I went to a convention & had a long conversation with R. Lee Ermey that I’ll never forget. I asked him about how he and Donofrio’s collaboration was on set. Mr. Ermey, a former Drill Instructor himself, said that he got lost in the role & forgot it was a movie for a little bit. After one of the takes, Donofrio walked solemnly off set & headed to catering, and Ermey followed him. Donofrio was crying but was trying to hold it back. As he was approached by Ermey, Donofrio dropped his plate, stood at attention, and with tears coming down - Ermy said “At ease Marine.” Ermey lost his appetite & after apologizing for his toughness on Donofrio, went back to his trailer & had a small bit of a panic attack for the first time ever.
My grandpa went to Saigon as one of the mechanical engineers during the war. He never did told us what exactly happened during his work there but he was teary and smiling nearing the end of the movie.
I remember that my local MEPS (Military Entrance Processing Station) unironically played Full Metal Jacket and Starship Troopers on the TV while we were waiting to get medically evaluated and handled all the administrative paperwork prior to being shipped off to boot camp. Fun times.
Ironically before I was nearly decapitated by razor wire during basic, my MEPS was playing Barb Wire (Pam Anderson). Had never seen anything with her in it, and got so lost in its absurdity I forgot where the hell I even was.
Commonplace in the 80s. Studios weren't as greedy, and they weren't afraid to release films that close together. Keaton Batman and Last Crusade were separated by one month.
Let's not forget "The Princess Bride" and Timothy Dalton's debut 007 film: "The Living Daylights" in the classic category. Sadly, there were also films in '87 that're considered stinkers, like "Superman IV: The Quest for Peace" and "JAWS: The Revenge". In my opinion, while I too find them very flawed compared to the early films in their respective franchises, I still find some enjoyment in those films.
@@asksearchknock Right, especially if you only had time to watch 1 movie that day, you’d at least walk out of the theater satisfied!! (I didn’t say money because if time wasn’t an issue, I would just movie hop & watch all in 1 day)
I really hate using the word Underrated, but as an actor Vincent Donofrio is just that. Coming from "Adventures in Babysitting" to Full Metal Jacket is Shocking. He looks like 2 totally different people. And in a span of just over a year. A must have movie in your collection.
Full Metal Jacket was the first R rated movie I'd seen as a kid with my uncle who was a marine drill sergeant during Vietnam. I remember him telling me that the boot camp scene was completely accurate (made sense knowing R Lee Remy was also a drill sergeant during the "police action").
One of the greatest days of my entire life, is when I got to meet R. Lee Ermey in person. Easily the coolest man I have ever met in my life. He not only autographed everything for free, he gave me one of his challenge coins, and thanked me for my 4 piddlin' little years of military service.
Unfortunately he had better acting range than this, this movie forever typecast him as the rough and tumble drill sergeant type. I can only think of a few roles where he wasn't this guy.
@@DeathBYDesign666 I thought he did a great job in Fletch with Chevy Chase, where he played a shady television preacher. That really showed his acting chops, because the role was nothing like a drill sergeant type.
@@joshuaburba1048 I thought he was the best part of the early 2000s Texas chainsaw massacre films honestly, but he still had that drill sergeant swagger in it. He played one of the cops in seven also but that is the only other time I can think of where he played the role straight. Which itself was odd because I think he was the captain and that's the perfect role for a drill sergeant type.
I had two uncles who were Marines in Vietnam. One went through basic in 1967; the other year after. They both said that the basic training scenes in the movie were pretty spot-on.
I actually found a copy of Matthew Modine‘s book at a thrift store and wildly enough it was autographed by Modine to some other person named Richard. Lucky find 😮
@@ColtraneAndRain I know, right! I remember when I bought the book, I just sort of flipped through the pages to make sure there were no torn pages or pen and pencil marks. I didn’t even notice the autograph until I got home. I mean, I’m not the Richard he autographed it to but I’ll take it 🖊️😃 I do wonder what happened to the Richard that it was autographed to and why it was at a thrift store.
Minty, thank you so much for picking such a great film to examine further. "Full Metal Jacket" is absolutely one of my favorite films from the great director Stanley Kubrick. Thanks again for some more amazing content! All the best to you and your channel! 😎👍
I had joined the military in late '88, and Christmas / New Years fell in the middle of basic training. During that period, it was pretty much a down time, so they did stuff like show movies to keep us entertained while away from home during the holidays. One of the movies was Full Metal Jacket. A couple of the TIs (Training Instructors) were in the room with us to keep an eye on things while we watched movies. Just before the bathroom scene, they all got up and left. I hadn't seen the movie before, so wondered why they all left at the same time. I figured out quickly why they didn't want to be around for that scene.
The taps. I still remember the metal taps TIs wore on their shoes in basic. Click, click, click when they walked by your bunk in the middle of the night.
@@mancima - I had a great time in basic. I was a bit older (21) when I joined, so I was one of the oldest ones in my group. My sister was a E-6 and my brother was an E-5, and I'd lived on AF bases several times before, so I knew more of what to expect and what I could get away with. My TI liked me, so he put me on brass polishing duty (polishing the doorknobs, window hardware, and anything else that would tarnish). There was a group of four that were assigned to that. They were spending an hour or more every day, using brass polish on everything. I taught them to use the clear boot polish on the brass. Went from spending time every day doing it to only needing to do it once a week. On the first inspection (they did them while we were outside training), the TI had loosened a corner of the blanket on my cot and tagged it. I was like "screw that", so I took the elastic straps that attach socks to the bottoms of the shirt (keeps the socks pulled up and the shirt pulled down), and used those to hold the sheets and blanket on my bed as tight as could be. I'd just wiggle down into it at night and shimmy out in the morning, and only had to make my bed once a week when I changed sheets. On the next inspection, we came back into the dorm and my cot was upside down, where they'd flipped it trying to loosen the blanket corner again and got frustrated because they couldn't. They couldn't ding me on it because even after they'd flipped it upside down, it was still perfectly made. I had two uniforms. One I had starched until it was practically cardboard, that I kept in my locker for inspection. The second one, that I actually wore, I kept folded in a dirty laundry sack. Others would spend way too much time washing and ironing their uniforms almost daily to make them crisp for hanging in their lockers, but they almost always overlooked something and would get dinged during inspections. I never did - just did it right once and then never touched it again. I took an electric razer with me for shaving. I don't know why, but none of the younger guys thought of that and were using disposable razers and cutting the hell out of their faces. It got to where about half the guys were using my razer every day to do a quick shave rather than using their disposable razers. Cameras weren't allowed. I had purchased a disposable camera, taken pictures of my friends and stuff, threw away the camera and kept the film to develop later on. During one of the inspections, they tried to bust me because they the found film in my locker. They were like "You're not allowed to have a camera. We're going to have to discipline you." And I replied "I don't have a camera. I only have film. There's no rule against having film." The TI smirked and walked away. By the end of training, there were guys going into the bathrooms at night and crying. I had the time of my life. To me, it was like summer camp. My whole time in the service was finding ways to work the system and being so damn likable that even when I once caused a whole base to shut down and go on security alert (another story for another day involving a prank war with a friend), and was hauled in front of the Commander, he just said "Are you going to ever do that again?" and I said "No, sir." and he said "OK, get out of here." Wow, that was a hell of a lot longer than I'd planned. Reminiscing about days gone by.
Good times. I went through in 84. Didn't love basicb but didn't hate it either. Just wanted to get through it. Had a lot of laughs. I enjoyed my tech school more which was just on the other side of base. In the Security Forces area. Spent four years at a SAC base in NH. Made some great friends, met my wife and transferred to the reserves after my four year hitch. Switched to the Army after law school and getting ready to retire after 40 years. I was still active duty when I saw this with some if my buddies. We all liked the first part, the training section but the second half didn't seem like the Vietnam war to us but more like WWII. Probably because Kubrick chose the battle of Hue City. Folks don't usually think urban warfare when they think if Vietnam. Anyway it's a good movie that brings back a lot of memories.
I read somewhere, that Kubrick wasn't sure what should happen with the Joker character -- whether he should die, and Modine suggested that Joker should survive the war, because living through that, and dealing with all the horrors of war would be worse than dying. Great video. One of my favorite films. Thank you very much!
It is one my most re-watched movies of all time. Up there with Goodfellas, Casino, predator, predator 2, Alien, Aliens. My old roommate and I would drink all day and chain watch FMJ, it didn't help that the DVD I had of it automatically started the movie again after the end credits finished, haha. We'd be drinking vodka at 8 am watching it.
