Full Metal Jacket (Blu-ray) R
Vietnam can kill me, but it can't make me care.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 57 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: October 23, 2007
- Originally Released: 1987
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Matthew Modine & R. Lee Ermey | |
Performer: | Adam Baldwin, Ed O'Ross, Arliss Howard, Dorian Harewood, Kevyn Major Howard & Vincent D'Onofrio | |
Directed by | Stanley Kubrick | |
Edited by | Martin Hunter | |
Screenwriting by | Gustav Hasford, Michael Herr & Stanley Kubrick | |
Composition by | Abigail Mead | |
Produced by | Jan Harlan, Michael Herr, Philip Hobbs & Stanley Kubrick | |
Director of Photography: | Douglas Milsome |
Entertainment Reviews:
Full Metal Jacket, produced, directed and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, is not an easy film to watch, but from the first frame to the last, it is a riveting one.
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United Press International
Rating: 4/4 --
It's a great piece of filmmaking, diminished only by a second act that fails to live up to the first act of the Marines in training.
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Chicago Tribune
...Harrowing, beautiful and characteristically eccentric....The performances are splendid...
New York Times
Rating: 3/4 --
If his considerable achievement in this long- awaited film falls short of his Olympian standards, there is a reason that ought to give Kubrick some satisfaction. The world has caught up with Kubrick and what he has to say.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
...An intense, schematic, superbly made Vietnam War drama...
Variety
Rating: 3.5/4 --
...a justifiably iconic war film.
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Reel Film Reviews
[Kubrick's] genius, and perhaps burden, is to see the insanity in us all and to make it seem so terrifyingly normal.
People Magazine
Product Description:
In this riveting look at military life during the Vietnam conflict, Stanley Kubrick, who made the powerful antiwar classics PATHS OF GLORY (WWI) and DR. STRANGELOVE (the Cold War), once again explores the behavior of men in battle. FULL METAL JACKET (1987), adapted from Gustav Hasford's novel THE SHORT TIMERS, is broken down into two very different parts. The first half of the film focuses on the training of a squad of Marine grunts on Parris Island, and more specifically on the troubled relationship between the brutal drill sergeant (a frightening Lee Ermey) and an oafish misfit (a brilliant Vincent D'Onofrio) who just happens to be a sharpshooter. The second half takes the grunts to Hue City, where the climactic battle of the 1968 Tet Offensive--and the turning point of the Vietnam War--took place. The story is told through the eyes of Private Joker (Matthew Modine), a cynical aspiring photojournalist who is forced to fight for his life and the lives of his fellow recruits.
Unusually for Kubrick, FULL METAL JACKET emerged at a time when a trend for films about Vietnam was in full swing. PLATOON had proceeded Kubrick's film by a year, and lesser efforts such as HAMBURGER HILL also emerged in 1987. London's abandoned docklands may not be the most obvious choice of location to replicate the ravages of the Vietnam landscape, but this is where Kubrick shot the film, sticking to his dogged principles of not shooting outside his adopted home. A moving commentary on the dehumanizing process that occurs when soldiers prepare and engage in battle, FULL METAL JACKET is an unforgettable experience from one of the most original voices to ever pick up a movie camera.
Unusually for Kubrick, FULL METAL JACKET emerged at a time when a trend for films about Vietnam was in full swing. PLATOON had proceeded Kubrick's film by a year, and lesser efforts such as HAMBURGER HILL also emerged in 1987. London's abandoned docklands may not be the most obvious choice of location to replicate the ravages of the Vietnam landscape, but this is where Kubrick shot the film, sticking to his dogged principles of not shooting outside his adopted home. A moving commentary on the dehumanizing process that occurs when soldiers prepare and engage in battle, FULL METAL JACKET is an unforgettable experience from one of the most original voices to ever pick up a movie camera.
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- UPC: 085391186274
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