FULL METAL JACKET (1987) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION
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As an old school Army vet this is about as real as it gets.
I'd say some of this and most of Jarhead. Generation Kill was what it was like when I was in. Army 12B
Yep now the US military wants woke pantie waste to try to serve. What a joke. FJB
R. Lee Ermey was the real deal, which is why he's so authentic in this role. 2 tours in Okinawa, 14 months in Vietnam. He was a Marine Corp drill instructor as well
He had a home in my city, Palmdale. My mom’s a UPS driver and would occasionally deliver to him, he had a big ass American flag, a clean and sharp lawn, and a clean driveway. They renamed a street after him after he passed away.
My dad retired as a drill Seargent in 75 and they did treat soldiers like that. It was meant to toughen up the soldiers. But they changed that behavior many years ago.
Many drill instructors/ drill sergeants were not like Hartman in this film. It's like saying all people are equally hot headed. They can be tough, and firm.... but you're either born hot headed or you're not. Hitler was hot headed, Christian Bale is hot headed, WILL SMITH is hot headed, Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Joe Pesci, Robert DeNiro, Judge Judy. The fiery types tend to make the best leaders, or are at the top of the game in whatever they persue. Most people are docile.
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@@DestinyAwaits19 Too much wind.
@@DestinyAwaits19You have no clue about what you’re pretending to know.
@@jimj9040 I know more than you on the subject.
R. Lee Ermey is a legend. Rest in peace.
He Was Brilliant!👍🏼
No he wasn't.Just another brainwashed individual ,which is what he and Kubrick were portraying in this film.
An American Treasure He's interned at Arlington Your Service was Greatly Appreciated I'm sure he would have supported and voted for President Trump R.I.P. Gunnery Sargent Ermey
So is Roy Benavides
The real Rambo
drill instructors during wartime put you through hell, so that when you step on the hell of a battlefield, it will not shock or scare you.
Yes there are women Marines. I know a Black woman Marine who retired from the Marine Corp. She is tough and very respectful at the same time. The city of Palmdale, California renamed 'Avenue N' to 'R. Lee Ermey Avenue.' A section of it has a musical road that play's the U.S. Marine Anthem. I used to drive it to work. There is also a brewery in Lancaster, California owned by Gunny Sergeant Ermey's daughter named 'The Bravery'. Her father's Marine uniform is displayed in a glass cabinet in the brewery.
We never had ammo with our weapons except at the firing range and all rounds per person were counted to prevent that action by private pyle.
I was a conscript in the Swedish Army. They never counted our ammo. "Grab as much as you need from the big pile of ammo boxes."
It is easy to miss a round or 5...and the shit you've been put through to find the missing rounds isn't worth it. And if you're the goober who had them in your pocket for the last hour...are you gonna volunteer that information?
If you watch the firing range scene, Pyle removes a partly fired magazine and places it on the side.
@@jaydigshistory36 Yup, you can still see live rounds in the magazine. Took a few viewings for me to catch that. Pyle is also careful to place the "empty" magazine with the top away from Hartman.
Joker - "How can you shoot women and children?" Door gunner -"It's easy, you just don't lead em so much." 🤤
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My late brother who I miss every day was in Paris Island Marine Corp boot camp towards the end of the Vietnam War and his stories were at least as bad as what appears in this movie. I'm sure everybody's experiences are different, and I've been told it became less intense as time went by, but from what my brother told me, this was the closest to reality for Marine Corp boot camp at that specific moment in time. But he also told me that his real life experience was even more intense than what appears in the movie.
Peace
Notice at 14:59 when Pyle is changing out his clip, there’s still ordnance in the ejected clip. You’ll want to remember that.
It's the fault of the ammunition handler to account for what's still in the clip. In Navy bootcamp he would have had to return all "spent clips" if there was anything left in them or not.
I've never caught that detail before. Nice point!
@@bravo1495 cheers!😊
I’ve seen this movie countless times and never noticed that
Magazine. They're magazines. Clips merely hold cartridges together for easy insertion into a magazine, with some rifles designed to have the entire clip inserted into the magazine.
The day of the Tet Offensive was Jan. 31, 1968. So, the second half of the movie would've been around this date. The first half of the movie was most likely the previous year. I know that Hartmann mentioned the University of Texas massacre by Charles Whitman in 1966, so it must've been later that year and into 1967. Remember, they celebrated Christmas on Parris Island.
