Posted on 03/18/2005 4:09:25 PM PST by kingsurfer
This is on in the UK tomorrow night. Is it a good film to watch? I am fed up of weasting my time on inferior films.
Absolutely. It is very good; I highly recommend it.
Excellent film... Do not miss it.
Cheers!
I highly recommend it. Saw it on the History Channel, and then bought it on DVD.
And for once, as a Brit you may care to know, Mel doesn't make the English out to be the bad guys (of course their are no English in the film, but...).
excellent film....I've seen it three times or so...Mel gives a wonderful performance....
Great film. The man Mel Gibson portrays in the film was a consultant on the flick.
I highly recommend it.
Awesome movie. You might also be interested in knowing that part of the soundtrack is a song called Sgt. McKenzie. It's about a soldier from Scotland.
Joseph Kilna McKenzie - Sgt. McKenzie
Original Scottish Version
Lay me doon in the caul caul groon
Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun
Lay me doon in the caul caul groon
Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun
When they come a wull staun ma groon
Staun ma groon al nae be afraid
Thoughts awe hame tak awa ma fear
Sweat an bluid hide ma veil awe tears
Ains a year say a prayer faur me
Close yir een an remember me
Nair mair shall a see the sun
For a fell tae a Germans gun
Lay me doon in the caul caul groon
Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun
Lay me doon in the caul caul groon
Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun
Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun
English Translation
Lay me down in the cold cold ground
Where before many more have gone
Lay me down in the cold cold ground
Where before many more have gone
When they come I will stand my ground
Stand my ground I'll not be afraid
Thoughts of home take away my fear
Sweat and blood hide my veil of tears
Once a year say a prayer for me
Close your eyes and remember me
Never more shall I see the sun
For I fell to a Germans gun
Lay me down in the cold cold ground
Where before many more have gone
Lay me down in the cold cold ground
Where before many more have gone
Where before many more have gone
In memory of Sgt. Charles Stuart MacKenzie
Seaforth Highlanders
Who along with many others gave up his life
So that we can live free
We will remember them
It's not a "fun" film, just so you know.
It is heartwrenching when it shows the new widows recieving word of the demise of their husbands.
My girlfriend's father was decorated as a pilot for flying resupply and replacements into that battle and medevacing wounded out several times during the most intense parts of the battle. He kept going back until his Huey was too shot up to fly anymore.
Full metal jacket was built around somebody's anti war fantasy. We were soldiers is a true story.
Yes it's a true story, but it's a true story with cardboardy characters and silly looking special effects. The two movies just don't compare in terms of quality.
Ping
Yes,
I liked Full metal jacket but the constant hammering away with the anti war theme gets tiresome after awhile. I did like "Animal mother" even though the actor is a true leftist
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