@@The_WatchList Duly noted. Thanks for the clarification. My dad was a drill sergeant and he was in the Army. Are you related to General Patton by any chance?
@@jtt6650 O cool! And unfortunately we don't believe so. I wish man 😂 My father did spend 26 years in the Navy, and most of my other family as well, so the military service part is there. Just not the lineage haha
@@The_WatchList Well you have the same initials ha. This guy should watch PATTON with George C. Scott, definitely one of my favorite war movies. It’s very entertaining and you learn World War II history at the same time.
This was exactly the boot camp I went to in 1980. I saw this movie in a theater, and the first half of the movie was so real I could actually smell my old boot camp barracks (weird, I know, but true).
Back in 1976 I was conscripted and served till 1989 during the Angolan Border War. This experience changed me forever, words are inadequate to convey the feelings, the overwhelming life long issues that never go away. This is a very well made, entertaining movie.
'This one is a complete psycho' as we all can be, if the right circumstances come around. From 2004-2008, I worked PC Tech support with an older guy, who had served in Vietnam. He was friendly and nice, but not creepily so. He was something of a braggart, but funny. After a couple years of working together, we got around to talking about his experience in Vietnam. Without any feigned regret, he told me he loved it there, because he could kill people and get away with it. Nothing about this guy's behavior indicated any kind of 'Mental illness'. He was a regular guy who just happened to find himself in a situation where he could revel in his darkest impulses. Anyone who thinks they DON'T have such darkness is lying to themselves.
When Joker shot the sniper girl in the end.... he finally found his "war face." (Drill Sargent: "lemme see your war face! You dont scare me! Work on it!")
Love your reactions George!! and yes he WAS a Marine drill sergeant!! And Vincent D'Onofrio (Leonard/"Pyle") was amazing as well. He gained 80 pounds to play the part, and this movie launched his career. He's one of my favorite actors.
The "Gunny" was NOT a Drill Sargent. As the Army has Drill Sergeants. The United States Marines has Drill Instructors. Which is what R. Lee Ermey did after his first tour of duty in Vietnam and going back for a second tour of duty. The actor shooting the door gun on the helio was supposed to be the Drill Instructor. But Stanley Kubrick changed his mind after seeing him show the actors some training
The trouble with the draft is that some guys are not meant to be soldiers at all. These guys were generally 18 years old. The survivors came home to no help at all.
Kubrick meant this to be an anti-war film, but R Lee Ermey was soo good it ended up becoming a Marine recruitment film. If you want to see a more realistic Vietnam movie, I recommend We Were Soldiers.
A very hard hitting, realistic film from what I can remember. Another film which was also set in the Vietnam war is called The Deerhunter (1978), it was pretty harrowing, but very good, with Robert de Niro and Christopher Walken. It won a lot of awards, best picture being one of them. Other classic films set in the Vietnam war are Apocalypse Now (1979), and Platoon (1986). Thanks for your great reaction, George, will watch this film again with you later. Take care. 👍👍
The Deer Hunter is good, Platoon sucks Deer Hunter doesn't hold up to numerous watches with the impact that the first watch has, whereas Full Metal Jacket and Apocalpse now are masterpieces that hold up to many watches
I graduated from Parris Island in 1986. This movie was actually filmed in England. Stanley Kubrick wanted to make an anti-war film, war can test your humanity, keeping a sense of humor is very important. R Lee Ermey (Gunnery Sergeant Hartman) was an actual drill instructor in the Marine Corps. The Marine Corps calls them drill instructors, not drill sergeants as some have said and they never run out of good material. Marines also do not like to be called soldiers 😁👍
I dont know if anyone has said it yet, but the drill instructor in the beginning is R. Lee Ermey. He was a real Marine Corps drill instructor. Many of his lines were just his normal words. He was actually a very nice guy in real life. There are many interviews and tribute videos you can watch on him. But once that US Marine uniform goes on the first and last words from your filthy sewer better be SIR! RIP R Lee Ermey. BTW, I can tell you were a changed person after Pvt Pyle in the bathroom scene. You can't 'un-see' something, and some things can change a person in just a few seconds.
The media and Hollywood reveled in portraying Vietnam in the worst possible light. Soldiers returned home to scorn and derision by much of society as a result. "We Were Soldiers Once And Young" is one movie that is an exception. Service is a sacrifice. Welcome home.
I don't think you can blame the media or Hollywood. The US had known many years before the end that the war was unwinnable but they stuck on to try to save face. It was a military disaster and none of the aims was accomplished, so it was in the military's interest to make it the "forgotten" war as soon as possible, that being the main reason that the veterans were not feted on their return. Ignore a humiliating defeat and it will go away seemed to be the idea. Hollywood responded by exposing the lie, making it very uncomfortable for Americans who couldn't face the truth.
