As a Marine combat veteran of Vietnam, I found this movie to not only lack realism due to the phony scenery and the female sniper who kept coming back again and again after being shot. The brilliance of this film was the bootcamp scenes with Ronaid Lee Ermey. Never saw another movie that even close to Ermey's portrayal. I thought i was back at Parris Island .
As a Marine who found the Parris Island Sand Flea that D.I Gysgt Jack Webb wanted, I was most moved by President Trump standing up for America after being shot in the head by a Democrat. Education through Migrant Deportation. VOTE MAGA 26
Lots of the comments about when Platoon came out scared the shit out of you vets since many of them said that this was the closest thing to combat realism at the time. The best realism you saw in the movie about Vietnam was the Forrest Gump rice field ambush. Short fire fight and it came out of nowhere. When it came to R. Lee Ermey's portrayal he was a real life DI instructor during Vietnam and served there as well.
@@redmustangredmustang Yeah, the flick just scratched the service. You know as a vet that there were 3-4 drill instructors on us at all times, not one, Ermey was limited to a "movie" version... and there were a lot of other BS features, like Joker getting private one-on-one time with Pyle to help him with obstacles and such. Plus, we all know EVERYONE would have been getting the "Pyle" treatment, not just one guy.
As Marine infantryman 82 to 86 I was in when they filmed heartbreak ridge with Clint Eastwood in California but FMJ will always be my favorite cuz boot camp was so much the same in '82
78-82 USMC Veteran. This movie 37 years later still sends chills down my spine. From boot camp to experiences fellow Marines shared about Viet Nam years earlier. Very little fantasy in the movie. From “ Love you long time” to “ to BUKU “ $10 ass. The entire range of weapons we trained on to training simulated firing. But R. Lee Emery’s portrayal of a Marine DI was spot on down right pure real. From verbal abuse, to physical assaults. Wow, 37 years later, done that, never again.
I was a young Marine in 1987 and watched this movie in San Diego, CA i a theater. I had no idea that over the next 20 years I would witness exactly the situations these actors played out. I retired in 2011 after 3 major conflicts.
I was at 3rd tracks when it came out, Heartbreak ridge also we saw them filming parts of it by the beach and heard they filmed a lot of it at Horno. I don’t get the thumbnail of this video though what the fuck is it supposed to be. SEMPER FI
I graduated boot camp 15 July 1988. I had never heard of the movie. But the second I got home my Dad said “I have a movie we have to watch.” So I was literally just a few hours off the grinder when I saw this the first time. It was not what I wanted to watch at the time 😂 It’s since become a favorite of mine because of the realism of the first half. At the time I didn’t care for it because of the realism of the first half 😂
Gunny was a Little Bird pilot in Apocalypse Now as well. All the E’s in my unit saw this movie together. I was a SSG. We laughed our asses off with “ memories “
Whoever put this video clearly didn't do their homework. They said that Modine's "typecasting" in FMJ had a negative effect on his career, and lead to roles in Birdy and Vision Quest. Both of those movies came out in 1984 and 1985, well before FMJ (1987)!
The boys in company C was actually the originally movie, and full metal jacked was just a makeover. R.Lee Ermey played in both movies as the drill instructor. R. Lee Ermy deserve way more credit on his movie carreer. He was both an advisor and actor ( small role as a chopper pilot) in apocalypse now. The "boys in company C" was way more accurate than FMJ.
Tim Colceri, the door gunner, was originally supposed to play Sgt. Hartmann. R. Lee Ermey was only signed as a technical advisor. How he stole the role makes interesting reading, but there’s no denying that he nailed the part.They threw Colceri a bone with the door gunner cameo.
Not just that, Kubrick shot the movie out of sequence - he shot the Vietnam portions FIRST, the boot camp part second. Maybe because the actors including Joker would have to have their heads shaved for the boot camp half?
