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Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick Collection 2001 Release) (DVD)

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May 15, 2007
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Genre Drama, Military & War
Format NTSC, Closed-captioned, Color, Multiple Formats, Full Screen
Contributor Adam Baldwin, Dorian Harewood, Kirk Taylor, John Terry, Matthew Modine, Stanley Kubrick, Arliss Howard, Vincent D'Onofrio, Tim Colceri, Michael Herr, Kevyn Major Howard, Jan Harlan, Kieron Jecchinis, Lee Ermey, Gustav Hasford, Ed O'Ross, Jon Stafford See more
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 56 minutes

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Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick Collection 2001 Release) (DVD)

Director Stanley Kubrick rips the skin from the face of war to expose the dehumanizing effect of the military on the people fed to its emotional meat grinder in Full Metal Jacket. Through the eyes of an 18-year-old recruit--from his first days in the seeming hell of Marine Corps boot camp as his superiors try to strip of him his individuality and re-create him as a Marine, to the hell of the 1968 Tet offensive, Kubrick reveals the damage done to the collective human soul by the inhumanity of war. Based on the novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford.

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Stanley Kubrick's 1987, penultimate film seemed to a lot of people to be contrived and out of touch with the '80s vogue for such intensely realistic portrayals of the Vietnam War as Platoon and The Deer Hunter. Certainly, Kubrick gave audiences plenty of reason to wonder why he made the film at all: essentially a two-part drama that begins on a Parris Island boot camp for rookie Marines and abruptly switches to Vietnam (actually shot on sound stages and locations near London), Full Metal Jacket comes across as a series of self-contained chapters in a story whose logical and thematic development is oblique at best. Then again, much the same was said about Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, a masterwork both enthralled with and satiric about the future's role in the unfinished business of human evolution. In a way, Full Metal Jacket is the wholly grim counterpart of 2001. While the latter is a truly 1960s film, both wide-eyed and wary, about the intertwining of progress and isolation (ending in our redemption, finally, by death), Full Metal Jacket is a cynical, Reagan-era view of the 1960s' hunger for experience and consciousness that fulfilled itself in violence. Lee Ermey made film history as the Marine drill instructor whose ritualized debasement of men in the name of tribal uniformity creates its darkest angel in a murderous half-wit (Vincent D'Onofrio). Matthew Modine gives a smart and savvy performance as Private Joker, the clowning, military journalist who yearns to get away from the propaganda machine and know firsthand the horrific revelation of the front line. In Full Metal Jacket, depravity and fulfillment go hand in hand, and it's no wonder Kubrick kept his steely distance from the material to make the point. --Tom Keogh

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.75 x 5.75 x 0.53 inches; 0.01 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 116311
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Stanley Kubrick
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC, Closed-captioned, Color, Multiple Formats, Full Screen
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 56 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ May 15, 2007
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lee Ermey, Dorian Harewood
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Stanley Kubrick, Jan Harlan
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1), Unqualified
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ WarnerBrothers
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000P0J09C
  • Writers ‏ : ‎ Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
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