Full Metal Jacket (1987)

TheHonestFilmFan on 9/15/2014 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

It's like rain on your wedding day!

Eagleskywalker87 on 11/5/2017 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

I'm with you on that one. Tonally and structurally inconsistent and it feels like a collection of unfunny sketches that don't connet with each other instead of a complete film!
The last scene with the sniper proves my point. It starts as a comedy sketch AND THEN it becomes the climax of the film out of nowhere AND THEN it becomes overly serious out of nowhere and there was no transition to get to those places!
Even the first 45 minutes that everyone loves was very repetitive and meant nothing at the end! My least favourite Kubrick movie by far!

TommyDoyle2016 on 4/20/2020 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

Love how you're so argumentative, @The27Arsenal. A really, really intellectual movie buff that always proves his point. Bravo!

Rick_34_Blaine on 10/6/2020 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

Nobody cares to convince you of anything.

Crapbaskets123 on 8/3/2022 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

The sniper scene is probably the best in the whole movie. It starts off comedic because they've beaten the sniper. Obviously, they're celebrating. Then it takes a much darker turn once they start arguing on what to do with her. Leave her to rot or put her out of her misery? It isn't out of nowhere, it follows a simple 3 act structure and brilliantly changes tone along with changing subject as well.


As for the first 45 minutes, it's sad that you misunderstood that section. It's based on the actual meaning of this movie being how people lose themselves in war, which is shown a lot in the second half of the movie. The first section shows the dehuminization of the people there, and the loss of innocence in the form of Leonard Lawrence. He starts off like an innocent child and becomes a monster, and nearly everyone in the film mirrors this in the second half, just in different ways. From people gleefully mowing down civilians, to even the name Animal Mother and the way they view fighting in the war, to the ending itself of them trying to rediscover their humanity.

The film also shows the foolish dichotomy, albeit a bit too briefly for my liking, of peace and war, of how people expect to be killing machines but also lovers of peace, and that final scene shows this to a brilliant degree.

But fundamentally, it's a scene to show at least the slightest glimmer of humanity in Joker's character.