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Summary: decent, but...
Review: I am the largest-scale fan of Kubrick one can fathom.... A Clockwork Orange and 2001 changed my life... but this is just your basic '80's war movie, I don't think it was so good.
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Summary: It's 1.66:1
Review: All of Kubrick's films for Warner Brothers (A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut) were shot in either full-frame or the 1.66:1 ratio, and projected in the 1.66:1 format. I am surprised that this edition does not recreate the full theater experience, but I'm sure Stanley wanted it this way.Now about the movie. This is a masterpiece. And I don't mean just the first half. Anyone who understands this movie and its message appreciates both acts. ALong with his other war masterpiece, Paths of Glory, this is the finest antiwar war film ever made. And what a screenplay. War movies do not get much better than this
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Summary: Great acting and humor
Review: This movie has the best acting and is almost hilarious. One of the best movies in my category. I urge you to see it. Props to stanley kubrick.
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Summary: The greatest war move ever.
Review: I feel the much-maligned second half of this movie is equal to the first half. Not only is the squad action (when Joker and the rest go after the sniper) told in a compelling manner but is also shown with a clarity that belies the complexity of staging a scene like this. The film is also unique in portraying the elation of survival that every soldier feels after having come through another conflict alive. Some saw the singing of the Mickey Mouse theme as a snide comment on the callousness of American troops in Vietnam. I think it was meant portray that feeling of joy that one has lived to see another day.
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Summary: "So true to real-life it's frightening."
Review: As a Vietnam Vet during the Tet Offensive I shared the the same sentiments as Jokers partner Rafterman. "We come over here to help these people and they sh** all over us". Although I was in the Army, many Marine buddies I have talked to say that R. Lee Ermey's portrayal of Gunnery Sargeant Hartman was absolutely true-to-life. It definately was an anti-war statement that Kubrick was making.
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Summary: Full Metal Jacket gets better as time goes on.
Review: 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.
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Summary: 1:33:1 is how Kubrick intended it
Review: It was released in the UK in 1:33:1 (actually, i think it was 1:66:1, but i'm working on little to no sleep and my memories of nerding out on Kubrick while at university). Being the anal-retentive guy he is, he oversaw the mastering of the DVDs up to and including the package design, so i think he wants it the way it is. What are we missing by the movie not being "widescreen"? It's not a Cinemascope Western, _Lawrence of Arabia_, or _2001_ where there are multitudes of great expanses. _FMJ_ is claustrophobic - the screen-filling 1:33:1 will be really in-your-face. Anyway, _Strangelove_ and _Clockwork_ aren't 1:85:1 and so was almost every movie until the suits at the studios decided they needed to compete with TV. So the love of money created widescreen so you can be able to see _Grease_ in C'Scope at your reporatory cinema, that's something to be thankful for.
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Summary: Huh-Ah
Review: I would have to say that this is the best movie I have ever seen. Such a classic, to bad Kubrick died before he could do more. A must see.
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Summary: Troubled by full frame?
Review: I am writing to clear up some of the uproar surrounding the 1:1.33 full frame versions of Full Metal Jacket and The Shining being released as part of the Stanley Kubrick Collection. Before his death, Kubrick personally oversaw the creation of these DVDs; every detail down to the typefaces used on the packaging was Kubricks choice (Research has led me to believe this is true, though I cannot confirm it in any way). Due to the advent of the VCR and Kubricks disdain for Pan&Scan, The Shining (and later FMJ) were actually filmed "Full Frame" by Kubrick, and later matted for theatrical release to avoid Pan & Scan butchery by the movie studios. That is why these two DVDs are Full Frame. We will see the films as Kubric intended them. True, I prefer the shape of widescreen; it is more "stable" and pleasant, compared to 1:1.33, but I'd rather follw the masters orders...
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Summary: Wide Screen Less
Review: One of the best movies of it's kind. One problem.......the 1:85 aspect ratio has been ignored. Why?? We'll probably never get to know...which is frustrating. Presumably when we all get wide screen tv's they re-release the bloody things again......... Warners....you have goofed. Again.
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