I must be the only person in this comment section who thinks FMJ is badly flawed. The training scenes are shallow, generating surprising little payoff for all the effort that went into it and the run time it takes up, while the scenes in Vietnam are even less interesting.
@@johnstrawb3521 -Yes, some professional veterans, thinking back at their basic training think so. But here it shows why the three men working on the script did not got along. KUbrick clearly wanted to bring over the vibes and the Zeitgeist of the ANTI-VIETNAM - MOVEMENT while both of his co-authors were more interested in autenticity.
As a veteran I didn't think the Barracks scene's were too bad, Not counting Pvt. Pyle suicide. As most were probably drafted at that time. I was elected to take care of one of our "slower" recruits, which made me late all the time and I was the one doing all the push-ups
I graduated the Island May 24 1988. We got our Pyle while at the rifle range. He had been in the pcp platoon until he could keep up with everyone. I was number one in the tests we took.(what a bunch of dumbasses if I was the best). They put him with me, I was his "Joker". The boy was just plain dnightHe couldn't get anything right. I felt sorry for him, especially after some gave him a party one night. He graduated though. Fun fact: I got a stripe at graduation because they didn't think I would make it after seeing me the first time. I was 6'0 - 118lbs.
as a sailor, we most definately had a blanket party for a 'problem recruit' while I was in boot camp- they got that part right.. it's not right, but it sure does 'motivate one' to get with the same program the other 50 guys are on.
I didn't think it was bad at all, I thought it was hilarious. If Ermey was chewing me out like that I would struggle not to laugh. In fact the barracks/training period of the movie is my favorite part.
@@huwhitecavebeast1972 Yeah, pretty much everybody's fav. I had a tall, skinny LT in front of me during a POW training lineup who could not get a smile off of his face. One of the muscular "enemy" guards took exception to it. He didn't hit the LT, he just flung him around like the strawman in the Wizard of Oz. The LT finally managed to handle his smile.
Your end narration is very thoughtful and deep. I had two uncles who fought and survived that war. I appreciate the time you took to write the narrative. Thank you.
In the United States Marine Corps, a Gunnery Sergeant is referred to as "Gunny" not gunnery. The city of Hue in Vietnam is pronounced "way". The h is silent
6:55 - there is some controversy over this, but fully jacketed bullets are required by the Hague Convention. But "legalities of war" aside, fully jacketed rounds are cheaper to manufacture, and generally feed more reliably.
FYI, Hue is pronounced way. Gunnery Sgt. Hartman was also neither cruiel ,ruthless, or sadisctic, just hard on his recruits, But this was during the '60s and he was preparing his recuirts for war and what he was doing was no different than any other DI was doing at the time in both the Marine Corps and the Army. It was also probably generally believed back then that you had to be a bit more physical with the recuits in order to prepare them for the harsh realities of war. Also, in the US Marine Corps we have Drill Instructors, not Drill Sergeants which is what the Army called their boot camp training SGts. Another thing, standard Marine Corps short hand and accepted nickname for Gunnery Sergeants is Gunny. A moinker that R. Lee Ermey adopted later in his career.
There's a tiny town named Hue near here and my wife pointed out that we're probably the first generation to automatically think if it was HWAY instead of HUE.
Not liking a film, series or some new direction of a franchise doesn’t equal toxicity, Minty. People can dislike anything they please. What _is toxic_ is the hurling racial slurs at actors or insanely demanding that directors, producers and cast members reunite in order to remake an entire final season of a series just because *you* didn’t like how it ended. _Now that’s toxic!_ Love you, by the way. No ridicule was intended. I also appreciate the grit and realism of _Full Metal Jacket._ One extremely minor nitpick, however, comes from a high school friend of mine who survived Paris Island in the mid 1990s: There sure as hell weren’t any knots in that rope we see in Boot Camp scenes! 💚🤗🤗💚
D'Onofrio simply is on of the best actors in the business ATM. No typecasted actor - D'Onofrio can play everything and his Pvt. Pyle was absolutly amazing. It is such a shame that he does not get bigger roles, coz what he plays he normally steals every scene he is in.
@@wylier earns the butter on the bread, but didn't challenge one bit. King Pin was a different quality of good and his role in the Mag.7 Remake was brilliant.
Let me just say as someone who not only went through Paris Island but in 3rd battalion in the late 90s many of the practices sadly were still common. The biggest flaw is you always had a rotation of 2 recruits on firewatch at hour intervals every night at basic. And the way we patrol the squad bay, the only way Pvt. Pyle could have smuggled in some rounds, taken his riffle off his rack and gone unnoticed to the head, would only happen if the he and his firewatch buddy or the 2 firewatch individuals let Pyle do all that withoit raising alarm is the only way that scene could happen. Also the quarter decking is very light in this film. Unfortunately, we did have to "motivate" 2 individuals during training. But anybody who stepped on the yellow footprints, or walked past "Iron Mike", no matter the decade they joined, the basic training scene pulls you right back. Good pick on movie👍
I get so happy every time you put up a new video. And my kids like them too. You really do your best to tell us things we didn't know. Unlike many other TH-cam channels. " bet you didn't know this. " Bet I did with most of them. But you actually suprise me many things when you tell me things about movies from my childhood that I actually didn't know! And i knew Mathew Modine took photos, but I forgot about him writing a book about it. I have to find this and read it. Thank you again Minty. YOU ROCK DUDE!!!
I've read that the reason this movie and others Kubrick made were filmed in England and not on location is because he refused to travel. It's also why some of his writing collaborations were so strained. His collaboration with Arthur C. Clarke on 2001 was very similar, where they just wrote back and forth rather than meeting face-to-face for the writing process.
This is an excellent movie, but there was another one made in 1978 that is somewhat similar and very overlooked. It's called, The Boys in Company C. If you haven't seen it, check it out. Great video as always.😁
The books title; "The Short Timers", is military speak for someone who is coming up on the End of an event. Sometimes used when "counting down" to the end of a deployment, or most often the end of your enlistment. Often stated as "Get Someone else to do it. I'm short". i.e. "I only have X number of days left here.". See also: "X days and a wakeup.".
Wow!!! Thank you for posting this!!! I saw that you reviewed FULL METAL JACKET while in the field and I was sooo excited and I couldnt wait to watch this. My father served during the Vietnam War from 68 to 70 and my brother served in the Army from 93 to 2023. Now I am currently serving @ Fort Hood and I can definitely tell you some of the things that happen in this movie actually happen. My roommate is a former Marine and he tells me crazy stories when he served his 4-years before switching. I remember watching this movie when I was 13 for the first time and it traumatized me!! 37 now, I am the living the live of a soldier and to be honest, the military really changes your view on life, your perspectives and your ability to think. I honestly can say I havent been the same since I first went in and if I was ever sent to war, we would have to become killing machines because that's our JOB!! I wasnt "born to kill", because I enlisted late, but I chose to kill and fight for my country if need be. That's what separates us from the common people who work 9 to 5. We work 24/7, 365 days and love our weekends off, sometimes. I have always loved this movie and thank you for posting it Minty!!! SPC MACDONOUGH. 3/3 CR IRONHAWKS!!!
Fun Fact: R. Lee Ermey was a real drill sergant and what he did in the movie was natural being a drill sargent. Ermey is from where I'm from. His home was torn down to create a race track.
When I did basic training in fort Benning, Georgia for Infantry, there was a gentleman who was very much like Private Pyle and all I remember after graduating basic was we got a little yearbook type thing that we could have everybody sign and he signed my book... "You weren't on the list". Never found out what happened to him as he went to Hawaii and I went to Fort Drum, NY 😐
M-I-N, T-Y Comedic Arts! I've watched the first half of FMJ about twice as much as the whole movie. Like you said, the Sgt. Hartman & Pvt. Pyle storyline is the most gripping part.
The "Vietnam" scenes were indeed filmed at the old Beckton gasworks about 10 minutes from where I lived and grew up as a teenager. Prior to filming, the gasworks were a place where we would explore and hang out. During filming there was such tight security that we couldn't get in BUT we would see red and blue helicopters landing and the next day we would see them taking off painted in green with "Marines" down the side.... quite bizarre! The explosions and gunfire could be heard too. After filming was long over, we would go back over there and see the buildings still marked in Vietnamese lettering (It stayed that way long after I grew up and moved out). We would also find shell casings and I found an M16 magazine. If you actually read carefully through the film's end credits, It gives an acknowledgement to North Thames Gas, London, England. Who would have thought the Vietnam War could be fought in old East London, surrounded by Cockneys haha! Great memories and a GREAT film.
