Full Metal Jacket | Adam Baldwin, Bruce Boa | Finally a widescreen version

Full Metal Jacket | Adam Baldwin, Bruce Boa | what is not your malfunction

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Full Metal Jacket

	Full Metal Jacket Adam Baldwin, Bruce Boa Warner Home Video, 1999 average customer review:based on 458 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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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Finally a widescreen version

I have previously owned the standard definition DVD of Full Metal Jacket and only purchased it because I was unable to find a wide screen version. Well, the HD-DVD version is now available and is exactly what I wanted. It is shown in it's widescreen glory, and the image quality is crystal clear in the high def format. The sound quality is first rate as well. If you purchased an HD-DVD player as I did, this is a great addition to your movie collection.

what is not your malfunction

This is the best vietnam movie out there. The Bootcamp is the best ever done. Too this day you dont see another bootcamp scene like this.

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FULL METAL BLU-RAY

Just like the original. Just what i expected. this is the one with the better features GET THIS VERSION. the Hi-Def on older movies is a tough thing to get looking and sounding good. they did pretty good with this one.

Metal Jacket BD

Good Nam War movie a must have if you're a fan of military conflict action style movies. Good video and sound track quality, good one to replace VHS copy or start new Blu-ray libery for action flicks.

HD-DVD only review

After seeing what the new technology can do to the visual quality of another Vietnam film 30+ years old (The Deer Hunter), I was disappointed in how this presentation of FMJ looked in hi-def. It almost looks like the SD (standard def) disc was "dubbed" and simply relabeled "HD"; much of the first half of the film looks over-exposed & washed out, esp. scenes in the barracks. In addition there is NOTHING extra included in the HD disc vs. the disc! No commentaries, no deleted scenes, nothing! As large & diverse as this ensemble cast was, surely Warner Brothers could have found at least ONE of the actors to provide some much-needed insight on how this film was made & the feelings of the cast on-set.

I hope the "deluxe" HD-DVD package brings more to the table than this one...it wouldn't be difficult at all.

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