View Poll Results: Which part of Full Metal do you prefer?
First Half
54
62.07%
Second Half
1
1.15%
The whole movie is great
29
33.33%
The whole movie sucked
1
1.15%
Twikoff's Cut
2
2.30%
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Full Metal Jacket.Which half of the film do you prefer? (warning possible spoilers)
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Full Metal Jacket.Which half of the film do you prefer? (warning possible spoilers)
Okay.So alot of people have debated whether the first half or the second is the best.I decided to start a thread on this to see what you all think.Is the first half the best or the second, or do you like the entire movie.For me i only liked the first half.If you ask me the film should have just been about the training the men go through before vietnam.It would have been in my opinion, a much better film.So what do you all have to say on the subject?
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The whole film is great.
I like the first half, but I also like the end.
the "middle" is what isn't that good.
The middle to me is:
The middle is fine, but it does drag a little.
I think the film is great, either way.
I like the first half, but I also like the end.
the "middle" is what isn't that good.
The middle to me is:
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The middle is fine, but it does drag a little.
I think the film is great, either way.
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i must be in the small minority that stopped watching it during. I got throught the 1st half, and it was good. the second half was so boring that I turned it off and send it back to Netlfix. I am sure I will get flamed, but oh well.
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Definetly the 1st half.
The 2nd half just never gets going.
Although the tension with the sniper starts out promising, its always tough to look past the fake idea of an AK-47 taking soldiers out with perfect accuracy.
The 2nd half just never gets going.
Although the tension with the sniper starts out promising, its always tough to look past the fake idea of an AK-47 taking soldiers out with perfect accuracy.
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Most films that use that pattern seems to be better in the opening boot camp part. Private Benjamin and Stripes come to mind. Their second halves are not nearly as good as their first halves.
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I used to be a 'first halfer' like many others, then after repeat viewings I can't do without any part of the movie. The boot camp and the Nam scenes compliment one another and go together and people should really watch the whole film much more actively. I love the second half.
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I'm all about the movie as a whole. This was the first Kubrick I saw in its entirety when it first came out on home video. And as much as I love the boot camp and Lee Ermey's performance, the second half has some great moments in and of itself. Of course, there's "me so horny," the lesson on writing a proper story, "Get some! Get some!" "the Jungian thing," "soul-brother too beaucoup," and my favorite, "if I'm gonna die for a word, that word is poontang." After the boot camp, I think the movie whizzes by at a great pace.
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My problem with the second half is that it becomes every war movie ever made, which is not to say that the first half isn't loaded with cliches, either.
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The second half is as important as the first. I dislike it when people say the first half is brilliant and the second sucks. The 2 parts complement each other and neither would be as strong without the other.
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Originally posted by devilshalo
"Get some, get some!"
I like the first half, but Joker and Cowboy in the huey. Priceless.
"Get some, get some!"
I like the first half, but Joker and Cowboy in the huey. Priceless.
Between that and "me soooo horney!" the second half is just as quotable as the first. If not more so.
I would say that "me sooo horney!" is arguably (and oddly) Kubrick's greatest contribution to pop culture. Everybody recognizes that line, even people who havn't seen (or even heard of) the movie.
EDIT: Just saw Sundog's post...he beat me to it, but I stand by everything in my post. Very good film.
That said, I also hate people who see the film ONLY as a comedy and seem to not want to engage with the film's deeper ideas about dehumanization. People who watch the first half over and over again and laugh their asses off scare me most of all. Anyone who doesn't like the second half probably just enjoys laughing at the exploits of Gomer Pyle without thinking about the ramafications. Ya'll probably turn it off before the suicide even.
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R. Lee Ermey is a riot. A bit off topic, but the R. Lee Ermey doll is priceless. A friend of mine got one off fleaBay and we played with it till the batteries died. The dang thing had us laughing so hard.
Oh, I guess this means I like the first half more than the second half.
Oh, I guess this means I like the first half more than the second half.
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Originally posted by Pants
That said, I also hate people who see the film ONLY as a comedy and seem to not want to engage with the film's deeper ideas about dehumanization . . .
That said, I also hate people who see the film ONLY as a comedy and seem to not want to engage with the film's deeper ideas about dehumanization . . .
Of course, in the theater the correlations and rhythms between the two halves are much easier to discern as well.
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The whole films is great but the first half works better than the second half in my opinion, mainly because the first half attains more closure. It gives a terrific overview of the mauling of human beings into killing machines, but the second half clearly adopts different topics to examine (such as politics) and thus feels somewhat like it doesn't cover everything it could have.