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Format: DVD June 12, 2001
Description
The story of an 18-year-old marine recruit named Private Joker - from his carnage-and-machismo boot camp to his climactic involvement in the heavy fighting in Hue during the 1968 Tet Offensive.
Format: Color, Full Screen, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Widescreen
Contributor: Adam Baldwin, Arliss Howard, Dorian Harewood, Ed O'Ross, Gustav Hasford, John Terry, Kevyn Major Howard, Kieron Jecchinis, Kirk Taylor, Matthew Modine, Michael Herr, R. Lee Ermey, Stanley Kubrick, Tim Colceri, Vincent D'Onofrio See more
Language: English
Runtime: 1 hour and 56 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Aspect Ratio : 1.331
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 1.6 ounces
Item model number : P-48411
Director : Stanley Kubrick
Media Format : Color, Full Screen, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Widescreen
Run time : 1 hour and 56 minutes
Release date : June 12, 2001
Actors : Adam Baldwin, Dorian Harewood, Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio
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Top Amazon Reviews
Full Metal Jacket" is a compelling and visceral war film by Stanley Kubrick that splits its narrative into two distinct halves, each equally powerful in its portrayal of the Vietnam War. The first act, set in Parris Island, delves deep into the brutal dehumanization of Marine recruits during boot camp, where the iconic performances of R. Lee Ermey as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman and Matthew Modine as Private Joker set a chilling tone. This segment is both darkly humorous and profoundly disturbing, showcasing the psychological breakdown and the making of soldiers through extreme discipline and humiliation. The second half shifts to the battlefields of Vietnam, transitioning into a more chaotic and surreal depiction of urban warfare in Hue City, where the film explores themes of dehumanization from both the American and Vietnamese perspectives. Kubrick's direction, with its meticulous attention to detail, combined with the film's sharp script and haunting performances, especially by Vincent D'Onofrio, creates an unflinching look at the impact of war on the human psyche. "Full Metal Jacket" is not just about the physical battles but the internal ones, making it a timeless piece on the cost of war, identity, and morality.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2024 by Eric Campbell
My wife told me about this movie, and I can't believe I've never seen it. As a former US Army veteran, I can attest to the basic training realism of the first part of the movie. Drill Sergeant Ermey was a spitting image of my drill sergeant, and it brought back memories of boot camp. The movie's action scenes are also very realistic, and I liked this movie a lot.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2024 by imstan
When I teach my film classes, I find that Kubrick (along with Hitchcock) is one of the most misunderstood filmmakers of the last century. Why is an essential component of this filmmaker (as well as others) lost in the translation? Part of it seems to be the separation between film history/criticism in the United States, where film enthusiasts seem content with the film alone, and forget that, prior to the internet, movies existed within a network of criticism that extended from the Westcoast Studios to the Eastcoast critics, and stretched overseas, where brilliant essayists like Truffaut were able to pick apart the latest offerings in the pages of the Cahiers du Cinema. These filmmakers used the theater as an extension of a critical dialogue that helped explain their core philosophies; the New york Critics and European Essayists were really cinematic linguists who helped to make sense of the "linguistic" complexity of a medium whose essential grammar seems to be more or less intuitive, both concrete and abstract. The transition to more escapist fare (at least in the late 70s studio Hollywood system) has meant a transition in the critical world as well; with the popularity of the Cinematic Essayist waning in the last 20 years, being instead replaced by schtick and the "every man" approach to film reviews, and a cruel thumbs-up, thumbs-down approach -- more or less a symptom of our collective attention deficit. While these approaches are necessary, the lack of educated "cinematic linguists" is resulting in the loss of understanding when it comes to our most important filmmakers, of which Kubrick is undoubtedly one. For instance, it surprises most people to know that one of our most important stylists considered himself to be an "objective director." Kubrick's minimalist, nuanced, distanced style is really the product of his core philosophy which was to "observe" rather than to "impart." Kubrick aligned himself with documentarians who used aesthetic restraint in crafting ethnographic narratives. In fact, if you really study the