Full Metal Jacket (1987) | MOVIE REACTION | FIRST TIME WATCHING
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This was my first time Stephane saw Full Metal Jacket. Tough watch but great movie!
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As Im sure others have mentioned, Sgt Hartman was played by R. Lee Ermey. He was a real Marine Corps Drill Instructor. Most of his lines were from real life experiences. The man was an animal!! RIP R Lee Ermey, you are a Legend.
If I could have joined the marines this is how I would want tobe trained not like how they are trained today. Heard now recruits got a white flag if they are being yelled at or targeted by an instructor. Lol. Think in battle that white flag will stop someone from shooting you? Lol
@freespirit9981 that is bullshit, recruits do NOT get "time out cards", etc. They still get smoked, wore out, etc
@@rayclark474I heard the recruits have stress cards they can just hold up if they get yelled at and the DI has to stop. If that's true, that's not training to fight. I was in the Army 86-92. The DIs weren't this bad but you got all the offers you wanted to get your ass whooped if you puffed up on the Drill Sgts.
@BoxerRick urban myth, I have heard the same bullshit, and it is absolutely not true. The only thing that has changed in boot relatively recently is now after the Crucible and they are handed their Eagle, Globe, and Anchor they have added a week to help the new Marines adjust to being Marines and they have access to cell phones in that final week before graduation.
another fun fact: Tim Colceri was originally meant to play Sgt. Hartman, but R. Lee Ermey replaced him after giving Kubrick 30 minutes of completly improvised insults. Tim Colceri still ended up in the film although with a much more minor role, playing the Door Gunner.
My father was a Marine. He was at boot camp in the early 60's. He told me this was the most realistic depiction of boot camp he'd ever seen in a movie.
As a 1972 former active duty Marine, this is accurate, actually, there would be two or three other assistant DIs doing the same thing at the same time.
@@F-14_Jockey Were they allowed to put their hands on you?
@@Fr33man1988Nope haha, been told the story so much they were never rlly allowed to but they sure damn well did it anyway
@@Fr33man1988 who’s gonna tell anyone? Semper Fidelis (Always Faithful) nobody who’s supposed to be there is running to mom saying “he slapped me he slapped me”. Little slap and tickle.. no factor.
Yea, my dad also served as a Marine in Vietnam from 69-71. He loved this movie specifically for the fact of the first part. It was (basicaly as the original person who posted said) the most realistic boot camp he has ever seen in a movie.
He absolutely enjoyed R. Lee Ermey who was not just an actor, but a US Marine drill instructor and Gunnery Sargent who served in Vietnam as well. Most of the dialog Mr. Ermey came up with himself after convincing Stanley Kubrick to actually just have Mr. Ermey do the acting instead of the original actor! 😅
Everybody knows that the bird is the word. Peter Griffin ruined it for me 😂
If you pay attention when Pyle is shooting he ejects an “empty” magazine that still has rounds in it onto the ground beside him while Hartman is talking to him 18:39 and that’s how he got live rounds into the barracks
I always thought it was just a mistake in filming, never looked at it that way
Thanks for making this movie even better after all these years
Fark, clever man! Now that is attention to detail from the film makers... ✌😄
#1 The rifles were turned back to the armory days before graduation. You had three DIs plus three PMIs and they counted every round.
@georgeconway4360 bingo. They count every round, and every rifle is cleaned and turned in.
@@curtism-w6b That is what I said. I did it in the summer of 1965. There was also no E7s as senior DIs, they were all E6 and the Jr DIs were E5, or E4.
Pyle had leearning disabilities but the military didn't care they needed soldiers.
Called the draft. Its coming back.
Pyle is clearly on the spectrum and/or mentally slow. There's also a really great press conference with vets, that describe atrocities, they or others committed. It's even worse to stomach than this and you can see where Kubrick got a lot of ideas. Very anti-war movie.
I have seen bits and pieces of that press conference. It was rough to watch.
Whether or not Pyle is on the spectrum is besides the point. All of these young men are forced to grow up very quickly. In order to grow up under these conditions, one must destroy the child that they were. The Pyle character is intended to represent that child. Joker is stuck in between child and soldier until he literally kills a child in the climax of the film.
Pyle was probably not “on the spectrum,” he was just very mentally slow. During the early years of Vietnam, McNamara instituted “Project 100,000” which recruited soldiers whose low IQs would have disallowed them from service in earlier eras. It became known as “McNamara’s Morons.” In combat, those low-IQ recruits were killed at disproportionate rates.
