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60 of 181 · most liked firstHey white boys be sure to hurry up and enlist to get the shit kicked out of you by your drill sergeants like in that cool movie about how fun basic training and war are, Full Metal Jacket
unlabelledView post →#FilmHistory On this day 1987, Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket premiered. The film’s most famous casting, besides the brilliant Vincent D’Onofrio, belongs to R. Lee Ermey, retired USMC Staff Sergeant & former drill instructor. One of the most unforgettable performances ever.
unlabelledView post →Leaving aside how the actual Vietnam War went, FULL METAL JACKET ends with the platoon of Americans getting almost entirely wiped out a little girl. The film sort of takes it for granted that the audience is smart enough to know that the USA lost Vietnam and offers an explanation about why that was
unlabelledView post →The Economist gave Trump his own Full Metal Jacket tribute cover. This is an anti-war film by Stanley Kubrick but everyone in MAGA is too dumb to understand it is an anti-war film.
unlabelledView post →I think this is kinda true about people seeing the movie and wanting to join CBP (and I know a lot of chuds who love this movie) but to me it's more along the lines of guys who watched FULL METAL JACKET - the "do not join the Marines" movie - and joined the Marines.
unlabelledView post →Tubi has a section titled A Salute To Our Veterans and the first movie is Full Metal Jacket lol
unlabelledView post →I love how one of his big ideas is letting drill sergeants haze people again. I know these guys' understanding of everything comes from film and tv but like, Full Metal Jacket pretty famously has some thoughts on why this approach will go badly
unlabelledView post →Since these idiots only speak incel, someone should tell Hegseth his job is defensemaxxing, not lethalitymaxxing. We have an drunken meathead running the DoD who thinks Full Metal Jacket is an aspirational movie.
unlabelledView post →What are your "must-watch" movies?. I'm not a huge movie fan, but I want to broaden my horizons a bit. I'll offer my list (that I've rewatched so many times I'm a bit tired of them): * Young Poisoner's Handbook * Full Metal Jacket * Life of Brian * Holy Grail * Sunset Boulevard * Curse of the Golden Flower * The Nightingale * Downfall * Amadeus * Once Were Warriors * Dusk to Dawn
unlabelledView post →FULL METAL JACKET was released 38 years ago today. A classic Vietnam War film as well as one of Stanley Kubrick’s most popular works, the behind the scenes story is typically Kubrick… 1/39
unlabelledView post →Vincent D’Onofrio on Stanley Kubrick 🪖❤️ In anticipation of Criterion’s upcoming Kubrick box set, Vincent D’Onofrio shares his memories of working with Kubrick on FULL METAL JACKET, the legendary director’s blistering 1987 film starring D’Onofrio as brutalized Marine Corps recruit Private Pyle.
unlabelledView post →Oh god trump is playing the video for the crowd where it’s clear he and his campaign did not want to understand the meaning of the movie Full Metal Jacket
unlabelledView post →I like Full Metal Jacket, but it's *two* movies And Clockwork Orange has always been overrated, imo. Not a movie I rewatch, except for McDowell saying things like "lomticks of toast"
unlabelledView post →Each Memorial Day, I think about my friend Gustav Hasford, a Vietnam vet and brilliant writer. Many people don't know it, but his novel The Short Timers was the basis for Kubrick's movie Full Metal Jacket. It's a hard book to find these days, so if you see a copy, grab it and never let it go.
unlabelledView post →At his rally in PA today, Trump showed a little film contrasting the abusive drill sergeant from Full Metal Jacket with transgender and drag soldiers, concluding that our military was better, um, in fictional Vietnam?
unlabelledView post →Full Metal Jacket (1987) Directed by Stanley Kubrick stars Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio, Adam Baldwin, Dorian Harewood, and Arliss Howard. The film is based on Hasford's 1979 autobiographical novel The Short-Timers.
