FMJ - Top 10 Military Movie
From Marine Corp Times
By C. Mark Brinkley
1. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Private Joker, are you trying to offend me?
Our pick for the best war movie of the past 20 years, if not all time, and it didn’t even crack the Top 400 ballot. Words fail to express how wrong that is.
“Full Metal Jacket,” directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Matthew Modine, Vincent D’Onofrio and R. Lee Ermey (in the role that made him a star), could be considered two great war movies for the price of one. The first half of the film shows Marine recruits at boot camp, preparing for Vietnam, while the second half deals with the violence and uncertainty of that war.
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Thanks Judy!
posted by thereel @ 7:31 AM
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FMJ came 4th in the 'All time Top 100 War Movies' in the UK recently. I've only ever seen it once, when it was first in the cinema and when I had no idea who Vincent D'Onofrio was (hey, I was young and foolish). It did such a number on me, I vowed I never wanted to see it again. I still haven't changed my mind :0(
I adore Vincent and believe he is an exceptionally talented actor. However, I can no longer watch the beginning of this movie. I was nearly in tears at the way this character was mistreated: I felt his pain. When he finally went off the deep end he scared the sh*t out of me. I can still picture that crazy stare. Brilliant but disturbing.
I am not surprised that it made the top movie for the Marine Corps list and I think it probably didn't make the AFI list because we are war weary-I have seen FMJ several times and I agree it is a difficult watch but one we should watch-and I hate to get political but I will-perhaps FMJ should have been show to Congress right before they voted on the invasion of Iraq and then the outcome might have been different-if you lived during Vietnam, you would never want war again-
Regi.
"Top Gun" over "Apocalypse Now", "Platoon", "Born on the Fourth of July", and "Saving Private Ryan"?!? FFS.
VDO and Ermey are great in the first half of "FMJ", but the second half is pretty run-of-the-mill. It's *not* a great film.
And "The Green Berets" is crap.
Hoo-ah!
I knew that jarheads have great taste.
Also I am not surprised that a military magazine devoted to the Marine Corps would pick a movie about Marines. The other choices were a little surprising because many of them were not about the Marines (Patton, Top Gun, The Caine Mutiny).
Still it's nice to see FMJ get its due from those who would know best.
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