I'm sorry but technically this statement is incorrect. The Marine Corps doesn't use drill sergeants they have drill instructors❤ He's the only Marine to be promoted after being discharged and not posthumously Semper Fi
I had the honor of meeting R. Lee Ermey, (Gunnery Sergeant Hartman), a few years before he died. A true gentleman, a pleasure to talk to; he autographed anything and everything the fans brought, and didn't charge them for admission, autographs or photos. I still have the challenge coin he gave me, and the photo of us together. I treasure them. He served in the Marine Corps for eleven years, and then worked tirelessly for military causes for the rest of his life. He contributed so much, for so many years...then thanked me for the 4 piddlin' years I spent in the Navy. That hit me like a ton of bricks.
Clockwork Orange is a masterpiece, and I absolutely agree with you. Unless you are prepared for a truly sick film, do not watch. Much of the violence is of a sexual nature. The movie is based on Anthony Burgess' novel of the same name. It is an anti-violence film that is ultra-violent. It presents a fascinating argument about rehabilitating criminals.
I would not say that it's about rehabilitating criminals...that's a gross oversimplification and a bit like saying that Psycho is a story about a mother/son relationship.
This movie was shot in its entirety in England. The Vietnam scenes were made at a large former gas plant in London. The plant was prepared for demolition and Kubrick got permission to shoot the shit out of the place. They got palms and vegetation from Asia. A masterpiece.
The most brilliant outdoor set design. Much more expensive movies try to recreate exotic locations domestically or even abroad in different replacement countries, but they almost always never get it right.
Kubrick did an excellent job of making scenes believable Vietnam, right down to the three legged concrete electrical poles. I never made it to Hue City in my travels, but am told there were not many multistory buildings at the time. I was in and around Danang and at that time the tallest building in town was maybe 4 stories.
I have never seen it specifically stated by Kubrick anywhere, but Private Pyle is a clear representation of a real program that the Defense Department ran in the 1960s. It was called "Project 100,000" and it was a test to see whether the mental and physical parameters for serving in the US military could be widened to make the pool of potential service people larger. Between escalation in Vietnam and all the other military commitments of the Cold War in those days, the military was concerned about a shortage of people to serve. So they started testing whether recruits who were normally just a bit below the normal standard for IQ, or emotional stability, or physical fitness could be turned into effective military personnel. The same program probably would have led to Forrest Gump being recruited and serving in Vietnam. One of the nicknames that was used for the program was "McNamara's Morons".
@@bravejango12 As noted by others, Forrest would have had to take the ASVAB, which I believe is not just about aptitude testing, but also about IQ testing...so he would not have scored high enough to be an officer, regardless of his degree.
That's about how it was. I served 20 years in the Marine Corps and two combat tours in Vietnam. The first tour as a machine gunner (0331) in 1965-66 and the second as a Platoon commander (0369) in 1970-71. I retired after 20 years and had a 30 year career as a California police officer ( Marin County). What I learned in the Marine Corps has helped me all my life. I highly recommend it to anyone needing direction and wishing to learn self discipline . Tom Boyte GySgt. USMC, retired Bronze Star, Purple Heart
I had the pleasure of being on a rifle squad during a national shooting match with R. Lee Ermey back in 2011. We spent the entire day together shooting the match. Despite being in a national level match, he stopped for every person that approached him for a photo or autograph. He was a super nice guy, and very funny, too as well as a pretty decent shooter! RIP Gunny!
its a very different persona for him but you should watch saving silverman. pretty funny movie but Ermey was the high school football coach that does goofy funny stuff thru it all. very different role for him but he did it perfectly.
What will amaze you is that Kubrick filmed the entire movie in-and-around London. He made England look like Vietnam. The palm trees were 'brought-in' and the destroyed city (which was the Battle of Hue) was a London factory facility that was being demolished. By this time in his career he didn't leave London anymore...so if you wanted to make a movie with him you had to go to London. Paths of Glory is another masterpiece anti-war movie by Kubrick.
8:13 "Either Leonard is gonna get kicked out soon, or he's gonna end up saving all of their lives. I don't know, I don't know what's gonna happen." No, no you don't know what's going to happen.
The Pyle gets slapped' scene is made so much more effective because the slap was real, not trickery. And being a real slap was Vincent D'Onofrio's(the actor playing Pyle) idea.
I know it's shocking to say, especially to someone after watching this movie for the first time, but R. Lee Ermey is absolutely hysterical (in this movie, and otherwise) and was just a darn treasure in every role he played. Watch him in Saving Silverman and you will only ever smile when you see him on camera.
@@DerekHarrison-d5d - Pretty sure everyone notices. But we all just inherently know not to talk about things behind his back, or to his face for that matter.
The Serg role was meant for another actor but Lee wanted it and he made sure he got it by doing his normal Dill instructor job. And Kubrick loved it so much and hired Lee on the spot and gave the actor another part in the movie. That actor can be seen as the door gunner.
Brilliant film and possibly my favourite Kubrick. Saw it first in the theatre back in '87 and made a big impact. And gave us the awesome R Lee Ermey as an actor. RIP.
oh Addie, you poor sweet child...lol this movie is such a classic, believe it or not as a veteran parts of this movie make me miss my time in the service
Good times and bad times. I actually preferred being in Desert Storm because we had a purpose. When we got back, it was playing games. Lots of working parties, guard duty, inspections, police calls, getting written up for dumb $h1+ 30 years later, I certainly don't regret joining the Corps in high school, but man those 4 years felt like 20 sometimes.
@@jkhoover oh I had seen this a few times when I went to basic, it was kinda funny watching the drill sergeants trying to act like R. Lee Ermey when you could tell that's not anything close to who they really were
R Lee Ermey was originally hired on this film as a military advisor. He went to the Director and stated that the way the actor cast as the DI wasn't doing it right. R Lee had been a Marine DI. So they asked him to demonstrate. They stood him up and told him to do his thing while the crew threw things at him. After several minutes of that, they re-cast him as the DI.
Stanley Kuberick had already cast the roll of the drill instructor to Tim Colceri, who then played the helicopter door gunner, and R. Lee Ermey, originally a technical advisor was cast as Gunnery Sergent Hartman. And the rest is history.
