Full Metal Jacket - What a stupid movie

[IJump]

FMJ is one of the few movies that I have heard almost exclusively positive comments coming from the military community. That is the true test of a military/war movie, how the soldiers/sailors/airmen/marines feel about it.

I feel FMJ accurately portrays the confusion and chaos that often occurs in the military, especially during conflict/war.

If you don't feel it is a good movie, so be it. But it is as accurate as I have seen and the emotions and feelings portrayed are about as reals as it gets.

 

[SirFshAlot]

He performed a demonstration on videotape in which he yelled obscene insults and abuse non-stop for fifteen minutes without stopping, repeating himself, or even flinching - despite being continuously pelted with tennis balls and oranges

that's not the way he told it himself on the documentary Sarge on either the History channel or Discovery

in the personal interview, he said that they recorded him doing a routine, ad lib, and then they would take the good stuff and put it in the script

I found it interesting when he explained that during that war they didn't have time for pushups, etc. to get the men disciplined, so they had to resort to physical means, i.e. punching, to mete out punishment.

 

[GasX]

I'd love to see that documentary.