I was at MCRD San Diego in 1966. Looking back, I got the idea Lee Ermy was a DI in the 3rd div. Training near the airport in tents. I was in 2212, just off the grinder in the Quonset huts. When I got back from Nam in 1970, I was transferred to MCRD as E5 Sargent for PTSD before my forced exit. What a trip that was. All the huts were gone in 1970. The world had gone insane, and I didn't want to come back to the States.
Unbelievable that R. Lee Ermey was only 43 years old in FMJ because he looked more like he was in his mid 60s. I guess the military ages the body fast.
Listening to the AI narrator blow smoke about half the actors is hilarious. Sounds like a teenage high school student that didn’t read the book, giving their book report presentation 🤣
Where is "Rafterman?" Where is the Marine who propped up the dead NVA soldier in the battle of Hue City, and was remorseful that there would be "nobody worth killing" once they rotated back home? I really identify with him. Since I retired, there isn't anybody worth killing out here in the real world.
Doorgunner was awesome. An underrated character. By the way, Doc J and Eightball are wasted. Whatever happened to Me Love You Long Time? Should have given more time to Hand Job.😝
Dang, mass grave soldier and Hand Job were the only actors who's age actually reflected the age of those of Marine recruits back in the mid to late 60's and early 70's. Also every last one of these actors personal lives mirror that of manic depressive types.
Who ever put this together needs to get their facts straight. Most of what being said about these actors life are soooo not true. I know I played Donlon the Radioman in the second half of the film.
Why is it each of these guys are some kind of victim during their childhood? That combined with their adult activism of some brand? Sorry, kinda tired of all that.
As a Marine combat veteran of Vietnam, I found this movie to not only lack realism due to the phony scenery and the female sniper who kept coming back again and again after being shot.
The brilliance of this film was the bootcamp scenes with Ronaid Lee Ermey. Never saw another movie that even close to Ermey's portrayal.
I thought i was back at Parris Island .
As a Marine who found the Parris Island Sand Flea that D.I Gysgt Jack Webb wanted, I was most moved by President Trump standing up for America after being shot in the head by a Democrat. Education through Migrant Deportation. VOTE MAGA 26
@waynemichaelchuck4078 When did the female sniper come back after being shot? She laid there and begged them to shoot her.
Lots of the comments about when Platoon came out scared the shit out of you vets since many of them said that this was the closest thing to combat realism at the time. The best realism you saw in the movie about Vietnam was the Forrest Gump rice field ambush. Short fire fight and it came out of nowhere. When it came to R. Lee Ermey's portrayal he was a real life DI instructor during Vietnam and served there as well.
@@redmustangredmustang Yeah, the flick just scratched the service. You know as a vet that there were 3-4 drill instructors on us at all times, not one, Ermey was limited to a "movie" version... and there were a lot of other BS features, like Joker getting private one-on-one time with Pyle to help him with obstacles and such.
Plus, we all know EVERYONE would have been getting the "Pyle" treatment, not just one guy.
As Marine infantryman 82 to 86 I was in when they filmed heartbreak ridge with Clint Eastwood in California but FMJ will always be my favorite cuz boot camp was so much the same in '82
78-82 USMC Veteran. This movie 37 years later still sends chills down my spine. From boot camp to experiences fellow Marines shared about Viet Nam years earlier. Very little fantasy in the movie. From “ Love you long time” to “ to BUKU “ $10 ass. The entire range of weapons we trained on to training simulated firing. But R. Lee Emery’s portrayal of a Marine DI was spot on down right pure real. From verbal abuse, to physical assaults. Wow, 37 years later, done that, never again.
My favorite Adam Baldwin role is when he played Ricky Linderman in My Bodyguard. Great movie!
Full Metal Jacket is one of my favorite movies.
I was a young Marine in 1987 and watched this movie in San Diego, CA i a theater. I had no idea that over the next 20 years I would witness exactly the situations these actors played out. I retired in 2011 after 3 major conflicts.
I was in boot camp at MCRD when it was released.
