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FULL METAL JACKET (1987) FULL LENGTH MOVIE REACTION - WATCH ALONG (Patreon)

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2023-11-02 16:11:52
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2024-02-27 17:04:55
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FULL METAL JACKET (1987) FULL LENGTH MOVIE REACTION - WATCH ALONG

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James Forrest

God damn :) What an excellent choice! Hat off to whoever recommended this for you! Tremendous film. A masterpiece.

James Forrest

Your reaction is entirely normal. It took me a couple of viewings to really appreciate the full measure of the points - many, many points - Kubrick was making. Horror of war, yes. The brotherhood aspect, for sure. The dehumanising of soliders ... and the peculiarity of America at war. It's such an "American" movie, but showing America through very different eyes than most "yeaaahaaa! Go America!" war movies. The soliders walking through the destruction at the end singing the Mickey Mouse song ... that's such a beautiful and complete image. Apocalypse Now makes a lot of the same points in a much subtler way ... it's a better film but a different sort of film. Kubrick sort of made his Vietnam War version of Dr Strangelove here. It's a heavy critique of American foriegn policy - the leaders are clueless; the guy who critiques his peace button is clearly a moron, talking in generic buzzwords as if he got his patriotism out of a textbook - and so overall it's one of the most searing anti-war films ever made. There is only one better anti-war movie. Platoon. The thing about Platoon is that Oliver Stone was there and a lot of the big moments were from his own experiences. Platoon, in many ways, is the ultimate war movie. It's soul crushing in places.

TheMediaKnights
>>121284346

Loved your comment! It brings us some relief to know it is in fact normal. Sometimes there’s a need to jump straight into dissecting a movie without feeling like you fully grasped it and we just didn’t feel like that would represent this film accurately. There’s a lot of nuance and purposeful ambiguity that almost acts as a mirror. The viewer takes away what they wanted to take away from it based on their beliefs. I like how Kubrick subliminally tells us where he stands with his first song choice “These Boots Are Made for Walkin” and the sentence “you’ve been messing where you shouldn’t ’ve been messing” but other than that he leaves it up to the viewer. This film is incredible in the way that it makes the viewer think. It has that highly intellectual feeling that Kubrick is known for and we’d always recommend watching this. Thank you for your thoughtful comment!

James Forrest

Yeah you nailed it. Kubrick's movies require multiple viewings. Even today I still watch The Shining (which you mentioned in your intro) and spot all sorts of weird things I didn't notice before. But his best films are the ones that get inside your head and make you consider things you'd never have thought about. Strangelove is excellent at that ... so, oddly enough, is Eyes Wide Shut, which is probably the best movie about lust - not sex, people confuse the two - self-image and jealousy ever made. When Alice tells William the story of how she considered leaving him and the life they'd built for a total stranger she met just once it shatters his ego completely, seeing it as a reflection on him rather than a statement about her sexuality and her sense of herself. It's such a tremendous film, overshadowed by all the controversy about the risquier parts ... but it's a searing movie about a really difficult subject, and he kills it. Man was a genius.

Ed R

If you guys didn't already know, R. Lee Ermey was an actual drill instructor and served in Vietnam. His performance alone keeps me glued to the screen in the first half of this movie.

exoterric

As a Marine corps recruit my whole platoon was "forced" to watch this cuz i was the only one out of 80 of us to have never seen it. After we got smoked on the quarterdeck for my egregious transgression against the Corps.😋

Derpentine

parasites, like lice, also to make everyone a less than a "maggot"

Scott Kerr

Another amazing film!

TheMediaKnights
>>121314364

Wow you actually watched it while being in a similar position than the people shown in this film. How was that for a first time watch?

TheMediaKnights
>>121393935

Phenomenal movie! Had to sit on my thoughts for a few days but man...if a movie stays with you for this long then it did something right!

exoterric
>>121314364

25 yrs ago it was shocking. Now it just makes mad that politicians will never fight the wars they started, relying on the poor, desperate and ignorant to bloody their hands and carry the actual weight of war on our shoulders. I think Kubrick did a fine job of portraying the WTF moments at the bottom of the enlisted food chain.

Rudolph Koch

you guys should also check out All Quiet on ther Western Front (2022) it won several oscars and shot very well

Einherj

Good stuff. For another great Vietnam War film, I recommend Platoon (1986). For a fantastic war miniseries, I recommend Generation Kill (2008) For a great foreign war film I recommend The Unknown Soldier (2017)

Einherj

Historically the shaved head had practical purposes, like keeping off lice and other parasites, but these are not big problems anymore. Shaving off beard and moustache is for easier gas mask use. Nowadays shaving is mostly for uniformity and stripping the recruits off their individuality.

Sean

Apocalypse Now is another masterpiece I would love to see your reaction to.

Luis Martell

I can guarantee you that in ten years when you are more mature cinephiles this film will be in your top films of all time... you guys are great and smart but a little green...

Luis Martell
>>121284346

Please do 2001: a space odyssey... and yes, one day full metal jacket will be on your list of favorite films of all time... that's the kubrick magic... he's always ahead of us

Luis Martell

Also... you guys mentioned something about the budget and sets... I'm sure someone has already mentioned this on youtube... but Kubrick brought palm trees and build the while thing in England near his house...