*Full Metal Jacket* is a CRAZY EXPERIENCE...GEN-Z FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION
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Sorry for the scuffed audio... Had some issues but thought it was still worth uploading!
White people need to stop worrying about who is or isn't racist
Oh boy...welcome to the Kubrick insanity version of Vietnam...it definitely makes an impression, doesn't it?
I have never seen it specifically stated by Kubrick anywhere, but Private Pyle is a clear representation of a real program that the Defense Department ran in the 1960s. It was called "Project 100,000" and it was a test to see whether the mental and physical parameters for serving in the US military could be widened to make the pool of potential service people larger. Between escalation in Vietnam and all the other military commitments of the Cold War in those days, the military was concerned about a shortage of people to serve. So they started testing whether recruits who were normally just a bit below the normal standard for IQ, or emotional stability, or physical fitness could be turned into effective military personnel. The same program probably would have led to Forrest Gump being recruited and serving in Vietnam. The program had various nicknames including "McNamara's Misfits" and "McNamara's Morons" in honor of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.
Sorry if somebody already commented this. 👍
My father is a Vietnam vet and he said this is the most accurate depiction of boot camp he ever seen.
R. Lee Ermey was a family man and a kind and gentle soul...that's what makes this performance all the more legendary. Rest in Peace
He was great!
Jsyk, it took the NVA/VC two years to launch the Tet Offensive all across South Vietnam. And it ended up "militarially" being an absolute failure but it influenced the media and anti-war movement in the US.
I went to boot camp in San Diego, not Parris Island (that was for recruits east of the Mississippi River), and even though this took place 20 years prior to me going in in 1989, the boot camp half of the movie still holds up. We did not get hit, but things happen when DI's get a little amped up. bah, whatcha gonna do? Tell on them and be a little you know what? The soap scene, that's called a blanket party...and ummm, certainly is not tolerated or condoned, wink wink. Weapons are locked up every night and recruits do not sleep with them. Really the biggest difference is in the movie, it's a Senior Drill Instructor doing all the yelling, running, PT, etc, but in reality, there are usually 2 or 3 other Drill Instructors doing all that, while the Senior Drill Instructor plays the role of the "nice guy" in comparison, but do not embarrass him or you will have a very bad day.
I don’t think I could do it lol
My father, a Vietnam vet, says this is identical to his experience in boot camp.
Shaving the heads to my knowledge...quite a few reasons. It's neater, easier on the hygiene, everyone looks the same, there actually is a tactical advantage in hand to hand combat if your enemy can pull your hair vs it being too short to pull, etc. From what I understand, they weren't aware that their heads were going to get shaved for this scene, so their sad faces are apparently quite real.
That surprise attack by the North Vietnamese on every enemy station in the south really happened. It was known as the Tet Offensive on January 31, 1968; named after the Vietnamese holiday on which it was launched. My dad was stationed in Da Nang at the time.
That’s wild!
Speaking of Kubrick: Shelley Duvall just died the other day. She was Wendy in 'The Shining' with Jack Nicholson.
I heard about that... really enjoyed her performance in The Shining! RIP
Oh. And I knew you'd get to over a thousand sooner then later.@@noahzynski
@@CRAkins1020 Appreciate the support!
She also played Oliveoil in Popeye with Robin Williams.
The point of that was to stop them from calling their rifle a gun.
The purpose of the way youre treated in Marine corps boot camp, is to train you to perform with efficiency and purpose in the most difficult of situations. When you trained to function under extreme, it transfers over to when bullets are whizzing by, bombs going off and all the chaos of war surrounds you and just doesnt stop. If you can open a combination lock with 4 drill instructors...yes, most platoons have 4, not 1 DI, screaming in your face and pushing you, then youve a huge advantage in many situations.
NOTE....there are a few scenes where you see other DIs in the background, just never focused on. Imagine having 4 DIs, all with their own unique ways of training and treating you. The scariest, toughest best DI when I went through bootcamp wall the smallest most unassuming of the 4.