This is one of those movies I watched dozens of times in my life. Doesn't feel as gritty and real as (for example) Platoon but it has so many iconic scenes and characters. And the score...holy hell..it's so perfect.
Can't speak about the second half of the movie as I was born towards the end of the war (in 73), but the first half is the most accurate I've ever seen...so much so that my recruiter had us watch it to give us an idea of what we were in for.
"Almost Shakespearean" is the most apt description I have heard concerning this movie! In the Summer of 1987, I was in boot camp for the U.S. Army. I had heard about a movie where a marine recruit kills his drill instructor -- and although our own Drill Sergeants never commented about it -- I made it a point to check out the movie when able. Soonafter, I was attending the interservice military school DINFOS, (Defense Information School) at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, studying to be a 46Q, Basic Military Journalist. I elected to see the flick with a marine, who was a classmate also attending the school. We were glued to the screen, as we had both just got out of our respective boot camps. We only took our eyes from the movie once to look at one another as Drill Instructor Hartman announced Joker's chosen military occupation.* We watched in silence throughout the rest of the movie and afterwards, my companion muttered, "I'm not sure if I'm going to be cut out for this." I reassured him it was just a movie and that war is never like it is in pictures. Now, looking back, as a war veteran from Operation Desert Shield/Storm, I can't say I believe my previous statement is entirely true. "War is hell." Sherman's statement has held up over time. As far as THIS movie goes -- although I was in diapers during the Vietnam conflict -- I suspect this movie is even more accurate than most would like to believe. I love all of Kubrick's works, and this one rests near the top of my favorites list. I think you said it best. Not only as a way to analyze the character of Private Pyle, but as a way to look at this timeless classic: "Almost Shakespearean." As a lover of the Bard and a stage actor, I couldn't have said it better myself. Best to you, Minty! *A year later, I saw "Good Morning Vietnam" in the same theatre with an airman classmate while I was attending DINFOS to became a Basic Military Broadcast Journalist 46R. Of course, unlike Full Metal Jacket, we both knew the military occupation of the main character going in. (There wasn't a person in the broadcasting department of DINFOS who didn't know who Adrian Cronauer was.) Still, the irony of both of those experiences doesn't escape me.
Poor Private Pyle. His character was one of the strongest arguments against conscription. Although I personally find conscription evil, and if we truly are a free country, something that should banned outright. Let the politicians and contractors find ways to get rich getting real jobs and creating actual products or services we want and need, rather than just laundering money off our backs.
Great film and and great backdrop. Plus thankyou for getting me to remember classic films to watch which I did forget how good they were. Infact I will watch it now ................................................................... A well a bird bird bird bird is the word.
I believe you are spot on with your views on the horror of this particular war. And your analysis of Private Pyle. I can imagine the actor portraying the character did indeed suffer. Can you imagine anyone having to undergo that type of abuse in today's modern army. I doubt it.
This is my favorite Vietnam film ever, Minty. I was a Marine from 08-93 until 12-02... Life was rough, but the experience made me a better person/man. If I stayed enlisted, I would have had 30+ years, but I left so that I could spend time with my family!
Kubrick has always struck me as the type of leader who gets the best of his people by pushing them harder than they ever have before, much like any basic training instructor would. Yes, actors got hurt, physically and mentally, but they either became nobodies or somebodies. There was little to no middle ground. I think that is why Kubrick's movies always did so well, even when they were hard to grasp.
When I started to watch your video, I did not realize that I've watched a great video from you before. One of them on Star Wars I believe. I recognized your voice. You do get videos. Full Metal Jacket is one of my favorite from years ago. Merry Xmas sir!
If you went through then, it was harsh...years later, it is hilarious. When Hartmann said" ..then you will become DEAD Marines. Then you will be in a word of shit, because Marines are not allowed to die without permission!!" I was the only person in the whole theatre who laughed out loud!
One of my all time favorite and greatest ( especially war ) movies ever made . That being said , although the first half is phenomenal , in my 43 years of life I have yet to meet another person like myself that thinks the second is better.
Full Metal Jacket was one of the two movies that inspired me to join the United States Marine Corps in 1993. Aside from the physical abuse and the excessive profanity, the feel of the first half of the movie was spot on. All the performances were outstanding. Although it was "one of those 80's Vietnam war movies," it will always hold a special place in my heart.
vincent donofrios is a hell of an actor. what he brings to the part really makes the movie. i hope it didnt scare him permanently. i cant believe kubrik ever doubted ermeys ability to act since a large component of being a drill sergeant is in essence acting.
I found this movie in the 3 for 10 bin at my local thrift store. Awesomely I picked it up with Saving Private Ryan, and Speed. Of course I wanted to watch a handsome Keanu Reaves first that Saturday night but this was the second movie. My dad stopped the movie before the donut scene and said Honey, I can't watch this. My dad has watched several war movies with me before including Platoon, and some really weird early 80s war movies. But he had been through basic training in the Marine corps in the 90s and it hit him hard. I watched the movie alone some time later and believe dad saw some things that were still too real in the boot camp half.
Minty, in the movie you saw Marines. Not soldiers but Marines. We are called Marines, nothing else. And it Drill Instructor, not drill sergeant! Sorry minty but I served in the Marine Corps for a long time and that movie means a lot to me and all the few Marines I served with. Thank you for during this!
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Apart from the comedy of Joker and Gunny Sgt Hartman this film is quite dark. Up there with Saving Private Ryan, Platoon,Apocalypse Now or Come and See and such a powerful piece of cinema. Stanley Kubrick is a brilliant filmmaker and the actors Vincent D'Onofrio,R.Lee Ermey,and Matthew Modine are outstanding. One of my favourite films. Thanks for the video Minty.👍
Hartmann was a very rough character, but it was his job to transform schoolboys into soldiers with the discipline and fortitude to have the best possible chances to survive combat. The sniper scene is the one I remember the most; when she turned and started firing, still one of the best War Faces I've seen. Good Video :)
What made Full Metal Jacket great was the perfect combination of things. The right story, right people in the right roles and the right director. Movies like that are often imitated and rarely replicated.
1, This is my #1 Christmas movie. 2, It gives me basic training flashbacks. 3, Dispatches is an essential read for understanding what being sent to Vietnam felt like.
Awesome video as always Minty. FMJ is one of my favorite movies of all time. Man... Val Kilmer would have been awesome in this but Modine was fantastic.
Very interesting. My dad is a marine During that time from 61 to 75 . 14 years in the marines. It was also in the Cuba war crisis. Vision quest would be a good one for you to do. Still waiting on Jacob's-ladder, BMX bandits 1985 fortress.
One of the GREATEST movies ever. IMO. Great Job, love your channel. Just FYI, I saw someone already said, but in the Marine Corps we do not call Gunnery Sgt. just "Sgt." You are called a Sgt. when you're that rank. Staff Sgt. next, then Gunnery Sgt. or "Gunny". Also, the Marines call their tormenters in bootcamp Drill Instructors not Drill Sgt.'s, however for this it may have been appropriate for the time this movie takes place as the Tet Offensive was in 1968. The Marines were the first to coin the term Drill Sgt.'s for bootcamp, but changed to Drill Instructor in 1971.