man -- his writings, his interviews -- you will find that his entire career was really a quest for cinematic truth. He constantly struggled against his own interpretation and impressions of events, to try to give a multi-faceted view of reality and drama, of which he believed that narrative itself was really an unnatural hallucination imposed on a series of random events by the mind's need to rationalize and organize. Kubrick struggled against not only studio narrative -- the classic three-act structure -- which he found predictable and as pedestrian as an overly familiar nursery rhyme; but he also resisted the narrative of the mind, its need to simplify, reduce, and impose. Even more than that, Kubrick struggled against the medium itself. In an interview, Kubrick opined about the need to import rocks onto the set of Full Metal Jacket, to acquire the realism he knew would be beyond his reach with simulation. Sounding a lot like Jorge Luis Borges speaking about the problems of a truly realistic map, he explained the natural processes that would go into the formation of those rocks, with which Hollywood verisimilitude just could not compete. Importing those rocks is proof of Kubrick's devotion to objectivity, which he felt was constantly compromised and corrupted by the cinematic medium itself (never mind that those rocks existed on a fabricated sound stage in London -- but Kubrick's philosophy on realism/formalism was always filled with contradictions). It's interesting to note that critical interpretation of Stanley Kubrick largely fails because it excludes the man's own take on his own material. Never being one to shut down another's opinion, Kubrick nevertheless had very strong and opinionated feelings about his own films, opinions that seem incredibly out-of-step with popular interpretation of his work. I would like to remind the reader (whoever has been kind enough to stay with me thus far), an obvious fact, that will seem more obvious in retrospect -- Kubrick had a lifelong fascination with the propagandistic nature of cinema as well as the theme of social brainwashing. A better word for brainwashing is "conditioning" as it's broader and encompasses what Kubrick felt was the most consistent theme running throughout the entirety of his work. Kubrick was obsessed with how man's psyche could be conditioned -- through media, through government, through aristocracy, through peer pressure, etc. And in the end, he was fascinated by the struggle between an individual's innate nature and the outside, coercive forces that threatened to eliminate his nature or suppress it once and for all. "Full Metal Jacket" has the observationalist impulse of a documentary, the lyric quality of silent cinema, the rigorous technical prowess of Max Ophuls, and the elliptical, bifurcated narrative of an art house movie. In light of these influences, "Full Metal Jacket" is less an unconventional, frustrating war movie, than a logical realization of Kubrick's core aesthetic principles as applied to the Viet Nam conflict. That being the case, what unites the two "halves" of Full Metal Jacket is the theme of "social conditioning." A soldier is like a full metal jacket -- his outer shell is formed by a rigid, brutalizing, indifferent, nearly industrial process, and yet, somewhere beneath is the soft material that can prove pliant and powerful in the wrong hands. Viewed from this perspective, the second half of "Full Metal Jacket" is not as off-putting as some have unfairly suggested. For those who are intimately familiar with the man's philosophies, the "second half" is a natural consequence of the first half, and succeeds brilliantly in emphasizing Kubrick's fascination with man's duality -- a duality that becomes more apparent in a sustained and prolonged conflict between two national dualities. (If you really want insight into the work of Kubrick or other filmmakers, do not divorce them from their influences, or their own philosophies which exist in interviews, private notes, and other secondary and third sources).
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Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2011 by Oh Boy, the Po Boy
Classic gold of a military movie
Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2024 by Amazon Customer
Even though it's an older movie, I still enjoyed it, it was well worth the movie rental fee. I probably wouldn't have paid to purchase the movie, but it was still enjoyable.
Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2024 by Steven A Williams
Good movie
Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2024 by Amazon Customer
I rented for a friend that had never watched probably the fourth time for me
Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2024 by krwhome
Love this movie drill instructor hilarious. I like that it's like two movies in one. For adults only rough language. Picture in 4k very clear compared to my dvd.
Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2024 by C. Hall