Other good Vietnam War movies include Platoon, Hamburger Hill and the great one, Apocalypse Now
The beginning always reminds me of my first day at San Diego recruit training command. 1978 I had hair to my shoulders and the barber ran over the top first then spun me around to face the mirror 😂😂😂 to answer your question, things have changed drastically, but in the 70's absolutely this is authentic. And we would not have wanted Pyle in our unit, we definitely would have thrown him a blanket party.
You sound like a hell of a guy.
@@justmeeagainn Semper Fi
My older brother told me about the time a guy was getting a “blanket party” in the bunk above him! This was in the Army 1986, he said the whole bed was vibrating! He said it came out of nowhere, and that almost every platoon has a “Private Pyle” someone that always gets everyone in trouble
Noooo I don’t like blanket parties 😩😢
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I'm a Kubrick fan and first saw this in 87, I was 6 yrs old. It's been my favorite of the genre ever since.
I went through Marine Corps bootcamp in 1995. It was pretty much exactly like this except they weren't allowed to physically abuse you. That being said, there are times when you're being punished with intense levels of physical calisthenics that you wished you could just take a punch and get it over with. Punch in the gut vs. pushups until your hands are slipping on the linoleum from the puddles of sweat.... take your pick? I'd take the punch.
My dad graduated Parris Island, in '75.
Yes.
It used to be like this.
Personally, I believe it should still be.
Combat is hell.
Training should be, as well.
I enlisted in the Corps in 1991. Yes, what you saw in boot camp were the good days. Yes, there are women in the Corps.
I can only speak from post-Vietnam US Navy.
1. There are always more than one CC in boot camp (at least in the Navy) where partially recruits can't be abused. Verbal abuse is one thing but physical was a NO GO.
2. Vincent D'Onofrio played the Bug in "MIB", and had to put on 50lbs for this role
3. Hardman was out of control. Others outside his recruits would have noticed and he would have been held accountable.
4. "I don't know, but I've been told. Eskimo pussy is mighty cold." was used in my Navy recruit company in 1981.
5. In the US Navy real live ammo was always accounted for, and Pyle wouldn't have had it on his person in the head.
6. The lights in the head are always lit. (lighting I suspect).
7. "Blanket parties" were a real deal. We didn't have one because we didn't have a Gomer Pyle.
8. The hooker in Saigon is just distracting them so the motorcycle guys can steal the camera. I saw that happen in the Philippines.
9. "I wouldn't shit you, you're my favorite turd" I've used that before.
10. Even by Hollywood standards, Kubrick went overboard with excessive bloodletting.
11. This is clearly an Anti-Vietnam movie. Kubrick chomped at the bit to get this one
steal?
Well, I always assumed the movie condenses from a character perspective. Hartman says he the senior DI and he'd be memorable for those guys, as more DIs would have to split the Act 1 time. It worked better with the Boys from Company C, where he was not the Senior DI, but the most prominent regular DI.
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Girl wasn't ready for that I guess :O
You could enlist. That was a choice
If you were drafted, you went where they told you.
My late Father served in the USMC in the late 1950's . At that time you either volunteered or got drafted. My father volunteered for the Marines because it was two years and he got it over with. You also ended up with some hard core kids that were sentenced by a judge. My father was from the south side of Chicago and it seemed most the Chicago Guys ended up Camp Pendleton in San Diego. A few of the guys my father flew into San Diego with were gang members. He said you do form a bond with these guys no matter race, class etc,. because you all take a bite of the same "SH(% Burger". My father did say they did a "Blanket Party" (soap and towel) on someone who was stealing watches. It seemed to straighten out the problem kids. Don't mess with the Brotherhood as dad would say.
I am 54, I was going to follow in my fathers foot steps and join the USMC after high school. My father was telling me NOoooo! This movie came out the year I graduated high School in 1987. My father took me to this and told me boot camp was worse than they showed you in the film. Dad said please take a year off and figure out what you really want to do. Dad and this movie changed my mind.
This is one of my favorite films because it was life changing for me. This movie made me experience the "craziness " of the Vietnam War era and the 1960's I understood PTSD more because I also had Uncles in WWII. This movie is haunting and sticks with you like Saving Private Ryan does. My father always said you think you have a bad day? Think about being on that beach at D-Day or in The USMC boot camp 1950's and 60's.
