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EDITOR'S NOTE: According to a Warner Home Video technician involved in the production of The Stanley Kubrick Collection, Kubrick authorized all aspects of the Collection, from the use of Digital Component Video (or "D-1") masters originally

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Stanley Kubrick's 1987, penultimate film seemed to a lot of people to be contrived and out of touch with the '80s vogue for such intensely realistic portrayals of the Vietnam War as Platoon and The Deer Hunter. Certainly, Kubrick gave audiences plenty of reason to wonder why he made the film at all: essentially a two-part drama that begins on a Parris Island boot camp for rookie Marines and abruptly switches to Vietnam (actually shot on sound stages and locations near London), Full Metal Jacket comes across as a series of self-contained chapters in a story whose logical and thematic development is oblique at best. Then again, much the same was said about Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, a masterwork both enthralled with and satiric about the future's role in the unfinished business of human evolution. In a way, Full Metal Jacket is the wholly grim counterpart of 2001. While the latter is a truly 1960s film, both wide-eyed and wary, about the intertwining of progress and isolation (ending in our redemption, finally, by death), Full Metal Jacket is a cynical, Reagan-era view of the 1960s' hunger for experience and consciousness that fulfilled itself in violence. Lee Ermey made film history as the Marine drill instructor whose ritualized debasement of men in the name of tribal uniformity creates its darkest angel in a murderous half-wit (Vincent D'Onofrio). Matthew Modine gives a smart and savvy performance as Private Joker, the clowning, military journalist who yearns to get away from the propaganda machine and know firsthand the horrific revelation of the front line. In Full Metal Jacket, depravity and fulfillment go hand in hand, and it's no wonder Kubrick kept his steely distance from the material to make the point. --Tom Keogh

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Actors: Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio, Adam Baldwin, Dorian Harewood
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
Writers: Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford
Producers: Stanley Kubrick, Jan Harlan, Michael Herr, Philip Hobbs
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
Subtitles: English, French
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
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Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Release Date: January 17, 2013
Run Time: 116 minutes
Average Customer Review: 1,860 customer reviews
ASIN: B00000J2KT
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when i was a boot

Bymikeon July 13, 2016

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Best boot camp movie ever made.it was really right on,it was how it really was.days ill never forget, best days of my life.when i finish boot camp

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Best Kubrick movie, best war movie

ByBenjaminVINE VOICEon November 26, 2016

Format: Blu-rayVerified Purchase

My Kubrick's favorite movie, and arguably, one of the best war movies of all time. I watched this movie at least 10 times, when I was an adolescent first, and then as an adult man. It always moves me to the unspeakable, and I've grown up very fond of it, its story, and most of all, its characters. This is easily among my top 20 favorite movies of all time. The bluray version looks absolutely great, the best possible, at least in my 65 inch screen!

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Purchase if remastered....

ByBrns viewon July 12, 2017

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This Blu-ray disc is not much of an improvement over the previous Blu-ray release, the disc I purchased has damage and does a not play all the a way through to the end, I found a this out to late to rmake a return, it is better than the first Blu-ray edition, wait for a remastered edition of the film to be released,

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substantial improvement in the remastering and a superb version on disk

ByJames Q. Smithon February 8, 2014

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This is more about the BD quality than the movie itself. This version is substantially better than the bluray 2006 release, which didn't look much more than an upconverted DVD.

The sound quality is superior to DVD, in clarity and dynamic range. You can switch to PCM audio to further improve the sound's dynamic range even more. The transfer has much more vibrant colors and the images are sharper and finely detailed, making the BD purchase more worthwhile over the DVD.

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Love

ByTTon June 15, 2017

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Love this movie has alot of the f word in it so definitely not for kids but I loved the.movie

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mixed feeling...

Byapple coreon April 18, 2017

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Great Kubrick film and a little improved image quality from previous blu-ray. But top and bottom of screen are still cropped as to compare to full screen version.

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A scathing and darkly humorous take on the Vietnam conflict...

ByJD Salingeron January 10, 2013

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I have read that Kubrick started working on this project well before "Platoon", as a master craftsman he took years to get where he wanted before filming began. This film, unlike the other films about Vietnam starts with recruits in Parris Island, being molded into the perfect Marines. I found this film spartan and cold (that can be said of any Kubrick film, except Spartacus), and yet darkly humorous, (particularly R Lee Ermey's Drill Instructor whipping the recruits into fighting shape.) Kubrick to me brought more of a detached view to war than any other director out there. (See "Paths of Glory" an indictment of French leadership in the 1st World War)

The transfer was excellent, the sound and picture as I remember seeing them on the big screen. 5 Stars.

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We're not racist... your all perfectly worthless ... lol

ByJ. Holleyon October 4, 2016

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I had to get my wife to watch it to see what I was always referring to when I joke sometimes! Absolute classic that defines countless characters due to the master Sargent Gunnie, he rocked it!
"This is a classic and still hard to watch. I honestly know the first half by heart... and prob only gave the second half two looks in the past. A must see for any real military film addict!