Full Metal Jacket (1987) | Movie Reaction | First Time Watching | Let Me See Your War Face!

Mrs. movies doesn't need a war face, her neutral unimpressed look is plenty intimidating.

the Drill Instructor insults are 100% accurate from personal experience btw

R. Lee Ermey was hired to be a consultant on the film. He had actually been a marine drill instructor. He was able to convince Kubrick to let him replace the original actor hired to play the DI. The original actor played the gunner that was shooting people from the helicopter.

My best friend did 2 tours of duty in Vietnam as a combat Marine. He didn't talk much to his friends.....actually not at all...about the war. He did talk to his wife, especially after a bad dream. She once told me that Jim was mostly haunted by civilian casualties, especially one little girl. Jim died in 1997 a victim of Agent Orange. Thanks to President Lyndon Johnson my friend , thousands of young Americans, and millions of Vietnamese died or were seriously wounded. His lies got us into the quagmire that so many had warned us of.

They didn't tell the actors that they were getting their heads shaved. Those are all genuine reactions😂

I had the honor of meeting Gunny Ermey, (Senior Drill Instructor Gunnery Sergeant Hartmann in the movie), a few years before he died. I still have the challenge coin he gave me, and it's one of my most prized possessions. He was a very sincere, down-to-earth guy.

Take just a second to appreciate that the actor who played Pvt Pyle, Vincent D'Onofrio, was also the bug in the Edgar suit in Men in Black, the lead detective in the Law and Order series, the man-bear Jack Horne in The remake of The Magnificent Seven and many more.

The face Joker made when he ended the sniper? THAT was his war face.

R Lee Ermy adlibbed all of that boot camp dialogue.

"Did your parents have any children that lived?!?!?" "Sir Yes Sir!!!" "I'll bet they regret that!"

I once saw an interview with Adam Baldwin (Animal Mother, Jayne Cobb) about the making of this movie. Apparently Kubrick was quite demanding on the cast, making them do multiple takes and giving lots of direction. The actors got exhausted and started to gripe. At one point Kubrick said "Let's go again", and Adam Baldwin grumbled "Jeez, what does he want now?" And Stanley Kubrick, this larger-than-life genius director, leans from behind the camera and goes: "How about better acting?"

I graduated from Parris Island in 1986 and drill instructors never run out of material. Not to be picky but Marines don't like to be called soldiers, we're Marines. This is definitely an anti-war film by Stanley Kubrick and he does an amazing job. It's important to keep a sense of humor when in combat because it helps you maintain your sanity.

Look up "McNamara's Morons" in regards to men like Leonard getting drafted.

They can't locate the sniper. Which is exactly why they keep doing mag dumps on the face of the building.

recruit 5 foot 9 DI: I didn't know they stacked shit that high jurassic park: hold my beer

One of the things i enjoy most about you guys is that you give scenes respect. No unnecessary jokes or talk. You sit and actually watch.

My older brother was enlisted in the army reserves when this came out. I remember watching at home, my mom asked, “do they really get in your face and scream?” He responded, yes!

Kubrick's best film deals with the theme of "that Jungian thing" when Joker kills that sniper girl, half of his face is illuminated, the other half in shadows, Joker manages to end his internal war between light and darkness by integrating his Shadow .

That was not Kiefer Sutherland in the hallway.

The scene where they got their heads shaved in the beginning was actually filmed last. Their hair had grown back by then and all of them were pissed to have it shaved again.