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*WHY IS PRIVATE PYLE OUT OF HIS BUNK AFTER LIGHTS OUT?!*
*WHY AREN'T YOU STOMPING PRIVATE PYLE'S GUTTS OUT?!*
A rhyme now! 😂😂😂
All military training in the USA used to be like this. Very high pressure constantly. I heard a Navy officer say something and an Air Force sergeant say the same thing. The reason for all the unrelenting pressure on the recruits is because the most important thing to learn in training, and if you learn nothing else, is to make good decisions in highly stressful environments. Training, as tough as it is, is nowhere near combat.
Oh boy...welcome to the Kubrick insanity version of Vietnam...it definitely makes an impression, doesn't it?
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. The program had various nicknames including "McNamara's Misfits" and "McNamara's Morons" in honor of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.
Forrest Gump was also part of Project 100,000.👍
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Never heard of "Project 100,000" thanks for the trivia. makes sense though, we did the same thing after 911 to get enough folks to secure Iragnam and Afghanistan after invading them with the higher but fewer caliber.
for 9 yrs and 20 yr - nothing to show for it of course, but loss of 4 trillion bucks, 100,000 dead civilians, a Taliban ruled Afghanistan (had that in 1999 - could have had that free if we never invaded - same result, but more money and less dead), and an Iraq puppet state allied with Iran (which I could have told (and did at the time!) anyone now and back then 20+ yrs ago when 80-percent of the Iraqis are Shia they will side with Iran, and so strengthen Iran geopolitically).
Bush Jr - second worst prez of all time after Rump. and I like his dad, the pappy had sense and brains, unlike his son.
@@gaffo7836I turned 18 in 2002, I was in juvenile lockup during 9/11, they woke us all up at around 6a.m. and turned on the TV, saying that we are witnessing history. When I turned 18, I went to the USMC and Army recruitment office being turned down by both because I had a GED instead of a HS diploma. They couldn't have lowered the standards right during 9/11, maybe when they started losing people's interest in the war, the recruiters contacted me about 4 years later but by then I had purchased a home, gotten engaged, started a business, and I felt slighted from being turned down in the first place when I felt like I was the perfect recruit since juvenile lockup in my state was basically boot camp minus the weapons training. The tone spent in juvenile lockup for 1 year and 9 months was nothing but constant running at elevation since the camp was on a mountain peak, calisthenics, weight training, we lived in dorms with 28 guys, kp duties, schooling, but the focus was on us being busy so we didn't have time to mess up. Some guys tried to escape which was stupid because it could get you sent to adult prison and it wasn't that bad in my opinion considering the other option.
@@gaffo7836 It's often more colloquially referred to as "McNamara's Morons" on account of allowing a lot of "morons" (low IQ) where they wouldn't previously have passed
In the Vietnam era, a lot of these guys would have been draftees- Private Pyle almost certainly was. If he'd tried to sign up in peace time, there's a good chance they wouldn't have taken him.
These are Marines prior to and during the Tet Offensive, therefore they would all be volunteers. The Marine Corps did not take its first draftees until April 1968, after Tet. Overall ~90% of all Marines in Vietnam were volunteers. The Army was a very different story.
This is an unflinching film. One of the greats.
Every Kubrick film is an experience like no other. You should consider doing more of his films.
This movie is a pretty darn good anti-war movie, but it's mostly remembered for all of Lee Ermey's absolute off the cuff zingers, possibly one of the most quotable characters in cinema history...
This is the Vietnam War Era. Hartman was an actual drill instructor. That is actually how training was. There were no limits on the drill instructors. Today , just the opening scene has a dozen court martial offenses today. The Marines volunteer
8:07 Hartman is being tough on the recruits. But the enemy would end their lives. That is ruthless.
Tough love 😩
The most heartbreaking war movie is Taking Chance. That only has about 10 seconds of combat in it. I cried the whole time first time watching.
Gunnery Seargant Heartman, played by a real gunnery sergeant, R Lee Ermy, was one of the only actors, that the director was truly fearful of: thus, given him a wide berth.