During the first half of this movie Lee Ermey the Drill Instructor was a real DI in the Marines and was working as a technical expert on the film. He tried to get the actions across to the actor who was going to play the DI but Stanley Kubrick saw how well he did it Stanley hired Ermey for the role and he let Ermey freelance all the BS he yelled at the recruits without a script. I was in the Navy and our bootcamp was nothing like this. My older brother was in the Marines and he said this movie was very realistic. I'm glad I went in the Navy.
An overlooked movie that stars D'Onofrio is "The Cell". Also stars Jennifer Lopez. He plays a truly monstrous serial killer who goes catatonic when captured. Lopez plays a therapist using an experimental technology to literally enter his mind to locate a kidnapped girl. Visually stunning, thematically horrific.
3:23 The previous scene is what is known as Tearing Down. The Drill Instructors job is to destroy your preconceptions so they have a blank slat to imprint you War Instructions onto. It looks harsh sure a small percentage of recruits will quit and very very few do harm to themselves or others. The remainder become hard soldiers.
The foot locker thing is real. Drill Sergeants HATE seeing one unlocked. When my dad went to Parris Island for boot camp, someone left theirs unlocked and everything was dumped out the window. Then he had to bring everything back in one item at a time as fast as he could.. to the second floor.
I got punished one night for not sounding off to a drill instructor after lights out. He made me scrub the deck with my rifle kit toothbrush but didn't tell me when I could quit so after an hour I went and found some pickup from another platoon who barely spoke English and convinced him that he needed to relieve me😂 I have no idea how long he spent scrubbing that floor but I still feel kinda bad about it..😅
@@mattsmith1318 Doing that as a recruit is bold. A friend joined the Navy and actually read all the rules and learned about passing orders to subordinates. Whenever he was told to give someone pushups he would find someone with a lower rank and tell them to do it. He was a corpsman assigned to a Force Recon unit so he hated Navy officers. Thought they were lazy and out of shape.
MCRD San Diego, when we first met our Drill Instructors, anything and everything was dumped out of our sea bags or footlockers onto the deck and swiftly kicked by the tornado of DI's in to random piles all over the squad bay. It was always fun trying to find your $h1+ afterwards.
one of my buddies left his unlocked and when they all came back from a march the entire barracks was turned over. not just his area. beds tossed upside down and everything.
Marine Gulf War vet here. We Marines find humor in some unexpected places. Even now, decades later. Also, amazingly, this movie always makes me miss bootcamp.
Other Kubrick films to watch: (1) Eyes wide shut with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman (2) 2001: A Space Odyssey (3) Dr Strangelove (4) A Clockwork Orange.
My dad is a Marine and was in Vietnam and has said this movie was the closest to what boot camp was like then, but the real thing was even worse. Glad to see you made it through the movie and I love that you don't get all offended as many people your age do these days, which is why I love watching your reaction videos.
The beating pvt. Pyle endured during boot camp is called a "blanket party". It happened to a guy in my company during boot camp, but, to a lesser degree.
I went to San Diego MCRD in 1989...and blanket parties never happened, because they are not authorized forms of discipline or keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Marine Corps... wink wink
Strangelove and 2001 are the other essential Kubrick's...Clockwork's first third is very disturbing but essential to understanding the last two-thirds and the movie's important themes.
Thank you Addie. I feel like your reactions to this film were genuine, and the best I’ve seen on the Internet. My dad served in Vietnam, and he told me that this movie was one HUNDRED percent real. If you watch some behind the scenes, you’ll love it. More of this movie is real than you might think. The opening scene is 100% real. The actors didn’t know what they were in for, and hadn’t met R. Lee yet. The graduation scene is also very real, when they’re marching, and they all snap their heads forward; that is 100% real, after all the filming and work that R. Lee did with the actors. Also, the “you’re bouncing” that he says is also 100% real, as R. Lee was really marching them. Finally, Stanley threw the script away when R. Lee shifted into DI mode and just improvised all the lines, etc. Thank you again Addie, I loved your genuine reaction and your 4 or 5 jump-scares. That made me smile! :)
What I love about FMJ reactions on youtube is seeing how the cut jumps straight to 18:08 and for some reason the reactors are all like "yeah I better remember to cut that out" loool
Not even related to the movie, but I just want to say that I've loved watching your plant grow in the background over the years! It started off so small and now it's past the top of the video! Good work!
I remember buying the VHS version of this movie and it came with a mini movie poster which I still have. Both my dad and brother went through Marine boot camp so I've heard all the stories. My brother hated fire watch which is how Leonard was caught with the rifle, he said that duty was spooky as hell.
Lol Addie I love you, if there's ever a meet up please let me know. Your my fav celeb. My kids tease me how many times can I watch the same person watch different movies lol
Definitely continue the kubrick train check out Dr. Strangelove (1964) one of kubricks earlier films and also one of James Earl Jones earlier films. R.I.P James Earl Jones and Stanley Kubrick 🕊♥️
His first actually He got the job when Kubrick saw him in a Shakespeare in the Park performance of Othello. George C Scott also was picked up from the same production for the film
@13:20 "Are we going to see that they have the stare by the end of the movie?" Yes. Rafterman definitely... and Joker's "war face" too. When they're standing around the dying sniper.
I remember this being shot back in the at the old Beckton Gasworks down the road from where I lived in London. We'd sneak down there as nippers and watch it being filmed. Bloody freezing & miserable it were, a proper British winter!
I went to USMC boot camp while FMJ was still in theatres. We all literally relived this movie. We had a Pyle, I was Smiley, and it was intense. 2/4 of our Drill instructors were "removed" for violence to recruits around week 10. I would not trade that experience for anything!
Everytime I see the opening sequence of the haircuts, I remember my own experience arriving at MCRD in the 1980's. Then meeting the Senior and his 3 other DI's, and the 11 weeks of nearly non-stop mind games and verbal abuse, the creative ways of inflicting pain through PIT sessions (Personal/Platoon Incentive Training). Thanks, Addie, for not laughing at the one-liners from GySgt Hartman, as nearly all other reactors do. When you're face-to-face with that Smokey pressing into your forehead, it's fear going through you and not that it's funny.
