Full Metal Jacket

Full Metal Jacket 


Since I was in the mood for a movie with a Vietnam theme, thought I'd watch Full Metal Jacket. After playing Shellshock, it just goes to show how much the game was based on the film. I could be wrong but all the elements in the show really reminds me of the action in the film. Oh yea, for you guys who remember the group 2 Live Crew, the have this song where you hear a sample that goes, "What do I get for $10?" and the female hooker replies, "Anything you want," and "Love you long time"... that's from the movie. Hehehe.

I never really watched the film when it first came out in 1987. Maybe the reason was that I was too young and there weren't any VCDs around that time. Kinda hard to go out and pick up a movie when you're still in primary school.

Overall, it turned out to be a very entertaining show. Good music score from the late Sixties. The show begins with recruits joining the marine corps. with a nasty Drill Instructor who throws very interesting insults about the recruits mothers.

Here's a sample of his over-utterly witting sense of intellectualness: -
"Tonight, you pukes will sleep with your rifles. You will give your rifle a girl's name, because this is the only pussy you people are going to get. Your days of finger-banging ol' Mary Jane Rottencrotch through her pretty pink panties are over! You're married to this piece. This weapon of iron and wood. And you will be faithful!"

Though somehow I feel that the film should've ended differently. I don't know about what others think, but I feel that the film left the ending hanging. Probably that's one of Stanley Kubrick's signatures, but I'm convinced that it could be better.