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Summary: NO OFFENSE.
Review: THIS MOVIE IS TOO VIOLENT TO BE THE BEST MOVIE EVER MADE
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Summary: Excellent Movie for Marines
Review: The movie was pretty realistic in the bootcamp scences. It brought back a lot of memories for me and it made me remember the good and bad of boot camp. The actors in it portrayed marines in boot camp almost the same. The character's in the movie are the kind that go to Marine Corps boot camp(s).
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Summary: This movie is a great reference on how vietnam was.
Review: Even though I have only seen the movie just about a thousand times I see something new every time I watch. I also learn how vietnam was, FULL METAL JACKET and SAVING PRIVATE RYAN gives us a view of the hard times of vietnam, and the troubles the people had to deal with. this movie gives the MARINE CORPS the glorifacation it deserves.
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Summary: KUBRICK NEVER FILMED THIS MOVIE IN LETTERBOX FORMAT!
Review: Everything about this disc is great including the non-letterbox transfer. Stanley Kubrick never filmed this movie in letterbox, so when people say that his vision is not being preserved with this disc it just goes to show that those people do not know what they are talking about. The only thing I have to wonder about is...why just MONO sound. I know this film could have Dolby Surround.
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Summary: BEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME
Review: "Full Metal Jacket" is not only well-directed, well-acted and riveting, it challenges the definition of cinema. Kubrick is not afraid to alienate people with his interpretation of the Vietnam war and the military. As the camera pans through a ravaged, burning battleground, we hear the raucus "Surfin' Bird." As Marines walk across a devestated landscape, they sing "Mickey Mouse." Bombs and fires are raging in Hue City and the soldiers are negotiating with a prostitute. On Parris Island, when the drill instructor is not lambasting the recruits with highly original obscenity, he is trying to inspire them with a discussion of Lee Harvey Oswald's marksmanship. This film is the perfect antidote for the rampant superficial politics that have definited cinema. There is nothing noble, pretty or glamorous about this film, and because of that, "Full Metal Jacket" is timeless.
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Summary: War. What the hell's it good for?
Review: I served as a photojournalist with Armed Forces News Service from 1966 to 1970. This film says a lot about what I experienced . . . "First to go; last to know" . . .
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Summary: No Widescreen? Whats the point?
Review: I beleive this movie to be one of the best released on the Vietnam war. (Except for one scene including a high voiced annoying superior downtalking to the young journalist above a grave. Talk about an uninspiring speech!) I have to leave the room durring this scene each time i hear that mans voice. My highest criticism is simple though: Why no letterbox? I have DVD mostly because I can see movies the way they were made to be seen. Without letterbox this movie is still going to lack its theatrical power that I remember. I urge the makers to look at releasing this film in the correct format. Without letterbox this movie is not worth purchase. I just assume wait.
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Summary: A chilling, perverse and brilliant film.....
Review: This film is a masterpiece in and of itself, let alone of war movies. Unlike other Vietnam epics like Apocalypse Now, we see the true brutality of war even before the battle scenes begin. The film rings with a perverse and juxtaposed voice about the degradation of men at war and its stunning effects. Also, unlike many people who view this film, I thought the second half was equally affecting and vivid as the first half. The scene in which a recruit loses his wits and blows his brains out in the bathroom is at once revolting but strangely attractive in its own way because we know that we might have done the same in that position. The battle scenes (especially the scene with the sniper) are much more vivid and shocking than the absolute carnage of Omaha Beach in Speilberg's Saving Private Ryan ( although that film was brilliant and masterful also) perhaps because of its humanity. Overall, this film about Vietnam does not have the effect of an LSD trip as Apocalypse Now nor the bloody carnage and brutality of Saving Private Ryan but is, in my opinion, more shocking and has the psychological effect of some hellish nightmare which the viewer cannot escape. The film is an opus of the atrocities and perversness of war (hence the punctured eqillibrium of the plot). Ending the film with the dark classic "Paint It Black" by The Rolling Stones and using the Mickey Mouse theme song in such a malignant way only add to the overall effect of chilling proportions. Overall, a classic of artistic achievement in any medium and a sort of War and Peace or Moby-Dick of war films. A must-see film that should be in any collection.
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Summary: Riveting Portrayal of the Other Side of War
Review: I rated this movie a classic the first time I saw it. While many would disagree with me, I believe it is the first part of the movie that makes it a classic.The depiction of life in a military boot camp, with all the indoctrination, dehumanizing and debasement that goes on makes you shake your head when we pause and realize that these are, in many cases, only 18 and 19-year-old boys that we train to be killers without remorse. The battle scenes were okay, but overall, I thought it was how they showed regular, All-American kids and turned them into ravenous beasts that really made the movie.
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Summary: Why not widescreen?
Review: Why was Full Metal Jacket not released in widescreen format? If it had been, I would've given it a much higher review.
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