unlabelledView post →I had such a good movie day with myself yesterday watching some of my favs. I watched Watchmen, Full Metal Jacket, Casino, Goodfellas, The Departed and Training Day
unlabelledView post →An audience member who watches FULL METAL JACKET front to back in a movie theater is gonna have a very different reaction to it than someone who watches the first half an hour over and over again or especially someone watching "Gunnery Sgt Harman Funniest Moments Compilation" on YouTube
unlabelledView post →my friend can I tell you the way that every Marine lionizes R. Lee Ermey's drill instructor in Full Metal Jacket without ever once acknowledging the consequences he faces (or the entire second half of the movie)
unlabelledView post →The people who argue Full Metal Jacket gets Not Good when the characters actually get to Vietnam, I’m sorry, did they not understand the point of the movie they were watching
unlabelledView post →While I'm off on a rant I don't think there's a worse Vietnam movie out there than Full Metal Jacket that I've seen
unlabelledView post →Full Metal Jacket is not a subtle movie
unlabelledView post →Books to film 📚=🎞️ The Short-Timers (1979) by Gustav Hasford was adapted to film as Full Metal Jacket (1987). The book is autobiographical while the film adds journalism to focus on the dehumanizing aspects of the Vietnam war. The structure of the film condenses the narrative. 🪖➡️🪣 #filmsky #booksky
unlabelledView post →It’s the late 90s. I’m 13 years old, living with my family in an old house out in the sticks. I’m home alone late at night (a very uncommon occurrence) and I put on the movie Full Metal Jacket, which I had never seen before. Spoilers ahead (Do I need to call out spoilers for a movie made 40 years ago?) The main character, “Joker,” is in boot camp. While on night watch, he finds a squad mate, “Pyle,” sitting on the toilet holding his rifle. Pyle is slow and has been getting bullied…
unlabelledView post →"This is my rifle! There are many like it, but this one is mine! My rifle is my best friend! It is my life!" Tonight, 7/22, at 7pm EST, the Deadlights Discord Theater presents... FULL METAL JACKET Come and join us for this iconic American anti-war movie! www.patreon.com/c/scumbeliev...
unlabelledView post →My first time being trolled was also a movie hit job: I was told Full Metal Jacket was a comedy.
unlabelledView post →I watched Full Metal Jacket first time today. Not a huge Kubrick fan, but this movie was good. Boot camp was hilarious, loved the lack of "enemies" too. That's something I love when war movies do that, when enemies just don't appear in the flesh, except in quick instances. Nice 👌
unlabelledView post →Full Metal Jacket, the movie where military training goes well for everyone involved and has no downsides.
unlabelledView post →In the 90s I must have watched half of Full Metal Jacket during deployment movie nights at least a dozen times for the moto value so this is not a new phenomenon
unlabelledView post →It sucks that so many people's reaction to FULL METAL JACKET was "this R Lee Ermey guy is hilarious! Too bad he's in this movie directed by a humorless scold" when the exact opposite is true of both guys
unlabelledView post →Kevyn Major Howard, who played Rafterman, a Marine and Stars and Stripes combat photographer in the 1987 film “Full Metal Jacket,” has died at age 69. In a scene midway through the movie, Cowboy introduces his squad to Joker and Rafterman: “They’re from Stars and Stripes; they’ll make you famous.”
unlabelledView post →I highly recommend this little movie he did called Full Metal Jacket. 👍
unlabelledView post →👇"In other words, It's a huge shit sandwich and we're all going to have to take a bite." (apologies to the film Full Metal Jacket) 🛟 medsky health policy idsky episky sociology 📉🧪
unlabelledView post →what actor's expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life? (These are the first 4 that came to mind from SPEED, ALMOST FAMOUS, FULL METAL JACKET, & THREE COLORS: RED.)
unlabelledView post →#America250 through WB-MGM-HB. 209/365 Stanley Kubrick’s 1987 war movie, “Full Metal Jacket”. Nominated for two BAFTAs, one Oscar nominee for Best Adapted Screenplay and one Golden Globe nominee for Best Supporting Actor.
unlabelledView post →You’ve inherited a movie theater, what’s your first double feature? “Apocalypse Now” (1979) and “Full Metal Jacket” (1987)
unlabelledView post →Ewok Full Metal Jacket is a film I’d watch.