Kubrick liked exploring natural meanness and cruelty, in this case during war and training for it. So from the beginning when the recruits were getting stressed out to instilling bravado .. which they then carry into Vietnam, the macho swagger, what the NVA were doing, etc.. Joker has a lot of bravado but then screws up almost getting shot by the sniper. He redeems himself by putting her out of her misery, but doesn’t seem to be joking afterwards probably due to mixed emotions.
This was mostly rewritten from a decent selling autobiographical book about the war called the Short-Timers. Kubrick, being a non-veteran, had a long serving war correspondent, Herr, help with the re-writing. Herr’s own book is where the helicopter scene supposedly comes from.
my old man was in nam, first cav. he got one of those days where a Vietnamese, uh... yeah... lady was in a tent and a few GI's were in line. he just thought, "30 dudes in front of me and... uh... NOPE." I miss him, a lot.
I do remember his stories about the quad 50 going off to cut down trees.
When i joined the National Guard in 86' I had a platoon Sgt. that manned a quad 50 in Nam. He shot more than trees.
I graduated from Parris Island in November of 1986 and drill instructors never run out of material. Yes there are WM's (women Marines) but the Marines does have the lowest percentage of women of all the services.
USMC from 90', just after this movie came out. Just think....only half this movie is boot camp. Imagine 3+ months of that non stop...your only break from it being when your asleep.
Then theres another month of combat training after boot camp. 4 1/2 months of your life spent living that life.
Something I just thought of about all the time spent training. At 16 hrs a day for 14 weeks equals 1456 hours of training. When a college class is 3 hrs per week, an associates, bachelors and masters degree take around 240 hrs of school...Boot camp is the equivalent of 6 masters degrees from associates to masters.
There were 3 Vietnam movies that came out in this time of 1986-87 - Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, and Hamburger Hill - I suggest you watch the other two - I was in my early 20's when they came out and I had just gone through basic training down here in Australia at the time. They were considered VERY realistic in how they had shown the war in all its ugliness and were not surpassed until Saving Private Ryan in 1998. Although these are just movies and NOT real war, they woke us all up to the horror of war and what it could be like. We were all very liberal leftists back in the 80's but after watching those movies they changed how we thought about war, and realised that war was horrific and that our lives were made VERY comfortable by men who went through this crap only a decade before so that we could have such soft lives. But these movies also explain that there is a futility of fighting wars which achieve no good purpose other than to kill people who should not have to fight them. Those movies gave us a wake up call, and made us stop and think about just how good we had it and to start appreciating what we had...
“What is wrong with him” everyone’s got a breaking point and Pyle hit his limit.
Please watch “The Outsiders” 1983, based on the book of the same name by S.E. Hinton. The lesson and moral of the movie is, be careful because gang life is dangerous.
Yep, remember what he said, tough, but fair. At the time this portrays, they had very little time to break you of all the BS and build you back a focused soldier to maybe survive the crapshow you were about to be dropped into. These days, someone like Pyle would have been identified as not fit, but back then it's questionable, especially if he was "fit enough" to fire a rifle and respond to commands. It's one thing volunteering for this, but many were drafted against their will, like my father. He did the one thing they tell you to never do and that is volunteer for anything. An officer came around before they were to all be sent to Vietnam and asked if anyone could cook. He raised his hand and impressed them enough that they kept him stateside while everyone else perished. He was no professional chef, but an upbringing of making due with what you got gave him a good ability in the kitchen. They gave him a bunch of acorn squash to make meals out of and he did just that. So I can officially say, I am here because of the acorn squash. Cheers.
While they can no longer strike you, this is what basic training was like when I served, minus them physically striking you. The points of basic are to see if you will break, learn discipline and respect, pay attention to detail, learn to depend on your fellow soldier, and to believe in something bigger than yourself, God, country, and your squad. The main thing is to push you to your breaking point, reason being is that if you break in wartime, you can cost the lives of your entire squadron by making a crucial mistake. If you can't handle the pressure in basic, better to wash out then and go live a non-military life. While basic is difficult, it teaches boys how to become men, I don't regret for a single second that I served. You always want the strongest, smartest, and toughest defending the country and her people.
