Full Metal Jacket

THIS IS MY RIFLE, THERE ARE MANY LIKE IT BUT THIS IS MINE. WITHOUT ME MY RIFLE IS NOTHING, WITHOUT MY RIFLE I AM NOTHING

9/10

i’ve never watched this but i feel like a full metal jacket would be heavy idk tho🤷‍♀️

Hunting

I have so many questions and no answers cause the goat who made it is dead.

I have a very strong opinion on Full Metal Jacket, first off the first hour is a very good war movie as the drill sergeant has a comedic masterclass of a performance, but at the exact 30 minute mark the movie goes from, haha funny insults, to, all your friends hate you and they will beat you and leave you alone to go crazy, IN THE SPAN OF 2 FUCKING MINUTES.

Also Kubrick’s whole perfectionism does not shine here as one do the characters dies looks forward, gets put down, AND HAS A LOOK ROUND AS IF HE WAS RESURRECTED.

Finally my final critique before I get into the praise which I won’t be able to explain well other than “monke see monke like”, is the fact that the complete tonal switch of the movie makes it really boring even though it has its moments it could have been in the 70-90 minute mark and not the 2 hour one, though with all this criticism the ending made the extra like 30 minutes worth it.

Plot 8/10
Soundtrack/Score 9.2/10
Acting 9.5/10
Cinematography 9.3/10 (around 3 or 4 shots are absolutely perfect)
Pacing 5/10 (all over the place like a stock market)
Character Development 9.3/10 (the only other reason to stick around for the second half)
Ending 10/10 (couldn’t have done it better myself)
Direction 8.2/10 (Kubrick is my goat but wtf man)

Overall 9.1/10

Hard and rough, but not a masterpiece