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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 6, 2012
Pros: See review
Cons: See review
Summary: It saddens me to think of the countless young men who have suffered the same fate as Vincent Donofrio’s character in Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket”. These often floundering, clumsy, and uncoordinated recruits come to boot ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 4, 2010
Pros: Great direction and concept, thought-provoking, interesting, performances
Cons: A little long
Summary: There are many disputed tops of the American War genre of films and each can have subgenres categorically associated to what time periods...but there's one film that takes the cake in my household for the best war movie of all time: Stanley Kubrick's ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 13, 2006
Pros: First rate first half. Ermey as Hartman.
Cons: Second half doesn't measure up all the way. Weak extras.
Summary: Stanley Kubrick had this habit of making movies in chunks. Movies that have two or more contrasting segments. "2001: A Space Odyssey" was like this, the lengthy (and confusing and, yeah, a little boring) opening sequence ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 22, 2005
Pros: classic, definitive, iconic
Cons: uneven in tone and style
Summary: Art isn't just about the message. It's also about the medium, the specific portal through which that message is conveyed. Some media are better at expressing action, or color, or thought. Some media are more portable, while others are more visceral. ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 6, 2002
Pros: Ermey and Modine, Kubrick directs with flair, a stylish script
Cons: May be too impressionistic for some
Summary: "Full Metal Jacket" is two movies in one. Okay, some would argue that that the Tet Offensive and sniper scenes should each be given full billing. But I'm more concerned with the violent change in tone and agenda that takes place between the training ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 2, 2002
Pros: First half of the film is very real!!!I've been there...BootCamp
Cons: the second half was pretty good but not as good as the first half.
Summary: This movie brings back so many memories about boot camp. Because this film is absolutely very realistic. this movie is about Marine Corps Boot Camp during the Vietnam war. And about all the obstacles a recruit has to go thru to claim the title of a ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 8, 2002
Pros: Lots and lots of action!
Cons: None.
Summary: Director Stanley Kubrick has really done a very superb job in directing this very powerful and dramatic movie. The scenes he has directed were so realistic. For example, the scene where Sgt Hartman played by Lee Ermy was when he went to each guy after ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 15, 2001
Pros: The usual Kubrick elements: dialogue, action, plot, the whole nine yards
Cons: Extreme profanity makes this film unsuitable for those under 17 without parental discretion
Summary: In his time, Stanley Kubrick was not a director who shied away from hard-hitting subjects, be it the Cold War, outer space, haunted hotels, or crime-ridden futures. His 1987 film FULL METAL JACKET continued that tradition, and did so with flying ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 23, 2001
Pros: A good film
Cons: too much violence.
Summary: This for me is the most important Viet Nam war film after Platoon.
The reasoning behind my decision on choosing this as number 2 ahead of films such as Hamburger Hill and Good morning Viet name is it tells many different sides of a very similar ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 3, 2001
Pros: Great Movie, realistic warfare.
Cons: None
Summary: This happens to be one of my favorite movie, along with another by Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange. This movie has realistic violence, and many wity parts. It starts in boot camp with a strict drill sergant, though I will reviel no more to those of you who ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 2, 2001
Pros: Excellent direction, unflinching look at the dehumanization that war requires
Cons: Maybe too clever for it's own good, essentially plotless
Summary: This is a tough one. How do you approach one of the most critically acclaimed movies by one of the most critically acclaimed directors without sounding like you're hopping on the bandwagon? In short, how do you kiss an ass without sounding like you are ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 17, 2000
Pros: You won't easily forget it
Cons: None for me
Summary: This movie seems to be panned by critics quite alot. Apparently is doesn't follow a structure normal to the movie industry. It is not supposed to. It is more like a collection of thoughts. Kind of like a slice of life. Maybe it is not realistic and drawn ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 25, 2000
Pros: Best Vietnam film ever made.
Cons: Atypical structure and characterizations may turn you off.
Summary: There was a story in Brill's Content a few months ago regarding one man's fight to change the public perception that most Vietnam vets were emotionally disturbed misfits who led life feeling angered at how their country abandoned them. This gentleman ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 14, 2000
Pros: Realism, Characters, Accurate Portrayal of boot camp and marines
Cons: NVA death sequences(excluding the sniper)
Summary: "I came to Vietnam the jewel of southeast Asia to meet interesting and exotic people then kill them I wanted to be the first kid on my block to get a confirmed kill"-Joker Best war movie ever and I've seen many hardcore real life experience of ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 18, 2000
Pros: A unique look at war itself, not just the Vietnam war
Cons: Small plot
Summary: Full Metal Jacket is NOT like other war films. It does not portray the horrors of combat. Well, primarily. Rather, it is divided into two parts, both following Private Joker through Marine training, and then into Vietnam to face actual combat.
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 6, 2000
Pros: Cinematography, great story, KUBRICK!!!!
Cons: none
Summary: "Now you listen to me you lame brain pile's of #%$@! You are all older than a piece of modern art! YOU DON'T DESERVE TO LIVE! EAT @#$%!"
These are just some of the words uttered out of the Sergents mouth in the beggining of this ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 29, 2000
Pros: WAAAAARRR
Cons: you, now shut the f up
Summary: I really don't care about Kubrick, don't know what all the fuss is about. Now let's talk about the MOVIE *GASP*, I was so busy talking about the director I forgot there was a movie too. Full Metal Jacket, in short, isn't a bullcrap war movie. It's real. ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 13, 2000
Pros: For the most part, a mesmerizing movie.
Cons: Dull at times.
Summary: NOTE: Please excuse the poor formatting. It is a computer glitch.
A DI with a penchant for profanity and a tongue like a thumping trip-
hammer. A gelatinous GI named Pyle, with a leering jack o' lantern face,
and eyes liquid with ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 28, 2000
Pros: Action-packed, drama-filled, excellent portrayal of the harshness of war.
Cons: One of those movies that you have to watch all the way through uninterrupted.
Summary: Plan on joining the military? Well, watch this movie before you make such a mistake (I'm not saying the military is bad, just don't get involved in war). This movie, directed by the famous (and to some, infamous) Stanley Kubric. This is the same man who ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 30, 2000
Pros: Excellent cast, lots of action
Cons: Brutal and cold, very explicit
Summary: Full Metal Jacket is one of Stanley Kubrick's masterpieces, and is about a group of men who go through boot camp and into the jungle of Viet Nam.
A good friend of mine who went through Marine boot camp around the same time this movie takes ... read more
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