unlabelledView post →Kevyn Major Howard, who played Rafterman, a Marine and a Stars and Stripes combat photographer in the 1987 film “Full Metal Jacket,” has died at age 69. www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
unlabelledView post →Add one word to a film to ruin it. Full Metal Jacket Potato
unlabelledView post →Considering the 32-year gap between song and movie, if they made Full Metal Jacket today, the Mickey Mouse Club song would instead be Hakuna Matata
unlabelledView post →Mooched around Lytham: bought dvd* of Full Metal Jacket in a charity shop. A film I wanted to show to daughter, so that'll be a fun pre-Christmas family movie night. We don't decorate until 23rd. Now we've good reason: would you watch that amidst jolly Santas & stuff? *don't understand streaming.
unlabelledView post →Full Metal Jacket is a movie with an iconic first act and then the rest of the movie is FINE but it also publicly legitimized Adam Baldwin as a serious actor, which was an unforced error that irreparably damaged society and we've been paying for ever since.
unlabelledView post →Vincent D’onofrio also has an iconic moment with the infamous 'Kubrick Stare' (in the film Full Metal Jacket); Taika as Ed has a similar expression in OFMD s1 right before he tosses Lucius overboard +
unlabelledView post →Sure – I love Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, Saving Private Ryan - but I guess I’d have to say my favorite war movie is the last third of the novel Watership Down.
unlabelledView post →The personal archive of Stanley #Kubrick goes on sale next February in an auction at Bonhams in London. Hundreds of items from The Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Barry Lyndon, Spartacus, Full Metal Jacket, and Eyes Wide Shut. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oc... #Filmsky 📽️
unlabelledView post →I was actually looking forward to Delta, but... damn. That looks... ROUGH from a cinematic perspective. They got the basics of the props and general mise-en-scene, but the color, lighting, framing... it all feels "off." Like a film school student trying to recreate Breathless or Full Metal Jacket.
unlabelledView post →6/17/87: Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket [Our guide to SK: midcenturycinema.org/node/154] More: Modine reflects: www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie... @branyan.bsky.social / @loudandclearrvs.bsky.social: loudandclearreviews.com/full-metal-j... Gregory Wakeman: www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
unlabelledView post →Full Metal Jacket was one of the first, if not the actual first, realistic Vietnam movie
unlabelledView post →#NovemberMovieChallenge #Moviesky featuring Marines Full Metal Jacket (1987) Director: Stanley Kubrick
unlabelledView post →Caitríona ofc picks her fav film: Full Metal Jacket and says “Talk to your people at IMax, there. Let’s hook it up!” #CaitríonaBalfe and Laurence Fishburne on “If you could experience any movie in iMax…” 🎥 Edited and reposted from imax
unlabelledView post →Dead people. Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits for people whose work touched my life, because I want to say thanks, or maybe give 'em a final fuck you.There’ll be a roundup like this occasionally, until I’m on the list myself. • **[Clive Billenness](https://churchabuse.uk/2025/02/18/in-memory-of-clive-billeness/)** Church of England victim's advocate • **[Rick…
unlabelledView post →On this night (31st March) in 1990, the Scala Cinema was showing Apocalypse Now (1979), Good Morning Vietnam (1987), Platoon (1986) and Full Metal Jacket (1987) as a Vietnam all-nighter.
unlabelledView post →Full Metal Jacket is a Christmas movie
unlabelledView post →I've always found it fascinating how many people joined the military after watching the profoundly anti-war film Full Metal Jacket and deciding that's something they would like to do.
unlabelledView post →Full Metal Jacket. But I don't know which is worse; the type of guy who never served and idolizes this movie, or the type that actually saw war, and still love this movie.
unlabelledView post →I decided to lay down and put on a movie and relax. So I’m five minutes into Full Metal Jacket and my eyes have popped out of my skull.
unlabelledView post →Greek film poster for Stanley Kubrick's FULL METAL JACKET (1987) Cast: Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio
unlabelledView post →6/17/87: Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket [Our guide to SK: midcenturycinema.org/node/154 New documentary: deadline.com/2025/10/matt... More: @blankcheck.bsky.social: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f... Modine reflects: www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
unlabelledView post →Getting the rights to remake both Full Metal Jacket and Predator, combining them into one movie with the first half of FMJ leading into Predator, and releasing it as a remake of Apocalypse Now
unlabelledView post →39 years ago today, Full Metal Jacket came out. I was in the audience at my local cinema that night (yes, I’m old). What folks may not know is, while ostensibly an adaptation of THE SHORTIMERS, how much the film took from DISPATCHES as well. The movie gets better & better every time you see it.
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