Thanks for the great video minty exceptionally awesome as always I just wanted to tell you I really appreciate your comment at the end about war and traumas of our past and how important it is to see and remember films like this that was very respectful and profound to the seriousness of the subject matter thank you for that it reminds me of a quote from my history teacher which she didn't make up but used to we write from time to time its was "to forget the past gives evil the chance to rise again" I'd also add the one "the only thing required for evil to prevail I'd or good men to do nothing" I feel those are very fitting go well with what you said & also I really love your green ranger helmet I couldn't help but think that's a great tribute to Jason david frank aka the green/white ranger just a thought maybe if you feel you to it you should do a 10 things yi8 didn't know about JDF or just some kind of give respects say goodbye to him as he passed away from I'll use the term self deletion so stupid we cant just say the word I suppose I could it's just the comments but I won't you get what I meant you did such a great job with your power rangers video I feel doing another about JDF would be appropriate and very appreciated especially by myself or maybe you could do a video on the power rangers movie as it was filmed I'm Australia along with the matrix actually I think that was you that said that in you power rangers video I think if I remember I'll have to watch it again but that was really cool fact also one last idea maybe you could just do a video about 10 things you didn't know about JDF character Tommy Oliver & do his history as a ranger highlighting all the different color rangers he's played that would be great too I hope I was helpful in any of my suggested ideas as I wrote it to you because you're the best man for the job I'd do videos about it but I don't think I could certainly not with the talent you have and your great personality so keep up the good work I believe in you and admire you for real even though I don't know you personally your one of the very few super positive interesting people in my life that I always keep up to date with what you even of it's just for fun really means a lot to me thank you minty take care
I remember the first time ever watching this movie in like early 01 with my friends, who told us this really funny and action packed movie Full Metal Jacket, so being 17 years old what a way to kill a Saturday night, as we started off laughing along with what they would call the "first half of the movie" we all got quite and just watched when pile kills gunny, and after that point the whole movie changed as well as our moods where we just kinda watched it in silence only to talk about a few parts namely the part with the prostitute and hearing where 2-Live Crew got there clip and the forever pop culture "me so horny, me love you long time" but everything else after that, was haunting, I remember thinking once it was over of what the hell did I just see, as we let the credits roll no one was eager to stop the tape or rewind it (yeah remember them days? haha) and if anything I think we all just muddled to our self and went home, and we never really talked about the movie after that other than saying, if you not seen it you should and aside from the insults had no real way of explaining the movie to anyone other than just saying, just watch it
I absolutely agree full mental is a classic. The dynamic between Pyle and gunnery is epic. But I also agree it’s almost like two different films. The boot camp part is epic but the Vietnam part lacks cohesion. That movie could have been so great if they had put as much effort into the war scenes as they did the boot camp scenes. But with the creators not meeting up to discuss it makes a lot of sense now.
I can't imagine anyone different in this cast. It was perfect. I went to boot camp in the early nineties. It was just like this, without the physical violence. No hitting or racial slurs. Anyone going into the military needs to watch at least the first half of this classic.
I will never forget my experience seeing this movie for the first time in 1989. I was actually going through Army training at the time, going through AIT, the training you get to learn the job you'll have in the service. AIT was different than basic training, where we had weekends off for the most part, and had free time at the end of the weekdays. We had a common room where we could watch TV and play arcade games. We happened to end up watching Full Metal Jacket one weekend, and my strongest memory was the part where Pvt. Pyle killed Drill Sergeant Harris, and considering we currently had 2 Drill Sergeants who were pretty decent compared to our basic training Drill Sergeants, as for myself, I actually got pissed off when Drill Sergeant Harris was murdered. That had an effect on me for quite awhile afterwards.
@@aaronburratwood.6957 Horrifying mate, imagine surviving the war then not really surviving the war and the time in between. My thoughts are with you & your family.
My father was at Paris Island during the time depicted in the movie and said the same thing. He'd say that they didn't shoot their drill instructor but everything else was accurate.
My father was at Paris Island during the time depicted in the movie and said the same thing. He'd say that they didn't shoot their drill instructor but everything else was accurate.
Minty: Ronald Lee Emery maybe remember in Full Metal Jacket. I will always remember him in GEICO commercial ad a therapist. The commercial is fun to watch. You have a nice day as always and forever and ever for sure!
Hey Minty!! I'm probably sure you won't see tis. But wanted to tell you I love your Chanel! Been subcribed for some time now. I always get excited when you drop a new video. Keep up the amazing work!
On the topic of Val Kilmer & Matthew Modine, I heard that Matthew Modine turned down a part in Top Gun, but turned it down because it was clearly military propaganda. I’m glad he acted in Full Metal Jacket instead - a much more realistic portrayal of the military.
I think Tim Colceri had a one-man show where he talked about his experience on the whole production of The movie and even did his own take on the Drill Sargent character.
The band Ministry, on their album _The mind is a terrible thing to taste_ samples Earmy in the first song: "I can't hear you...I still can't hear you". I also love a flipped line by Earmy..."it should take you no less than ten seconds to navigate this obstacle". He meant: no MORE than ten seconds...love this kind of stuff
It's stuff like this that we didn't even know we wanted until we were trying to keep from peeing with laughter, crushing over Kelly, admiring Bud's coolness or enjoying the dog's commentary.... It was FUN!!! That "F" word we forget about too often! Have a fun day wherever you are!!! ❤️💋🌮 (Love, smooches, and tacos!)
When Halo 2 was really at its peak my team had the war cry “GET SOME!” At every kill by the team you screamed into the mic “GET SOME!!!” Get some! GET SOME!! GET SOME… Running Riot! Good times!
Love the show, in Vietnam there were no "war recruits". Almost all Americans were drafted. Forcibly sent as very young men to go kill. No one came back ok. Even if the recruits of today choose it, they don't know what they are signing up for. A friend of mine was an active service Marine. He was in Iraq. He once got a little too drunk and confessed that he could see the faces of the people he had killed. I love Full Metal Jacket because even though it was highly dramatized, they do their best to show how the Military breaks you on purpose to brainwash you into killing. That all war is straight up ugly. Also, you got to give them props on making England look anything like Vietnam. Keep bringing good content Minty. Just remember the boys in Nam were forced to be there.
I went to a convention & had a long conversation with R. Lee Ermey that I’ll never forget. I asked him about how he and Donofrio’s collaboration was on set. Mr. Ermey, a former Drill Instructor himself, said that he got lost in the role & forgot it was a movie for a little bit. After one of the takes, Donofrio walked solemnly off set & headed to catering, and Ermey followed him. Donofrio was crying but was trying to hold it back. As he was approached by Ermey, Donofrio dropped his plate, stood at attention, and with tears coming down - Ermy said “At ease Marine.” Ermey lost his appetite & after apologizing for his toughness on Donofrio, went back to his trailer & had a small bit of a panic attack for the first time ever.
Oh my heart. 💔🥺 ermey was so good. I imagine it was horrible for both of them
Ermy was a great man.
@@Lyeah73 Nicest older man I’ve ever met aside from William Daniels & Fred Rogers
@@ulfrick11 Sure as hell was!
sometimes even pretending war is hell.
My grandpa went to Saigon as one of the mechanical engineers during the war. He never did told us what exactly happened during his work there but he was teary and smiling nearing the end of the movie.
My father was also a mechanic over there.
She love grandpa long time.
I remember that my local MEPS (Military Entrance Processing Station) unironically played Full Metal Jacket and Starship Troopers on the TV while we were waiting to get medically evaluated and handled all the administrative paperwork prior to being shipped off to boot camp. Fun times.
First time I saw it was at MEPS as well. Also, Black Swan, for some freaking reason.
I'm pretty sure they did it on purpose. 😂
@@chrisvandergriff504 , lol they had Swimfan when I went through.
"Mobile Infantry made me the man I am today..."
Ironically before I was nearly decapitated by razor wire during basic, my MEPS was playing Barb Wire (Pam Anderson). Had never seen anything with her in it, and got so lost in its absurdity I forgot where the hell I even was.
Holy cow! It released at the same time as "Lost Boys, Robocop and Predator.
I don't know how on theater could hold that much badassery!
1987 was the year of movie bangers. Almost everything that came out that year was either a blockbuster or cult classic.
Commonplace in the 80s. Studios weren't as greedy, and they weren't afraid to release films that close together. Keaton Batman and Last Crusade were separated by one month.
Let's not forget "The Princess Bride" and Timothy Dalton's debut 007 film: "The Living Daylights" in the classic category.
Sadly, there were also films in '87 that're considered stinkers, like "Superman IV: The Quest for Peace" and "JAWS: The Revenge". In my opinion, while I too find them very flawed compared to the early films in their respective franchises, I still find some enjoyment in those films.
A line up at the theaters like that that will never be seen again.
what a year eh?
17:13 Can we just take a moment to appreciate the 4 movies playing at that theater in 1987
It’s a shame - Coming home in a body bag , was not playing, that was a !ucking movie!
Exactly my thoughts too. What a badass weekend at the theaters!
@@briefcaseblues6061 That would’ve been an amazing Quadruple Matinee
@@asksearchknock Right, especially if you only had time to watch 1 movie that day, you’d at least walk out of the theater satisfied!! (I didn’t say money because if time wasn’t an issue, I would just movie hop & watch all in 1 day)
now, those were the days, price of an entry was peanuts
I really hate using the word Underrated, but as an actor Vincent Donofrio is just that. Coming from "Adventures in Babysitting" to Full Metal Jacket is Shocking. He looks like 2 totally different people. And in a span of just over a year. A must have movie in your collection.
Full Metal Jacket was the first R rated movie I'd seen as a kid with my uncle who was a marine drill sergeant during Vietnam. I remember him telling me that the boot camp scene was completely accurate (made sense knowing R Lee Remy was also a drill sergeant during the "police action").
Drill instructor, drill sergeants are Army.