10:43 Private Pyle was played by a young Vincent D'onofrio, aka Kingpin from Daredevil and Hawkeye. Also, Edgar the bad guy (bug) in the first Men In Black.
There's a lot of duality, and change represented in this movie. Joker, and Cowboy are similar in height, build, and they both wear glasses. Sometimes it's represented magically. Gomer Pyle is the biggest recruit, and changes into a killer. Animal Mother is the biggest in the squad, and is introduced as the most reliable killer. As if Pyle has magically changed into Animal. His helmet reads a line from the Bhagavad Gita "I am become death". It refers to Vishnu urging the prince to do his duty to impress him changes into his many armed form saying "I am become Death. The destroyer of worlds". (It's also what Oppenheimer, head of the Atomic bomb project, says he thought after the first bomb test). Animal has the biggest gun and many other weapons' on him, many arms. What was he before he became Death? Gomer Pyle. Another scene of magical change everybody missed for all the years since the movie came out. They are all firing on a building. They stop firing, and there is a montage of shots of the men listening. During that listening montage the point man's ammo magazine is magically not in his gun. They change their magazines, and the magazine is back in the gun. He drops the magazine out of the gun, and fumbles getting another in missing the first enemies that run out. The whole scene is about changing magazines focusing particularly on the point man, and his magazine. But nobody catches on he has a magical disappearing, and reappearing magazine. The point is it's about duality, and changes that only perceptive people notice. There's more to this that involves me personally, Kubrick, Richard Feynman, quantum mechanics, dark matter, and sorcery, as well as many other things but I won't go into details here.
Great reaction Addie! I luv how open you are to listening to some of the drill instructors cadence songs especially the "this is my rifle this is my gun" song... Addie 'i mean it is catchy'! Haha lol and it is catchy! Thanks for sharing Addie ❤️💛
Vicent D’Onofrio is such an excellent character actor. You should check him out in Household Saints (1993) and The Whole Wide World (1996), his own passion project on author Robert E. Howard, which he stars with unknown Renée Zellweger (her work in this film ultimately got her hired by Cameron Crowe for the role that made her famous, in Jerry Maguire (1996), opposite Tom Cruise). It is a testament of the quality of actors that were hired by Stanley Kubrick. James Earl Jones, ultimately known as the voice of Darth Vader, debuted on the big screen in the 1964 Kubrick film: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Jack Nicholson in The Shining (1980) and Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange (1972).
Addie, I am impressed by your willingness to take on these tough-to-watch movies. I imagine you surprise yourself sometimes. You’re stronger than you know. 96.8k subscribers- you’re almost there.
Watching reactors during the Gunnery Sargent's monologue cracks me up, I think I basically know every word thanks to many samples of that dialogue in music, etc.
Ronald Lee Ermey was an American actor and U.S. Marine drill instructor. He achieved fame for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He was also a United States Marine Corps staff sergeant and an honorary gunnery sergeant. Ermey was initially hired by the production only as a technical advisor. His intense familiarity with the role had perfected his delivery and fluency of improvisation to a level you could not hope to discover in a professional actor, no matter how many takes they were given. Seeking authenticity for the war movie, Director Kubrick allowed Ermey to write, edit and improvise his own dialogue. His was the only performance in a Kubrick film that had a significant proportion of improvised dialogue, with Ermey writing more than 50 percent of his dialogue.
@Addie thank you and your patrons that continue to put some of the best films of all time in front of your eyes :). Stanley Kubrick is a top 10 director for many and a top 25 director for almost every cinema fan. I Hope you watch all his films in time as well as my favorite Alfred Hitchcock. Perhaps in 2025 you could do a poll for your patrons to see if you should add like a AFI (American Film Institute) top 100 movies of all time. This film pulls no punches of the horror f war, conformity and what our hero soldiers go through that so many of us could never get through. It was a fun reaction to see.
Intense, accurate, and unexpected are appropriate words to describe this movie. #1 "War flick" of all time. Side note: Many of the scenes in this movie were taken from a book I read decades ago from interviews of former Vietnam Vets. When I first watched this movie, 25% of what I saw was what I read in that book (can't remember the title). You could cobble together another movie (or three) from the other 75% of the stories.
Fun fact they already had the drill instructor cast for this movie and R. Lee Ermy was only supposed to be a consultant but he was determined to earn that role and did! His lines were almost exclusively improvisation. Semper Fi (The Marine Corps Motto, Latin for Always Faithful)
U gotta type in here, how R Lee Ermy got the part in gull metal jacket! He's done lots of great movies. Like Se7en. His first movie was also as a drill sergeant in the great movie, Boys in Company C! One of the cheats he did to get the part? He typed, single spaced, back and front, 20 sheets of insults dialogue and gave to one of the assistant directors!😮😮😮
When I was in the Army, we had this guy who was our version of Private Pyle in basic training (this was in 1990), always goofing up somehow, and a bunch of guys did a blanket party to him one night. I didn't participate because I'm not a violent asshole, but I could hear it, and naturally I thought of Full Metal Jacket. I even warned the guys that treating him badly all the time could backfire, although nothing ever happened and he managed to get through basic and AIT (we were infantry, so we went through both together in something called OSUT--One Station Unit Training--out of Ft. Benning (now called Ft. Moore)) and move on with our cohort to Ft. Ord, CA where I lost track of him, since he went to a different unit within the 7th Infantry Division.
Let's give Addie a round of applause for surviving Full Metal Jacket (1987) as her SECOND Stanley Kubrick movie. 👏👏 This is my second favorite Kubrick movie after The Shining (1980). My girlfriend's dad also likes this movie too. I get a good laugh from the entire platoon marching around the barracks and singing "This is my rifle, this is my gun. This is for fighting, this is for fun." while holding their rifles, by the stock, on one hand and their crotches on the other. I even wake up every morning to the sound of Hartman's reveille. Just like The Shining, I own this movie on DVD in 4:3 Full-Screen format, which is also the full aspect ratio of the original camera negative as Stanley Kubrick intended.
