Full metal Jacket!

This movie is a classic, I can't believe some of you waited so long to see it. The general consensus is that the first half of the film is the best and it kinda takes a downward turn after that. But it was actually shot with the deliberate intention to feel like two separate films. The thing I like best about this movie are the memorable characters and their quotes, who can ever forget them, these are some of my favorites.....

Da Nang Hooker: Hey, you got girlfriend in Vietnam? Me so horny. Me love you long time. 😂 (This was the line that Luke and 2 live crew made famous as a hook in their rap song btw.)

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Holy dog shit. Texas? Only steers and queers come from Texas, Private Cowboy. And you don't look much like a steer to me so that kinda narrows it down.

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: I'll bet you're the kind of guy that would f**k a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around. 😂

ARVN pimp: Do you want number one f**kee?

Vietnamese prostitute: No soul brotha, soul brotha too beau coup.

Private Eightball: What we have here, little yellow sister, is a magnificent specimen of pure Alabama Blacksnake. But it ain't too goddamned beau coup.

And my favorite from the best scene in the movie IMO:

Private Gomer Pyle:This is my rifle. There are many like it but this one is mine.

Private Joker: Are those... live rounds?

Private Gomer Pyle: Seven-six-two millimeter. Full metal jacket .

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: What is this Mickey Mouse shit? What are you two animals doing in my beloved head? Why is Private Pyle out of his bunk after lights out? Why is Private Pyle holding that weapon? Why are you not stomping Private Pyle's guts out?

Private Joker: Sir, it is the private's duty to inform the senior drill instructor that Private Pyle has a full magazine that is locked and loaded, Sir!

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

rifle puke rip

Like I said 'classic!' 👆

classic...my favourite line is

"only after ya eat the peanuts outta my SHIIITTT"

??? i think apocalypse now was one of the best films every made

Not I said the fly. I found it to be incredibly pretentious, overrated, and it never really struck a chord in me like the opening of "FMJ", or even recently "The Brotherhood of War". There wasn't much savagery in Apocalypse Now".

Full Metal Jacket is a great , if not totally disturbing, movie.

The drill sergent from FMJ is R. Lee Ermey, he currently hosts the military weapos show on the History Channel with the same enthusiasm as his charactor in FMJ.

Chopper Gunner: Anybody that runs is a N. Viet. Gook, anybody that doesn't run is a WELL-TRAINED N. Viet Gook!

Joker: How can you kill innocent women and children??

Chopper Gunner: Easy! Don't lead 'em as much...ain't life a Biatch!

Also, check out this war movie 'Boy's in Company C'

Why are you not stomping Private Pyle's guts out?

hahaha...that is classic

drill sergent

This movie is an absolute classic. Brilliant. A psychological study more than anything really.
And I also found 'Apocolypse Now' to be pretentious as hell. Talk about making a movie JUST to seem artistic. Operative word being SEEM.
But FMJ is one of the best movies ever made...period.

Its not even close to being the best movie ever made, let alone best war movie ever made or even best Vietnam war movie ever made.

Those who are looking for more savagery or in your face type violence, should check out the 'Killing Fields' it's a movie based on the brutal and sadistic regime called the Khmer Rouge which aided by Vietcong forces overthrew the Cambodian govt, and slaughtered millions of people in the process. You have to have a strong stomach to watch this one tho.

Yeah, great movie. One of my favs.

In my opinion, R. Lee Emry (the D.I.) deserved an Oscar for this role.

Why he didn't get one is beyond me.

He completely dominated the first half of the film, and when he was gone, the movie just went downhill completely for me.

Originally posted by Smasandian
Its not even close to being the best movie ever made, let alone best war movie ever made or even best Vietnam war movie ever made.

True, but it is so damn close !!!!

A bit surreal, but not phony like "Apocalypse Now", being based in part on actual historical events.

"Platoon" was in its way very good, too.

By the way, what do you all think of "The Green Berets" as a Vietnam movie ???

Originally posted by PIZZA WARRIOR
In my opinion, R. Lee Emry (the D.I.) deserved an Oscar for this role.

Why he didn't get one is beyond me.

He completely dominated the first half of the film, and when he was gone, the movie just went downhill completely for me.

Technically speaking, he wasn't in the duration of the movie, and although he was the meat and potatoes of that film, he didn't encompass much range.

Personally, I don't care if he won an Oscar for it, and I doubt he does either, because he's so revered for that perfomance alone, I would think the respect he demands for it is better than a statue from a select few people.

He's iconic, and that would be worth more to me than a trophy.

i dont suppose he really deserved an oscar for it given that he wasn't really acting...because he was a real drill instructor who was meant to be on set as an advisor but was far better than any actor and so was given the part

"Sir, a jelly donut, Sir!"

awesome movie! definitely one of my top 133 favorite movies of all time, i have it on DVD and still enjoy it.

But i was wondering, what was it with the other soldiers pounding at Pyle's fat guts with soap and towels?

Although I consider Kubrick my very favorite film-maker
ever (having watched all but his last film), I consider this
my least favorite of his.

The characters were neither likable, nor memorable.

Even the famous (or infamous) prostitute scene was at
its core, quite depressing.

I much prefer "Born on the 4th of July" or "Platoon", or
even the pre-jungle kingdom part of "Apocalypse Now".

Though not really a war/combat movie, "The Pentagon
Papers" was also pretty good.