One of the greatest days of my entire life, is when I got to meet R. Lee Ermey in person. Easily the coolest man I have ever met in my life. He not only autographed everything for free, he gave me one of his challenge coins, and thanked me for my 4 piddlin' little years of military service.
❤that’s awesome
Unfortunately he had better acting range than this, this movie forever typecast him as the rough and tumble drill sergeant type. I can only think of a few roles where he wasn't this guy.
@RoGueNavy,. USN 73-77 Machinery Repairman 3rd class. Sail On Sailor. Fair Winds And Following Seas
@@DeathBYDesign666 I thought he did a great job in Fletch with Chevy Chase, where he played a shady television preacher. That really showed his acting chops, because the role was nothing like a drill sergeant type.
@@joshuaburba1048 I thought he was the best part of the early 2000s Texas chainsaw massacre films honestly, but he still had that drill sergeant swagger in it. He played one of the cops in seven also but that is the only other time I can think of where he played the role straight. Which itself was odd because I think he was the captain and that's the perfect role for a drill sergeant type.
I had two uncles who were Marines in Vietnam. One went through basic in 1967; the other year after. They both said that the basic training scenes in the movie were pretty spot-on.
My Dad was a Marine in the Korean War and he said the Drill Sgt and the boot camp was the most realistic movie depiction of what he experienced.
I actually found a copy of Matthew Modine‘s book at a thrift store and wildly enough it was autographed by Modine to some other person named Richard.
Lucky find 😮
Legend has it, Matthew's face still stings from Hartman's slaps and Vincent wants another jelly-donut. 🤣
As a collector of autographed books: OMG!
I have a Stephen King book that is autographed and it is a prized possession!
@@ColtraneAndRain I know, right!
I remember when I bought the book, I just sort of flipped through the pages to make sure there were no torn pages or pen and pencil marks.
I didn’t even notice the autograph until I got home.
I mean, I’m not the Richard he autographed it to but I’ll take it 🖊️😃
I do wonder what happened to the Richard that it was autographed to and why it was at a thrift store.
Minty, thank you so much for picking such a great film to examine further. "Full Metal Jacket" is absolutely one of my favorite films from the great director Stanley Kubrick. Thanks again for some more amazing content! All the best to you and your channel! 😎👍
I had joined the military in late '88, and Christmas / New Years fell in the middle of basic training. During that period, it was pretty much a down time, so they did stuff like show movies to keep us entertained while away from home during the holidays. One of the movies was Full Metal Jacket. A couple of the TIs (Training Instructors) were in the room with us to keep an eye on things while we watched movies. Just before the bathroom scene, they all got up and left. I hadn't seen the movie before, so wondered why they all left at the same time. I figured out quickly why they didn't want to be around for that scene.
@@meatman4193 - Yep.
And all I got was a freaking donut at Sunday Chappell. Freaking air force
The taps. I still remember the metal taps TIs wore on their shoes in basic. Click, click, click when they walked by your bunk in the middle of the night.
@@mancima - I had a great time in basic. I was a bit older (21) when I joined, so I was one of the oldest ones in my group. My sister was a E-6 and my brother was an E-5, and I'd lived on AF bases several times before, so I knew more of what to expect and what I could get away with.
My TI liked me, so he put me on brass polishing duty (polishing the doorknobs, window hardware, and anything else that would tarnish). There was a group of four that were assigned to that. They were spending an hour or more every day, using brass polish on everything. I taught them to use the clear boot polish on the brass. Went from spending time every day doing it to only needing to do it once a week.
On the first inspection (they did them while we were outside training), the TI had loosened a corner of the blanket on my cot and tagged it. I was like "screw that", so I took the elastic straps that attach socks to the bottoms of the shirt (keeps the socks pulled up and the shirt pulled down), and used those to hold the sheets and blanket on my bed as tight as could be. I'd just wiggle down into it at night and shimmy out in the morning, and only had to make my bed once a week when I changed sheets. On the next inspection, we came back into the dorm and my cot was upside down, where they'd flipped it trying to loosen the blanket corner again and got frustrated because they couldn't. They couldn't ding me on it because even after they'd flipped it upside down, it was still perfectly made.
I had two uniforms. One I had starched until it was practically cardboard, that I kept in my locker for inspection. The second one, that I actually wore, I kept folded in a dirty laundry sack. Others would spend way too much time washing and ironing their uniforms almost daily to make them crisp for hanging in their lockers, but they almost always overlooked something and would get dinged during inspections. I never did - just did it right once and then never touched it again.
I took an electric razer with me for shaving. I don't know why, but none of the younger guys thought of that and were using disposable razers and cutting the hell out of their faces. It got to where about half the guys were using my razer every day to do a quick shave rather than using their disposable razers.
Cameras weren't allowed. I had purchased a disposable camera, taken pictures of my friends and stuff, threw away the camera and kept the film to develop later on. During one of the inspections, they tried to bust me because they the found film in my locker. They were like "You're not allowed to have a camera. We're going to have to discipline you." And I replied "I don't have a camera. I only have film. There's no rule against having film." The TI smirked and walked away.
By the end of training, there were guys going into the bathrooms at night and crying. I had the time of my life. To me, it was like summer camp. My whole time in the service was finding ways to work the system and being so damn likable that even when I once caused a whole base to shut down and go on security alert (another story for another day involving a prank war with a friend), and was hauled in front of the Commander, he just said "Are you going to ever do that again?" and I said "No, sir." and he said "OK, get out of here."
Wow, that was a hell of a lot longer than I'd planned. Reminiscing about days gone by.
Good times. I went through in 84. Didn't love basicb but didn't hate it either. Just wanted to get through it. Had a lot of laughs. I enjoyed my tech school more which was just on the other side of base. In the Security Forces area. Spent four years at a SAC base in NH. Made some great friends, met my wife and transferred to the reserves after my four year hitch. Switched to the Army after law school and getting ready to retire after 40 years. I was still active duty when I saw this with some if my buddies. We all liked the first part, the training section but the second half didn't seem like the Vietnam war to us but more like WWII. Probably because Kubrick chose the battle of Hue City. Folks don't usually think urban warfare when they think if Vietnam. Anyway it's a good movie that brings back a lot of memories.
I read somewhere, that Kubrick wasn't sure what should happen with the Joker character -- whether he should die, and Modine suggested that Joker should survive the war, because living through that, and dealing with all the horrors of war would be worse than dying. Great video. One of my favorite films. Thank you very much!
Full Metal Jacket is a movie that was good when it came out and keeps getting better as time goes on.
It is one my most re-watched movies of all time. Up there with Goodfellas, Casino, predator, predator 2, Alien, Aliens. My old roommate and I would drink all day and chain watch FMJ, it didn't help that the DVD I had of it automatically started the movie again after the end credits finished, haha. We'd be drinking vodka at 8 am watching it.
I must be the only person in this comment section who thinks FMJ is badly flawed. The training scenes are shallow, generating surprising little payoff for all the effort that went into it and the run time it takes up, while the scenes in Vietnam are even less interesting.
@@johnstrawb3521 you're right, you are the only person who thinks that.
@@johnstrawb3521 -Yes, some professional veterans, thinking back at their basic training think so.
But here it shows why the three men working on the script did not got along. KUbrick clearly wanted to bring over the vibes and the Zeitgeist of the ANTI-VIETNAM - MOVEMENT while both of his co-authors were more interested in autenticity.
We met R Lee Ermey at SHOT Show. He was gracious and very nice. I have a pic of us w him on my wall. Its one of my favourites.
As a veteran I didn't think the Barracks scene's were too bad, Not counting Pvt. Pyle suicide. As most were probably drafted at that time. I was elected to take care of one of our "slower" recruits, which made me late all the time and I was the one doing all the push-ups
I remember having to teach a couple of recruits how to walk.
I graduated the Island May 24 1988. We got our Pyle while at the rifle range. He had been in the pcp platoon until he could keep up with everyone. I was number one in the tests we took.(what a bunch of dumbasses if I was the best). They put him with me, I was his "Joker". The boy was just plain dnightHe couldn't get anything right. I felt sorry for him, especially after some gave him a party one night. He graduated though.
Fun fact: I got a stripe at graduation because they didn't think I would make it after seeing me the first time. I was 6'0 - 118lbs.
as a sailor, we most definately had a blanket party for a 'problem recruit' while I was in boot camp- they got that part right.. it's not right, but it sure does 'motivate one' to get with the same program the other 50 guys are on.