Originally, R. Lee Ermey was brought on as a technical consultant for Tim Colceri, who was supposed to play Sgt. Hartman. However, Ermey not only filled up multiple 2-hour VHS tapes with auditions, he was pelted with oranges and tennis balls while doing so, and did NOT repeat any of his insults a single time. Kubrick was obviously impressed, and on top of this, Ermey's scenes usually only took three takes, *HIGHLY* unusual for a Kubrick film with him (Kubrick) being such a perfectionist.
This is a Stanley Kubrick film, one of the greatest directors, ever. All of his films are different and all are remarkable. Some of his films are “The Shining”, “Dr. Strangelove”, “Paths of Glory”, and “The Clockwork Orange”. Check them out.
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Yes, there are women in the Marines.
They traditionally do not serve in combat roles (there are few exceptions) although they are trained in combat and rifle marksmanship to fight if needed.
Woman are usually in support and supply roles.
This is how it was back then. I joined the Army 10 years after Vietnam. Still brutal at Ft. Benning but not quite like this.
This was my basic training in '82. This was as real as it gets. We even threw a blanket party as well and even had one recruit try and kill himself. Marine training is different. I don't know what kind of training they have today but I bet it's nothing like what I went through.
Other great great war movies : Apocalypse Now - The Deer Hunter
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"This guy is mean." Haha. I had to go thru 13 weeks of that, plus three other drill instructors were there too. Loved it though.
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Your innocence is very sweet. Yes, this is how it was in my Era. There are women in every branch of service now (but very rarely back then
It used to be like this, but not now days, it's been sissified
P.P.S. If you like war movies, there's a great old WW ll comedy called "Kelly's Heroes". It's got all kinds of stars and a great story. And it won't have you asking a bunch of questions.
There are a lot of female soldiers in all branches of the military. Only recently have they been introduced to the combat theater.
The boot camp scene is extremely accurate as to how it was in the '60's. It was a lot of fun!
Yes, that's how they treat people in boot camp. They try and break you down to see if your mentally equipped
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Saw the band Ministry live recently and they sample this movie for the song Thieves….it was a treat, to say the least
Most of the people were drafted so as cruel as the DI was it was to toughen them up to survive combat.
Well I'm a marine and I was in boot camp in 88 and that's what really happens yep
My marine friends from the Vietnam era tell me that the bootcamp scenes, minus the last part with Pyle shooting the D.I. is spot on. Two things here. The Marines, or any armed forces, can't have individuals doing what they think is right, they need a unit following orders, so they strip down your individualism to build you into a member of a unit. Two, if you can't handle the strain of Boot Camp, you're not going to handle the stress of a warzone. There are lot's of women in the Marines, and armed forces in general. The sniper at the end is not the prostitute from earlier with the soldier trying to get tricks. The Vietnamese had many female soldiers, many of whom were actively involved in the fighting.
YES !! This is the closest to the real Marine Boot Camp. I was in 1979. They couldn't use curse words, anymore, but they found other words that were just as humiliating. They also were not allowed to strike you anymore, but it did happen in the dark ,when no one could see. 3rd. BN PLT 3062.
War, as an exercise, serves as a fulcrum to maintain the human being's classification as the most hysterically dangerous species that walks this planet...And until such time as the human evolves far enough to outgrow behaviors that lead him to war...things will continue to be "awkward"...One another aspect...we got the righteous crap kicked out of us in basic training at Ft Jackson, SC in 1967...So a lot of us would have to plead guilty to a warm and fuzzy feeling when sarge here stopped that 7.62 from Pvt Pyles gun in the latrine..
Its not only marines, any man's collective looks nearly like that (in real world)
I had to stop in to see your reaction to this part in the beginning specifically because it is such a masterpiece
During the Vietnam War women were in the armed forces but they were not permitted to serve in combat units nor on ships, submarines nor boats. That has all changed now. Allow me to suggest the German movie "All Quiet on the Western Front". Watch the version with subtitles, its better than the English dubbed version.
Full metal jacket or FMJ refers to a type of bullet with a soft lead core covered by a copper, brass, cupronickel, steel, or other metal outer sleeve or “jacket,” usually leaving the base of the lead bullet exposed.
Yes this is how the Marine corps boot camp is. This is the Vietnam era. It was even worse back in the WW2 era when my father was in the corp
Women in the military...
