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Full Metal Jacket (1987)
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When I was in the seventh grade, everybody had to do a project for social studies fair, and it must be based on history;
for instance, one could build a small waterfall after the Niagara Falls.
Unfortunately, year after year without fail, a majority of the male seventh graders decided to fill a posterboard with
fake grass and soldiers while selecting the name of some random battle without knowing what it was all about. It's exactly
how I view Full Metal Jacket for Stanley Kubrick.
When Michael Cimino, Francis Ford Coppola, and Oliver Stone saw success through their respective films The Deer Hunter,
Apocalypse Now, and Platoon, an epiphany struck through Stanley Kubrick's mind, and he declared to everybody
he'll make a Vietnam War film only to have completely missed the boat...many years later. This part is funny because
it reminds me of the analogy of 10,000 runners who started and finished a race before some moron showed up at the starting
line afterwards and no one had bothered telling him the race was already over.
As for Full Metal Jacket, I hate everything about it. I absolutely hate it with passion. It's clearly targeted at IMDb
fanboys who love to masturbate in their mommy and daddy's basement while being on the Internet all day long. I didn't like the
movie in 1987, and I still don't like it now. In fact, I saw no redeeming qualities back then and still don't. Oh, you marvel
over R. Lee Ermey's performance? Well, guess what? The whole thing is a rip-off from Louis Gossett, Jr.'s Oscar-winning
performance in An Officer and a Gentleman
Let's be fair and get one thing out of the way. R. Lee Ermey, an actual Marine vet who served in Vietnam, was Louis
Gossett, Jr.'s coach, and he trained him a great deal to prepare for the scenes as a drill instructor. That being said,
it's actually his material. Ermey just can't use the same lines again. Otherwise, they'll sound ripped-off. Anyway, watching
Private Pyle be tortured doesn't pass for quality entertainment since he has to be borderline mentally retarded. Where's
the fun in that?
All in all, Full Metal Jacket is full of shit.