Posted on 03/18/2005 4:09:25 PM PST by kingsurfer
I'm not one to attatch hyperbole to that stuff but the song is truly haunting. It gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.
Another "Yes" vote... definitely worth watching.
Having been in that type of situation, I have to say the special effects took me back to a place I didn't want to go, so I thought they were pretty good. I could smell the cordite and hear the screams.
Hollywood has a tendency to under-develop characters in many instances, or to make them larger than life to emphasize a point, so I won't agree or disagree on that point.
The first half of Full Metal Jacket was as good a military movie as I have ever seen, but the second half sucked so bad, the overall rating gets no more than a C.
Yeah. . .did the same to me.
I've got the movie on DVD, I have to agree, the anti-war theme was a bit too much. "Animal Mother" was my favorite character as well. LOL
That was an incredible performance. I didn't know it was off the cuff. Pretty amazing. I watched the movie with my dad who was in the Marines in the 1960s, and he thought the basic training part of the movie was pretty realistic.
Four Star. Great Movie.
"He just needs somebody to shoot at him all the time"
Put another vote in the YES! column.
Aloha Ronnie was there. He's already been pinged.
If I remember correctly, he gave it high marks too.
I don't know whether it was technically or graphicly correct, but I did like that it portrayed the awesome courage of our soldiers in an absolutely horrible situation and how they prevailed, despite the odds against them.
I've got a friend in the Marines, and he's told me that it's pretty different nowadays with respect to the Drill Sargeants, but the camraderie among the enlisted is pretty much the same.
He's not to easy on the French though... :)
Target.
See my post #23
The story was great. Mel Gibson didn't pull off the Southern Officer as well as I would have hoped. Sargeant Major Basil Plumley (Sam Elliot) was fantastic. Snake Sh*t (Greg Kinnear) was good too.
Greg Kinnear is one of those guys you would never expect to pull off a role like that. Rick Shcroder in The Lost Battalion was another suprisingly good performance.
Roger that, and good on ya for your service.
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Very true.
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