@@tonybennett4159 To be clear, the political leadership was FUBAR. The actions taken that drove North Vietnam to the negotiation table in Paris could have been taken 10 years earlier and ended the war, as it ultimately did. The fault was the lack of will, not ability.
I honor the service and sacrifice soldiers make. But governments use that desire to serve like a cheap streetwalker. My father was in Vietnam and got exposed to Agent Orange. In 2002, he was diagnosed with Advanced Prostate Cancer, which was verified that AO was the cause. Even with this information, he was initally denied the benefits promised. He had to fight like hell to get them. He was given 5 years at most, but fought that war for 15, finally passing away in 2017. The games politicians play did that to him. I will never forgive them for it.
You're right! R. Lee Ermey was a US Marine Staff Sergeant and a drill sergeant. He was brought in as a consultant, but he was so spot on, he was hired as an actor! Wasn't he fantastic?
Because of Kubrick's aversion to travel and as for many years he was a permanent resident in the UK, all of this (apart from a few location shots by a second unit) were filmed in the UK. The sniper sequence was shot in the London Docklands which at that time was being demolished, so he was able to make use of those buildings. Kubrick ordered all of the palm trees seen in the sequence to be transported there. After the demolition of the area it became another residential district and is now unrecognisable.
An amazing movie and an amazing reaction. Sometimes there just isn't anything to say and that's an acceptable reaction too. This is one of those movies that's just meant to show a bit what it was all about, without a real happy ending like most movies tend to do.
Great reaction George. A recent movie by Taika Waititi titled "JoJo Rabbit" is one of the best movies I've seen in the last decade. It's WW2 as seen through the eyes of a 10 year old Hitler-Jugend boy. Shows just how the Nazi's brainwashed children back then.
Wow, I've seen dozens of reactions to this movie, and this is the 1st reactor I've personally heard say that the drill sergeant had to be real!!! That is such a great observation, and I know most comments will let you know how spot on you were! P.S. I'm not even done with reaction yet, and so far this is best reaction I've seen, even by ex-marines. Not to say anything negative about an ex-marine or that they have not had some of the best reactions, but it is just a different type of reaction to hear someone who experienced the same emotions and thoughts as me during a reaction. The truth is, civilians will never have a complete understanding what it is like to go through boot camp and serve in a war, so I relate most to someone like me. P.S. I have the ultimate respect for all military personnel around the world, especially those who served during wartime. I have to be honest, I was not meant for it, and I have nothing but the ultimate respect for those who have!!!
Something to remember, though just by sheer repetition, we call it 'The Vietnam War', but it was classified officially as a 'Police Action', so that our Government didn't HAVE to deal with the hassle of actually declaring war. So inconvenient that is for the State, obeying the laws they made. The same thing was done wth Korea and most recently with the 'Second' Iraqi War. In 1991 war WAS actually declared, but not in 2002. It's not surprising, but still depressing that people get propagandized so damn easily.
It’s an interesting story how the drill sergeant was cast for this role. Supposedly he was an actual drill sergeant not an actor. Edit: haha I just saw someone posted that already.
More Kubrick, please! Maybe do his other war movies, Paths of Glory and Dr. Strangelove...One is a great drama, the other the best black comedy of all time.
As many times as I have seen this movie, I still haven't been able to figure out what killed the Lt when they entered Hue. There was no way it was incoming mortar or artillery rounds. The explosions went off in front of the tank, so it didn't run over any mine. The only thing I can think of was command detonated anti-personnel mines like a bouncing betty. These would have gone off about chest high. But the Lt was behind the tank and lower than the turret, so the chest wounds make no sense.
This is probably the first realistic movie on the Marine Corps training and war. Others include certain scenes from Platoon but the best is Saving Private Ryan, IMO. Very hard to watch for sure.
The only criticism I have of this movie (and it's a small one) is when someone get's shot I'm pretty sure it's not like a ballon full of blood popping..Other than that? Great flick!..Oh, BTW, that's Kubrick himself, tracking with the camera, when they're all sitting lined up on the wall.
After shooting the sniper girl, the men marched through the darkness with fires all around them. Hell. And while in hell......they sing. Like demons. Turned from men, into demons. Baptized by fire.
