|
Full Metal Jacket (Deluxe Edition) [Blu-ray]
|
Click image
for larger view
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
Editorial Reviews:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Marine recruits endure basic training under a leather-lunged D.I., then plunge into the hell of Vietnam. Matthew Modine heads a talented ensemble in this searing look at a process that turns people into killers.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Stanley Kubrick's 1987, penultimate film seemed to a lot of people to be contrived and out of touch with the '80s vogue for such intensely realistic portrayals of the Vietnam War as Platoon and The Deer Hunter. Certainly, Kubrick gave audiences plenty of reason to wonder why he made the film at all: essentially a two-part drama that begins on a Parris Island boot camp for rookie Marines and abruptly switches to Vietnam (actually shot on sound stages and locations near London), Full Metal Jacket comes across as a series of self-contained chapters in a story whose logical and thematic development is oblique at best. Then again, much the same was said about Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, a masterwork both enthralled with and satiric about the future's role in the unfinished business of human evolution. In a way, Full Metal Jacket is the wholly grim counterpart of 2001. While the latter is a truly 1960s film, both wide-eyed and wary, about the intertwining of progress and isolation (ending in our redemption, finally, by death), Full Metal Jacket is a cynical, Reagan-era view of the 1960s' hunger for experience and consciousness that fulfilled itself in violence. Lee Ermey made film history as the Marine drill instructor whose ritualized debasement of men in the name of tribal uniformity creates its darkest angel in a murderous half-wit (Vincent D'Onofrio). Matthew Modine gives a smart and savvy performance as Private Joker, the clowning, military journalist who yearns to get away from the propaganda machine and know firsthand the horrific revelation of the front line. In Full Metal Jacket, depravity and fulfillment go hand in hand, and it's no wonder Kubrick kept his steely distance from the material to make the point. --Tom Keogh
|
|
|
|
|
|
Stanley Kubrick's 1987, penultimate film seemed to a lot of people to be contrived and out of touch with the '80s vogue for such intensely realistic portrayals of the Vietnam War as Platoon and The Deer Hunter. Certainly, Kubrick gave audiences plenty of reason to wonder why he made the film at all: essentially a two-part drama that begins on a Parris Island boot camp for rookie Marines and abruptly switches to Vietnam (actually shot on sound stages and locations near London), Full Metal Jacket comes across as a series of self-contained chapters in a story whose logical and thematic development is oblique at best. Then again, much the same was said about Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, a masterwork both enthralled with and satiric about the future's role in the unfinished business of human evolution. In a way, Full Metal Jacket is the wholly grim counterpart of 2001. While the latter is a truly 1960s film, both wide-eyed and wary, about the intertwining of progress and isolation (ending in our redemption, finally, by death), Full Metal Jacket is a cynical, Reagan-era view of the 1960s' hunger for experience and consciousness that fulfilled itself in violence. Lee Ermey made film history as the Marine drill instructor whose ritualized debasement of men in the name of tribal uniformity creates its darkest angel in a murderous half-wit (Vincent D'Onofrio). Matthew Modine gives a smart and savvy performance as Private Joker, the clowning, military journalist who yearns to get away from the propaganda machine and know firsthand the horrific revelation of the front line. In Full Metal Jacket, depravity and fulfillment go hand in hand, and it's no wonder Kubrick kept his steely distance from the material to make the point. --Tom Keogh
|
|
|
Full Metal Jacket (Deluxe Edition) [Blu-ray]
If you like this DVD movie, check out these items!
|
|
User Comments About Full Metal Jacket (Deluxe Edition) [Blu-ray]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
There isn't one that didn't feel a mysterious tingle in the back of his neck and a shiver down his spine when he first heard Lee Ermy calling cadence in the boot camp segment of the movie. Nuf said about the film except to say that the video and audio transfer to blu-ray is outstanding. The anamorphic treatment that allows it to fit 16X9 TVs is excellent. Buy It. This film is very close to the nerve centers of practically all Marines because it so very realistically depicts their experiences in either boot camp and/or Vietnam. Makes it seem even more realistic.
|
|
|
|
|
|
This is an EXCELLENT Blu-Ray conversion of this classic Kubric movie, must see on Blu-Ray with the remastering 1080P quality and all the special features. Great buy.
|
|
One of the best war films of all time.
|
|
|
|
|
|
In the book, you'll notice that the narative style begins in a simple, direct, and at times brutal manner, and becomes more introspective as the plot moves into the second and third parts. You will be immersed in this film. this is a terrific film, and it stands on its own merits. Buy the film, you won't be disappointed. Short-Timers consists of three acts, "The Spirit of the Bayonet", "Body Count", and "Grunts." The first act is fairly accurately reproduced in the movie, but the second and third acts are combined, and the film loses some plot clarity as a result.
read the book, you'll better understand the imagery of the film, the transformation of the central character, and why the film ends the way that it does. I'm by no means suggesting the ol' "the book was better" here.
The movie reproduces this narative, enhanced by the imagery that is trademark Kubrick. while the main character, initially a passive observer, becomes increasingly involved.
If you don't "get it", read the novel it was based on:. If you've read the book, you'll understand the way the movie seems to "jump" from one setting to the next, mentioned in other reviews here.
I can't help but wonder what this film might have looked like had Kubrick maintained the "three act" format of the book. Buy Hasford's book as well, and you'll be back watching the film again several times over.
"The Short-Timers", by Gustav Hasford. Full Metal Jacket is one of the best, and most powerful war films of all time.
However, for those who found the plot confusing.
|
|
|
|
|
|
The leads spend more time whining, crying and acting like idiots over the sniper than they did over their own dead. Watch the film for the first half and shut it off when they get to Vietnam. It might as well have been on DVD. It would have been more belevable as an ordinary suicide.
Suddenly we have Rambo running around with the big gun that never needs ammunition. Everything about the "combat" scenes is wrong. The other thing that didn't quite catch is that DIs and the process don't just punish the weak. And what does everything build to. All the realism of the early part of the film is lost. The only flaw in it is the murder-suicide at the end. As far as blu-ray goes, this film doesn't deserve it and doesn't benefit from it.
The second half of the movie is worthless. We have marines advancing into a city of Hue that looks like Stalingrad. The main character is suddenly made a journalist in Vietnam for a handful of pointless scences hanging around base and then just as suddenly is pushed into fighting in an infantry squad in Hue.
They go after the strong ones too. The first movie is a very realistic journey through the boot camp process for the marines. Its just not realistic.
Pity for a female Vietnamese sniper. The only positive thing I can say about the second half the film is that its missing all the unrealistic "soldiers talk about the war" scenes that fill most every other movie about vietnam. The reason why its so realistic is that Kubrick found a DI who could act and let the process run as if it were real.
Full metal Jacket is really two movies in one. While Hue might have looked like this after the marines cleared the city, its kind of a major mistake to make it look like this BEFORE they cleared it.
|
|
|
|
|
|
I would definitely buy from this seller again. It came in brand new condition at an amazing price nowhere else I looked could even touch. R. The Bluray makes even the most shocking or violent scenes so clear and beautiful it's impossible to look away. The movie came earlier than predicted. Lee is amazing, and this movie is an instant favorite.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Home
Bookmark This Page
View Cart