Bless you, brother. Semper Fi. Oooorah!
@@thedesertfox77 SFMF
I was at 3rd tracks when it came out, Heartbreak ridge also we saw them filming parts of it by the beach and heard they filmed a lot of it at Horno. I don’t get the thumbnail of this video though what the fuck is it supposed to be. SEMPER FI
Saw this movie just before I shipped out to Parris Island summer of 87. 17 year old undisciplined kid from NY lol Semper Fi
I noticed one glaring omission was Kevin Major-Howard who played Rafterman, Jokers fellow Marine reporter and sidekick in Vietnam
*Raptorman
@HotThrobbingBrain ok thanks
Did Raptorman play in Death Wish?
@jamespmullin21753 Yes he was one of the thugs Bronson killed in the film
@@jamespmullin21753 he also was in 1 of the dirty harry movies
I graduated boot camp 15 July 1988. I had never heard of the movie. But the second I got home my Dad said “I have a movie we have to watch.” So I was literally just a few hours off the grinder when I saw this the first time. It was not what I wanted to watch at the time 😂 It’s since become a favorite of mine because of the realism of the first half. At the time I didn’t care for it because of the realism of the first half 😂
Thanks for the resume of the Life of actors
That was an awesome movie. Many more people should have been recognized.
Incredibly movie!!!!!!
Gunny was a Little Bird pilot in Apocalypse Now as well. All the E’s in my unit saw this movie together. I was a SSG. We laughed our asses off with “ memories “
You all did Matt Modine an injustice by making this video. He has had several leading roles in film, to include "Memphis Bell". Great Actor.
Vision Quest .
Whoever put this video clearly didn't do their homework. They said that Modine's "typecasting" in FMJ had a negative effect on his career, and lead to roles in Birdy and Vision Quest.
Both of those movies came out in 1984 and 1985, well before FMJ (1987)!
R Lee Emmy they forgot he was drill Sgt in “The boys in Company C” Vietnam movie in the 70’s
Drill instructor
He was in Mississippi Burning too, great film!
the doorgunner was supposed to be the DI and ermey took it and the rest is history!
The boys in company C was actually the originally movie, and full metal jacked was just a makeover. R.Lee Ermey played in both movies as the drill instructor. R. Lee Ermy deserve way more credit on his movie carreer. He was both an advisor and actor ( small role as a chopper pilot) in apocalypse now. The "boys in company C" was way more accurate than FMJ.
You did Modine wrong with that thumbnail yo 😂💀
Tim Colceri, the door gunner, was originally supposed to play Sgt. Hartmann. R. Lee Ermey was only signed as a technical advisor. How he stole the role makes interesting reading, but there’s no denying that he nailed the part.They threw Colceri a bone with the door gunner cameo.
What happened to the "ME LOVE YOU LONG TIME" girl?
Loved herself to death…
She's around still
She still coughs. 😂
Owner of a successful restaurant near you
SHE GOT FUCKED TO DEATH
You forgot about Papillon Soo Soo, the me love you long time girl and Ngoc Le the sniper girl
@@SammyHoliday Thanks for mentioning her. She was hot.
I went through Navy boot camp in ‘65 and our DI was a guy much like Sgt. Hartman in Full Metal Jacket.
Don't forget about Ronald Lee Ermey's voiceover work during the Toy Story movies. One of those that Arliss Howard was married to was Debra Winger.
Sgt Hartman My Fav Character 😂
I remember Bruce Boa as an American officer in Octopussy, and as a guest in Fawlty Towers, Waldorf salad, "I'm sorry, we're out of waldorfs".
The first half of FMJ was so completely different from the second half that it didn't even seem like it was directed by a same director.
Not just that, Kubrick shot the movie out of sequence - he shot the Vietnam portions FIRST, the boot camp part second. Maybe because the actors including Joker would have to have their heads shaved for the boot camp half?