I've always had a weird theory that Ricky Linderman (The big guy in "My Bodyguard") is Animal Mother's son. The movie came out in 1980, and Ricky is supposed to be 15, so he would've been born in 1965. Animal Mother could've been around 18 or 19 in 1965, so the timeline fits. Full Metal Jacket takes place in 1967 and 1968. Animal Mother could have enlisted right after his son was born and when we see him he had already been in the corps for 2 or 3 years. Ricky Linderman wears an O.D. m1965 field jacket. Possibly his Dad's old jacket. When asked what his Dad does he replies "He watches TV". Possibly because he can't hold down a job due to PTSD. Ya gotta admit, the family resemblance is uncanny. They even talk alike. Tell me I'm wrong. ua-cam.com/video/LQBS0Uzdel8/v-deo.html
Great reaction, man. There many great war movies and i hope you will cover many more. But if you were to react to just one more, I would suggest you the german classic/masterpiece Das Boot.
Greetings from Finland man!!! I'd like to see your reaction to JFK movie by Oliver Stone it's based on the facts that were known to be true about the case by 1991!!! "I'll be back" 😎
There is pretty much no score, just ambient sounds punctuated by the period songs. The camera shots were very Kubrick, kept the view right in the scene. I think Animal Mother represents what Pyle could have been as born again hard, like Gunny Hartman told him in boot camp, had he not lost his mind in the transition. The round that killed Cowboy was straight through the heart, actually hit his dog tags on exiting his chest. The set was an abandoned gas works scheduled for demolition that Kubrick was free to destroy. I think a friend of his had the tanks, and I think every vehicle or equipment the production had was used and seen in the long walking shot, and I think again when Kubrick was shown on camera filming the war footage.
I will never forgive the US Government (and of course all other modern nations doing the same thing) that take the desire of someone to 'give back' and serve their country, that take that loyalty and treat it like a cheap streetwalker. The Dehumanizing Programs they have worked on so carefully for over 100 years are bad enough. Support our Troops- Put a Poliltician on the Front Lines.
I can't watch this movie it gives me severe ptsd, my family, and now my new gangster neighbors (they think they're gangster 😒) have treated me the same way as the drill sergeant, and I have the scars to prove it 😭 But besides that, the "Gomer Pyle" character was in the first Jurassic World, he was the one who wanted to use the velociraptors for military use, and last but not least, have a wonderful Thanksgiving everyone 😊
Apocalypse Now is the best war film ever made...maybe check it out sometime. Great reaction ...Kubrick filmed this in London Docklands if you can believe that. All the smoke and buildings hid the London skyline.
Apocalypse Now is drug induced psychobabble fairytale based on an older novel called “Heart of Darkness”, written in 1899. In attempting to follow that narrative, the details aren’t at all accurate. I’ve talked with quite a few combat veterans that served in the Vietnam war and they’re opinion of the movie is, while quite fanciful, it's not accurate.
@@rollotomassi6232 I know this...I never said it was accurate. Much more psychological. Coppola wanted them to almost travel back in time as they went up river. Symbolic.
@@FilterHQ Taken for what it is, I found the movie entertaining and really enjoyed the PT boat trip up the river. The ending was just too much of Brando phoning it in and weirdness, drove Copula to a nervous breakdown.
@@rollotomassi6232 I think the 3 difinitive Vietnam War films are Apocalypse now, Platoon and Full Metal Jacket. All very different. The Surreal, the Hollywood, and the realistic :)
1. There are always more than one CC in boot camp (at least in the Navy) where partially recruits can't be abused. Verbal abuse is one thing but physical was a NO GO. 2. Vincent D'Onofrio played the Bug in MIB and had to put on 50lbs for this role 3. Hardman was out of control. Others outside his recruits would have noticed and he would have been held accountable. 4. "I don't know, but I've been told. Eskimo pussy is mighty cold." was used in my Navy recruit company in 1981. 5. In the US Navy real live ammo was always accounted for, and Pyle wouldn't have had it on his person in the head. 6. The lights in the head are always lit. (lighting I suspect). 7. "Blanket parties" were a real deal. We didn't have one because we didn't have a Gomer Pyle. 8. The hooker in Saigon is just distracting them so the motorcycle guys can steal the camera. I saw that happen in the Philippines. 9. Favorite character: Mother because he's nutz 🤪 10. Even by Hollywood standards, Kubrick went overboard with excessive bloodletting.
10. Even by Hollywood standards, Kubrick went overboard with excessive bloodletting. Because we all know when you get shot blood only trickles out of the tiny hole it makes in your shirt.
@@zerpblerd5966 Platoon “sucks” ? You sound like a 12 year old. It won numerous Academy Awards, it has one of the best soundtracks EVER, it has an all-star cast, it’s widely regarded as Oliver Stones best movie, and it was critically acclaimed. But according to you, it “sucks”. 👀 Mad.