It’s not unrealistic that Pyle would be in the military, but it is unrealistic that he would become an ace marksman, as marksmanship is actually a very IQ-intensive skill.
My bad, I'm not clued up on terminology, but yeah, that's what I was going for. I made an edit.@@billdouglas8701
@@billdouglas8701If we're retrospecting it to fit the movie then the fact he had that one ability as a marksman would fit an autistic individual. But I'm not sure that was the creator's intention.
Animal Mother throws a lot of racist terms around. But I like pointing out the fact that he was one of the first ones ready to go to save the two black dudes that got shot by the sniper.
That's the way the world used to be when I grew up in it. I'm 50 years old and we would screw with each other even though we were friends. People weren't so sensitive about that kind of stuff back then even more so back then before my time.
And it wasn't just black white it was anything Italians would mess with the Irish and vice versa, your ethnic background was a source of humor if you knew how to take the jokes right.
There's a world of difference between mocking a stereotype and reinforcing a stereotype and that level of humor has gone away in the modern world with all this hypersensitive stuff.
To be clear it's not stuff you just throw at people that you don't know, you got to be friends before you could start doing stuff like that.
Fucking A-Men!!! Back when we had testicles!! I miss those days man and I’m 38! How tf did we grow up on Married W/Children; South Park; In living Color etc; become so damn sensitive?!?
@@comedianhaze1619 by the time I was 10 years old in 1983 I had already memorized The Blues Brothers. When I was 9 years old in 82 my cousin showed me the Exorcist they were one of the first to have a VCR in the family an old beta back when video tapes cost $100 a piece or more.
This was just a little platform for you to spew your "the world is falling apart because I got older and don't even know what 'fleek' means" nonsense, wasn't it? Did it make you feel better, that you "expressed" yourself?
In the time which this movie was set, hippies, and Black civil rights activists weren't just considered "sensitive," but actual insurgent threats by Hoover's FBI, desegregation was still controversial and actively resisted in many states, the proportions of Black kids drafted into the war (who couldn't buy their way out by their family sending them to college) were epidemically rising, Black churches were being bombed and burned, killing children, redlining was still an overt thing in Real Estate, even White married women couldn't even get a credit card in their own name, much less a black woman.
Some freaking "Utopia" you're describing, friendo. Get over your own experiences as your "Window to the World," and learn some actual history.
@@comedianhaze1619 This scenes are supposed to show reality, not to be cool. People were real racist back that time, however today people don't want to suffer racism and be chill. Racism is not sensitive.
Thank you sir I thought there weren't any of us left..why can't they see that we are all Americans and there's nothing wrong with being proud of being free and being willing to fight for it along side your brothers white and black...54 yo black man from wash. D.C.
31:58 - Yup! You nailed it. Probably didn't even realize it. Animal Mother was written as Private Pyle, had Private Pyle not unalived himself. Had he been mentally a bit stronger. It's literally the same character.
Everytime I watch this movie, it's giving me minor flashbacks to my time in the German Navy (back when the whole system wasn't as watered down as it is today). I was pretty much a "Private Pyle" when it came to PT exercises, although thankfully being smart and skilled enough with everything else to not actually be a "bully target" for others. One day we ran an obstacle course, much like here @09:07, and since I also had a knee injury at the time (which I had kept quiet about; I didn't wanna fall behind on classes and thought it would go away on its own soon enough) I had a really _really_ hard time keeping up. At the end of the day, our instructor called me into his office and I was expecting the absolute worst.
What he told me almost made me tear up, out of pride and joy: he said that he was perfectly aware of my physical condition, but didn't say anything about it either, because he wanted to see how far I'm willing to push it. He also had the competitive results of that obstacle course on the table and confirmed that although my comrades had to help me out quite a bit, our group - with combined effort - managed to not only get the best overall time in the end, but was also progressively getting better at every single turn without ever falling behind the previous times.
He said he had never seen a recruit before, pushing through the pain as much as I did, while staying focused on the achievements of the team. Granted... he called me out for the stupidity as well, and immediately ordered me to go visit the doc the next morning. But just hearing that felt great nonetheless.
I left the office with a pat on the back and rare praise from my superior, which to this day I cherish as one of the best moments of my entire military career.
There are bosses, and there are leaders.
Hello from the U.S.
Thank you for sharing your story, I enjoyed reading it. Your injury took strength and courage to overcome and It also says a lot about the character of your instructor. I do hope most of your memories of that time are good and it seems like you have carried that pride with you. 🫡
great story! glad you shared it.
