A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 8 wins & 15 nominations total
- Gny. Sgt. Hartman
- (as Lee Ermey)
- Rafterman
- (as Kevyn Major-Howard)
- Doc Jay
- (as John Stafford)
- Da Nang Hooker
- (as Papillon Soo Soo)
- Director
- Writers
- Stanley Kubrick(screenplay by)
- Michael Herr(screenplay by)
- Gustav Hasford(screenplay by) (novel "The Short Timers")
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn the first part of the movie, in the sequences inside the barracks during the drill, a special lens was designed to keep every single Recruit in focus. Director Stanley Kubrick intended that no one was special and they all had the same treatment.
- GoofsBefore Private Cowboy's squad moves up to search for the sniper, Joker reloads his rifle. Between the scene where he reloads his rifle to the scene where he prepares to shoot the sniper, he doesn't take any shots with his rifle, but when he attempts a shot on the sniper, there is no ammunition in his magazine. While some people claim that Joker's M16 was out of ammunition when he attempted to shoot the sniper, in fact it was jammed, which was a common problem for the M16 in Vietnam.
- Quotes
[first lines]
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be "Sir". Do you maggots understand that?
Recruits: [In unison in a normal speaking tone] Sir, yes Sir.
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Bullshit, I can't hear you. Sound off like you got a pair!
Recruits: [In unison, much louder] SIR, YES SIR!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: If you ladies leave my island, if you survive recruit training, you will be a weapon. You will be a minister of death praying for war. But until that day, you are pukes. You are the lowest form of life on Earth. You are not even human fucking beings. You are nothing but unorganized grab-asstic pieces of amphibian shit! Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair. There is no racial bigotry here. I do not look down on niggers, kikes, wops or greasers. Here you are all equally worthless. And my orders are to weed out all non-hackers who do not pack the gear to serve in my beloved Corps. Do you maggots understand that?
- Crazy creditsEnd credits list a song performed by Sam the Sham and The Pharaohs, misspelling the last word as "Pharoahs." This has not been corrected on any home video version of the movie.
- Alternate versionsOriginally the song Paint it Black played at a higher speed and higher pitch during the end credits but starting with the 2001 DVD re-release, whenever the movie was remixed to 5.1 (from mono) it was "corrected" to where it plays at the regular speed and pitch instead.
- ConnectionsEdited into EBN: Commercial Entertainment Product (1992)
The first half is a 10/10, the second half is a 7/10 and falls apart into what seems like every war movie's clichés, even though it's good enough.
The first half is a masterpiece of filmmaking- there's almost no flaws, the pacing is perfect, the acting great, it has an instant classic type experience to it you'll never forget.
The second half is good, decent but it doesn't rival the first half and its perfection. That makes its let down even more pronounced.
So overall, I give it an 8/10 because you can't overlook the drop in quality of the second half.
8/10
- heisenberg12
- Jun 7, 2017
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- Also known as
- Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket
- Filming locations
- Isle of Dogs, London, England, UK(Da Nang scenes)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $30,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $46,357,676
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,217,307
- Jun 28, 1987
- Gross worldwide
- $46,358,827