@@bpfromowc well, you're an idiot, awards, actors, and 'how it is regarded' in general means nothing, and no, it's not regarded as Stone's best (only by ignorant fanbois who haven't seen more than a couple hundred movies. your delusions of how I sound are your problem I've seen over 3000 movies, write+direct and worked in the indepentent film industry with a BFA in film, and could write a dissertation on why Platoon sucks. You can't handle words like 'sucks' as basic sharing of my view and have to come back with a butthurt response like you did ? sucks to be you
@@zerpblerd5966 Like I said before, you sound like a twelve year old child. Trying to force your know-all opinions upon others in an incredibly rude manner, but hey, that’s the American way, isn’t it ?
Kubrick is THE MASTER but I recommend watching his stuff alone, in dark, in silence, not for reactions theya re so powerful and to be taken as profound experiences and doing a 'reaction video' with them does a bit of disservice
@@rollotomassi6232 I either thought he watched that alread or was aware of it, I typed it out and then was like "oh he knows that one already" it's not anti-nuclear war but anti military, anti-government, highlighting the 'arms race' and the ridiculous beauracracy and also fluooridation of fluids and the socialist plot to infiltrate the spirit of freedom and destroy it from within true
The truth is with this recent economy Everyone needs more than there salary to be financially stable. The the best thing to do with your money is to lnvest it rightly because money left for saving always end up used with no returns💯..
I have a bias against movies post-2000, they really started going downhill in the mid 90s after the telecommunications act Saving Private Ryan is overrated, bunch of fanbois, mleh
Heartbreak Ridge is another good one peoplegive hate to but really, it's best to take some time off after FMJ from the 'military' genre and go elsewhere - let it be itself for a while before tainting with other similar imagery, etc.
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Good reaction .. thanks
You were right. The actor portraying the hardass drill sergeant in this film was a real Marine drill sergeant before becoming an actor.
R. Lee Ermey. He made interesting Y.T. videos also.
As a heads up, a drill sergeant is Army. Drill Instructor is Marine Corps
@@The_WatchList Duly noted. Thanks for the clarification. My dad was a drill sergeant and he was in the Army. Are you related to General Patton by any chance?
@@jtt6650 O cool! And unfortunately we don't believe so. I wish man 😂 My father did spend 26 years in the Navy, and most of my other family as well, so the military service part is there. Just not the lineage haha
@@The_WatchList Well you have the same initials ha. This guy should watch PATTON with George C. Scott, definitely one of my favorite war movies. It’s very entertaining and you learn World War II history at the same time.
R Lee Ermey should have received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for this amazing and memorable performance!
But he was just playing himself! D'Onofrio deserved it more IMO.
@@flarrfan D'Onofrio is amazing in anything he does. RIP Ermey
Absolutely 💯
This was exactly the boot camp I went to in 1980. I saw this movie in a theater, and the first half of the movie was so real I could actually smell my old boot camp barracks (weird, I know, but true).
Back in 1976 I was conscripted and served till 1989 during the Angolan Border War. This experience changed me forever, words are inadequate to convey the feelings, the overwhelming life long issues that never go away. This is a very well made, entertaining movie.
Probably the most realistic war movie ever made...Kubrick was a genius ! The actors were off the charts ! perfect !!
Former US Marine here. This is 100% real. I met Staff Sergeant Ermey. He wasn't an actual Gunny, it was honorary. Semper Fidelis
Pyle shooting himself looks extremely realistic. It disturbs most people, as it should.
'This one is a complete psycho' as we all can be, if the right circumstances come around.
From 2004-2008, I worked PC Tech support with an older guy, who had served in Vietnam. He was friendly and nice, but not creepily so. He was something of a braggart, but funny. After a couple years of working together, we got around to talking about his experience in Vietnam. Without any feigned regret, he told me he loved it there, because he could kill people and get away with it.
Nothing about this guy's behavior indicated any kind of 'Mental illness'. He was a regular guy who just happened to find himself in a situation where he could revel in his darkest impulses. Anyone who thinks they DON'T have such darkness is lying to themselves.
When Joker shot the sniper girl in the end....
he finally found his "war face."
(Drill Sargent: "lemme see your war face! You dont scare me! Work on it!")
7:25 a fear of heights helped me in that situation, I was up and over the obstacle in seconds 🤣.
My dad graduated from paris island in 69. Said this was pretty accurate at boot.
Born on the 4th of July (1989)
Tom Cruise
Casualties of War (1989)
Michael J Fox
Both true story war films.