Ex Marine from the early 90s.
That makes sense!
I heard a Navy officer say something, and an Air Force sergeant corroborated it. The most important thing to learn in training, and if you learn nothing else, is to make good decisions in highly stressful environments. That explains the yelling, crazy punishment, and one person getting everyone else in trouble.
There is nothing racist about the DI. As he says, all the boots are equally worthless. He will screw with every recruit in whatever way messes with their head and stresses them.
FMJ refers to the copper that surrounds the lead bullet. FMJs are meant for piercing armor as opposed to a hunting round designed to expand .
My father is a proud Marine veteran - he served in the late 1950s. He has also said that the boot camp sequence was entirely accurate.
Wild stuff!
The point of haircuts is to remove individuality.
Yeah thought it was something like that
it’s also hygienic. It’s amazing how many people have no clue how to do basic hygiene.
@@Heiryuu Exactly they are getting people from all walks of life and different grooming habits.
4:51 it’s pretty true to real life. The actor playing the drill instructor was a real life drill instructor. Also you asked what the point is, it’s to break you down and strip you of your humanity so they can build you back up on the fundamentals of what makes a soldier.
1:03, hygiene and to create a common experience between all of the recruits.
Remember how Joker was working on his war face?
When he killed the sniper.. that’s really his war face.
My only complaint with this movie is that when you are dealing with a sniper you are trained to use smoke grenades.
A sniper with no visibility is non effective.
They do use smoke towards the end!
@@noahzynski yes, the Standard Operating Procedure would be to fill the area with smoke when dealing with sniper fire, especially in a built up area.
Boot camp was really like that. My Dad was a Drill Sargent and had to teach his men before they fought in Vietnam. It's great to see someone from your generation watching this 😊
wild stuff!
Definitely! I hope you do more reaction videos from back in the day. But you have a new Gen X fan
@@NenDani75 awesome!
The guy who played drill instructor Hartman, Lee Ermy, was a real life Marine drill instructor. He was brought in as an advisor by Kubrick for authenticity's sake & ended up getting the part. I was born in 1956 and was just a few years shy of dealing with the draft. Vietnam was not a popular war. Therefore they initiated a draft which was how you ended up with people like Private Pyle. Stanley Kubrick was staunchly anti-war so this is essentially an ant-war movie that is also very realistic... a bit unlike his other anti-war film , Dr. Strangelove, which was parody & comedy. You should do a reaction to that.
A couple of film reaction suggestions: Blazing Saddles & Young Frankenstein by director Mel Brooks, The Third Man directed by Carol Reed and starring Orson Welles, Touch Of Evil directed by Orson Welles, Slaughterhouse Five directed by George Roy Hill, Blue Velvet and The Elephant Man directed by David Lynch, No Country For Old Men by the Coen Brothers, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas & Raging Bull directed by Martin Scorcese, This Is Spinal Tap by Rob Reiner & An American Werewolf in London by John Landis. Just a few off the top of my head.
I have a Goodfellas reaction on the channel already! The rest I’ll keep in mind for the future!!
@@noahzynski I'll check out the Goodfellas reaction!
During the Vietnam War they had a hard time recruiting for the military. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara reduced the intelligence requirements for 5he military so that they could accept severely mentally challenged men.
They were dubbed McNamara's Morons. And m9st of the senior enlisted as well as senior officers, knew these guys woud be useless, get themselves killed or get others killed so they aggressively trried to weed them out.
But they were being odered to let them in.
Private Pyle is supposed to be one of these guys. Vincent DeNofrio plays the character as a child to demonstrate his mental challages in Boot Camp.
“Couldn’t even bring more than 1 person? Terrible”
Is the most out of pocket thing I’ve heard someone say in response to that scene.
lol
The "Does this mean Ann-Margret not coming?" quote is my favorite non-Hartman line of the film, especially since she's mentioned earlier. XD
Thanks for watching all these great Kubrick films!
