02-21-2012, 10:58 PM
This probably makes me derpy, but I finally got around to sitting down and watching 'Full Metal Jacket' over the weekend (Apocalypse Now is still in the pile).
9/10. While it's no Private Ryan, the opening act of the movie was fantastic. R. Lee Ermey carried that movie, and after he left, I felt it sort of puttered. I cared less about Joker and his pseudo-friends while they were in 'Nam. I also felt like they tried too hard to pull off a moral in the last 20 minutes of the film (although the scene with 'the Stare' was rather poignant).
9/10. While it's no Private Ryan, the opening act of the movie was fantastic. R. Lee Ermey carried that movie, and after he left, I felt it sort of puttered. I cared less about Joker and his pseudo-friends while they were in 'Nam. I also felt like they tried too hard to pull off a moral in the last 20 minutes of the film (although the scene with 'the Stare' was rather poignant).
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