James T. Davis (Private Joker) was the first US Soldier killed in ground combat in Vietnam.
Love your reactions George!! and yes he WAS a Marine drill sergeant!! And Vincent D'Onofrio (Leonard/"Pyle") was amazing as well. He gained 80 pounds to play the part, and this movie launched his career. He's one of my favorite actors.
The "Gunny" was NOT a Drill Sargent. As the Army has Drill Sergeants. The United States Marines has Drill Instructors. Which is what R. Lee Ermey did after his first tour of duty in Vietnam and going back for a second tour of duty. The actor shooting the door gun on the helio was supposed to be the Drill Instructor. But Stanley Kubrick changed his mind after seeing him show the actors some training
The trouble with the draft is that some guys are not meant to be soldiers at all. These guys were generally 18 years old. The survivors came home to no help at all.
Οne of the most amazing classics with some of the best acting of all time.
You are right again. They didn't have any idea why they were there. Americans at home didn't either, even the ones who thought they did.
Kubrick meant this to be an anti-war film, but R Lee Ermey was soo good it ended up becoming a Marine recruitment film. If you want to see a more realistic Vietnam movie, I recommend We Were Soldiers.
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A very hard hitting, realistic film from what I can remember. Another film which was also set in the Vietnam war is called The Deerhunter (1978), it was pretty harrowing, but very good, with Robert de Niro and Christopher Walken. It won a lot of awards, best picture being one of them. Other classic films set in the Vietnam war are Apocalypse Now (1979), and Platoon (1986). Thanks for your great reaction, George, will watch this film again with you later. Take care. 👍👍
The Deer Hunter is good, Platoon sucks
Deer Hunter doesn't hold up to numerous watches with the impact that the first watch has, whereas Full Metal Jacket and Apocalpse now are masterpieces that hold up to many watches
Crazy good performance from D’Onofrio, just the 80 lb weight gain for the role is incredible.
Ermey wasn't even suppose to act. He was only supposed to be a consultant. But absolutely no one else was able to be a believable drill sergeant.
The actor he replaced was the psychopathic helicopter machine gunner.
I graduated from Parris Island in 1986. This movie was actually filmed in England. Stanley Kubrick wanted to make an anti-war film, war can test your humanity, keeping a sense of humor is very important. R Lee Ermey (Gunnery Sergeant Hartman) was an actual drill instructor in the Marine Corps. The Marine Corps calls them drill instructors, not drill sergeants as some have said and they never run out of good material. Marines also do not like to be called soldiers 😁👍
I dont know if anyone has said it yet, but the drill instructor in the beginning is R. Lee Ermey. He was a real Marine Corps drill instructor. Many of his lines were just his normal words. He was actually a very nice guy in real life. There are many interviews and tribute videos you can watch on him. But once that US Marine uniform goes on the first and last words from your filthy sewer better be SIR! RIP R Lee Ermey. BTW, I can tell you were a changed person after Pvt Pyle in the bathroom scene. You can't 'un-see' something, and some things can change a person in just a few seconds.
Another Kubrick classic! Your reactions to his films are the best! Can't wait to see you try A Clockwork Orange or 2001 A Space Odyssey.
My bother a Marine was in the battle for Hue others were airborne in Vietnam.(65-70)
The media and Hollywood reveled in portraying Vietnam in the worst possible light. Soldiers returned home to scorn and derision by much of society as a result. "We Were Soldiers Once And Young" is one movie that is an exception. Service is a sacrifice. Welcome home.
I don't think you can blame the media or Hollywood. The US had known many years before the end that the war was unwinnable but they stuck on to try to save face. It was a military disaster and none of the aims was accomplished, so it was in the military's interest to make it the "forgotten" war as soon as possible, that being the main reason that the veterans were not feted on their return. Ignore a humiliating defeat and it will go away seemed to be the idea. Hollywood responded by exposing the lie, making it very uncomfortable for Americans who couldn't face the truth.
@@tonybennett4159 To be clear, the political leadership was FUBAR. The actions taken that drove North Vietnam to the negotiation table in Paris could have been taken 10 years earlier and ended the war, as it ultimately did. The fault was the lack of will, not ability.
I honor the service and sacrifice soldiers make. But governments use that desire to serve like a cheap streetwalker. My father was in Vietnam and got exposed to Agent Orange. In 2002, he was diagnosed with Advanced Prostate Cancer, which was verified that AO was the cause. Even with this information, he was initally denied the benefits promised. He had to fight like hell to get them. He was given 5 years at most, but fought that war for 15, finally passing away in 2017.