Little known fact....R. Lee Ermey appeared in Apocalypse Now. In Apocalypse Now, Ermey played a Loach pilot during helicopter assault scene.
Yeah I remember that too.
Sad E Lee Ermey died. Pneumonia is no joke. It can take down even the strongest of men which sadly he died of.
I was at MCRD San Diego in 1966. Looking back, I got the idea Lee Ermy was a DI in the 3rd div. Training near the airport in tents. I was in 2212, just off the grinder in the Quonset huts.
When I got back from Nam in 1970, I was transferred to MCRD as E5 Sargent for PTSD before my forced exit. What a trip that was. All the huts were gone in 1970. The world had gone insane, and I didn't want to come back to the States.
The best part is E Lee Ermey was the real thing. DI instructor during Vietnam and served in combat as well.
Unbelievable that R. Lee Ermey was only 43 years old in FMJ because he looked more like he was in his mid 60s. I guess the military ages the body fast.
Payback wasnt a field marine in Full Metal Jacket. He was a military reporter.
Listening to the AI narrator blow smoke about half the actors is hilarious. Sounds like a teenage high school student that didn’t read the book, giving their book report presentation 🤣
@@johnnyg632yeah, that’s why I referred to it as an AI narrator…
I was born in 1987😇
Matthew Modine was awesome in Memphis Belle too.
" Gunny" ❗
Semper Fidelis ❗❤️🔥🇺🇸🫡🙏🏼
Where is "Rafterman?" Where is the Marine who propped up the dead NVA soldier in the battle of Hue City, and was remorseful that there would be "nobody worth killing" once they rotated back home? I really identify with him. Since I retired, there isn't anybody worth killing out here in the real world.
I agree
Doorgunner was awesome. An underrated character. By the way, Doc J and Eightball are wasted. Whatever happened to Me Love You Long Time? Should have given more time to Hand Job.😝
they took jelly doughnuts from the mess hall
2 failed marriages seems to be the key to further troubles!.......
Yea called loss of assets and alimony.
Dang, mass grave soldier and Hand Job were the only actors who's age actually reflected the age of those of Marine recruits back in the mid to late 60's and early 70's. Also every last one of these actors personal lives mirror that of manic depressive types.
Yeah....where was Rafterman and Crazy Earl? Instead you put in two dudes that were extras...
I have 2 GSD's. One was named after R. Lee Ermy. "The Gunny".
Clickbait con artist. You are reported.
There is nothing more that I detest than CLICKBAIT
Matthew Modine was also in the Batman movie.
Who ever put this together needs to get their facts straight. Most of what being said about these actors life are soooo not true. I know I played Donlon the Radioman in the second half of the film.
There were no "soldiers" in this film.
Marine Corps RAH. WE ARE NOT SOLDIERS
R. Lee Ermey was…
@artabenzie-youssef4782 No, he wasn't, he was a Marine.
Why do they insist on putting up click bait thumbnails?
Just another channel I put on the "do not recommend list"
What's with the Thumbnail?
Clickbait
Long video to show only 3 died all others are alive 🎉
Um these guy all suffered PTSD bad marriage, depression and financial issue.
PTSD???
This is A.I.generated
Click bait
2:10 the pogue colonel. It's pogue pronounced like rogue...with a p.
Really, really negative takes on every one of these people. Totally reductionist.
You had to been there to understand. Pltmd
"Lives away from the lime light" aka unemployed.
Your cookie cutter narrative is hollow.
Bot junk. Next, please.
Where is Rafterman??? Hand job dead, sad...
Click bait video
Why is it each of these guys are some kind of victim during their childhood? That combined with their adult activism of some brand?
Sorry, kinda tired of all that.
Junior highschool level writing and a truly annoying AI narration...🙄
The scenes of life at Parris Island were great but the rest of the movie was bullshit and poorly acted
Talking nonsense private joker and pile are really successful actors you need to do more research. AI Talking verbal diahhoera
What ever happened to the Vietnam women they sausage slammed
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