I didn't think it was bad at all, I thought it was hilarious. If Ermey was chewing me out like that I would struggle not to laugh. In fact the barracks/training period of the movie is my favorite part.
@@huwhitecavebeast1972 Yeah, pretty much everybody's fav. I had a tall, skinny LT in front of me during a POW training lineup who could not get a smile off of his face. One of the muscular "enemy" guards took exception to it. He didn't hit the LT, he just flung him around like the strawman in the Wizard of Oz. The LT finally managed to handle his smile.
Your end narration is very thoughtful and deep. I had two uncles who fought and survived that war. I appreciate the time you took to write the narrative. Thank you.
A stellar performance by R Lee Ermey 👌👌
In the United States Marine Corps, a Gunnery Sergeant is referred to as "Gunny" not gunnery.
The city of Hue in Vietnam is pronounced "way".
The h is silent
We'll call those dink hootches whatever we want to call them!
Then the German news commentatord in those years pronounced the old Royal City right.
I was never in the military, but I'm a big fan of R. Lee Ermey. Thus, it was quite distracting to keep hearing "Gunnery" and not "Gunny." lol
6:55 - there is some controversy over this, but fully jacketed bullets are required by the Hague Convention. But "legalities of war" aside, fully jacketed rounds are cheaper to manufacture, and generally feed more reliably.
FYI, Hue is pronounced way.
Gunnery Sgt. Hartman was also neither cruiel ,ruthless, or sadisctic, just hard on his recruits, But this was during the '60s and he was preparing his recuirts for war and what he was doing was no different than any other DI was doing at the time in both the Marine Corps and the Army. It was also probably generally believed back then that you had to be a bit more physical with the recuits in order to prepare them for the harsh realities of war. Also, in the US Marine Corps we have Drill Instructors, not Drill Sergeants which is what the Army called their boot camp training SGts.
Another thing, standard Marine Corps short hand and accepted nickname for Gunnery Sergeants is Gunny. A moinker that R. Lee Ermey adopted later in his career.
There's a tiny town named Hue near here and my wife pointed out that we're probably the first generation to automatically think if it was HWAY instead of HUE.
Not liking a film, series or some new direction of a franchise doesn’t equal toxicity, Minty. People can dislike anything they please.
What _is toxic_ is the hurling racial slurs at actors or insanely demanding that directors, producers and cast members reunite in order to remake an entire final season of a series just because *you* didn’t like how it ended.
_Now that’s toxic!_ Love you, by the way. No ridicule was intended. I also appreciate the grit and realism of _Full Metal Jacket._
One extremely minor nitpick, however, comes from a high school friend of mine who survived Paris Island in the mid 1990s:
There sure as hell weren’t any knots in that rope we see in Boot Camp scenes!
💚🤗🤗💚
D'Onofrio simply is on of the best actors in the business ATM. No typecasted actor - D'Onofrio can play everything and his Pvt. Pyle was absolutly amazing. It is such a shame that he does not get bigger roles, coz what he plays he normally steals every scene he is in.
Well, he had that steady role on Law and Order.
Should have been nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actor.
@@sandrasanders706 so very very true
@@wylier earns the butter on the bread, but didn't challenge one bit.
King Pin was a different quality of good and his role in the Mag.7 Remake was brilliant.
@@sandrasanders706 Just read my friggin' mind!
Door gunners most memorable line was "Easy, you just don't lead em as much"
If they run they're VC. If they stand they're well disciplined VC.
I was today years old when I learned that Private Pyle was also Thor in Adventures in Babysitting
Door Gunner also had the line "Anyone who runs is a VC. Anyone standing still is a well disciplined VC."
The only good gook is a dead gook.
Let me just say as someone who not only went through Paris Island but in 3rd battalion in the late 90s many of the practices sadly were still common. The biggest flaw is you always had a rotation of 2 recruits on firewatch at hour intervals every night at basic. And the way we patrol the squad bay, the only way Pvt. Pyle could have smuggled in some rounds, taken his riffle off his rack and gone unnoticed to the head, would only happen if the he and his firewatch buddy or the 2 firewatch individuals let Pyle do all that withoit raising alarm is the only way that scene could happen. Also the quarter decking is very light in this film. Unfortunately, we did have to "motivate" 2 individuals during training. But anybody who stepped on the yellow footprints, or walked past "Iron Mike", no matter the decade they joined, the basic training scene pulls you right back.
Good pick on movie👍
Good comment, but what does "Yellow footprints, or walked past "Iron Mike" mean?
@@themobseat yellow foots prints are what you stand on when you first arrive at Paris Island, and Iron Mike is a statue on base
I get so happy every time you put up a new video. And my kids like them too. You really do your best to tell us things we didn't know. Unlike many other TH-cam channels. " bet you didn't know this. " Bet I did with most of them. But you actually suprise me many things when you tell me things about movies from my childhood that I actually didn't know! And i knew Mathew Modine took photos, but I forgot about him writing a book about it. I have to find this and read it.
Thank you again Minty.
YOU ROCK DUDE!!!
I've read that the reason this movie and others Kubrick made were filmed in England and not on location is because he refused to travel. It's also why some of his writing collaborations were so strained. His collaboration with Arthur C. Clarke on 2001 was very similar, where they just wrote back and forth rather than meeting face-to-face for the writing process.
Yeah, he was infamous for never wanting to do anything outside of London. He was a fantastic visionary, but clearly had some serious issues lol
Such an awesome film! So many classic one liners and it also had a really great soundtrack.
This is an excellent movie, but there was another one made in 1978 that is somewhat similar and very overlooked. It's called, The Boys in Company C. If you haven't seen it, check it out. Great video as always.😁
R. Lee Ermey plays a drill instructor in that one as well.
I loved that movie too!
The books title; "The Short Timers", is military speak for someone who is coming up on the End of an event. Sometimes used when "counting down" to the end of a deployment, or most often the end of your enlistment. Often stated as "Get Someone else to do it. I'm short". i.e. "I only have X number of days left here.". See also: "X days and a wakeup.".
This movie is brilliant and brutal, filled with iconic moments. Thanks for sharing insight into it!
Another great video Minty. Keep up the good work Mark. You're producing great content
Wow!!! Thank you for posting this!!! I saw that you reviewed FULL METAL JACKET while in the field and I was sooo excited and I couldnt wait to watch this. My father served during the Vietnam War from 68 to 70 and my brother served in the Army from 93 to 2023. Now I am currently serving @ Fort Hood and I can definitely tell you some of the things that happen in this movie actually happen. My roommate is a former Marine and he tells me crazy stories when he served his 4-years before switching. I remember watching this movie when I was 13 for the first time and it traumatized me!! 37 now, I am the living the live of a soldier and to be honest, the military really changes your view on life, your perspectives and your ability to think. I honestly can say I havent been the same since I first went in and if I was ever sent to war, we would have to become killing machines because that's our JOB!! I wasnt "born to kill", because I enlisted late, but I chose to kill and fight for my country if need be. That's what separates us from the common people who work 9 to 5. We work 24/7, 365 days and love our weekends off, sometimes. I have always loved this movie and thank you for posting it Minty!!! SPC MACDONOUGH. 3/3 CR IRONHAWKS!!!
One of my favourite films also putting together a animal mother cosplay
Fun Fact: R. Lee Ermey was a real drill sergant and what he did in the movie was natural being a drill sargent. Ermey is from where I'm from. His home was torn down to create a race track.
Yep, I met him when I was stationed in Camp Pendleton CA during the holidays it was Awesome!
Drill Sergeant is an Army term. No Marine Drill INSTRUCTOR would stand for being called Drill Sergeant.
@@GunRights4US Yep, it's right up there with being called a 'former' Marine. 😅
When I did basic training in fort Benning, Georgia for Infantry, there was a gentleman who was very much like Private Pyle and all I remember after graduating basic was we got a little yearbook type thing that we could have everybody sign and he signed my book... "You weren't on the list". Never found out what happened to him as he went to Hawaii and I went to Fort Drum, NY 😐
Flattering and chilling, all at once.
Pyle’s Hawaiian vacation
M-I-N, T-Y Comedic Arts! I've watched the first half of FMJ about twice as much as the whole movie. Like you said, the Sgt. Hartman & Pvt. Pyle storyline is the most gripping part.
Great video Minty!! Watching this 11 hours ago. I loved your commentary in this video! War is Hell...you captured that so very well!
I didn't even know that was D'Onofrio in Adventures in Babysitting.
Great video Minty! One of my favourite films for sure. 17:12 What a day to go to the movies! 4 of my all time favourites!
