Full Metal Jacket ..

[weltweit]

Stanley Kubrick's Oscar nominated Vietnam War film.

Was on TV tonight ..

I had not watched all of it before, but I sat through innane adverts to see it.

Quite a film.

 

[starfish]

Saw it in the cinema in 87. Yes quite a film.

 

[Gingerman]

Brilliant filum worth watching for R. Lee Ermey's astonishing performance as Gunnery Sgt. Hartman
" If you ladies leave my island, if you survive recruit training, you will be a weapon. You will be a minister of death praying for war. But until that day you are pukes. You are the lowest form of life on Earth. You are not even human, fucking beings. You are nothing but unorganized grabastic pieces of amphibian shit. Because I am hard you will not like me. But the more you hate me the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair. There is no racial bigotry here. I do not look down on niggers, kikes, wops or greasers. Here you are all equally worthless. And my orders are to weed out all non-hackers who do not pack the gear to serve in my beloved Corps. Do you maggots understand that?"

 

[The Groke]

To my mind, the best of the Vietnam movies and yes - Ermey is solid gold.

 

[Mumbles274]

Brilliant filum worth watching for R. Lee Ermey's astonishing performance as Gunnery Sgt. Hartman
" If you ladies leave my island, if you survive recruit training, you will be a weapon. You will be a minister of death praying for war. But until that day you are pukes. You are the lowest form of life on Earth. You are not even human, fucking beings. You are nothing but unorganized grabastic pieces of amphibian shit. Because I am hard you will not like me. But the more you hate me the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair. There is no racial bigotry here. I do not look down on niggers, kikes, wops or greasers. Here you are all equally worthless. And my orders are to weed out all non-hackers who do not pack the gear to serve in my beloved Corps. Do you maggots understand that?"

sir, yes sir


filmed in the london docklands iirc

 

[gsv]

And it's a dark, dark comedy

GS(v)

 

[8den]

M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E Mickey Mouse!

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Plus an amazing performance from Vincent D'Onofrio and possibly one of Mr. QofG's most quoted scenes ever "Hello soildier boy...."

 

[8den]

And a solid performance from Adam Baldwin.

 

[Bakunin]

Brilliant filum worth watching for R. Lee Ermey's astonishing performance as Gunnery Sgt. Hartman
" If you ladies leave my island, if you survive recruit training, you will be a weapon. You will be a minister of death praying for war. But until that day you are pukes. You are the lowest form of life on Earth. You are not even human, fucking beings. You are nothing but unorganized grabastic pieces of amphibian shit. Because I am hard you will not like me. But the more you hate me the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair. There is no racial bigotry here. I do not look down on niggers, kikes, wops or greasers. Here you are all equally worthless. And my orders are to weed out all non-hackers who do not pack the gear to serve in my beloved Corps. Do you maggots understand that?"

Ah yes,Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. Without a doubt, the friendliest and most welcoming senior drill instructor in the history of modern cinema.

Incidentally, when he took that role Stanley Kubrick asked him to improvise and come up with a selection of classic drill instructor's insults and personal abuse.

Ermey came back with a list comprising some 150 pages, without as much as a single repetition.

 

[DotCommunist]

'I will gouge out your eyes and skull-fuck you!'

 

[8den]

Ermey was hired as a technical advisor on Full Metal Jacket but blew Kubrick away and got given the part.

 

[coccinelle]

I love Stanley Kubrick but I was really disapopointed by this film. It always seemed to be two filmettes stuck together. Two other contemporaneous anti-war films, "Platoon" (1986) and "Hamburger Hill" (1987) seemed to work much better.

 

[gnoriac]

"What is your major malfunction, numbnuts? Didn't Mommy and Daddy show you enough attention when you were a child?"

I keep meaning to use that as an insult on here.

 

[Badgers]

Love it
Love mostly all Kubrick stuff
Not a light watch for a Saturday and wifey will not allow me to see it I feel but I will revisit soon

 

[Gingerman]

Plus an amazing performance from Vincent D'Onofrio and possibly one of Mr. QofG's most quoted scenes ever "Hello soildier boy...."

And an amazing physical transformation as well

 

[Bakunin]

"What is your major malfunction, numbnuts? Didn't Mommy and Daddy show you enough attention when you were a child?"

I keep meaning to use that as an insult on here.

My personal favourite is this:

'Did your parents have any children that lived? I bet they regret that! You're so ugly you could be a modern art masterpiece!'

 

[durruti02]

sir, yes sir


filmed in the london docklands iirc

not so much docklands as Beckton at the old coal terminal .. and only one scene .. the battle .. went there in mid late 8ts and was a crazy site with enormous derelict industrial structures covered in adverts in, i guess, vietnamese, and dead palm trees on the ground!! if you look on googlemaps it was where is now the easterly point of Armada Way

 

[weltweit]

So, are you saying that all the scenes were filmed in UK?

There must have been lots of equipment brought in, helicopters tanks etc ..

There was that scene when joker and his buddy were being flown to the front and you saw the paddy fields the nutter was shooting up ... could that have been filmed in UK?

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Brilliant filum worth watching for R. Lee Ermey's astonishing performance as Gunnery Sgt. Hartman

Ermey was originally supposed to be a technical advisor on the film, but for one reason or another he ended up delivering a flawless rant in front of Kubrick - legend says fifteen minutes plus of pure aggressive Gunnery Sergeant filth and fury without repetition while people pelted him with fruit - and Kubrick gave him the job on the spot. In any case, the best casting ever. Do you maggots understand that?

 

[weltweit]

But, was Ermey actually a real retired soldier?

 

[Gingerman]

But, was Ermey actually a real retired soldier?

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000388/bio
yup

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

So, are you saying that all the scenes were filmed in UK?

Nearly all of Full Metal Jacket was filmed in the UK. Pretty much all of Saving Private Ryan was filmed in the UK and Ireland, too.

 

[Badgers]

Love it
Love mostly all Kubrick stuff
Not a light watch for a Saturday and wifey will not allow me to see it I feel but I will revisit soon

Did watch over the weekend
Enjoyed it

 

[TitanSound]

It's a fantastic film.

 

[kittyP]

Did watch over the weekend
Enjoyed it

I was gonna say "Yes I bloody 'let you' watch it" but then read down

 

[fen_boy]

When I was younger everyone used to say I looked like Private Pyle.

 

[krtek a houby]

I saw this when it came out & was shocked - such a powerful film. I like Apoc Now and Platoon but this is in a whole different ballpark...

 

[T & P]

"I think you're the kind of guy who would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around!"

Quite simply, the best film quote ever

 

[ChrisC]

For a zany view on this.