Have you seen any David Lynch films? Or Werner Herzog? Those are a few suggestions for you to delve into off the top of my head.
I haven’t seen any of there films I’ll keep them in mind!
Two great suggestions!
Definitely my fav Kubrick movie , absolutely love the way it’s constructed. The boot camp stuff is so legendary , great performances and directing / writing all around
It was a fun watch!
I can only speak from post-Vietnam US Navy.
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 "Men in black", 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. "I wouldn't shit you, you're my favorite turd" I've used that before.
10. Even by Hollywood standards, Kubrick went overboard with excessive bloodletting.
Marine here
Haircuts - uniformity and utility. Look the same and no time wasted in grooming
Brutality in boot camp - this was wartime, and folks needed to drop bad habits from civilian life asap. When I went through in 1991, no DI's were allowed to beat you or put their hands on you.
Ridiculous 'Games' in boot camp - absolutely, they had us doing goofy shit all the time whenever anyone screwed up. The more ridiculous the better because you'd never forget it.
(we had a guy leave his footlocker unlocked and they came around while were out doing PT and unlocked all our locks and locked them together and then gave us 5 minutes to find our lock and remove it and secure our foot lockers. There were 66 guys in our platoon.... it was the definition of a 'Clusterfuck')
Marine Boot Camp is now 13 weeks long, it was 8 weeks during Viet Nam - they needed boys out there in the fleet ASAP
Open Bathrooms - The 'Head' as they are called. I was in MCRD San Diego, 30+ years ago... I think we had stalls but I don't remember if the stalls had doors. Maybe Parris Island had open Heads?
Section 8 - Unfit for Military Service. At that time they didn't accept Gay Marines, and they were lumped in with people that were deemed 'undesirables' Trans, Chronic Mastrubators, Crazy people.
Once in Viet Nam the film shows a Marine Door Gunner (Crew Chief) shooting civilian farmers for fun...
I'm aware that there were incidents of illegal killings, r#pes, and assaults, but they were not common at all and they certainly were not just witnessed and blithely accepted by your fellow servicemen.
I love Full Metal Jacket, but I know that like many Hollywood films, it exaggerates and exacerbates situations like this for dramatic effect
It's borderline anti-Marine propaganda.
Fun side note, the actor playing that Door Gunner was the original actor slated to play Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, Tim Colceri had prepared for 8 months to play Hartman, but when Kubrick saw R. Lee Ermey's audition tape, it was a hilariously dark and profane rant, and Kubrick changed the roles.
Appreciate the info!!
Keep the Kubrick train rolling with Spartacus.
I’ll keep that in mind!
I've never seen a UA-cam channel owner trying so hard not to cry ...
What…
A couple of other great movies set during the Vietnam War are Platoon and Apocalypse Now(original cut).
I’ll keep those in mind!
@@noahzynskido not miss "deer hunter" 1979 😊
This movie is not really a war movie. It is a story about a few very specific characters and how they interact with each other.
The shaved heads would be one of the last things they filmed.
One of the Big Three Vietnam War Movies. Including Apocalypse Now and Platoon.
Can’t believe my dad let me watch this at age 6
SEMPER FIDELIS, 'nuff said.
"Does anyone knows who Micah Xavier Johnson was?"
"You"
"Sir he’s the one who shot all the cops in Dallas Texas Sir."
not a little girl, a young full grown woman. vietnamese are just small people.
1min 55 sec in and the bloke already removed (not muted, removed) the whole racial bigotry part and one of the best and longest insults Ermey had, bc he mentioned commies. Doesn't get more gen z than that mate.
It sounded like you haven't seen Private Pyle in The Cell (2000), you may want to check him out in that sometime, if you haven't seen it already.
Shaved heads: Reason? Makes it hard for lice to take hold and easy for a medic to work on any potential head wounds.
