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Full Metal Jacket (Deluxe Edition) [Blu-ray]
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• AC-3
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Dolby
• Dubbed
• Subtitled
• Widescreen
In Theaters : 26 June, 1987
DVD Release : 23 October, 2007 |
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Full Metal Jacket (Deluxe Edition) [Blu-ray] description
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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Full Metal Jacket (Deluxe Edition) [Blu-ray] Customer Reviews
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one of the best "war" films, yet it's not really about "war"
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that's right full metal is about the war within. most people think kubrick did not focus on the human condition. are you kidding? we have two prime examples right here, the first being focused on gomer pile, the second half on joker. two very different struggles and all bein from within. this psychological struggle is in the shining, clockwork, 2001 and so on....
anyway, this film is classic and for good reason. it's awsome. there's a million quatable lines which tends to suggest that the script has something going for it. lee ermy shines like a diamond here. we witness moody scenes that often burrow into our psyche. pile's suicide typically burns it's way into there. the scene compsotion (thanks to kubricks still photography roots) is beautiful and often surreal, not too far from the shining.
everyone tends to favor the first half. being that full metal jacket almost feels like 2 seperate films, it's almost impossible to measure up to, or exceed the greatness of the first. what i realised is that you should not try to relate the two parts as they really are totally different. the films pace slows down with the second half as well. the actual battle scenes are far and few between, further alienating full metal jacket from being a typical war movie. it almost seems that the war is actually over. i always felt like the soldiers were just meandering around ruins to make sure no survivors remained. just a grim feeling runs through you during these episodes.
the music shouldnt be overlooked in any of kubricks work. we have a mix of popluar songs with atmospheric pieces filled with jarring ambiant tones, void of melody. highly effective sound track in its manic structure.
this dvd seems to have the fewest extras of all the sets releases, however we are treated to commentary by several of the films participants. if only ermy made more of an appearance on the track.
too many people piss n moan over screening ratios and nit pick every little detail. after seeing this movie so many times on a vhs tape i am elated i have it here in this presentation as was intended by the man himself who made it for us. and actually, we have even more than he intended in this case. no complaints form me. 5+ stars!
m-i-c--k-e-y. m-o-u-s-e....... |
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