Army June 12, 1948
Navy March 19, 1917
Air Force July 8, 1948
Marines August 13, 1918 (Clerical only). Permanent part of the Marines, June 12, 1948. Sometime between 2013 and 2018, they lifted the ban for them to participate in combat roles.
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"Is this what really happens?"
Short answer, yes. At least it did when I went through Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island in 1982. When you lay down your head at night in the United States, your peace is protected by men trained this way. They do it for you unselfishly and ask for nothing from you personally. They understand that many people will resent them for it, and may possibly have completely different political views, and that doesn't matter to them. They will sacrifice their lives to protect you, and to protect your rights as an American, even if someone they're protecting hates them.
To be peaceful requires the ability to cause great violence, but only when necessary.
If you're not capable of great violence, you're not peaceful, then you are just harmless.
Significant difference.
Semper Fidelis!
This is the most accurate movie ever made of the training recruits went through, but you have to remember that these guys were drafted to go to war and at this point in time people were not offended by everything. Basic training had to be hard and fast to get them ready for war. That includes weeding out the ones that are to weak mentally or physically to handle it. You didn't want people losing it in battle and killing Americans or friendlies. As they said, War is hell!!!
This is what USED to happen during the Vietnam War era and before. Yes.. with the exception of WWII almost all of them joined of their own volition. The Marines don’t like conscription. Let me point out that REAL war is a lot less unkind than even the worst of Marine Corps boot camp training.
Pronounced cu brick. Stanley Kubrick very very famous director. He directed the shining.
This conflict as it is so historically referred to is a war where a 12yr old would walk up on US Soldiers with 6 Sticks of Dynamite strapped to their chests just to take out a few soldiers and demoralize any survivors.
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Some other "Vietnam War era" movies you might want to check out: Platoon with Willem Dafoe and Charlie Sheen, and Acopalypse Now starring Martin Sheen (guess whose daddy he is) and Marlon Brando.
pretty soon that bamboo is going to start answering all your questions
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this is where the real 'wave' begins, it was and is everywhere in the world... in my language the so-called ''kocówa'' it is a form of repression against a soldier who cannot adapt to the platoon read a form of revenge for the problems he caused for the platoon there will always be one or two people like that you have to understand it is a movie but in real life people go through real hell they eat little, extreme lack of sleep and the like things are aimed at breaking man down and forming him again in the way that the army needs him at this moment, this is real life, there is no such thing as gender, there is no therapy because the head hurts, there is no all this crap, it is real, pure hard life, but less and less People understand how we protect your asses
Ft Jackson South Carolina in 85, Army Basic. It was intense but Drill Sergeant could not touch you...They could PT you until muscle failure if you acted stupid, however. At the end of it I was in the best shape of my life.
Hay Cue.....You would like the song "Good Night Saigon" by Billy Joel......A real Tribute to those brave men who joined the marines and fought in Vietnam.
Very Touching Song!
He was a real Drill Sergeant during Vietnam and said the movie is very realistic
This thing gave me boot camp PTSD when it first came out.. 😳
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In the Army i had 3 crazy Drill Sgts....one morning i saw one Drill Sgt being dropped off at the barracks by his wife and she kissed him...soo at least one person liked him.
Yes, this happens in Basic Training, but usually only in wartime. In peacetime, it's not usually this intense. Been there, been through it!
If you volunteer to serve, you usually get your choice of service branch (Army, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, or Marines), and job title ..... Keyword here is USUALLY. If you get involuntarily drafted, you go where THEY want you, and do what THEY tell you. If it comes to a point where you're going to HAVE TO serve, it's better to volunteer than be drafted.
I have always wondered if Pyle would have washed out of the Marines. Maybe he could have made it in the Army instead. Judging by his perceived IQ, I guess going to college to avoid service would not have been a possibility.
Try a classic like Kelly's Heroes after this. The best war movie ever. One of my dad's favorites. Pops went through Parris Island in '64. Gunny Sergeant Hartman flat nails it.
They could hit you back then. They can't hit you now.
I love antiwar movies.
Yes Vietnam was one big clusterf**k.
Thousands of innocent people and our own were thrown into a grinder.
And it was the first "war" that was brought to our TV sets.
That's why no one wanted this war.
We SAW what went on during this "police action"
America hasn't won a war since 1945.
We start wars, but we can't end them.
But yet we keep funding and waging war globally.
