[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Full Metal Jacket (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 12/20/2009 12:28:34 PM EDT
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I just finished watching it, again.
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A classic!
Welcome to Recruit Training! Private Joker, why did you join my beloved Corps! 
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I watch it about 4 times a year myself. In before the "Cool story Bro" guys ETA: DAMN, That was fast Sorry, couldn't help myself. Really though, it's a great movie, I have it along with my "Stanley Kubrick Collection" set of DVD's. I just watched it about 2 weeks ago, my girlfriend had never seen it all the way through so I had to remedy that. |
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I feel a kinship with "Jesus". |
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One of my favorite movies of all time. Mine too And I'm getting Apocalypse Now for Christmas. A wise choice. Full Metal Jacket - Ausschnitt It's hilarious in German. |
Tis the season, and all. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qMVSis5lyk |
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I always like that one as well. Maybe it was because R Lee was in both. |
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The ONLY good part in that whole movie is the boot camp scene. After that the movie is stupid. You got that right. It is a very filthy anti military movie made by a goddamn Left Wing idiot. If you listen to Joker's narrative in boot camp he demeans the military big time and it only gets worse when the scene shifts to Vietnam. It is enough to make you want to puke. Why ARFCOMers put up with the very strong anti military message of the movie just because R. Lee Ermey is mildly entertaining is beyond me. |
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Quoted: Could have been so much better. All the ingredients were there, but from a technical standpoint, the editing was lousy. Some great scenes in boot camp though. R. Lee Ermy gave the performance of his career. You're critiquing Stanley Kubrick's editing? Mmmmmmmm-kaayyyyyyy.... |
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The ONLY good part in that whole movie is the boot camp scene. After that the movie is stupid. You got that right. It is a very filthy anti military movie made by a goddamn Left Wing idiot. If you listen to Joker's narrative in boot camp he demeans the military big time and it only gets worse when the scene shifts to Vietnam. It is enough to make you want to puke. Why ARFCOMers put up with the very strong anti military message of the movie just because R. Lee Ermey is mildly entertaining is beyond me. Amen. That one scene is the only part worth seeing. |
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Could have been so much better. All the ingredients were there, but from a technical standpoint, the editing was lousy. Some great scenes in boot camp though. R. Lee Ermy gave the performance of his career. You're critiquing Stanley Kubrick's editing? Mmmmmmmm-kaayyyyyyy.... I don't give a damn about his reputation. I judge his work case by case. FMJ was a poorly edited film from start to finish. One glaring mistake was made during the Helo ride from Danang to Hue. They were flying in a UH 34 Seahorse. As the camera shows a shot out of the door looking over the landscape, we see the shadow of the helo on the treetops. Not the shadow of a UH 34, but the shadow of a Bell 206. Two aricraft that don't even remotely resemble one another. Further, if you've ever been to USMC bootcamp, it would be obvious to you that many of the events depicted in the bootcamp scenes were out of order. USMC recruit training is structured so that certain training events happen in a chronological order. Many things in the first half of the film occurred out of order. Events depicted in the combat scenes in Hue jumped around as well. If we sat togther and watched the film, I could point out several editing errors. I assure you, Kubrick would not look like such a genius. |
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Who said that, Who the twinkle toes ,cock sucker that just signed his own fucking death warrant!! "No body huh? The fairy-fucking Godmother said it! OUT-FUCKING-STANDING! I will PT you all until you fucking DIE! 
Was it you?you scroungy little fuck?Huh?I bet it was you! WAY too many great quotes! R Lee was the shit..Hell he still is. 
"Did your parents have any children that lived?" "Sir yes Sir!" "I bet they regret that" "Are you through grinning?" |
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I always like that one as well. Maybe it was because R Lee was in both.
And this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b1q-IlxGrk |
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My oldest friend is a former Marine. He went through recruit training in 1965 then off to Vietnam in 1966.
When FMJ came out, I asked him about the movie's accuracy, especially about the Boot Camp scenes. He told me that the scenes and R. Lee Ermey were spot on: Perfect depiction of a young man's initiation into the Brotherhood of Marines at Uncle Sam's school for wayward boys. |
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Could have been so much better. All the ingredients were there, but from a technical standpoint, the editing was lousy. Some great scenes in boot camp though. R. Lee Ermy gave the performance of his career. You're critiquing Stanley Kubrick's editing? Mmmmmmmm-kaayyyyyyy.... I don't give a damn about his reputation. I judge his work case by case. FMJ was a poorly edited film from start to finish. One glaring mistake was made during the Helo ride from Danang to Hue. They were flying in a UH 34 Seahorse. As the camera shows a shot out of the door looking over the landscape, we see the shadow of the helo on the treetops. Not the shadow of a UH 34, but the shadow of a Bell 206. Two aricraft that don't even remotely resemble one another. Further, if you've ever been to USMC bootcamp, it would be obvious to you that many of the events depicted in the bootcamp scenes were out of order. USMC recruit training is structured so that certain training events happen in a chronological order. Many things in the first half of the film occurred out of order. Events depicted in the combat scenes in Hue jumped around as well. If we sat togther and watched the film, I could point out several editing errors. I assure you, Kubrick would not look like such a genius. You assume that Kubrick's purpose was to portray boot camp as it really is. |
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Could have been so much better. All the ingredients were there, but from a technical standpoint, the editing was lousy. Some great scenes in boot camp though. R. Lee Ermy gave the performance of his career. You're critiquing Stanley Kubrick's editing? Mmmmmmmm-kaayyyyyyy.... I don't give a damn about his reputation. I judge his work case by case. FMJ was a poorly edited film from start to finish. One glaring mistake was made during the Helo ride from Danang to Hue. They were flying in a UH 34 Seahorse. As the camera shows a shot out of the door looking over the landscape, we see the shadow of the helo on the treetops. Not the shadow of a UH 34, but the shadow of a Bell 206. Two aricraft that don't even remotely resemble one another. Further, if you've ever been to USMC bootcamp, it would be obvious to you that many of the events depicted in the bootcamp scenes were out of order. USMC recruit training is structured so that certain training events happen in a chronological order. Many things in the first half of the film occurred out of order. Events depicted in the combat scenes in Hue jumped around as well. If we sat togther and watched the film, I could point out several editing errors. I assure you, Kubrick would not look like such a genius. Kubrick didn't write the movie or the story. It is based on a book called 'The Short Timers'. The movie follows the book almost to the letter including the tirade by R Lee Ermy. I know people think he made it up but it is almost verbatim out of the book. As I recall the author of the book was a Marine Corp Viet Nam vet. I'll give you the shadow of helocopter thing though I suppose there could have been a Bell 206 casting a shadow close to them. |