Section 8 in the military is when you are discharged for psychological, sexual preference(different world back then), or any other reason to be deemed unfit for service, which would be “other than honorably discharged” if you were dishonorably discharged that is looked down upon worse than the section 8 discharge and honorably discharged because you did an illegal act under law to discharge you
If you can't take a little verbal abuse and get knocked around a bit....what are you going to do when the enemy is trying to kill you?...These instructors had very little time to try to prepare these men for the inevitable.....
If there's a remake done of Harold and Maude you should be in it.
I liked pvt Pyle in the remake of the magnificent 7.
They shave your head as part of the process of removing your individuality and breaking you down.
Your a young American. If you're not taking a true degree in college a doctor, any type of engineering, science, notice I didn't say education, maybe a few historians and diggers and philosophy. Religion in their schools. You should join for four years. Dough boy it will change your life. KUBRICK made a fantasy. It's hard, but even for a dough boy it's possible but I would start jogging, push-ups and and sit-ups.
Why did you cut out stuff in the opening? Poor decision to do so.
My audio was scuffed so some parts were unusable unfortunately…
@@noahzynski I understand, but you should have played the entire opening scene with the drill instructor with no editing. You made the right decision to pick the movie, but did not execute. Perhaps a remake should be considered. That was was the most talked about, and best part of the movie when it first came out before you were born. Keeping it real is the key to showing viewers realism. Good luck in the future.
@@pinbot454 copyright wouldn’t allow that but I appreciate the constructive criticism!!
It was all filmed in England.
Interesting!
nother good reaction ! hope you check out some other kubricks like clockwork orange and barry lyndon ! also as someone else suggested you should check out some david lynch but it might be too weird for you :)
Definitely will check out more Kubrick!
Youll need to watch the Ken Burna documentary on the Vietnam war
That would be interesting!
@@noahzynski it's really great. Be prepared to learn how disgustingly the USA behaved from the politicians to the soldiers in the field.
You don’t have time to jack with your hair
Semper Fi R. Lee Ermey
Hey, ever wanna watch a film that will give you PTSD irl? Have I got a movie for YOU
Not yet lol what’s the suggestion?
@@noahzynski Well this one for sure. But go ahead and chain Platoon and Apocalypse Now if you're not emotionally scarred enough already 😃
@@michaelschwartz8730 I’ll keep those in mind!
You cut out a lot of great lines in this movie.
There were so many good ones hard to get them all!
Great movie, great reaction
Thanks!
Be careful that you dont watch all the great movies back to back. Because all others will be so much worse in comparison. Maybe go per year ? Or genre , or actor. Just a suggestion. A movie like pursuit of happiness is really great or City of God. There are about 150 really good movies 😅
I don’t think ill run out of good movies any time soon lol
sorry cut a lot out thumb down👎
Had audio issues lots was unusable unfortunately…
This generation is so fucking soft
I wasn’t offended in any way shape or form
@@noahzynski sorry didnt mean to make it seem like I was coming at you just the world itself
@@codfan3780 I agree with you lol
@@noahzynski you should try watching the Pacific
it looked like everything about this movie probably offended this kid. lol
No
11:20. That's as far as I made it. You have no respect for the Creator of Heaven and Earth. JESUS has been given the name above ALL names! For there is only one name under Heaven that which we may be saved, JESUS CHRIST! ALL WILL BOW TO JESUS!
Ok
Get a better mic.
The recording was scuffed wasn't my mic
@@noahzynski Ok. Would be the only thing from checking out other videos. Otherwise good overall.
GUNNY A TRUE MARINE!!!!! A REAL DRILL INSTRUCTOR!!!!!!!! SEMPER FI GUNNY!!!!!
Man you seem like a smart guy, When you gonna sign that dotted line? It's your turn you know You aren't gonna punk out are you? Why watch the movie when you can ride the ride brother?
no thanks