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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: WARNER HOME VIDEO
EAN: 0085391163114
Feature: 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: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R Age: 085391163114 UPC: 085391163114 Manufacturer No: 116311
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 25
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: D116311D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Running Time: 116 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1987
Features:- 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: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R Age: 085391163114 UPC: 085391163114 Manufacturer No: 116311
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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: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 085391163114 Manufacturer No: 116311
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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
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I have to say that there is no war movie like Full Metal Jacket. I haven't seen every war movie, so it's safe to say that other war movies share similar themes and there are many movies that depict combat, friendships, and desensitation. But man, Full Metal Jacket has many classic scenes, scenes that cannnot be duplicated in any other movie. How many other movies feature a fourty seven bootcamp plot, soilders singin the Mickey Mouse theme song over charred landscapes, or feature Surfin' Bird over ... Read More
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Wonderful film. was good to see it again. Had forgotten several scenes since last watching the film - many years ago. I'm in the process of collecting all of Vincent D'Onofrio's films. Consider him EXCELLENT actor (and, recently read that he has a daughter named "Leila" - which is MY name - and, very unusual).
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I ordered it for a friend of mine. But, this copy that I ordered was defective. The vendor was great on the return and refund of the money for it. I would do business with them again.
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Item was as described or better, arrived very quickly, professionally packed. Recommended. the Great Stnley K's take on Viet Nam. A classic.
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Although this film has a bit of independent movie flavor, it still ranks as one of the best. Showing both the humorous and distasteful side of the Vietnam conflict I highly recommend it for those who enjoy dramatic and suspenseful themes. It is an altogether dark film, with flashes of hope here and there, and ends with the message that the soldier can be many things yet at the end of the day just wants to be alive. This is not a movie for young people, as it contains scenes of very graphic violence, ... Read More
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