The "Vietnam" scenes were indeed filmed at the old Beckton gasworks about 10 minutes from where I lived and grew up as a teenager. Prior to filming, the gasworks were a place where we would explore and hang out. During filming there was such tight security that we couldn't get in BUT we would see red and blue helicopters landing and the next day we would see them taking off painted in green with "Marines" down the side.... quite bizarre! The explosions and gunfire could be heard too. After filming was long over, we would go back over there and see the buildings still marked in Vietnamese lettering (It stayed that way long after I grew up and moved out). We would also find shell casings and I found an M16 magazine. If you actually read carefully through the film's end credits, It gives an acknowledgement to North Thames Gas, London, England. Who would have thought the Vietnam War could be fought in old East London, surrounded by Cockneys haha!
Great memories and a GREAT film.
This is one of those movies I watched dozens of times in my life. Doesn't feel as gritty and real as (for example) Platoon but it has so many iconic scenes and characters. And the score...holy hell..it's so perfect.
Sgt Hartmann (Lee Ermy) cracks me up every time. No matter how many times I see it I still lmao
Can't speak about the second half of the movie as I was born towards the end of the war (in 73), but the first half is the most accurate I've ever seen...so much so that my recruiter had us watch it to give us an idea of what we were in for.
"Almost Shakespearean" is the most apt description I have heard concerning this movie!
In the Summer of 1987, I was in boot camp for the U.S. Army.
I had heard about a movie where a marine recruit kills his drill instructor -- and although our own Drill Sergeants never commented about it -- I made it a point to check out the movie when able.
Soonafter, I was attending the interservice military school DINFOS, (Defense Information School) at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, studying to be a 46Q, Basic Military Journalist.
I elected to see the flick with a marine, who was a classmate also attending the school.
We were glued to the screen, as we had both just got out of our respective boot camps.
We only took our eyes from the movie once to look at one another as Drill Instructor Hartman announced Joker's chosen military occupation.*
We watched in silence throughout the rest of the movie and afterwards, my companion muttered, "I'm not sure if I'm going to be cut out for this."
I reassured him it was just a movie and that war is never like it is in pictures.
Now, looking back, as a war veteran from Operation Desert Shield/Storm, I can't say I believe my previous statement is entirely true.
"War is hell." Sherman's statement has held up over time.
As far as THIS movie goes -- although I was in diapers during the Vietnam conflict -- I suspect this movie is even more accurate than most would like to believe.
I love all of Kubrick's works, and this one rests near the top of my favorites list.
I think you said it best. Not only as a way to analyze the character of Private Pyle, but as a way to look at this timeless classic:
"Almost Shakespearean."
As a lover of the Bard and a stage actor, I couldn't have said it better myself.
Best to you, Minty!
*A year later, I saw "Good Morning Vietnam" in the same theatre with an airman classmate while I was attending DINFOS to became a Basic Military Broadcast Journalist 46R. Of course, unlike Full Metal Jacket, we both knew the military occupation of the main character going in. (There wasn't a person in the broadcasting department of DINFOS who didn't know who Adrian Cronauer was.) Still, the irony of both of those experiences doesn't escape me.
Adam Baldwin mentioned the Kubick had each actor decorate their own helmets. I got to talk with Baldwin at a convention last year, (2021)
Poor Private Pyle. His character was one of the strongest arguments against conscription. Although I personally find conscription evil, and if we truly are a free country, something that should banned outright.
Let the politicians and contractors find ways to get rich getting real jobs and creating actual products or services we want and need, rather than just laundering money off our backs.
As much as I like Ed Harris as an actor, I’m so glad that the part was won by R. Lee Ermey! R.I.P Gunny!
IMO, this was the best, First half movie of all times. The basic training scenes were unbelievable! Gunnery and Pyle. Some of the best acting ever.
Great film and and great backdrop. Plus thankyou for getting me to remember classic films to watch which I did forget how good they were. Infact I will watch it now ................................................................... A well a bird bird bird bird is the word.
I believe you are spot on with your views on the horror of this particular war. And your analysis of Private Pyle. I can imagine the actor portraying the character did indeed suffer. Can you imagine anyone having to undergo that type of abuse in today's modern army. I doubt it.
This is my favorite Vietnam film ever, Minty.
I was a Marine from 08-93 until 12-02...
Life was rough, but the experience made me a better person/man.
If I stayed enlisted, I would have had 30+ years, but I left so that I could spend time with my family!
Kubrick has always struck me as the type of leader who gets the best of his people by pushing them harder than they ever have before, much like any basic training instructor would. Yes, actors got hurt, physically and mentally, but they either became nobodies or somebodies. There was little to no middle ground. I think that is why Kubrick's movies always did so well, even when they were hard to grasp.
He was renowned (or vilified, take your pick) for his perfectionism.
When I started to watch your video, I did not realize that I've watched a great video from you before. One of them on Star Wars I believe. I recognized your voice. You do get videos. Full Metal Jacket is one of my favorite from years ago. Merry Xmas sir!
My Dad went to Parris Island near the end of the Vietnam War. When he watched the movie, he was laughing at Gunnery Sergeant Hartman's lines.
If you went through then, it was harsh...years later, it is hilarious. When Hartmann said" ..then you will become DEAD Marines. Then you will be in a word of shit, because Marines are not allowed to die without permission!!" I was the only person in the whole theatre who laughed out loud!
One of my all time favorite and greatest ( especially war ) movies ever made . That being said , although the first half is phenomenal , in my 43 years of life I have yet to meet another person like myself that thinks the second is better.
Had a few motorcycle buddies (that were were in 'Nam) that said this movie was fairly accurate. Love your channel- keep up the awesome work!
Full Metal Jacket was one of the two movies that inspired me to join the United States Marine Corps in 1993. Aside from the physical abuse and the excessive profanity, the feel of the first half of the movie was spot on. All the performances were outstanding. Although it was "one of those 80's Vietnam war movies," it will always hold a special place in my heart.
vincent donofrios is a hell of an actor. what he brings to the part really makes the movie. i hope it didnt scare him permanently.
i cant believe kubrik ever doubted ermeys ability to act since a large component of being a drill sergeant is in essence acting.
im glad lee earmy got the part because he was perfect for it, no one could have done it better.
I would have taken the movie less seriously if Bruce willis, Val Kilmer or Arnold was in it.
I found this movie in the 3 for 10 bin at my local thrift store. Awesomely I picked it up with Saving Private Ryan, and Speed. Of course I wanted to watch a handsome Keanu Reaves first that Saturday night but this was the second movie. My dad stopped the movie before the donut scene and said Honey, I can't watch this. My dad has watched several war movies with me before including Platoon, and some really weird early 80s war movies. But he had been through basic training in the Marine corps in the 90s and it hit him hard. I watched the movie alone some time later and believe dad saw some things that were still too real in the boot camp half.
Minty, in the movie you saw Marines. Not soldiers but Marines. We are called Marines, nothing else. And it Drill Instructor, not drill sergeant! Sorry minty but I served in the Marine Corps for a long time and that movie means a lot to me and all the few Marines I served with. Thank you for during this!
Being 13 at the time and no way to get to theater without parents....I missed all these classics at the theater
I've been following you for a long time. You deserve many more subscribers than you currently have, because you do really good work. Upvotes and subscriber wishes sent your way. You never fail to entertain about already entertaining subjects.
Apart from the comedy of Joker and Gunny Sgt Hartman this film is quite dark. Up there with Saving Private Ryan, Platoon,Apocalypse Now or Come and See and such a powerful piece of cinema. Stanley Kubrick is a brilliant filmmaker and the actors Vincent D'Onofrio,R.Lee Ermey,and Matthew Modine are outstanding. One of my favourite films. Thanks for the video Minty.👍
“Short timers” in actually Vietnam us military term basically means a soldier who is almost finished with his Tour.
Hartmann was a very rough character, but it was his job to transform schoolboys into soldiers with the discipline and fortitude to have the best possible chances to survive combat. The sniper scene is the one I remember the most; when she turned and started firing, still one of the best War Faces I've seen. Good Video :)
What made Full Metal Jacket great was the perfect combination of things. The right story, right people in the right roles and the right director. Movies like that are often imitated and rarely replicated.
R. Lee Ermey should have won the Oscar to best supporting actor, just on that drill sgt speech scene alone.
Or D'Onfrio, too.
1, This is my #1 Christmas movie.
2, It gives me basic training flashbacks.
3, Dispatches is an essential read for understanding what being sent to Vietnam felt like.
Minty, your videos are so fun! Love them.
