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Sep 20, 2011
- by Madpenguin
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A very good movie in the first half, and I can understand many folks who feel a little different about the second half. The shift in mood just felt quite strange in a way. I still enjoy it a great deal, but I really don't find the second part as gripping. Perhaps I need to see it again soon.
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FM_ALEX
September 24, 2011
I agree
Madpenguin
September 24, 2011
I'm a try to hit this up before the year is over. Won't be easy at all.
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woopak_the_thrill
September 20, 2011
The first half of the movie was brilliantly incredible. It just didn't keep it up to the 2nd half.
Madpenguin
September 20, 2011
Yeah that was pretty much in your face right there.
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Its 2 movies, the first half good the second ... ehhhh. R. Lee Ermy plays the drill sergeant in the good half and drives hysterical scenes. I think it's supposed to be an anti-war movie, which is the ehhhhh part. It would have been a more convincing comment on "the duality of the universe" if the first 45 minutes hadn't been extremely effective dark comedy.
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I was talking to a co-worker one time and we were talking about movies that left huge impressions on us visually. See, we couldn't agree on what could be considered "great writing" for a movie, so the conversation shifted to visuals, which should have been an easier conversation to have. It wasn't. His idea of a visually stunning movie was "The Fast and the Furious," mainly because of how many explosions and cut-away editing tricks that were on display. He asked me what movies I felt were visually … more
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Based upon the novel "The Short-Timers" written by co-screenplay writer Gustav Hasford.
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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 theVietnam WarasPlatoonandThe 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 Jacketcomes 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's2001: 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 Jacketis the wholly grim counterpart of2001. 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 Jacketis 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 ...
Cast:
Robert Nichols,
R. Lee Ermey,
Vincent D'Onofrio,
Tony Smith,
Arliss Howard,
Sal Lopez,
Adam Baldwin,
Chad Dowdell,
Tim Colceri,
Matthew Modine,
Bill Thompson,
Michael Williams,
Bruce Boa,
Ed O'Ross,
Dorian Harewood,
Papillon Soo Soo,
John Stafford,
Ian Tyler,
Kevin Howard,
John Terry,
Marcus D'Amico,
Herbert Norville,
Keiron Jecchinis,
Kirk Taylor,
Tan Hung Francione,
Costas Dino Chimona,
Peter Merrill,
Gary Landon Mills,
Ngoc Le,
Leanne Hong,
Gil Kopel,
Peter "Snowball" Edmund,
Keith Hodlak,
Nguyen Hue Phong,
Dave Perry,
John Wilson,
Tony Carey,
David George,
Derek Hart,
Harry Davies,
Du Hu Ta,
Steve Hudson
Director:
Stanley Kubrick
Genre:
Drama,
War
Release Date:
June 26, 1987
MPAA Rating:
R
Runtime:
1hr 56min
Studio:
Natant
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