"War is a Racket"
Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient.
Platoon, Apocolypse Now, Casualties of War, all come to mind.
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Never been exposed to our military before? Hehe.... Brings back memories.
The whole point of that training back then was to basically prepare you for worst case scenarios and how you could deal with the stress. Since it was a draft and everybody was thrown in, they had to weed out the people who could stand up to pressure and those who couldn’t because if you couldn’t stand up to pressure, during front line war, there is a big chance you could cost the lives of others. It’s obviously way out of the PC boundaries that anybody is used to these days but then again, I don’t think a lot of people these days could stand up to a full front line of war.
It's a great film. Kubrick shows the training, from an outsider's perspective, focused on the dehumanization, which is part of the process of turning civilian teens into soldiers.
In Vietnam, he shows the banality of that war...all wars, and how they change people profoundly, often not for the better.
Kubrick is a legendary director and storyteller.
GREAT reaction to a movie that's meant to be hard to watch.
Terrence Malick's "The Thin Red Line" is another awesome film about what war does to people.
Historic war movies: Kingdom of Heaven, Master and Commander, Gallipoli, Patton.
Jarhead is another great Marine Corps movie.
Sci Fi war movies: Starship Troopers, and Live Die Repeat, Edge of Tomorrow.
There’s plenty of other great war movies, thank you for reacting to this one.
Awesome reaction! Full Metal Jacket is one of the best movies ever made. I'm gonna recommend another one of the best movies ever made, but this one is at the other end of the spectrum. The name of the movie is "It's a Wonderful Life". A lot less crazy of a movie, but again, another one of the best movies ever made. If you do watch it, watch the black and white original version. I know you'll love it!
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I was drafted in 1967 this was like it was you had 50 percent chance of making it out
Yeah,, we signed out at Ft Benning in 70...line of guys in front of a warrant officer at a table in the admin building on main post...guy at the front was 1st Air Cav...gets his paperwork in his hand,, turns around to us and says "Holy shit....we're still breathin".....that warrant officer was pissed...but it was mind over matter...we didn't mind,, because that lifer no longer mattered....
Think of it this way. Any movie, comedy, drama, romance is supposed to get an emotional response from you. This did, so you should consider it a good movie.
lol Glad to see you back.
Ha remember 2 Live Crew? Yup! So many samples from this movie
3:58 never been in the military so idk for sure but from what I understand, the whole point of this drill instructor scene, in the military they break you down as a human being so that they can build you back up as a soldier
I announce it ridiculous lol. Keep up the good work!
The policy about women in front line service has changed. In the Vietnam era there were no co ed units, and women could pretty much only be nurses or typists. In the 80s, the policy was changed, and they began gradually accepting women into more active roles. They started with a couple of fighter pilots, and eventually, by the time of the 2nd Iraq war, women were fully integrated into combat units.
For the very best war movie ever made, in my opinion, try "Saving Pvt Ryan". It is very accurate and deep in many ways.
Yup it is just like this. LOL ........was in the Marines 82-86.. lost our first set of drill instructors because a bed wetter and a brain of a rock got himself butt stroked ..........Our platoon suffered relentlessly until we won the rifle range. We started out with 54 guys and only graduated 32
time code: 23:30 - "the craziest movie i've watched"
try watching another war movie called, "platoon" [1986].
This was the Vietnam War era of the 1960's. The "DRAFT" made it possible for mentally unfit youngsters to have to endure a somewhat necessary form of expedient action to quicken their "MAN-UP" inner qualities. Once Congress dissolved the draft. The choice to volunteer as a Marine was to expect an even require this toughening. I am a Navy Veteran. Our Boot Camp Training in the 70's was mentally abusive but in no way as physically demanding. My worse case physical challenge was to shovel 2 feet of snow in a 50 mile an hour wind coming of Lake Michigan in -2 degree temp. at 0400 hours.(4 am).
Marine Corp Basic Training is the toughest longest in the Armed Forces at 12 weeks and is 100% voluntary. This is the Vietnam era and is a bit different today. Drill Instructors can't hit Recruits like this anymore but they do scream at you and can punish you in other ways. The Drill instructor in this movie was a real Di before advising.
@27:00 Yes, there are women in the Marine Corps. Currently, about 1 of every 10 Marines are female.