US Navy veteran here. That is an example of great leadership.
The way Pyle was acting, I think he had a mild form of Autism as well as suffering from a few other things like anxiety. Back then, during the draft, they didn't really care if you had problems like that, they needed bodies. Hell, looking at another movie like Forrest Gump and his pal Bubba should show that as well. He should have never been drafted in the first place.
The thing that rarely gets talked about when people criticize Pyle is the fact that most of them were drafted into the military during the Vietnam war, unlike the vast majority of people who make comments about him. It should come to no surprise that people who should have never been in the military were in the military.
The girl who says Love you long time was Papillon Soo she was born in 1961 in England, UK. She is an actress, known for Full Metal Jacket (1987), A View to a Kill (1985) and Split Second (1992).
46:30 - I think Joker’s rifle malfunction was meant to make a reference to the highly publicized problems with the early M16s in Vietnam. The problems were mostly eliminated with the M16A1, but the earlier versions did indeed cost many soldiers and Marines their lives.
Those E1s were a disaster. And they didn't even ship with proper cleaning kits! Colt execs, and the DoD, so in a hurry to replace the machined M14 got those people killed.
Joker's Rifle malfunction is the point of the film, Joker was not a pure killer, he had the sign killer and also the peace sign on him. After he kills the vietnamese girl, he becomes a true marine
@@rollomaughfling380 first of all, his weapon was empty. second, the early M16s were fine. what happened was that the m16 went to trials with a specific round that used an extruded powder; however the ammo was switched to a cheaper ball powder ammo that produced more fouling, and the bean counters pushed a narrative that the m16 was a "self-cleaning" rifle that didn't need cleaning kits so they could save 10 cents per rifle, both of which together caused virtually all of the problems experienced by soldiers in vietnam, and was remedied by the late 60s.
Private Joker (Matthew Modine) was Dr. Brenner in Stranger Things.
He was also in the Memphis Belle
I thought Devin would be having flashbacks, but it looks like he really enjoyed the dressing down of the boots
He was enjoying the flashbacks trust me, I can only speak for myself but, Basic Training was some of the best times that could be had in life (in hindsight).
Devin wasn't a Marine. Army boot isn't nearly as tough as Marine Corps boot.
@@warriorpitbull1170 indeed, it's apparently much more difficult to teach Marines Basic Combat Training.
@@TheJoshestWhite Nah, Marine basic is just more comprehensive than the other services.
@@warriorpitbull1170 in what way? Pull ups? Drill & Ceremony? Learning to roll your sleeves up? Real training starts after Basic training. When you get to your unit.
First Mistake: Going into a clustf**k like Vietnam in the first place.
Thousands of innocent civilians as well as our KIDS died in vain in that war.
As was in Iraq
As was in Afghanistan
As was in many wars we get our selves into.
For politicians.
All wars are politicians wars, and for what?
Democracy?
I don't think so.
FMJ showed that war is bloody, messy, political, racist, and the poor get to go to war before everyone else.
Now we just fund wars like Ukraine and Israel.
We suck as a country.
But hey it's just a movie, right?
The US sucks but you continue to live here. Israeli lives matter
I couldn't help but notice your lady with her hand on your arm for most of the movie 😊😊 its awesome to see such a happy couple . I thank god every day for my beautiful misses. I know its totally off topic but couldn't help but smile and appreciate it
Animal Mothers helmet says “I am become death”…. A shout out to Oppenheimer.
Great reaction as always! Stanley Kubrick is a BRILLIANT director. Films like Spartacus, The Shining, 2001 Space Odyssey are part of his filmology. Vincent D'Onofrio "Private Pyle" sent in 4 tapes to Kubrick to try & get the role. Originally, the character was written as a "skinny ignorant redneck"; however, Kubrick believed the role would have more impact if the character were big and clumsy. D'Onofrio gained 70 lb for the role, bringing his weight to 280 lb. Still to this day, it is the most weight gained by an actor for a film.
You always come with the best movie trivia knowledge! Thanks for your support as always!
Really? I thought DeNiro in Raging Bull was the weight-gaining actor champ. I've never known D'Onofrio to be a slim man. But Wikipedia is the truth, I guess.
@@jhamler1 He's not slim these days, but when he was younger he definitely was.
@@jhamler1 I got the info from Wiki - I had remembered that fact from way back but double checked it for this comment. I can't imagine that character being a skinny redneck. Kudos to Kubrick for his vision & D'Onofrio for delivering us one of the most memorable characters on film.
