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re: Full Metal Jacket - Do you like the first or second half better?
Posted on 1/23/12 at 6:43 pm to GregMaddux
Posted on 1/23/12 at 6:43 pm to GregMaddux
Agree, the first half is pretty unique, the second is good, but also just like other war movies.
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Posted on 1/23/12 at 7:22 pm to GregMaddux
first half fo sho however I do use a lot of Animal Mutha quotes from time to time 
Posted on 1/23/12 at 10:54 pm to GregMaddux
I like the third quarter of it best. The first half is great and very entertaining but I know a bunch of guys that made it through that.
I like the second half, up to the sniper killing, better. I really liked the parts in Nam better from the kid stealing the camera and the the reunion with Cowboy scenes to the "too beaucoup" and "Ya just don't lead em as much" ones.
Minus the Gomer Pyle ending of the first half FMJ was just a grittier x-rated version of the U.S. based part of Stripes with Emery added.
I loved the Tet shite sandwich meeting, the Colonel's "“Why don't you jump on the team and come on in for the big win" speech and the "All he needs is somebody throw hand granades at him the rest of his life".
I loved all of the subtle political jokes. The stuff like, "they sort of took away our freedom and gave it to the, to the gookers, you know. But they don't want it. They'd rather be alive than free, I guess. Poor dumb bastards".
I'm an old F'ck that lived through Walter Cronkite giving the death count on the six o'clock news so all of that means something more than a joke to me. I heard my dad calling the demonstrators hippie cowards. I saw Nixon have them arrested.
The "Be glad to trade you some ARVIN rifles. Ain't never been fired and only dropped once" line should be relevant to today's soldier in the Middle East. The Colonel's line about being here to help the Vietnamese, "because inside every asian there is an American trying to get out" is the same story we've been told about Iraq and Afghanistan. We're just helping them establish a democracy. It's the same shite sandwich all over again.
The ending had to be depressing and uncomfortable because war is that way.
I like the second half, up to the sniper killing, better. I really liked the parts in Nam better from the kid stealing the camera and the the reunion with Cowboy scenes to the "too beaucoup" and "Ya just don't lead em as much" ones.
Minus the Gomer Pyle ending of the first half FMJ was just a grittier x-rated version of the U.S. based part of Stripes with Emery added.
I loved the Tet shite sandwich meeting, the Colonel's "“Why don't you jump on the team and come on in for the big win" speech and the "All he needs is somebody throw hand granades at him the rest of his life".
I loved all of the subtle political jokes. The stuff like, "they sort of took away our freedom and gave it to the, to the gookers, you know. But they don't want it. They'd rather be alive than free, I guess. Poor dumb bastards".
I'm an old F'ck that lived through Walter Cronkite giving the death count on the six o'clock news so all of that means something more than a joke to me. I heard my dad calling the demonstrators hippie cowards. I saw Nixon have them arrested.
The "Be glad to trade you some ARVIN rifles. Ain't never been fired and only dropped once" line should be relevant to today's soldier in the Middle East. The Colonel's line about being here to help the Vietnamese, "because inside every asian there is an American trying to get out" is the same story we've been told about Iraq and Afghanistan. We're just helping them establish a democracy. It's the same shite sandwich all over again.
The ending had to be depressing and uncomfortable because war is that way.
Posted on 1/23/12 at 11:20 pm to chinese58
interesting post
one obvious thing that has somehow not been pointed out so far is how important a certain R Lee Ermy was to the first half of the movie
He is simply one of the greatest and most memorable characters in movie history and the film couldn't help but lose momentum when he was absent
A lot of the dialogue in the second half is outstanding but the imagery of the first half is more iconic IMO
one obvious thing that has somehow not been pointed out so far is how important a certain R Lee Ermy was to the first half of the movie
He is simply one of the greatest and most memorable characters in movie history and the film couldn't help but lose momentum when he was absent
A lot of the dialogue in the second half is outstanding but the imagery of the first half is more iconic IMO
Posted on 1/24/12 at 12:42 am to GregMaddux
by far I think that first half is better
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