re: “Full Metal Jacket” - I’ve flipped, I like 2nd half better

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FMJ just may be the worse war movie ever made.


That would be Platoon. Well, at least most clichéd and overrated.

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Just rewatched it. The entire movie centers on a recreation of the My Lai Massacre.

Stone shows his contempt for the American soldier as they are portrayed as lazy drug addicts who are cruel, vindictive and stupid.

Oh and the one soldier with a moral compass gets shot and left behind by his own men.

I doubt any Vietnam Vets like this movie as it seems to just spit on their sacrifice.

The movie is trash in hindsight once you become an adult. Stone said he wrote it in the 70s after his experience but couldn't get it made. It comes across as a young man writing it.

Well the movie certainly tried to tap into the sensational stories that were in headlines in the early 70s.

Stone took all the cliches of the Vietnam soldier from the 70s (baby killers, drug addicts, racists, etc) and said, this will be my movie...the plot is Americans are bad guys.