_Still to this day, it is the most weight gained by an actor for a film._ Nahh, no way, Jennifer. That record is held by Val Kilmer in _Batman Forever._ The Bat-Nipples that Val grew for that role weighed over 200 lbs apiece. (1)
(1.) _The Natural Ice Book of World Records_
Sgt Hartmans lines were all him. When the director heard him he just let him do his own thing.
Not all. A number of them were in the book.
I am a combat veteran ( Vietnam ) You can not possibly know the good you have just done.
Thank you for this and God bless you both.
Thanks for your service and welcome home. I know you did not get a thank you. But as a son and nephew of a Vietnam Veteran and several veterans and I served too. And now my nephews and my niece is serving now.
Thanks for your kind words and for serving your country. I wish all your family Gods blessing and peace @@svenmartin840
The good they have just done ??? What good?
It was Staley Kubrick who made the film, not these two. All they did was give a half-assed shallow reaction to it because so much went right over their heads.
@@mimikurtz2162 Well what I meant was the healing that has been done for combat vets like yourself and I. As a person has given everything as you have in the service the your country I know you know just what I mean . Don't you ? God bless you for your sacrifice .
Devin ready to strap a 50 lb bag to his back and go on a 5K run after watching those boot camp scenes. 😂
I always love watching the difference between Veterans and Civilians when they watch this movie for the first time. All of the Civilians tend to feel so much sympathy for Pyle, and all the Vets realize immediately he's more ate up than used gum. The stark contrast comes with the wisdom of experience and it's truly a sight to behold.
Every Basic Training Platoon had someone like Pyle. I did my Basic in '89, and we watched this movie twice.
And all vets who watch this movie, instantly goes back to their Basic Training days.
Got that right brother, a nogo recycle.
I've never heard them talk about how many combat troops were draftees who did not have a choice. I guess that's not important.
Also a core that doesn't recognise and deal with "section 8" is setting themselves up for failure. Waste of resources.
I disagree! I see some veterans knowing the difference between natural soldiers and soldiers in progress. I served in South Carolina in 1982 and had a blast because I was used to the abuse and an athlete in high school. Being from the country kept me fit. Tough urban guys cried during training and on the phones, lol.
Can’t wait to wait to watch this reaction when I get off work!! Hope y’all have a great weekend!!🙌
Jesse Ventura said that Full Metal Jacket is the most accurate Vietnam war movie of all time.
Jesse Ventura is a jackass, who also never saw combat.
The drill SGT was a retired Marine Drill SGT who was originally an advisor on the film
I think you mean drill instructor. Only the army has drill sergeants.
Pyle became what the Marines wanted. a killer. job well done.
He'll teach you how to pee !!! Always got me 😂
As a Reagan Marine back in the 80s, I can attest to the realism of the boot camp sequences in this movie. Though it wasn't as tough in the 80s as it was during Vietnam, the actions and attitude of the drill instructor are on point. Obviously, this is a result of R. Lee Ermey - an actual Marine Corps drill instructor - playing the part when they couldn't find anyone else that could perform the role properly.
Shows you how overlooked and underappreciated the casting director is. Don't get me wrong... writing, directing, and acting are important. But all else being equal, a poorly cast film will flop, and a well cast film will be a solid hit.
@@Mr.Ekshin Casting directors are obviously important, but CD Leon Vitali had actually cast Tim Colceri (the crazed Door Gunner) as the Drill Instructor. R. Lee Ermey was brought on as a military consultant, and asked to audition. When Kubrick watched the tape of him improvising dressing down some Royal Marines who'd applied as extras, Stanley realized he was perfect for the role. So it was Kubrick (and Ermey) who were responsible for that casting decision, not the casting director.
R Lee Ermy said that he and his fellow drill instructors would see the obituaries of the guys they processed through bootcamp
Such a great movie, excited to see what ya'll thought of it!
Devin's reaction was most refreshing. I felt alone the way I viewed what was going on in this movie, but Devin reacted the exact same way I did.
I had the same job these guys had when I was in Iraq. We were the fourth most deployed MOS during the war. We were on combat patrols in almost every single day. Was rewarding but definitely put me in the middle of the action and combat.
