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Summary: Awesome movie! Junk Quality!
Review: This is one of the great movies, a must own, 5 stars easy. Cast is perfect, dialog is superb, just a great flick!
The quality of this DVD blows! Audio was mediocre at best, no booklet, no commentary or bonus material. Package was cheap. Too bad 'cause the movie is first rate. 1 star for the package.
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Summary: Brilliant depiction of boot camp but skip the rest
Review: Lee Ermey comes through once again as the archtypical drill instructor and Vincent D'Onofrio is brilliant as the misfit marine recruit. It is their performances alone that make this movie worthwhile. Unfortunately, after the boot camp segment, the film degenerates into a bunch of disjointed segments, none of which make a lot of sense. What is worse is that there is not one character in the second half of the film that anyone would even care about. I would watch this film for the first half and then bail out.
Another more realistic movie about Viet Nam, also starring Lee Ermey, 'The Boys of Company C', is really a much better film. Even so, I would recommend 'Full Metal Jacket' just for the marine corp training sequence. It is brilliant filmmaking. Too bad the rest of the movie falls so flat.
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Summary: violent Vietnam epic
Review: Tries to do too much, schizophrenic in it's story telling, and frankly, I had a hard time identifying with the characters. Nonetheless, it has some good action sequences, with the obligatory anti-war message.
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Summary: Well, Jason, it's very simple...
Review: It wasn't shot in widescreen. You call yourself a Kubrick fan? This isn't pan&scan. It's fullscreen. It's the way Kubrick intended. Nothing is cropped off. Geez.
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Summary: Full Metal Jacket
Review: The "acting" of R. Lee Ermey is not "acting," it's 1000% authentic! He makes the film!!
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Summary: why the hell isn't this widescreen!?!?!
Review: first of all, let me say, that anyone who doesnt like this movie is a complete goddamn moron. Only someone with no brain in their head could dislike a stanley kubrick film.Next let me pose the question: "WHY THE HELL ISN'T THERE A WIDESCREEN VERSION OF THIS MOVIE ON DVD!?!?!?!?!? WHAT THE F@#*K?"
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Summary: Nice
Review: Great movie with everything you'd expect in the DVD. Buy it now!
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Summary: insulting for anyone with military knowledge or experience
Review: I rented this jumbled, incoherent mess to see what all the fuss was about. I must say this is the most ridiculous piece of pop art [], made even worse considering the important subject matter. How does Kubrick choose to portray a very complex international conflict spanning four decades? With bad acting (with the exception of Ermy), utterly stupid, pointless and tactically bogus ''combat'' (i.e. actors with toy guns running around playing Rambo SPRAYING UNLIMTED AMOUNTS OF AMMUNITION AND ORDINANCE- a common movie effect which does nothing but look stupid- into every window in every village in south vietnam, all after recieving ''expert'' marksmanship training in the corps?!) scenes resembling some weak high school psychological drama (OOOHHH a FEMALE COMBATANT- what trite five minute moral dilemma comes next), and ending with the Mickey Mouse Club theme song. NOW THATS ART! As to anyone claiming it to be an accurate picture of the vietnam war: PLEASE stop spreading such blatant misinformation. Every scene is another example of how Hollywood seems content to distort reality in order to sell some hollow, moronic wreck that will be a big hit with the Kubrick cult, as well as all those theory laden ''post-modernists'' who think because they read Nietzsche they are an expert on everything including the combat tactics, protocall, and capabilities of the US Marines in 1968. What a pompous, ridiculous, insulting, and vulgar film for anyone who values accuracy, and objectivity (DID I MENTION ACCURACY?) when being shown a representation of history. For all the people who served, i am truly sorry this is what many people beleive to be your experience and what you fought for. If you want a -better- (but still a movie) glimpse of squad level combat watch Saving Private Ryan. All this film accomplishes is creating frustration, and sadness for those who wish to see the complexities of war approached with dignity and true insight. Skip this misleading waste of time...
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Summary: Whoa!
Review: A deeply disturbing, yet mostly accurate, piece of cinema genius. I can't really top what's already been said from the guys here who made it through Parris, especially about the perplexing, yet intriguing, contrast between the first and second half of the movie. I didn't make it through Parris Island but can assure you that Gunny R. Lee Ermey deserves an academy award for the most accurate portrayal of a drill sergeant Hollywood can possibly offer. Bravo to the film execs who looked past any politically-correct bias and realized that this guy was the real deal. I'd buy this for his performance alone although the rest of the movie is equally great-Kubrik classic. My mates made it to Desert Storm so i defer to those reviewers who have experienced combat to comment on the second half of the film. However, having spoken to numerous veterans and having done my senior thesis on the Vietnam conflict, I rate this movie top-notch along with The Deerhunter. Semper Fidelis to all who survived the hell of boot camp as well as the hell of war.
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Summary: No Motivation
Review: Besides this movie being a little unrealistic in the war-front scenes, there is one large problem that I can't get over with this movie, which involves the scene where the fat guy kills the drill seregent. He obviously chose to go into the Marines, which has the toughest boot camp, even though he must know he isn't apt to do so. It's not that it's a bad movie, it just leaves you feeling a bit empty afterwards.
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