969. I went to Viet Nam in 1970. Trust me this movie is as real as it gets. To the "T" in most cases. I love the movie, but then again it means more to me than most people. After reading some of the reviews, I had to jump in here and clarify a few things, or maybe justify. One reviewer stated that you didn't really care when someone got killed because of no character build-up. Well, maybe Kubrick "REALLY" did know what he was doing. I think the movie even mentions it. When in a wartime situation you don't want to make friends, actually try not to. It's not healthy to see them get blown away and have to drag their pieces with you. One the other side of the coin, it IS so intense, you make real deep bonds with people in a very short time. I enjoy the 1st half of the movie. By the time they get to NAM, you say to yourself, I never thought it would be over (boot camp). It's real. Marine Boot Camp is no longer that stringent. But they are still the badest mf'ers to walk the valley. I did like the last half of the movie also but can't relate to it too much because I'm not a writer. Others complaining of the full screen thing. I have it on laserdisc and it is full screen. What's the biggie, it's mono anyway. Seeyall' enjoy the movie.Movie Review: This is Two Films in One!
Summary: 5 Stars
Fade in:Welcome to the U.S. Marines.Fade out
Fade in:Welcome to Vietnam
Stanley Kubrick is my fave fimmaker of all time, and he has a style that is unlike any others. The reverse track, the heavy use(and expert use) of the steadicam, the slow pull backs and slow zoom ins are all Kubrick. One of the best scenes is when a squad of war correspondents are scene panning past a unit of Marines after an attack(with The Trashmen playing in the background), and each Marine gives his contribution to Sgt. Cowboy's "Start the cameras, this is Vietnam--The movie! ". Boot camp scenes are powerful and there is one scene that is priceless as the D.I. is lecturing to the young boots about 2 of the world's greatest sharpshooters Charles Whitman and Lee Harvey Oswald!As we are taken to Hue City during the '68 Tet Offensive, we get to see what happened to some of the recruits that made it out of boot camp(now of higher rank-Sgt.Joker,for ex.). Good Vietnam war flick that shows the young audiences that the war was not just fought out in the jungles, but in the cities as well.My only complaint(and it is a technical one) is when are they going to re-release this in DOLBY-SURROUND?
Movie Review: FMJ - The greatest war movie ever
Summary: 5 Stars
So the first question you may ask is: "Why is this the greatest war movie ever?". Well, the truth is that other movies catch a lot of the battles and the persons in the battle and their feelings. But this movie starts at the academy, where they are trained to be killers. You see how each individual is when they start their training, and you see how they change. This movie is filled with lots of humour that isn't really supposed to be humouristic in the movie.As one of the few that has also read the book by Gustav Hasford, the movie is quite a lot shorter but it captures the tough moments very well. You will truly feel the pain with the characters as you watch this movie. The main person, The Joker, has a lot of fun remarks, and the gunnery sergeant is even wittier. I really bought this movie only because of the academy and it's funny remarks and humour, but you get so much more. On the battlefield you have the truly fearsome scenes, and the truly funny and beautiful scenes. You will feel for the Joker. My only advice to you is to get this movie, not only if you like war movies, cause it's as much a humouristic movie as it's a fearsome war movie.
Movie Review: Full Metal Jacket gets better as time goes on.
Summary: 5 Stars
For some reason when I originally saw Full Metal Jacket I liked the first part of the film much better. Maybe it was the fact that Lee Emory's character was gone and in his own he made up so much of it early on. But, after watching this film on laser disc a few times I started to really appreciate the Vietnam scenes. When any film loses a character of such strength and scene stealing prescence as Full Metal Jacket did. Well it has a tendency to slow down a little, lose its pacing. With time I began to appreciate both parts of this film and I saw that it didn't lose anything. That Kubrick wanted it to get darker and Emory's death was the perfect way to introduce the viewer to Vietnam. Kubrick began on a high and ended on a low and that's what the film is all about. The destruction that war can take on a young man's soul. There is no joking at it's climax as they march singing the theme song to the Mickey Mouse Club. They've come full circle, they are not just destroyers but have been destroyed themselves. This a great movie! I never get tired of seeing it and it gets better with time. Kubrick left us but his work lives on.Movie Review: masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
A Stanley Kubrik masterpiece by all aspects, It is a great movie, superbly shot, and presented in an extremely efficient plot.The plot is one of the best among the myriad of Vietnam movies, because it emphasize on how the soldiers were first greeted & treated in the boot camp. From the very first second (the head shaving) all the way to to the last one in the first part of the movie, we seee the soldiers to be going from humiliation to another. Soldiers are not "born to kill" as the poster of the movie announce, they are "made" killers. In my opinion this is the uniqueness of the movie.
The second part is not as strong as the first but I loved the way the camera was shooting in a low angle to mimic a war reporter (what Spielberg imitated in Saving Private Ryan).
In my opinion Amazon should include two kinds of rating (stars) one for the movie as a movie and one for the delivery (the vhs or dvd quality, the sound etc...) it took me three minutes to decide if I should pu 4 stars or 5 for this movie, the DVD deserves 4 but the movie is a sure fiver!