Full Metal Jacket(1987)
"In Vietnam, the wind doesn't blow. It sucks."
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A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Michael Herr
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Gustav Hasford
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Stanley Kubrick
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Stanley Kubrick
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Full Metal Jacket - Official Trailer [1987] HD
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Gunnery Sergeant Hartman Introduction
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Private Pyle Decends into Madness
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Joker Reunites With Cowboy
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Bird is the Word
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Full Metal Jacket (1987) - Insults Compilation
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How R. Lee Ermey knew how to act in Full Metal Jacket, 1987
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Written on February 15, 2017
A film of two halves.
The first half of the fiim focuses on the training of raw recruits and features shenanigans we have seen countless times before - think _Stripes_ and _Police Academy_.
The persecution of the fat guy - a scenario we had already witnessed in Stripes and Police Academy ( "_I could show a movie on your butt, fatso_!"- Lt Harris, Police Academy) is here played out to maximum effect. The fat guy who freezes atop a climbing frame is the central plot here with Matthew Modine's character playing second fiddle to all of the _Leslie Barbara_ stuff.
The second half of the movie at least gives us something we were not expecting when a sniper's identity is revealed.
- Ian Beale
