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Watching full metal jacket for the first time
Posted on 6/27/17 at 10:50 pm
Posted on 6/27/17 at 10:50 pm
Holy shite this is an awesome movie
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Posted on 6/27/17 at 10:55 pm to vengeanceofrain
You are right
Posted on 6/27/17 at 10:59 pm to vengeanceofrain
Just curious what is your age range? And yes awesome movie.
Posted on 6/27/17 at 11:00 pm to vengeanceofrain
I wish I could watch it for the first time again.
Posted on 6/27/17 at 11:02 pm to lake2280
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Posted on 6/27/17 at 11:07 pm to vengeanceofrain
Wow hard to believe you had not seen it. Have you seen Apocalypse Now?
Posted on 6/27/17 at 11:10 pm to lake2280
Yeah I've seen AN didn't care for it which is why I never watched this but this is better
Posted on 6/27/17 at 11:10 pm to vengeanceofrain
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Flush out your head gear, new guy.
This post was edited on 6/27/17 at 11:12 pm
Posted on 6/27/17 at 11:11 pm to vengeanceofrain
I'm one of the people that views it has two different movies...one With Pyle and one after Pyle
Posted on 6/27/17 at 11:11 pm to SPEEDY
It totally is 2 different movies.
Posted on 6/27/17 at 11:13 pm to vengeanceofrain
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This post was edited on 6/29/17 at 3:36 pm
Posted on 6/27/17 at 11:31 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
Oh duck that just happened
Posted on 6/27/17 at 11:31 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
FMJ, while Great, is barely a top 5 Kubrick movie. The first half is a incredible, but it can't hold a candle to Apocalypse Now as a whole... The Vietnam scenes were shot at a London gas plant with fake palm trees!
Don't get me wrong, it's still like an 8.5, but it's just too inconsistent between the two halves of the film.
Don't get me wrong, it's still like an 8.5, but it's just too inconsistent between the two halves of the film.
Posted on 6/27/17 at 11:34 pm to vengeanceofrain
i was paralyzed for the Parris Island half
This post was edited on 6/27/17 at 11:46 pm
Posted on 6/27/17 at 11:36 pm to SPEEDY
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I'm one of the people that views it has two different movies...one With Pyle and one after Pyle
Absolutely
Posted on 6/27/17 at 11:50 pm to SPEEDY
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I'm one of the people that views it has two different movies...one With Pyle and one after Pyle
The movie itself is pretty much structured this way.
Posted on 6/28/17 at 12:01 am to shutterspeed
The first half was sustained greatness. The second half had occasional moments of fleeting OK-ness.
Posted on 6/28/17 at 6:26 am to SPEEDY
That's the duality of man...and the movie.
Posted on 6/28/17 at 6:49 am to vengeanceofrain
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Holy shite this is an awesome movie
Welcome to the party, pal.
And, I had the somewhat unique experience of going to basic training (Army, but still) in 1988 - my drill instructors had obviously all just had a VHS (yeah, buddy, I'm old, wanna fight about it?) group rewatch because they quoted the film the entire cycle. That was (not) fun.
Posted on 6/28/17 at 6:54 am to Jack Ruby
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The Vietnam scenes were shot at a London gas plant with fake palm trees!
It was supposed to be Hue, baw. They explain this IN the movie.
The palm trees were probably overkill, but there is absolutely nothing wrong about the terrain depicted in the movie, generally, compared to the historical event it was depicting.
Are you going to complain that Ermey was actually a "Hollywood" marine and didn't go through or DI at the Island?
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