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Full Metal Jacket (1987) 8.4
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8.4/10 from 278,026 users
Metascore: 78/100
Reviews: 599 user | 133 critic | 18 from Metacritic.com A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow Marine recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting set in 1968 in Hue, Vietnam. Director:Stanley Kubrick |
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Cast
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| Matthew Modine | ... | ||
| Adam Baldwin | ... | ||
| Vincent D'Onofrio | ... | ||
| R. Lee Ermey | ... |
Gny. Sgt. Hartman
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| Dorian Harewood | ... | ||
| Kevyn Major Howard | ... | ||
| Arliss Howard | ... | ||
| Ed O'Ross | ... | ||
| John Terry | ... | ||
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Kieron Jecchinis | ... | |
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Kirk Taylor | ... | |
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Tim Colceri | ... | |
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Jon Stafford | ... |
Doc Jay
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Bruce Boa | ... | |
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Ian Tyler | ... | |
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A two-segment look at the effect of the military mindset and war itself on Vietnam era Marines. The first half follows a group of recruits in boot camp under the command of the punishing Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. The second half shows one of those recruits, Joker, covering the war as a correspondent for Stars and Stripes, focusing on the Tet offensive. Written by Scott Renshaw <as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu>
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Vietnam can kill me, but it can't make me care See more »Parents Guide:
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Release Date:
26 June 1987 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket See more »Box Office
Budget:
$17,000,000 (estimated)Gross:
$46,357,676 (USA)Company Credits
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Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be "Sir". Do you maggots understand that?
Recruits: [In unison in a normal speaking tone] Sir, yes Sir.
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Bullshit I can't hear you. Sound off like you got a pair!
Recruits: [In unison, much louder] SIR, YES SIR!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: If you ladies leave my island, if you survive recruit training, you will be a weapon. You will be a minister of death praying ...
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Written by A. Frazier, C. White, T. Wilson Jr. and J. Harris
Performed by The Trashmen
Courtesy of Dominion Entertainment Inc.
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Did You Know?
Trivia
To make Gunnery Sgt. Hartmann's performance and the recruits' reactions as convincing as possible, Matthew Modine, Vincent D'Onofrio, and the other actors playing recruits never met R. Lee Ermey prior to filming. Stanley Kubrick also saw to it that Ermey didn't fraternize with the actors between takes. See more »Goofs
The mud on Pyle's back changes when he's trying to navigate the obstacle in which he has to go up the parallel bars. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be "Sir". Do you maggots understand that?
Recruits: [In unison in a normal speaking tone] Sir, yes Sir.
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Bullshit I can't hear you. Sound off like you got a pair!
Recruits: [In unison, much louder] SIR, YES SIR!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: If you ladies leave my island, if you survive recruit training, you will be a weapon. You will be a minister of death praying ...
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Soundtracks
"Surfin' Bird"Written by A. Frazier, C. White, T. Wilson Jr. and J. Harris
Performed by The Trashmen
Courtesy of Dominion Entertainment Inc.
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NO SPOILERS! This is a review, not a synopsis.
First of all I love Kubrick's work, so I came into this with a bias. However I have seen a lot of action and war films, and this one, to an individual who never went to war, seems the most true-to-life, taken as a whole. This IS how you have to look at this film, incidentally; trying to break it down into two or three parts and say which was better is missing the point of the film, I think.
In the same way that "Trainspotting" was an anti-drug film that did not gloss over anything, "Full Metal Jacket" is (for me) an anti-war film that stares straight at the ugliness of war and the potential for violence within almost all people, especially those trained, conditioned, even twisted, into military roles, without preaching even a single time. Less allegory and more applicability! Wonderful!
The camera work was superb. I felt like I was walking through the movie with the Marines, from the barracks to the battlefield scenes.
I have seen others criticize this film for the voice over, but I felt that it was used sparingly, and was helpful, not overdone. The narrator doesn't say anything that seems out-of-place.
Others have commented on the music, the acting, and so on, so I won't add my repetitive comments, except that the drill sergeant is perfect!
The combination of the demented treatment the recruits receive in boot camp with the combined "hours of boredom, seconds of terror" feel of the Vietnam scenes is intense and not for everyone, but feels REAL.
10 out of 10, perfect.