The games politicians play did that to him. I will never forgive them for it.
I always love your reactions, always sincere and thoughtful.
Thank you, George.
They would be 4 drill sergeants in your face not one kicking your ass 24/7 but great movie and this is real deal in the late 60s 70s
You're right! R. Lee Ermey was a US Marine Staff Sergeant and a drill sergeant. He was brought in as a consultant, but he was so spot on, he was hired as an actor! Wasn't he fantastic?
Looking forward to seeing your reaction!
Because of Kubrick's aversion to travel and as for many years he was a permanent resident in the UK, all of this (apart from a few location shots by a second unit) were filmed in the UK. The sniper sequence was shot in the London Docklands which at that time was being demolished, so he was able to make use of those buildings. Kubrick ordered all of the palm trees seen in the sequence to be transported there. After the demolition of the area it became another residential district and is now unrecognisable.
*Born on the 4th of July* (1989)
FANTASTIC film!
An amazing movie and an amazing reaction. Sometimes there just isn't anything to say and that's an acceptable reaction too. This is one of those movies that's just meant to show a bit what it was all about, without a real happy ending like most movies tend to do.
Great reaction George. A recent movie by Taika Waititi titled "JoJo Rabbit" is one of the best movies I've seen in the last decade. It's WW2 as seen through the eyes of a 10 year old Hitler-Jugend boy. Shows just how the Nazi's brainwashed children back then.
Wow, I've seen dozens of reactions to this movie, and this is the 1st reactor I've personally heard say that the drill sergeant had to be real!!! That is such a great observation, and I know most comments will let you know how spot on you were!
P.S. I'm not even done with reaction yet, and so far this is best reaction I've seen, even by ex-marines. Not to say anything negative about an ex-marine or that they have not had some of the best reactions, but it is just a different type of reaction to hear someone who experienced the same emotions and thoughts as me during a reaction. The truth is, civilians will never have a complete understanding what it is like to go through boot camp and serve in a war, so I relate most to someone like me.
P.S. I have the ultimate respect for all military personnel around the world, especially those who served during wartime. I have to be honest, I was not meant for it, and I have nothing but the ultimate respect for those who have!!!
Something to remember, though just by sheer repetition, we call it 'The Vietnam War', but it was classified officially as a 'Police Action', so that our Government didn't HAVE to deal with the hassle of actually declaring war. So inconvenient that is for the State, obeying the laws they made.
The same thing was done wth Korea and most recently with the 'Second' Iraqi War. In 1991 war WAS actually declared, but not in 2002. It's not surprising, but still depressing that people get propagandized so damn easily.
Great film, one of the best war films
My favorite war movie. Loved your reaction.
*Casualties of War* (1989)
R. Lee Ermey's authenticity in his role to me, is the main reason why this film has aged better than Platoon.
It’s an interesting story how the drill sergeant was cast for this role. Supposedly he was an actual drill sergeant not an actor.
Edit: haha I just saw someone posted that already.
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2:55 you're absolutely right, he was a drill instructor in the US Marines
Yours' has been the best response...try Tom Cruise "Born on the 4th of July"...his best work.
ok......but that jelly doughnut really looked good.
Platoon should be your next one, that one is also very much just ambient sounds.
Next up 'Apocalypse Now' at the very least you'll love and recognize the music. Excellent reaction and perception, I love your channel!
More Kubrick, please! Maybe do his other war movies, Paths of Glory and Dr. Strangelove...One is a great drama, the other the best black comedy of all time.
As many times as I have seen this movie, I still haven't been able to figure out what killed the Lt when they entered Hue. There was no way it was incoming mortar or artillery rounds. The explosions went off in front of the tank, so it didn't run over any mine. The only thing I can think of was command detonated anti-personnel mines like a bouncing betty. These would have gone off about chest high. But the Lt was behind the tank and lower than the turret, so the chest wounds make no sense.
I always assumed it was a sniper working it's way down, and starting with the highest ranking officer.
This is probably the first realistic movie on the Marine Corps training and war. Others include certain scenes from Platoon but the best is Saving Private Ryan, IMO. Very hard to watch for sure.
The only criticism I have of this movie (and it's a small one) is when someone get's shot I'm pretty sure it's not like a ballon full of blood popping..Other than that? Great flick!..Oh, BTW, that's Kubrick himself, tracking with the camera, when they're all sitting lined up on the wall.
Ive seen it loads of times but still when pyles doing his "dark" speech i got shivvers
You got to watch Platoon.
After shooting the sniper girl, the men marched through the darkness with fires all around them.
Hell.
