Siskel and Ebert: Full Metal Jacket

Siskel and Ebert review Full Metal Jacket staring Matthew Modine

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• vietnam

[ramonalejandrosuare]

Siskel got the movie. Ebert totally misses the layers of subtext working in FMJ, especially the sniper scene. The point was to show how impotent the marines were in the face of an enemy they could neither see nor understand. Their entire training up to that point taught them to be desensitized killing machines. A single sniper turns them into frightened children. The only response was to rush into possible death without abandon. It painted a picture so visceral and at the heart of what war is.

[Markfly]

God, Ebert is a retard. And I mean that with full respect to people that are actually retarded.

[chachidog10]

Best war movie ever.

[MrKUBRICKIAN]

I love the way kubrick staged the battle scenes.What ebert said about platoon making a true anti-war film,by how the action was staged?Couldn't be more wrong.Because it was kubrick who truly defies truffaut by how he stages it in Full Metal Jacket.He shows battle that comes out of nowhere,but are short,brutal and scary.But also with the sniper,making it long,grueling,scary and just downright cruel.And no hollywood,no phony characters(like everyone in platoon,mainly sheen),no cop out.Just truth.

[orphan2000]

I LOVE YOU EBERT

[SuperRichard2012]

Stanley Kubrick, knew he wasn't going to win the war of Best Movie in the theater of war time epics, but we all remember this very picture,...why? (That is the question!)

[ProfessorPabs]

These guys always completely miss the point, how the fuck do they keep their jobs?

[blackbtty123]

Ebert has made a career on blasting good movies. He dislikes this awesome film and then gives a crap film like The Phantom Menace 5 out of 5 stars.

[BatmanTheMaskedDemon]

if they were marines they would understand

[mrrusss]

How can you compare Platoon to Full Metal Jacket? And how can you not feel the first half of the movie as original and fascinating? Platoon was a decent movie, this was a classic. You can't just say he missed this one. If you have no perception of the good qualities of this movie, you have no business being a movie critic. It reminds me of someone trying to muddle through being a musician with academics when they have no ear and no feel for rhythm. Ebert sucks.

[MrKUBRICKIAN]

@ramonalejandrosuare I think the sniper is a perfect simile of the entire vietnam war.Lost,no strategy(like the u.s policy itself),nothing is gained but young men dying needlessly.It shows it meant nothing,because vietnam meant nothing.