A number of my friends are retired Marines from the first Gulf War era. They all swear that their Drill Instructors channeled Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. R. Lee Ermey was a Drill Instructor (1965-1967) when he was in the USMC (1961-1972). Ermey was a Marine Drill Instructor IRL during the same time period as his character, Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. This is an example of perfect casting in a movie. I think drill sergeants (Army), drill instructors (Marine Corps), recruit division commanders (Navy), and military training instructors (Air Force) must have compared notes. My father enlisted in the Air Force in 1955 and his training instructors used many of the same insults as DI Hartman did in the movie. The Air Force only became its own service branch in 1947, so I assume they inherited a number of organizational traits from when they were still part of the Army.
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Not sure if you noticed... But when Joker's gun doesn't fire on the sniper it's because it got jammed. This was a super common occurrence during Vietnam, and brought forth a complete redesign of the m16. There were tens of thousands of soldiers who had their firearms fail in Vietnam, and not all of them were as lucky as Joker to have someone right there as backup to kill the sniper...
Credit to Addie for being willing to watch very tough, disturbing, complex and intelligent films.... Suggestions for next tough tries: "Apocalypse Now" "Requiem for a Dream" "The Exorcist" "A CLockwork Orange" "Blue Velvet" "Deliverance" "Aguirre The Wrath of God" "Schindlers List" :The Killing Fields" "Come and See" "American History X" "The Deer Hunter"
Addie has already seen Schindler's List (1993). She recorded a full-length reaction to that movie, which is on Patreon, but was unable to put out a TH-cam cut due to the limited commentary from her, given how horrified she was at what was happening during the movie.
Set in the late 1960's, the training portion of the movie depicts the drill instructors doing what they have to in a limited amount of time to get the men ready for combat and be able to survive. The second half depicts the time beginning with the Tet Offensive when the North Vietnamese escalated the war by attacking during what was considered a cease fire for the Tet holiday. I'm assuming you're of the age when this part of history didn't get covered very well in school.
Fun fact so when Ermy's character says the bit about the reach around Kubrick yelled cut and asked what that was and R. Lee Ermy had to explain it Kubrick eventually said ok lets keep it.
R. Lee Ermy was an actual former Marine drill instructor and all the insults he was yelling at the recruits were improvisations.
He also played a prototype version of this character in the underrated Vietnam War film, "The Boys in Company C" (1978).
He was also beautiful AF
I'm sorry but technically this statement is incorrect. The Marine Corps doesn't use drill sergeants they have drill instructors❤
He's the only Marine to be promoted after being discharged and not posthumously
Semper Fi
@@mattsmith1318 The terminology was incorrect, not the statement itself. Thank you for the correction.
Oh really?!?!?! That’s brand new information!
I played the drinking game for every time Addie said, 'Okay.'
I'm in rehab now.
LOL!
You noticed that too?
You’re just lucky to still be alive really 😂.
I died of alcohol poisoning.
Good for you, @martinholt8168, I hope rehab is working out for you. 🙂
I had the honor of meeting R. Lee Ermey, (Gunnery Sergeant Hartman), a few years before he died. A true gentleman, a pleasure to talk to; he autographed anything and everything the fans brought, and didn't charge them for admission, autographs or photos. I still have the challenge coin he gave me, and the photo of us together. I treasure them. He served in the Marine Corps for eleven years, and then worked tirelessly for military causes for the rest of his life. He contributed so much, for so many years...then thanked me for the 4 piddlin' years I spent in the Navy. That hit me like a ton of bricks.
Thank you for your service mate!🤘🏻😉
@SteelCurtain024 thank you for the support, Brother!
If Kubrick scars you, stay away from Clockwork Orange.
Clockwork Orange is a masterpiece, and I absolutely agree with you. Unless you are prepared for a truly sick film, do not watch. Much of the violence is of a sexual nature. The movie is based on Anthony Burgess' novel of the same name. It is an anti-violence film that is ultra-violent. It presents a fascinating argument about rehabilitating criminals.
I would not say that it's about rehabilitating criminals...that's a gross oversimplification and a bit like saying that Psycho is a story about a mother/son relationship.
@@ratmackay I thought that Psycho was about the hazards of showering.
also, moon landing* hahhahaha
Kubrick scars you alright
If you want to get scarred for life, go for the Stanley Kubrick trifecta and watch A Clockwork Orange.
That would scar Addie for life
Yes...yes...she should watch a little bit of "the ol' in and out," and then "try the wine!"😃
That's the movie that came to mind when she (or they) mentioned scarred for life
And Eyes Wide Shut
This movie was shot in its entirety in England. The Vietnam scenes were made at a large former gas plant in London. The plant was prepared for demolition and Kubrick got permission to shoot the shit out of the place. They got palms and vegetation from Asia. A masterpiece.
The most brilliant outdoor set design. Much more expensive movies try to recreate exotic locations domestically or even abroad in different replacement countries, but they almost always never get it right.
Not only that but it was the middle of winter and freezing cold, so much so that the palm trees kept dying 😂
Kubrick did an excellent job of making scenes believable Vietnam, right down to the three legged concrete electrical poles. I never made it to Hue City in my travels, but am told there were not many multistory buildings at the time. I was in and around Danang and at that time the tallest building in town was maybe 4 stories.
All the training parts were filmed at RAF bassingbourn royston kent..I did my own training there.
I have never seen it specifically stated by Kubrick anywhere, but Private Pyle is a clear representation of a real program that the Defense Department ran in the 1960s. It was called "Project 100,000" and it was a test to see whether the mental and physical parameters for serving in the US military could be widened to make the pool of potential service people larger. Between escalation in Vietnam and all the other military commitments of the Cold War in those days, the military was concerned about a shortage of people to serve. So they started testing whether recruits who were normally just a bit below the normal standard for IQ, or emotional stability, or physical fitness could be turned into effective military personnel. The same program probably would have led to Forrest Gump being recruited and serving in Vietnam.
One of the nicknames that was used for the program was "McNamara's Morons".
I'm shocked that Forest Gump wasn't made an officer seeing as how he had a college degree.
Really? Did you ever wear a uniform,? Or are you so very, very smart?
@@64MDW What's that supposed to mean? Do you know what the ASVAB tests for?
@@bravejango12 His drill sgt did say he was a genius and would be a general one day. 😏
@@bravejango12 As noted by others, Forrest would have had to take the ASVAB, which I believe is not just about aptitude testing, but also about IQ testing...so he would not have scored high enough to be an officer, regardless of his degree.