And while in hell......they sing. Like demons. Turned from men, into demons. Baptized by fire.
Great reaction / review. If you haven't done Apocalypse Now, that is another insane Vietnam film incredibly good.
Y'all be safe.
You should also see "Platoon" .
You should do a reaction to the film It’s a Wonderful Life
Watch Apocalypse now if you havent another absolutely stunning war film
and the Hurt locker for a newer war
Apocalypse Now for the ultimate Viet Nam War movie, and it features the Doors song The End.
Great musical score, a trip to watch, and total fiction to the point of fantasy.
I didn't know Vincent D'Nofrio (?) Played in this.
I've always had a weird theory that Ricky Linderman (The big guy in "My Bodyguard") is Animal Mother's son. The movie came out in 1980, and Ricky is supposed to be 15, so he would've been born in 1965. Animal Mother could've been around 18 or 19 in 1965, so the timeline fits. Full Metal Jacket takes place in 1967 and 1968. Animal Mother could have enlisted right after his son was born and when we see him he had already been in the corps for 2 or 3 years. Ricky Linderman wears an O.D. m1965 field jacket. Possibly his Dad's old jacket. When asked what his Dad does he replies "He watches TV". Possibly because he can't hold down a job due to PTSD. Ya gotta admit, the family resemblance is uncanny. They even talk alike. Tell me I'm wrong. ua-cam.com/video/LQBS0Uzdel8/v-deo.html
Great reaction, man. There many great war movies and i hope you will cover many more. But if you were to react to just one more, I would suggest you the german classic/masterpiece Das Boot.
I thoroughly enjoy watching you watch movies. You're insightful and smart.
Have you ever seen The Others?
That's the Marine corp. You aren't drafted into the Marines.
Next react to Kubricks Dr Strangelove
Greetings from Finland man!!! I'd like to see your reaction to JFK movie by Oliver Stone it's based on the facts that were known to be true about the case by 1991!!! "I'll be back" 😎
I've also requested this long-ago 👍
There is pretty much no score, just ambient sounds punctuated by the period songs. The camera shots were very Kubrick, kept the view right in the scene. I think Animal Mother represents what Pyle could have been as born again hard, like Gunny Hartman told him in boot camp, had he not lost his mind in the transition. The round that killed Cowboy was straight through the heart, actually hit his dog tags on exiting his chest. The set was an abandoned gas works scheduled for demolition that Kubrick was free to destroy. I think a friend of his had the tanks, and I think every vehicle or equipment the production had was used and seen in the long walking shot, and I think again when Kubrick was shown on camera filming the war footage.
i recommend you watch :
*American History X*
Animal Mother is a great twitter follow. Adam Baldwin is a real patriot.
I will never forgive the US Government (and of course all other modern nations doing the same thing) that take the desire of someone to 'give back' and serve their country, that take that loyalty and treat it like a cheap streetwalker. The Dehumanizing Programs they have worked on so carefully for over 100 years are bad enough.
Support our Troops- Put a Poliltician on the Front Lines.
see monty python marching up and down the square sketch
You cut off like the best parts to react to on the boot camp scene.
This was all filmed in the UK.
You should see HBO's "The Pacific" mini-series,that series will give you PTSD!
Please, please watch rocky horror picture show and Philadelphia
I can't watch this movie it gives me severe ptsd, my family, and now my new gangster neighbors (they think they're gangster 😒) have treated me the same way as the drill sergeant, and I have the scars to prove it 😭
But besides that, the "Gomer Pyle" character was in the first Jurassic World, he was the one who wanted to use the velociraptors for military use, and last but not least, have a wonderful Thanksgiving everyone 😊
Mass punishment is one of the things I disagreed the most with during my service.
G I Jane is another good movie
You should watch the video actually got the role of Hartmann. Very good story.
Apocalypse Now is the best war film ever made...maybe check it out sometime. Great reaction ...Kubrick filmed this in London Docklands if you can believe that. All the smoke and buildings hid the London skyline.
Apocalypse Now is drug induced psychobabble fairytale based on an older novel called “Heart of Darkness”, written in 1899. In attempting to follow that narrative, the details aren’t at all accurate. I’ve talked with quite a few combat veterans that served in the Vietnam war and they’re opinion of the movie is, while quite fanciful, it's not accurate.
@@rollotomassi6232 You’re a fool.
@@rollotomassi6232 I know this...I never said it was accurate. Much more psychological. Coppola wanted them to almost travel back in time as they went up river. Symbolic.
@@FilterHQ Taken for what it is, I found the movie entertaining and really enjoyed the PT boat trip up the river. The ending was just too much of Brando phoning it in and weirdness, drove Copula to a nervous breakdown.
