Watch Full Metal Jacket | Netflix. From boot camp to the battlefield, Stanley Kubrick's classic follows a US Marine and his fellow soldiers as they're trained and sent to fight in Vietnam. Watch trailers & learn more.
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A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue. A two-segment look at the effect of the military mindset and war itself on Vietnam era Marines. The first half follows a group of recruits in boot camp under the command ...
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Stanley Kubrick's take on the Vietnam War follows smart-aleck Private Davis (Matthew Modine), quickly christened"Joker" by his foul-mouthed drill sergeant...
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Full Metal Jacket: Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey. A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
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Kubrick crafts a brilliant and powerful war film with exceptional cast and filmmaking. A sobering experience, the first half shows the result of stripping away individuality and turning a person into a weapon, and the second half displays what these dehumanized men become.
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Directed by Stanley Kubrick and was released on June 26, 1987, it's based on the novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford. The title refers to the full metal jacket bullet type of ammunition used by infantry riflemen.
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Full Metal Jacket. 116 minutes ‧ R ‧ 1987. Roger Ebert. June 26, 1987. 4 min read. Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket” is more like a book of short stories than a novel. Many of the passages seem self-contained, some of them are masterful and others look like they came out of the bottom drawer.
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Released in 1986, Full Metal Jacket is Stanley Kubrick's film about Vietnam, adapted from a novel by the reclusive and bitter Vietnam veteran Gustav Harford, and then further expanded by acclaimed Vietnam journalist Michael Herr.
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Director Stanley Kubrick rips the skin from the face of war to expose the dehumanizing effect of the military on the people fed to its emotional meat grinder in Full Metal Jacket.
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