Great job, first you send a young man who is obviously unsuitable for the Marines for various reasons to exactly this force. Then the old method of beating on it to make a “man” out of that person. We're all great guys. Bla bla bla. And not to notice that the person is only one thing,
a ticking time bomb. And then this sergeant here is celebrated by some people. He's a tough guy etc. etc. For me it is completely unsuitable, it's not about turning your own soldiers into psychological wrecks. He then gets the receipt. Not even at this point does he realize
that he is the source of all suffering for the soldier. and the soldier is only half a second away from 12 o'clock. If anyone here thinks I'm a wimp, I don't care at all. I am a 62-year-old German and there were such great trainers in my country from 1933-45. The result is known.
I'm for military but with the right soldiers and the right superiors. Any idiot can shout.
Pyle has obviously some mental issues but your boyfriend has no compassion calling Pyle a fuck up. I wouldn’t be surprised if your partner is a bully himself.
You both together are great. Love your channel.
Greetings from Germany 😍
Thanks so much! 😊
Minute 11:55 The way she smiled at Snowball 😂😂😂😂😂
I saw FMJ at the theater when it came out. What a visceral experience
Yup. Me also!
Do ypu kkow why the military gave cigs to soldiers!?? To keep them awake and alert
And to curve their hunger. Crazy huh? How government knew wha tehy were doing to soldiers and ddnt care
Just wanted a machine to do the drty work
... hard to watch knowing Reality is even worse , everyone old enough to join Military should have seen this Movie
This has different "lines" than the actual version, is this some kind of RUclips sanitized version?
Great reaction and thanks for sharing. The opening haircut scene, Director Kubrick literally filmed this on wrap day. So they all celebrated filming was over, then he marched the actors that were playing soldier and cut their hair off. So I imagine they realized they had survived the movie, grew back most of their hair and now had to be buzz cut and then off to Hollywood shaved bald. He was such an arsehole of a director. The Marine Drill Instructors never rehearsed with the recruit actors, so each scene was new to the recruits which makes the reactions so much more real. Gunnery Sgt Hartman the Senior Drill Instructor is played by R. Lee Ermey a former Marine DI who was hired to coach the actor that should have played that role. But when Ermey showed Kubrick the videos of him drilling recruits, he had Ermey take the role and the actor that should have played the Senior Drill Instructor instead played the Door Gunner of the Helicopter Joker flies into Viet Nam in. 'You Shoot Women, Children? Isn't that hard?' Joker asks the door gunner. The door gunner's response is classic. Thanks for sharing. Chris
So on wrap day the had all managed to grow a full head of hair? I’ve heard all the Vietnam scenes were filmed first and they all had hair. The haircuts came at the beginning of Boot Camps. No doubt they had other haircuts to keep it short. The barbers were rough giving the cut. No Tips and they tried to inflict as much pain as possible.
Pyle pretty much would’ve turned out as animal mother if he lived, one my favorite movies 💯
I’ve always felt the same
32:30 it says i am become death ... " i am become death , the destroyer of worlds " J.R. Oppenheimer , the father of the atomic bomb ... thats his famous quote .. thats wat he thought wen he saw the " Trinity " blast go off .... trinity was the first test of the AtomBomb
They filmed the combat scenes in the East end of London…did a hell of a job making it look like urban south east asia
The fact that the sniper was a girl is karmic payback for the sexual exploitation of local women that they have previously engaged in.
WHATS YOUR EXCUSE!?!? There's really no correct way to respond to that.
R. Lee Ermey was a real SOB.
Most people think Pyle was one of 'McNamara's Morons'. Due to low recruitment rates during Vietnam, the government lowered the IQ requirements for 100,000 men as a trial program. It turned out these men died at 3x the normal rate once in combat and God knows how many Soldiers and Marines died due to their actions. You need roughly an IQ of about 80-85 to be militarily useful. This means roughly 10-15% of the population(35-50 million Americans) are so mentally lacking they are actually a burden on the battlefield.
Funny how people loose all their sympathy for others lives when they go into the military,his reaction to the girl was appalling and you could see on his ladies face she still has sympathy for human life.They really do train you into a robot without feelings.She was there in her country fighting for what she thought was right against the invaders.
Some of the action and comments in the war were exaggerated but the basic training was real. I was in basic - army - in 69, not as hard as Marines, and just about everything shown happened to us. However, physically assaulting recruits was not allowed sometime before that and we had a drill instructor court martialed for doing that. But, blanket parties happened. Lots of bad, and good memories from that time
Thank you for your service!
If any didn't know, the military was a little different back then as opposed to today.
They make you pay for your own haircut? What in holy hell??
I can confirm.
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 Do they make you pay for your own ammo?? Sheesh.
It's called a blanket party!