@@rollotomassi6232 I think the 3 difinitive Vietnam War films are Apocalypse now, Platoon and Full Metal Jacket. All very different. The Surreal, the Hollywood, and the realistic :)
It's Kubrick
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please react to : *American History X* (1998)
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Same? Nobody sane can do the things you have to do in war.....if you don't go a little crazy you would never be able to live with yourself.
1. There are always more than one CC in boot camp (at least in the Navy) where partially recruits can't be abused. Verbal abuse is one thing but physical was a NO GO.
2. Vincent D'Onofrio played the Bug in MIB and had to put on 50lbs for this role
3. Hardman was out of control. Others outside his recruits would have noticed and he would have been held accountable.
4. "I don't know, but I've been told. Eskimo pussy is mighty cold." was used in my Navy recruit company in 1981.
5. In the US Navy real live ammo was always accounted for, and Pyle wouldn't have had it on his person in the head.
6. The lights in the head are always lit. (lighting I suspect).
7. "Blanket parties" were a real deal. We didn't have one because we didn't have a Gomer Pyle.
8. The hooker in Saigon is just distracting them so the motorcycle guys can steal the camera. I saw that happen in the Philippines.
9. Favorite character: Mother because he's nutz 🤪
10. Even by Hollywood standards, Kubrick went overboard with excessive bloodletting.
It’s not physical abuse if he’s choking himself.
@@justmeeagainn It's physical when the Gunny is slapping him
10. Even by Hollywood standards, Kubrick went overboard with excessive bloodletting.
Because we all know when you get shot blood only trickles out of the tiny hole it makes in your shirt.
@@rollotomassi6232 It's certainly not a whole pint gushing out of a foot wound
@@williamjones6031 True
FMJ , brilliant movie, but “Platoon” is a true masterpiece. The best Vietnam movie ever.
Possibly the best war movie ever. ✌️
no, Platoon sucks
Apocalypse Now is the masterpiece Vietnam anti-war movie
@@zerpblerd5966 Platoon “sucks” ? You sound like a 12 year old.
It won numerous Academy Awards, it has one of the best soundtracks EVER, it has an all-star cast, it’s widely regarded as Oliver Stones best movie, and it was critically acclaimed.
But according to you, it “sucks”. 👀 Mad.
@@bpfromowc well, you're an idiot, awards, actors, and 'how it is regarded' in general means nothing, and no, it's not regarded as Stone's best (only by ignorant fanbois who haven't seen more than a couple hundred movies.
your delusions of how I sound are your problem
I've seen over 3000 movies, write+direct and worked in the indepentent film industry with a BFA in film, and could write a dissertation on why Platoon sucks.
You can't handle words like 'sucks' as basic sharing of my view and have to come back with a butthurt response like you did ? sucks to be you
@@zerpblerd5966 You are tripping, but to each his own.
@@zerpblerd5966 Like I said before, you sound like a twelve year old child.
Trying to force your know-all opinions upon others in an incredibly rude manner, but hey, that’s the American way, isn’t it ?
I like people watching this forget woke is just a film
You should see American History X if you haven't yet.
Oh yes! I concur
anti-war movie
Kubrick is THE MASTER
but I recommend watching his stuff alone, in dark, in silence, not for reactions
theya re so powerful and to be taken as profound experiences and doing a 'reaction video' with them does a bit of disservice
wtf are you looking down+away at!!!
not okay!
Paths of Glory is another anti-war Kubrick masterpiece, check it out
@@zerpblerd5966 "Dr. Strangelove" or: "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (1964). Anti-nuclear war movie
@@rollotomassi6232 I either thought he watched that alread or was aware of it, I typed it out and then was like "oh he knows that one already"
it's not anti-nuclear war but anti military, anti-government, highlighting the 'arms race' and the ridiculous beauracracy and also fluooridation of fluids and the socialist plot to infiltrate the spirit of freedom and destroy it from within
true
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I have a bias against movies post-2000, they really started going downhill in the mid 90s after the telecommunications act
Saving Private Ryan is overrated, bunch of fanbois, mleh
Trolling? Not sure.
@@rollotomassi6232 not at all, I have no time or energy to 'troll'
does my view make you feel that insecure?
Heartbreak Ridge is another good one peoplegive hate to
but really, it's best to take some time off after FMJ from the 'military' genre and go elsewhere - let it be itself for a while before tainting with other similar imagery, etc.
I totally agree with you, I was born in 1974 thus have noticed this.
Stop cutting it out I won't watch any thing from you