Full Metal Jacket (1987)
When Stanley Kubrick decides to throw his hat into the Vietnam War genre you have to pay attention. Full Metal Jacket (1987) is a cinematic masterpiece like no other movie its type. The BTW team head to boot camp to discuss Full Metal Jacket!
Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 Vietnam War movie directed by Stanley Kubrick. This is a Vietnam Movie like no other that follows the recruits from the hellish days of boot camp at Parriss Island to the killing fields of Vietnam. No movie had shown the life of a recruit and the boot camp hell they endured before and Full Metal Jacket certainly pulled no punches.
Led by their brutal Gunnery Sargent Hartman, recruits, Joker, Pyle and Cowboy find out that war certainly is hell and that is even before you set foot on enemy soil. This is a movie of two very distinct parts with the first half being set in boot camp, this is an almost flawless 50 minutes of movie making as Kubrick takes you inside the minds of the marines in training. The second half takes place in Vietnam and whilst it never quite lives up to the first half of the movie it's brilliant nonetheless.
This is a long time favourite of the BTW team and we had a ball revisiting it. We hope you enjoy the episode as much as we did recording it.
Led by their brutal Gunnery Sargent Hartman, recruits, Joker, Pyle and Cowboy find out that war certainly is hell and that is even before you set foot on enemy soil. This is a movie of two very distinct parts with the first half being set in boot camp, this is an almost flawless 50 minutes of movie making as Kubrick takes you inside the minds of the marines in training. The second half takes place in Vietnam and whilst it never quite lives up to the first half of the movie it's brilliant nonetheless.
This is a long time favourite of the BTW team and we had a ball revisiting it. We hope you enjoy the episode as much as we did recording it.
