Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio
Story follows a group of Marine recruits from the harrowing experience of boot camp to the horrifying battlefronts of Vietnam.
DVD Release Date: June 29, 1999
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November 9, 2009I really liked the first part of it - so funny!, but the second part was pretty much the same as every other war movie.
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September 4, 2009A film of 2 halves, it shows the real, ugly and stupid side of war. Kubrick made the last great war film, everything after this is just special effects. Brilliant!
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June 26, 2009Stanley Kubrick?s ?Full Metal Jacket? is one of the best war films made in my opinion. It?s very much a film of two parts, which I feel is the secret of the films' success. In the first part we see the training of the recruits, in the second we see them go to war, I've not seen...( read more)
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April 25, 2009The career of Stanley Kubrick seems to be him taking on a popular genre and blowing the competition out of the water. 2001 was his answer to the sci-fi films of the 1950's and '60's. A Clockwork Orange defined the ultra violent films that would follow it during the 1970's. The Sh...( read more)
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November 20, 2009Eh...this movie was pretty funny in the beginning. It was about as funny as racism, homophobia, and war can be I suppose. Therefore, I'll cherish those first forty minutes or so. After the offensive comedy and the whole murder/suicide fiasco ended, Full Metal Jacket seemed pretty...( read more)
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November 19, 2009One of my favorite Kubrick films. Something about many of the moments he creates here, runs very very deep.
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November 16, 2009A great realistic movie about becoming a soldier in the Vietnam War. A masterpiece.
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Critic Reviews
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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July 10, 2008this is my rifle, this is my gun, this is for figthing and this is for fun
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September 9, 2006"Stanley Kubrick" is a genius,In this movie he shows what war is really about. War is never justified, war is never good. Therefore I think war movie should never glorify war but rather show it as what it really is: nightmarish hell.He also gives us a "grunts-eye-view" of military training and combat in a war that was particularly unpopular and well documented.
Private Joker: My thoughts drift back to erect nipple wet dreams about Mary Jane Rottencrotch and the Great Homecoming Fuck Fantasy. I am so happy that I am alive, in one piece and short. I'm in a world of shit... yes. But I am alive. And I am not afraid. -
August 30, 2006Fucken hilariouse. That job would so suit me, i love to talk shit about others.
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August 20, 2006Cold, brutal portrayal of the training and subsequent field operations of the U.S Marine Corps. This is a must see for Vincent D'Onofrio's character alone!
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