That's about how it was. I served 20 years in the Marine Corps and two combat tours in Vietnam. The first tour as a machine gunner (0331) in 1965-66 and the second as a Platoon commander (0369) in 1970-71. I retired after 20 years and had a 30 year career as a California police officer ( Marin County). What I learned in the Marine Corps has helped me all my life. I highly recommend it to anyone needing direction and wishing to learn self discipline .
Tom Boyte
GySgt. USMC, retired
Bronze Star, Purple Heart
Thank you for your service sir!
to think we're the last generation to speak with someone like you,damn
I had the pleasure of being on a rifle squad during a national shooting match with R. Lee Ermey back in 2011. We spent the entire day together shooting the match. Despite being in a national level match, he stopped for every person that approached him for a photo or autograph. He was a super nice guy, and very funny, too as well as a pretty decent shooter! RIP Gunny!
its a very different persona for him but you should watch saving silverman. pretty funny movie but Ermey was the high school football coach that does goofy funny stuff thru it all. very different role for him but he did it perfectly.
He also played the green army men on Toy Story
Kubrick's A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971) is way crazier in the "scar me for life" department. LOL! 🥛😬
Everyone loves a bit of the old ultra-violence me droogie 😉
Probably not addies film
@LordVolkov bit like Taxi Driver having a Ultra Violent and sex
But a film with important themes that any would-be cinephile needs to see...
50 years later and people are still not ready for it.
Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange will scar you more than the Shining!
Fucked up movie. I liked it when I was a kid. Now it makes me puke. No joke.
A lil ol in out in out my droogies!
What will amaze you is that Kubrick filmed the entire movie in-and-around London. He made England look like Vietnam. The palm trees were 'brought-in' and the destroyed city (which was the Battle of Hue) was a London factory facility that was being demolished. By this time in his career he didn't leave London anymore...so if you wanted to make a movie with him you had to go to London.
Paths of Glory is another masterpiece anti-war movie by Kubrick.
The factory was the former Beckton gas works, the O2 arena now stands there.
8:13 "Either Leonard is gonna get kicked out soon, or he's gonna end up saving all of their lives. I don't know, I don't know what's gonna happen."
No, no you don't know what's going to happen.
lmao exactly what i said
I still can’t believe Pyle is now Kingpin in the MCU lol
The Pyle gets slapped' scene is made so much more effective because the slap was real, not trickery. And being a real slap was Vincent D'Onofrio's(the actor playing Pyle) idea.
I know it's shocking to say, especially to someone after watching this movie for the first time, but R. Lee Ermey is absolutely hysterical (in this movie, and otherwise) and was just a darn treasure in every role he played. Watch him in Saving Silverman and you will only ever smile when you see him on camera.
"Really? Me too!"
He was perfect as the sheriff in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake.. Creepy!
@@mattsmith1318 - Amen. He was arguably more unsettling than Leatherface in that movie.
Always makes me laugh that nobody notices that Sgt Hartman has his hat on when he goes in to the head(toilet) to reprimand Pyle.😸
@@DerekHarrison-d5d - Pretty sure everyone notices. But we all just inherently know not to talk about things behind his back, or to his face for that matter.
The Serg role was meant for another actor but Lee wanted it and he made sure he got it by doing his normal Dill instructor job.
And Kubrick loved it so much and hired Lee on the spot and gave the actor another part in the movie.
That actor can be seen as the door gunner.
This movie is beyond good. One of Kubrick's absolute finest.
Brilliant film and possibly my favourite Kubrick. Saw it first in the theatre back in '87 and made a big impact. And gave us the awesome R Lee Ermey as an actor. RIP.
oh Addie, you poor sweet child...lol
this movie is such a classic, believe it or not as a veteran parts of this movie make me miss my time in the service
I didn't see this movie before joining the Army. I didn't know where all of my drill sergeants got their lines until way after I was out of basic.
Good times and bad times. I actually preferred being in Desert Storm because we had a purpose. When we got back, it was playing games. Lots of working parties, guard duty, inspections, police calls, getting written up for dumb $h1+
30 years later, I certainly don't regret joining the Corps in high school, but man those 4 years felt like 20 sometimes.
@@jkhoover oh I had seen this a few times when I went to basic, it was kinda funny watching the drill sergeants trying to act like R. Lee Ermey when you could tell that's not anything close to who they really were
My father was a NAM vet and absolutely loved this movie. May they both rest in peace.
You want some more scaring? A Clockwork Orange by Kubrick is shall we say, a good bit of "Ultra Violence"
And the contra point in Kubrick movies would be "2001 Space Odyssey" - deep movie and only one lunatic in it (kind of)
Well said me droogie!
I'm worried that film would destroy what little innocence Addie has left.
I'm singing in the rain....
Most vets I know, including myself, like this movie about the military and war the best. For whatever that's worth.
"I don't know if now is time for jokes" I then spit out my coffee~
Her villian arc continues hahaha
And I love it! What a great journey we are on with Addie!
I mean a great way to start is BS movies that people think is basically a documentary.
Watch actual Vietnam Vets eyes roll when watch this crap.
R Lee Ermey was originally hired on this film as a military advisor. He went to the Director and stated that the way the actor cast as the DI wasn't doing it right. R Lee had been a Marine DI. So they asked him to demonstrate. They stood him up and told him to do his thing while the crew threw things at him. After several minutes of that, they re-cast him as the DI.
Stanley Kuberick had already cast the roll of the drill instructor to Tim Colceri, who then played the helicopter door gunner, and R. Lee Ermey, originally a technical advisor was cast as Gunnery Sergent Hartman. And the rest is history.
During the first half of this movie Lee Ermey the Drill Instructor was a real DI in the Marines and was working as a technical expert on the film. He tried to get the actions across to the actor who was going to play the DI but Stanley Kubrick saw how well he did it Stanley hired Ermey for the role and he let Ermey freelance all the BS he yelled at the recruits without a script. I was in the Navy and our bootcamp was nothing like this. My older brother was in the Marines and he said this movie was very realistic. I'm glad I went in the Navy.