Here comes Minty with another BANGER!! I absolutely love this movie! Keep up the great work friend 🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯
Awesome video as always Minty. FMJ is one of my favorite movies of all time. Man... Val Kilmer would have been awesome in this but Modine was fantastic.
Very interesting. My dad is a marine During that time from 61 to 75 . 14 years in the marines. It was also in the Cuba war crisis.
Vision quest would be a good one for you to do. Still waiting on Jacob's-ladder, BMX bandits 1985 fortress.
My favorite war movie of all time. Directed by my all time favorite director. I love this movie.
One of the GREATEST movies ever. IMO. Great Job, love your channel. Just FYI, I saw someone already said, but in the Marine Corps we do not call Gunnery Sgt. just "Sgt." You are called a Sgt. when you're that rank. Staff Sgt. next, then Gunnery Sgt. or "Gunny". Also, the Marines call their tormenters in bootcamp Drill Instructors not Drill Sgt.'s, however for this it may have been appropriate for the time this movie takes place as the Tet Offensive was in 1968. The Marines were the first to coin the term Drill Sgt.'s for bootcamp, but changed to Drill Instructor in 1971.
One of my favorite movies I watched and own on Blu ray
Ok, Minty, now you've GOT to do something lighthearted to balance it all out! PLEASE, PLEASE do the 'Romancing the Stone' duology!! =)
If you watch D'Onofrio in some of his Law and Order Criminal Intent episodes, you can see some signs of just how screwed up this movie made him
I went to the theater with my recruiter 2 months before I went to Marine Corps bootcamp in August of 1987. It's one of my favorite movies.
Thanks for the great video minty exceptionally awesome as always I just wanted to tell you I really appreciate your comment at the end about war and traumas of our past and how important it is to see and remember films like this that was very respectful and profound to the seriousness of the subject matter thank you for that it reminds me of a quote from my history teacher which she didn't make up but used to we write from time to time its was "to forget the past gives evil the chance to rise again" I'd also add the one "the only thing required for evil to prevail I'd or good men to do nothing" I feel those are very fitting go well with what you said & also I really love your green ranger helmet I couldn't help but think that's a great tribute to Jason david frank aka the green/white ranger just a thought maybe if you feel you to it you should do a 10 things yi8 didn't know about JDF or just some kind of give respects say goodbye to him as he passed away from I'll use the term self deletion so stupid we cant just say the word I suppose I could it's just the comments but I won't you get what I meant you did such a great job with your power rangers video I feel doing another about JDF would be appropriate and very appreciated especially by myself or maybe you could do a video on the power rangers movie as it was filmed I'm Australia along with the matrix actually I think that was you that said that in you power rangers video I think if I remember I'll have to watch it again but that was really cool fact also one last idea maybe you could just do a video about 10 things you didn't know about JDF character Tommy Oliver & do his history as a ranger highlighting all the different color rangers he's played that would be great too I hope I was helpful in any of my suggested ideas as I wrote it to you because you're the best man for the job I'd do videos about it but I don't think I could certainly not with the talent you have and your great personality so keep up the good work I believe in you and admire you for real even though I don't know you personally your one of the very few super positive interesting people in my life that I always keep up to date with what you even of it's just for fun really means a lot to me thank you minty take care
I remember the first time ever watching this movie in like early 01 with my friends, who told us this really funny and action packed movie Full Metal Jacket, so being 17 years old what a way to kill a Saturday night, as we started off laughing along with what they would call the "first half of the movie" we all got quite and just watched when pile kills gunny, and after that point the whole movie changed as well as our moods where we just kinda watched it in silence only to talk about a few parts namely the part with the prostitute and hearing where 2-Live Crew got there clip and the forever pop culture "me so horny, me love you long time" but everything else after that, was haunting, I remember thinking once it was over of what the hell did I just see, as we let the credits roll no one was eager to stop the tape or rewind it (yeah remember them days? haha) and if anything I think we all just muddled to our self and went home, and we never really talked about the movie after that other than saying, if you not seen it you should and aside from the insults had no real way of explaining the movie to anyone other than just saying, just watch it
Oh my god. Yes !!! 2 live crew. Lol those were the days!
I absolutely agree full mental is a classic. The dynamic between Pyle and gunnery is epic. But I also agree it’s almost like two different films. The boot camp part is epic but the Vietnam part lacks cohesion. That movie could have been so great if they had put as much effort into the war scenes as they did the boot camp scenes. But with the creators not meeting up to discuss it makes a lot of sense now.
Somebody had to say it. Thanks.
I think this is by far your best video Minty well done dude 🤟🤘🤟
I can't imagine anyone different in this cast. It was perfect. I went to boot camp in the early nineties. It was just like this, without the physical violence. No hitting or racial slurs. Anyone going into the military needs to watch at least the first half of this classic.
I will never forget my experience seeing this movie for the first time in 1989. I was actually going through Army training at the time, going through AIT, the training you get to learn the job you'll have in the service. AIT was different than basic training, where we had weekends off for the most part, and had free time at the end of the weekdays. We had a common room where we could watch TV and play arcade games. We happened to end up watching Full Metal Jacket one weekend, and my strongest memory was the part where Pvt. Pyle killed Drill Sergeant Harris, and considering we currently had 2 Drill Sergeants who were pretty decent compared to our basic training Drill Sergeants, as for myself, I actually got pissed off when Drill Sergeant Harris was murdered. That had an effect on me for quite awhile afterwards.
My late father a Vietnam Vet said the barracks march "this is my rifle'" scene was the MOST ACCURATE scene he'd ever seen
My father in law just recently passed away. He was on the ground in Vietnam and died riddled with cancer he insisted was from (AgentOrange).
@@aaronburratwood.6957 Horrifying mate, imagine surviving the war then not really surviving the war and the time in between. My thoughts are with you & your family.
That’s because R. Lee Ermy actually trained them as he would a real class if marines
My father was at Paris Island during the time depicted in the movie and said the same thing. He'd say that they didn't shoot their drill instructor but everything else was accurate.
My father was at Paris Island during the time depicted in the movie and said the same thing. He'd say that they didn't shoot their drill instructor but everything else was accurate.
I'm a vet. Thx for your service to us. Vets.
Minty: Ronald Lee Emery maybe remember in Full Metal Jacket. I will always remember him in GEICO commercial ad a therapist. The commercial is fun to watch. You have a nice day as always and forever and ever for sure!
Saving Silverman lol
Hey Minty!! I'm probably sure you won't see tis. But wanted to tell you I love your Chanel! Been subcribed for some time now. I always get excited when you drop a new video. Keep up the amazing work!
On the topic of Val Kilmer & Matthew Modine, I heard that Matthew Modine turned down a part in Top Gun, but turned it down because it was clearly military propaganda. I’m glad he acted in Full Metal Jacket instead - a much more realistic portrayal of the military.
This film is awesome and thanks for uploading this video Minty 👍👍👍👍👍
I think Tim Colceri had a one-man show where he talked about his experience on the whole production of The movie and even did his own take on the Drill Sargent character.
The band Ministry, on their album _The mind is a terrible thing to taste_ samples Earmy in the first song: "I can't hear you...I still can't hear you". I also love a flipped line by Earmy..."it should take you no less than ten seconds to navigate this obstacle". He meant: no MORE than ten seconds...love this kind of stuff
It's stuff like this that we didn't even know we wanted until we were trying to keep from peeing with laughter, crushing over Kelly, admiring Bud's coolness or enjoying the dog's commentary.... It was FUN!!! That "F" word we forget about too often! Have a fun day wherever you are!!! ❤️💋🌮 (Love, smooches, and tacos!)
Love Full Metal Jacket. Can you do a video on Platoon, Casualties of War, or Born on the Fourth of July?
This is a very good movie Full metal jacket acting is superb 👍
When Halo 2 was really at its peak my team had the war cry “GET SOME!”
At every kill by the team you screamed into the mic “GET SOME!!!”
Get some! GET SOME!! GET SOME… Running Riot!
Good times!
Love the show, in Vietnam there were no "war recruits". Almost all Americans were drafted. Forcibly sent as very young men to go kill. No one came back ok. Even if the recruits of today choose it, they don't know what they are signing up for. A friend of mine was an active service Marine. He was in Iraq. He once got a little too drunk and confessed that he could see the faces of the people he had killed. I love Full Metal Jacket because even though it was highly dramatized, they do their best to show how the Military breaks you on purpose to brainwash you into killing. That all war is straight up ugly. Also, you got to give them props on making England look anything like Vietnam. Keep bringing good content Minty. Just remember the boys in Nam were forced to be there.