Yeah this movie and Platoon were like the go to Vietnam war movies of the 80's. Then there was hamburger hill but i can't remember if that was the 80's too. Dead Presidents should kinda count but it's really more of a street movie but I wouldn't consider Forrest Gump to be a true Vietnam war movie and Apalaclypse Now is kinda ridiculous but i mean hey you're the vet not me but you most likely served in the middle east based on your age. I know not all war movies can be all action all the time but there are still qualifiers.
Mentally disabled people were called up and made go through the training.
What you're referring to is the 100,000 project, or "McNamara's Morons". From the same people that brought you the Tuskegee experiments, MK Ultra, and South Asia Respiratory Sickness Novel Corona virus-19. Remember to get your boosters!
only stanley kubrick could have this off. the man was a genious
"I am become death, destroyer of worlds." One of the men who created the atomic bomb said that. It's a quote from some Indian religious book.
Went to basic in San Diego in 94...the first night after receiving and we were put in our training platoon and after the Sr Drill Instructor introduced himself and the other Drill Instructors (when all hell broke loose, iykyk) our Sr stayed awake all night in his duty hut laughing like satan...probably the most un-nerving thing in my entire enlistment 🤣
Lol awesome
You were bang on the money when you said Animal Mother was like a saner Private Pyle. That is one of the key messages of the book the moviewas based on. If Pyle had not self-destructed he would have become just like Animal Mother- but the latter was a functioning product of the training, Lawrence broke at the last moment.
I AM A MARINE FOR LIFE. 89 TO 98. THIS IS REAL. TRUST ME.
I know y'all don't really react to comedy much anymore but I suggest checking out Shane Gillis!
The Vietnamese Tet offensive was a real thing.
Actor that played private Pile was excellent! One part in the movie that I completely laughed my ass off was when the drill instructor said he would gouge out his eyes and skull fu&$ him, and then Pile closes his eyes tight. 🤣 😂 like he was preparing to stop him.
As someone who may or, very much, may have not locked their locker during like the second week of basic, and watched a chief fling all my shit across the room, the locker scene is always a “Yep, that one is, 100% true. No fibbing.” Lmao
Awesome film!
They played this movie on my bus ride to Marine Corps Boot Camp in 2007 lol
I'm always amused by the reactions civilians have to this movie... I went through Army Basic Training in the 90's, and it was close to this, but Army Drill Sergeants were not allowed to hit you with their fists. However, they were allowed to kick you, spit on you, push you, manhandle you, get in your face, insult you, and scream at you every minute of every day. Basic Training, (or Boot Camp, as the Marines refer to it), is nothing but a process meant to turn civilians into military people. Civilians are exclusively concerned with their own needs and wants, but Soldiers and Marines, (there is a difference), need to be primarily concerned with completing the mission and satisfying the needs of their military branch and the needs and objectives of the Nation. The shift in mindset is difficult to achieve and some people never do it successfully, and that is why Army Drill Sergeants and Marine Drill Instructors conduct themselves the way they do. They have a short amount of time to shock recruits into shifting their mindsets and completing the militarization process, which again, some recruits never complete. Once recruits complete this process successfully they transform into different people, way more disciplined and focused on serving something larger and more important than just themselves. I remember one of my Drill Sergeants telling us "If nothing else, one thing you will become once you finish Basic Training is a superb crisis manager. You will be able to handle highly stressful situations in a way that any civilian could only dream about". He was absolutely correct, but obviously that is not the only thing I learned. The Army was a turning point in my life and I would not be where I am now if I had not gone through that experience, which I strongly recommend to anyone who wants to become a better, stronger, mentally tougher person.
If it feels like FMJ is an anti-war film, that's because it is. Kubrick denied that it was, but he was known to lie/mislead people about his films (usually for marketing purposes) and anyone who's seen Paths Of Glory knows how he really felt about war. It's not just the second half of the movie that's anti-war either, it's the whole movie. The first half is about the dehumanization inherent with turning people into trained killers for the state. The second half is showing the real world consequences of that dehumanization and just how senseless the Vietnam war (and most wars) truly are. It's not a coincidence that the drill sergeant yelled "What is this Mickey Mouse shit?!?" right before being blown away, that there are Mickey and Minnie figures sitting by the windows of the Stars and Stripes office and the remaining soldiers are singing the Mickey Mouse theme at the end. Kubrick is likening soldiers to children, not only because they do what they're told by authority figures (in this case, the state), but because just like Pyle, they have mentally regressed to deal with the trauma imposed on them. Whereas many movies try to valorize soldiers and war, films like Full Metal Jacket and Apocalypse Now show us the ugly truth of it.
