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Full Metal Jacket

Cast

Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey View All

Crew

Stanley Kubrick (Screenplay), Stanley Kubrick (Director), Gustav Hasford (Screenplay), Michael Herr (Screenplay) View All

Release: Jun. 26th, 1987

Runtime: 1 hour, 56 minutes

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

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31 full metal jacket: good or not so good

hello everyone, don't know if i'm doing things correctly since it is my first time using this site. Anyway, I saw full metal jacket by director Stanley Kubrick and I must admit I first was disapointe...

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Cobpyth
Exactly 30 years prior to this film, Kubrick made the very effective "anti-war" film, Paths of Glory.

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MovieMeditation
I loved and loathed being on the verbal shooting range of sergeant Hartman as he slowly but surely turned these young boys into bareboned killer machines, and I equally found interest in seeing the different effects that war can have on you in the second part of the film.

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