Watching Full Metal Jacket for the hundredth time right now...

[Solon]

Looking through my old tapes, and this one still works, I need to get the DVD, the BEST anti-war movie ever!

[NNadir]

1. Wow. I couldn't sit through it even once.

[Solon]

5. I know its a hard movie to see...

but it is definately worth it. I imagine if I'm ever drafted I would be like Joker, though it would a peace sign and a DU sticker on my helmet!

[izzie]

8. Watch 'Path of Glory"

[American Tragedy]

9. Paths of Glory almost made me cry

and no film has ever done that to me. The last scene when the German girl sings and the soldiers hum along and start to weep... absolutely devastating.

[ixion]

2. yep, I would agree

and one of Kubrick's best, IMO, as well.

[Cooley Hurd]

3. "What is your major malfunction, soldier?"

Blam! Blam! Blam!

Gives me chills just thinking about that scene...

[izzie]

4. This guy makes very interesting movies.

What a wild mind he had.

[nine23]

6. Stanley Kubrick is my fave director of all time. Just my opinion.

(Apologies to Martin Scorsese and Akira Kurosawa, both tied for my second place)

My partner just HINTED that she got me "Paths of Glory" for a stocking stuffer this Christmas. That will complete my "DVD format crossover" of Kubrick's entire career from VHS. A NECESSITY IN ANY FILM HOUSEHOLD.

[AngryAmish]

7. R. Lee Earmy - Gunnery Sgt. Hartman was on the radio yesterday

He said he wrote all his parts in boot camp.

"I like you. I want you to come to my house and fuck my sister."

[American Tragedy]

10. WHAT'S YOUR NAME SCUMBAG?

My computer screams that at me whenever I log into windows. It used to scare the hell out of my roommate.

[HamdenRice]

11. I really don't like that movie ...

It has not worn well compared to the other VN movies of the time. To be fair, the basic training part is excellent. I usually turn it off after that.

Kubrick's two problems are that he didn't like to travel and that he has a cold, detached, formalist style of direction. Because he didn't like to travel, he shot the VN parts of the movie in an abandoned industrial park in England, with a few potted palms. There are virtually no VN people and the set looks utterly phoney. I guess I appreciate some realism in my movies. Somehow I think Kubrick's representation of VN is insulting to Asian countries -- as though the people and country really don't matter.

The other thing I don't like about it is the stilted, formalist way the soldiers talk. They are standing over a wounded sniper, debating whether to kill her and doing bad John Wayne immitations???? And I just hate the ending when they sing a disney tune as they march through a phoney destroyed town.

I think the best VN movies are Platoon and Born on the 4th of July. Stone was there and he really shows us, who were not there, what it must have been like.

[mattclearing]

13. Amen to Born on the 4th of July.

I'm not a fan of war movies, so it is fitting that one of my favorite war movies focuses not on war so much as consequences.

[oneighty]

14. Disney tune

was the EXPLANATION point of the whole movie. The Mickey Mouse Club Generation fighting a Mickey Mouse war. IMHO

Did you read the very short book? "The Short Timers"?

180

[Clinton Crusader]

12. why aren't you stomping private pyle's guts out??

It's an amazing piece of film..

[Ravenseye]

15. Any ACCURATE War Movie is an Anti-War Movie.

one where you don't see bodies exploding and where John Waynish figures stagger around witha six shooter are not accurate.

The first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan should be enough to convince any sane person that war is never a reasonable response to anything but ACTUAL self-defense.

[JitterbugPerfume]

16. I watched FMJ recently

at the urging of a good friend

I thought it was a riviting anti war movie

What happened to Gomer was a little TO real <sigh>

there is no such a thing as a "good" war

[StopTheMorans]

17. M-I-C. K-E-Y, MOUSE, MICKEY MOUSE! MICKEY MOUSE!

I love that movie:D

[Swede]

18. Happy birthday dear Jesus,happy birthday to you.

They fucked those kids' heads up.

[name not needed]

19. Pyle, you climb obstacles like old people fuck!

I love that movie.

[arwalden]

20. Music/SFX Question....

I wonder what "instrument" was used to make the metallic creaking/groaning sound effects during Private Pyle's murder/suicide scene. They used the same haunting musical effect during the final moments of the VC sniper's "shoot me" scene.