Those barbers were being gentle compared to when I went through. They were brutal with us. Guys came out with bleeding scalps.
😮😮😮😮
OMG I loved D&C. The precision, the moves, the counts. But the PT running cadences were the best. I'd heard every one done in this movie and lots that weren't. US Army 1978, Ft, Sill, OK. Gunny reminds me so much of Drill Sergeant Burleson.
...A yellow bird...... LOL
...If I die on the Russian front...... rofl
Thank you dev. For doing this one bro.....
This type of intensity in training and psychological hardening as an objective is partially why America's military is the strongest of the entire world
The average person is lacking the facts about the Vietnam War Era. It's a lot but well worth the read. I'm going to put to rest some myths about the Vietnam War. The average American is lacking the facts about the Vietnam War Era. It's a lot but well worth the read. The average age of those killed in action was 23 and not 19 as was widely reported by the media and those opposed to the war.The average age of an infantrymen serving in-country was 22 and not 19 as was erroneously reported by the media. The average of an infantryman in WW II was 26. Here are facts about Vietnam they still won't teach you in school. Many myths and lies have circulated for decades about the Vietnam War. The Tet Offensive was a U. S. victory and a disaster for the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese. The Viet Cong were decimated following Tet.
America did not lose the war in Vietnam, the South Vietnamese did. The fall of Saigon happened 30 April 1975, two years after the last American combat troops left Vietnam. The last American troops departed in their entirety 29 March 1973.
How could we lose a war we had already stopped fighting? We fought to an agreed stalemate. The peace settlement was signed in Paris on 27 January 1973. It called for release of all U.S. prisoners, withdrawal of U.S. forces, limitation of both sides' forces inside South Vietnam and a commitment to peaceful reunification. The 140,000 evacuees in April 1975 during the fall of Saigon consisted almost entirely of civilians and Vietnamese military, not American military running for their lives. The American military was not defeated in Vietnam. The American military did not lose a battle of any consequence. From a military standpoint, it was almost an unprecedented performance. General Westmoreland quoting Douglas Pike (a professor at the University of California, Berkeley), a major military defeat for the VC and NVA.
As with much of the Vietnam War, the news media misreported and misinterpreted the 1968 Tet Offensive. It was reported as an overwhelming success for the Communist forces and a decided defeat for the U.S. forces. Nothing could be further from the truth. Despite initial victories by the Communists forces, the Tet Offensive resulted in a major defeat of those forces. General Vo Nguyen Giap, the designer of the Tet Offensive, is considered by some as ranking with Wellington, Grant, Lee and MacArthur as a great commander. Still, militarily, the Tet Offensive was a total defeat of the Communist forces on all fronts. It resulted in the death of some 45,000 NVA troops and the complete, if not total destruction of the Viet Cong elements in South Vietnam. The Organization of the Viet Cong Units in the South never recovered. The Tet Offensive succeeded on only one front and that was the News front and the political arena. This was another example in the Vietnam War of an inaccuracy becoming the perceived truth. However, inaccurately reported, the News Media made the Tet Offensive famous.
Servicemen who went to Vietnam from well-to-do areas had a slightly elevated risk of dying because they were more likely to be pilots or infantry officers. Vietnam Veterans were the best educated forces our nation had ever sent into combat. 79% had a high school education or better. Average age of 47,522 killed in action Vietnam was 23.11 years (Although 58,169 names are in the Nov. 93 databases, only 58,148 have both event date and birth date. Event date is used instead of declared dead date for some of those who were listed as missing in action). The average soldier/Marine in WW II saw an average of 40 days of combat during a 12-month period. In Vietnam, the average was 240 days during a 12-month tour. Assuming KIAs accurately represented age groups serving in Vietnam, the average age of an infantryman (MOS 11B) serving in Vietnam to be 19 years old is a myth, it is actually 22. None of the enlisted grades have an average age of less than 20. The average man who fought in World War II was 26 years of age. 2/3 of the men who served in Vietnam were volunteers. 2/3 of the men who served in World War II were drafted. Approximately 70% of those killed in Vietnam were volunteers.
US Service Rifle M-14. 7.62 mm......nighty night, sarge....
This was a sliver of Vietnam. After training it felt like being tied to a bullet. I got over there in '68. Once in country came another 3 weeks of being sick. Snakes an centipedes filled with herion addicted troops
I remember they lost a Gomer Pyle, in another company. Granade never made it out of the pit.......BOOM!!!!!! That's why it's has to be tough.