An overlooked movie that stars D'Onofrio is "The Cell". Also stars Jennifer Lopez. He plays a truly monstrous serial killer who goes catatonic when captured. Lopez plays a therapist using an experimental technology to literally enter his mind to locate a kidnapped girl. Visually stunning, thematically horrific.
The cell is truly underrated. Maybe because they tried to bennifer it into mainstream
I wasn’t much of a fan of The Cell, but D’Onofrio was definitely one of the better parts of it. 👍
Tarsim Singh makes beautiful movies but they can be strange. The Cell is so twisted but really gorgeous.
Most likely cause Jennifer is in it.
He was brilliant in Men In Black.
3:23 The previous scene is what is known as Tearing Down. The Drill Instructors job is to destroy your preconceptions so they have a blank slat to imprint you War Instructions onto. It looks harsh sure a small percentage of recruits will quit and very very few do harm to themselves or others. The remainder become hard soldiers.
U want to b scarred?
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
The foot locker thing is real. Drill Sergeants HATE seeing one unlocked. When my dad went to Parris Island for boot camp, someone left theirs unlocked and everything was dumped out the window. Then he had to bring everything back in one item at a time as fast as he could.. to the second floor.
Woah!
I got punished one night for not sounding off to a drill instructor after lights out. He made me scrub the deck with my rifle kit toothbrush but didn't tell me when I could quit so after an hour I went and found some pickup from another platoon who barely spoke English and convinced him that he needed to relieve me😂
I have no idea how long he spent scrubbing that floor but I still feel kinda bad about it..😅
@@mattsmith1318 Doing that as a recruit is bold. A friend joined the Navy and actually read all the rules and learned about passing orders to subordinates. Whenever he was told to give someone pushups he would find someone with a lower rank and tell them to do it. He was a corpsman assigned to a Force Recon unit so he hated Navy officers. Thought they were lazy and out of shape.
MCRD San Diego, when we first met our Drill Instructors, anything and everything was dumped out of our sea bags or footlockers onto the deck and swiftly kicked by the tornado of DI's in to random piles all over the squad bay. It was always fun trying to find your $h1+ afterwards.
one of my buddies left his unlocked and when they all came back from a march the entire barracks was turned over. not just his area. beds tossed upside down and everything.
Hi Addie. Thank you for coming around and brightening an otherwise very bleak day. Your presence and disposition are very relaxing.
Thx Addie, well done for making it through this, best of luck to hitting 100K, Kind regards Chris...
Congrats on 100k! 😇 Thank you for the reaction, awesome!
".. ok.." lol .. as a Marine vet, we love this film.
Marine Gulf War vet here. We Marines find humor in some unexpected places. Even now, decades later. Also, amazingly, this movie always makes me miss bootcamp.
Other Kubrick films to watch: (1) Eyes wide shut with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman (2) 2001: A Space Odyssey (3) Dr Strangelove (4) A Clockwork Orange.
My dad is a Marine and was in Vietnam and has said this movie was the closest to what boot camp was like then, but the real thing was even worse. Glad to see you made it through the movie and I love that you don't get all offended as many people your age do these days, which is why I love watching your reaction videos.
2:39 Ironically, you're not wrong. R. Lee Ermey wrote 150 PAGES of insults just for this role. RIP Ermey. Absolute legend.
The beating pvt. Pyle endured during boot camp is called a "blanket party". It happened to a guy in my company during boot camp, but, to a lesser degree.
Did you order the code red?!
@@LordVolkov Actually, during boot camp, it's called a blanket party, only after boot camp is it called a code red.
@@craigwhip 🤔 Interesting distinction
I remember some kid got caught with crackers and they torched the whole Platoon; a few of them gave him a beatdown..
I went to San Diego MCRD in 1989...and blanket parties never happened, because they are not authorized forms of discipline or keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Marine Corps... wink wink
Hoo boy, you’re in for it now, Addie. 😂
Man, her face when the D.I. made the skull-f🤬🤬king comment. 🤣🪦
10:34 "This feels so ominous." I was screaming..."BUCKLE UP, ADDY!"
A Clockwork Orange would be different...very different...
Strangelove and 2001 are the other essential Kubrick's...Clockwork's first third is very disturbing but essential to understanding the last two-thirds and the movie's important themes.
Thank you Addie. I feel like your reactions to this film were genuine, and the best I’ve seen on the Internet. My dad served in Vietnam, and he told me that this movie was one HUNDRED percent real. If you watch some behind the scenes, you’ll love it. More of this movie is real than you might think. The opening scene is 100% real. The actors didn’t know what they were in for, and hadn’t met R. Lee yet. The graduation scene is also very real, when they’re marching, and they all snap their heads forward; that is 100% real, after all the filming and work that R. Lee did with the actors. Also, the “you’re bouncing” that he says is also 100% real, as R. Lee was really marching them. Finally, Stanley threw the script away when R. Lee shifted into DI mode and just improvised all the lines, etc. Thank you again Addie, I loved your genuine reaction and your 4 or 5 jump-scares. That made me smile! :)
Great reaction, really enjoyed it, You were sincere, funny, and articulate..
What I love about FMJ reactions on youtube is seeing how the cut jumps straight to 18:08 and for some reason the reactors are all like "yeah I better remember to cut that out" loool
Lol😂watching Addie reactions are priceless..what a good sport she is
Waaaay more intense than 'Private Benjamin'
Not even related to the movie, but I just want to say that I've loved watching your plant grow in the background over the years! It started off so small and now it's past the top of the video! Good work!
I think youre ready for A Clockwork Orange
🙏🏽
apparently no reactors are ready for a clockwork orange
@@longfootbuddy lame
I couldn't imagine sweet innocent Addie watching Full Metal Jacket.😊
Thanks for the reaction,Addie.You're a legend!❤
I remember buying the VHS version of this movie and it came with a mini movie poster which I still have. Both my dad and brother went through Marine boot camp so I've heard all the stories. My brother hated fire watch which is how Leonard was caught with the rifle, he said that duty was spooky as hell.
I hated Firewatch as well. Lost precious sleep!
0:30 Addie needs to see 2001 A Space Odyssey then, and as soon as possible!
What's next, A Clockwork Orange?
I will never suggest that film to any reactor. It's a brilliant film, but it's just too brutal.
@@Stogie2112 if they're really film buffs. Nothing should be off limits
@@AbeVicious ... Yes, you're right about that. I am biased by my desire for others to enjoy the films I recommend, and not to be traumatized!
@Stogie2112 it is what it is🤷🏽♂️ I know they're not real buffs as this is all for monetary value.
Masterpiece I’ve seen this hundreds of times
Vincent D'Onofrio definitely believes in the method acting technique. He still holds the record for gaining the most weight for a role, over 70 lbs.
Lol Addie I love you, if there's ever a meet up please let me know. Your my fav celeb. My kids tease me how many times can I watch the same person watch different movies lol
Definitely continue the kubrick train check out Dr. Strangelove (1964) one of kubricks earlier films and also one of James Earl Jones earlier films. R.I.P James Earl Jones and Stanley Kubrick 🕊♥️
His first actually
He got the job when Kubrick saw him in a Shakespeare in the Park performance of Othello.
George C Scott also was picked up from the same production for the film
@13:20 "Are we going to see that they have the stare by the end of the movie?"
Yes. Rafterman definitely... and Joker's "war face" too. When they're standing around the dying sniper.
Your stunned expression throughout the first barracks scene made my day.
"Scars in different ways" is a perfect way to describe Stanley Kubrick's body of work!
I remember this being shot back in the at the old Beckton Gasworks down the road from where I lived in London. We'd sneak down there as nippers and watch it being filmed. Bloody freezing & miserable it were, a proper British winter!
I went to USMC boot camp while FMJ was still in theatres. We all literally relived this movie. We had a Pyle, I was Smiley, and it was intense. 2/4 of our Drill instructors were "removed" for violence to recruits around week 10. I would not trade that experience for anything!
Everytime I see the opening sequence of the haircuts, I remember my own experience arriving at MCRD in the 1980's. Then meeting the Senior and his 3 other DI's, and the 11 weeks of nearly non-stop mind games and verbal abuse, the creative ways of inflicting pain through PIT sessions (Personal/Platoon Incentive Training). Thanks, Addie, for not laughing at the one-liners from GySgt Hartman, as nearly all other reactors do. When you're face-to-face with that Smokey pressing into your forehead, it's fear going through you and not that it's funny.
10:43 Private Pyle was played by a young Vincent D'onofrio, aka Kingpin from Daredevil and Hawkeye. Also, Edgar the bad guy (bug) in the first Men In Black.
There's a lot of duality, and change represented in this movie. Joker, and Cowboy are similar in height, build, and they both wear glasses. Sometimes it's represented magically. Gomer Pyle is the biggest recruit, and changes into a killer. Animal Mother is the biggest in the squad, and is introduced as the most reliable killer. As if Pyle has magically changed into Animal. His helmet reads a line from the Bhagavad Gita "I am become death". It refers to Vishnu urging the prince to do his duty to impress him changes into his many armed form saying "I am become Death. The destroyer of worlds". (It's also what Oppenheimer, head of the Atomic bomb project, says he thought after the first bomb test). Animal has the biggest gun and many other weapons' on him, many arms. What was he before he became Death? Gomer Pyle.
Another scene of magical change everybody missed for all the years since the movie came out. They are all firing on a building. They stop firing, and there is a montage of shots of the men listening. During that listening montage the point man's ammo magazine is magically not in his gun. They change their magazines, and the magazine is back in the gun. He drops the magazine out of the gun, and fumbles getting another in missing the first enemies that run out. The whole scene is about changing magazines focusing particularly on the point man, and his magazine. But nobody catches on he has a magical disappearing, and reappearing magazine. The point is it's about duality, and changes that only perceptive people notice.
There's more to this that involves me personally, Kubrick, Richard Feynman, quantum mechanics, dark matter, and sorcery, as well as many other things but I won't go into details here.
Yeah Adds, this is a classic!!
Great reaction Addie! I luv how open you are to listening to some of the drill instructors cadence songs especially the "this is my rifle this is my gun" song... Addie 'i mean it is catchy'! Haha lol and it is catchy! Thanks for sharing Addie ❤️💛
Joker gets the 1,000 yard stare at the end. A difficult movie to watch, but an important one nonetheless.
Why it's total BS. It was made to slander the Vets so people could feel justified in abandoning South Vietnam.
Vicent D’Onofrio is such an excellent character actor. You should check him out in Household Saints (1993) and The Whole Wide World (1996), his own passion project on author Robert E. Howard, which he stars with unknown Renée Zellweger (her work in this film ultimately got her hired by Cameron Crowe for the role that made her famous, in Jerry Maguire (1996), opposite Tom Cruise).
It is a testament of the quality of actors that were hired by Stanley Kubrick. James Earl Jones, ultimately known as the voice of Darth Vader, debuted on the big screen in the 1964 Kubrick film: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Jack Nicholson in The Shining (1980) and Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange (1972).
I love your channel long time.
You endured that movie like a champ Addie!
The door gunner on the helicopter was the original actor to play the drill instructor. When R. Lee Ermy got the part he was given the gunner's scene.
You mentioned some of the cast, but not Arliss Howard (Pvt. Cowboy). He's also John Hammond's evil nephew in Jurassic Park 2.
Arliss gets to star in Wilder Napalm, with Dennis Quaid, and has a weird little role in Natural Born Killers.
I liked him in the miniseries about the 1996 Olympic games bomber
Addie, I am impressed by your willingness to take on these tough-to-watch movies. I imagine you surprise yourself sometimes. You’re stronger than you know.
96.8k subscribers- you’re almost there.
Great reaction! you are doing great imo
The first part was a pretty good film. I still haven't seen many reactions to Hamburger Hill.
5:54 On all my rewatches of this movie, this is the first time I noticed the background that reminds me of the carpet in The Shining.
Saw an actor who was in Fawlty Towers and if you haven’t watched that series it’s a must.
Watching reactors during the Gunnery Sargent's monologue cracks me up, I think I basically know every word thanks to many samples of that dialogue in music, etc.
Ronald Lee Ermey was an American actor and U.S. Marine drill instructor. He achieved fame for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He was also a United States Marine Corps staff sergeant and an honorary gunnery sergeant.