For a reaction vid I have to pass. Editing was disjointed and inferior.
Up your game. Nothing personal just from a high level vid watcher. Best luck, work hard and long, and best wishes.
Honey, Believe it all. Devin speaks the truth. He's enjoying this because he has fond memories. I enjoyed Europe, but I was ready when I got short. My ETS couldn't come fast enough. The objective was simple: keep your sight low and sharp, obey your orders, accept the medals and go gratefully home.
Very Good Producer Good Movie 🎥 🍿 Intro Great Job You Both Congratulations
Hi Joker Funny Creepy Look
An old fashoned "Blanket Party," I had the misfortuine to witness the results of one... We had an individal in my platoon at Ft. Jackson back in 76' he was just like Pyle we begged the DI not to take him to the firing range .. In this case, they listened to us...
He was sent home before he totally lost it.
Frm VietNam Marine : It's their job ... "they HAVE to Kill the ENEMY" ...
I check out every reaction to Jacket I can find (love the movie, most Stanley Kubrick movies) and this is one of the best I've seen. It's tough sometimes- too many reaction creators treat a movie like an opponent they're supposed to outsmart and the result is constant fail predictions and uninformed mind reading of the characters, making themselves look silly. Of course speculating about what's gonna happen next is just part of the pleasure of movie watching but when I saw you both do it in a smart, entertaining way you got my respect and I subbed right away, which I don't often do with reaction channels. Thanks for the great post see ya around.
On Animal Mothers helmet it says "Now I am become Death" a quote by Oppenheimer
...which itself is a quote from vedic scripture.
Leonard was SPECIAL NEEDS❗️, therefore he wasn't FULLY ABLE 2 GRASP HIS EXPECTATIONS‼️.
And then rifle range the first week you learn how to snap in the second week you actually fire up to 500 m I qualified as an expert the night before I qualified the girls instructor stood in front of me in front of my rack. I was in my skies. He told me with my grades he might have to think about sending me back, but if you qualified expert you can consider yourself graduated that next night I qualified expert I turned and kissed my M 14 rifle.
Thank you everyone who has given military service to our country!!! God bless each and every one of you!!!!
"The ones that cough" gave a certain disease to soldiers..who then subsequently brought it back home. Shame.
Love y’all’s videos! You guys are so real and I love it! Keep it up please!
That’s true it Parrish Island the guy next to me to my right big boy from Texas two instructors, on him like flies on shit and he was screaming and I started smirking I was next.
The one private at Paris Island you could hear him across the parade deck. He was over there screaming at a tree. Sometime later we came back and he was still screaming at that tree screaming at it. This is my rifle. This is my gun. So we didn’t have to ask what he did wrong called his rifle gun.
Wow, Devin, you got mugged in basic training. The first haircut was always free. Every week after that though, you had to pay $3.50 for a haircut, usually in the form of a chitbook, since they didn't like recruits to have cash money in large quantities. Paper newspapers were our only source of outside information, and we could only buy them on Sundays. But we couldn't keep them. At the end of the day, all of the newspapers were collected and used to clean the windows every morning. If you ever got caught with any papers in your footlockers, you were in for a world of punishment.
That Vietnamese female sniper had more balls than all the us "soldiers" put together lol
11:16 Gotta love it the heart of the other trainees. Pyle fell down but they were trying to bring him along.
You missed it the young man's weapon jammed and so he hit panic mode because the weapon had jam very famous for m sixteen rifles back in the day to jam up on you
Rafterman was being sick because he seen woman and children getting there heads blown apart by an M60 machine gun
I think Stanley Kubrick plays the camera man filming the war.
I didn't actually noticed your shirt, holy crap
That fits so well in this FMJ reaction video
They had to be super hard on them like that back then.
They shortened boot camp length because they needed people in Vietnam.
The drill Sargents had to get these guys ready for a meat grinder like Vietnam in half the time.
Devin, from one vet to another, thank you for your service! Was glad to hear your input, and I agreed with all that you said, as far as tactics, and you saw the sniper as a combatant, rather than a girl, alot of ppl don't realize even a child or a woman can be a threat, great reaction from you both! Glad you enjoyed it! Take care!!
But not if she's dying on the floor. The fact, that he wanted to throw her into the fire at that point is proof that your training makes you loose part of your humanity.
One day introduced us to the rifle range. They took us to the market Le Oswell and what’s his name that shot everyone off the tower in Texas and where did he learn how to fire a rifle like that right here on this rifle range.