Ermey was initially hired by the production only as a technical advisor. His intense familiarity with the role had perfected his delivery and fluency of improvisation to a level you could not hope to discover in a professional actor, no matter how many takes they were given.
Seeking authenticity for the war movie, Director Kubrick allowed Ermey to write, edit and improvise his own dialogue. His was the only performance in a Kubrick film that had a significant proportion of improvised dialogue, with Ermey writing more than 50 percent of his dialogue.
@Addie thank you and your patrons that continue to put some of the best films of all time in front of your eyes :). Stanley Kubrick is a top 10 director for many and a top 25 director for almost every cinema fan. I Hope you watch all his films in time as well as my favorite Alfred Hitchcock. Perhaps in 2025 you could do a poll for your patrons to see if you should add like a AFI (American Film Institute) top 100 movies of all time. This film pulls no punches of the horror f war, conformity and what our hero soldiers go through that so many of us could never get through. It was a fun reaction to see.
Also don’t worry the shining scared me as well so whenever someone mentions it I always say don’t mention that dang movie
Intense, accurate, and unexpected are appropriate words to describe this movie. #1 "War flick" of all time.
Side note: Many of the scenes in this movie were taken from a book I read decades ago from interviews of former Vietnam Vets. When I first watched this movie, 25% of what I saw was what I read in that book (can't remember the title). You could cobble together another movie (or three) from the other 75% of the stories.
Great reaction Addie to a great war movie. Big thumbs up
Fun fact they already had the drill instructor cast for this movie and R. Lee Ermy was only supposed to be a consultant but he was determined to earn that role and did!
His lines were almost exclusively improvisation.
Semper Fi
(The Marine Corps Motto, Latin for Always Faithful)
you will put me in this movie.. i will be in your picture!
The guy shooting thr machine gunner in the helicopter was supposed to play Gunny Hartman.
@@kevinhennessey3189 "Don't lead 'em as much" is one of the most 😳 lines in the movie..
U gotta type in here, how R Lee Ermy got the part in gull metal jacket! He's done lots of great movies. Like Se7en. His first movie was also as a drill sergeant in the great movie, Boys in Company C! One of the cheats he did to get the part? He typed, single spaced, back and front, 20 sheets of insults dialogue and gave to one of the assistant directors!😮😮😮
Dolls or things in the road are pretty common for IEDs.
When I was in the Army, we had this guy who was our version of Private Pyle in basic training (this was in 1990), always goofing up somehow, and a bunch of guys did a blanket party to him one night. I didn't participate because I'm not a violent asshole, but I could hear it, and naturally I thought of Full Metal Jacket. I even warned the guys that treating him badly all the time could backfire, although nothing ever happened and he managed to get through basic and AIT (we were infantry, so we went through both together in something called OSUT--One Station Unit Training--out of Ft. Benning (now called Ft. Moore)) and move on with our cohort to Ft. Ord, CA where I lost track of him, since he went to a different unit within the 7th Infantry Division.
Let's give Addie a round of applause for surviving Full Metal Jacket (1987) as her SECOND Stanley Kubrick movie. 👏👏 This is my second favorite Kubrick movie after The Shining (1980). My girlfriend's dad also likes this movie too. I get a good laugh from the entire platoon marching around the barracks and singing "This is my rifle, this is my gun. This is for fighting, this is for fun." while holding their rifles, by the stock, on one hand and their crotches on the other. I even wake up every morning to the sound of Hartman's reveille. Just like The Shining, I own this movie on DVD in 4:3 Full-Screen format, which is also the full aspect ratio of the original camera negative as Stanley Kubrick intended.
A number of my friends are retired Marines from the first Gulf War era. They all swear that their Drill Instructors channeled Gunnery Sergeant Hartman.
R. Lee Ermey was a Drill Instructor (1965-1967) when he was in the USMC (1961-1972). Ermey was a Marine Drill Instructor IRL during the same time period as his character, Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. This is an example of perfect casting in a movie.
I think drill sergeants (Army), drill instructors (Marine Corps), recruit division commanders (Navy), and military training instructors (Air Force) must have compared notes. My father enlisted in the Air Force in 1955 and his training instructors used many of the same insults as DI Hartman did in the movie. The Air Force only became its own service branch in 1947, so I assume they inherited a number of organizational traits from when they were still part of the Army.
Not sure if you noticed... But when Joker's gun doesn't fire on the sniper it's because it got jammed. This was a super common occurrence during Vietnam, and brought forth a complete redesign of the m16. There were tens of thousands of soldiers who had their firearms fail in Vietnam, and not all of them were as lucky as Joker to have someone right there as backup to kill the sniper...
Credit to Addie for being willing to watch very tough, disturbing, complex and intelligent films....
Suggestions for next tough tries: "Apocalypse Now" "Requiem for a Dream" "The Exorcist" "A CLockwork Orange" "Blue Velvet" "Deliverance" "Aguirre The Wrath of God" "Schindlers List" :The Killing Fields" "Come and See" "American History X" "The Deer Hunter"
Add another tough one to the list... Children of Men
Addie has already seen Schindler's List (1993). She recorded a full-length reaction to that movie, which is on Patreon, but was unable to put out a TH-cam cut due to the limited commentary from her, given how horrified she was at what was happening during the movie.
When she's finished she'll know what PTSD is like.
REQUIEM FOR A DREAM
Set in the late 1960's, the training portion of the movie depicts the drill instructors doing what they have to in a limited amount of time to get the men ready for combat and be able to survive. The second half depicts the time beginning with the Tet Offensive when the North Vietnamese escalated the war by attacking during what was considered a cease fire for the Tet holiday. I'm assuming you're of the age when this part of history didn't get covered very well in school.
My dad was in the Marines at the time this movie took place and he said he's never seen a more accurate depiction of boot camp anywhere.
Fun fact so when Ermy's character says the bit about the reach around Kubrick yelled cut and asked what that was and R. Lee Ermy had to explain it Kubrick eventually said ok lets keep it.
Oh HELL YEAH!
This movie is quite the experience
Had me dying at “sounds like a deal” 😂
That chopper gunner was originally supposed to play GnySgt. Hartman. Good thing Lee Ermey got the part. :)