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02-14-08, 06:37 PM #16
Fire Base Gloria! Great flick, put a Marine in charge and see what happens.
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02-14-08, 06:54 PM #17
Jarhead was the best representation of a deployed Marine that I have ever seen.
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02-14-08, 07:17 PM #18
Kubrick was a BMW Commie...
Originally Posted by yellowwing
Both were cool for "action" but the meaning was the same for both movies: "anti-military".
"The DI" remains the quintessential movie about the Marine Corps and depicts how the Marine Corps thinks. "The Great Santini" (The Ace) is a more "human" (1970's 'sensitive') version of the same concept.
"Major Payne" is a closer version of how the Marine Corps really thinks than "Full Metal Jacket" ever was ("Major Payne" depicts how civilians -whether kids or adults - are ever so unwilling nowadays to put their selfish interests aside for just a moment while sh** is hitting the fan...and it was a straight up comedy.)
Sgt gw
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02-14-08, 08:01 PM #19Originally Posted by Eric Hood
--->Dave
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02-14-08, 08:50 PM #20
Personally, I think Full Metal Jacket and Heartbreak Ridge are the best Marine Corps movies out there. These new movies are cheap. Flag of our Fathers was also great.
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02-14-08, 10:57 PM #21Originally Posted by gwladgarwr
Heck even in FMJ there's a line in the end of the boot camp part were the narrator refers to the recruits as "phoney brave."
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02-14-08, 11:04 PM #22
I'm surprised no one mentioned "Sands of Iwo Jima" or "Flying Leathernecks"
Just my opinion but "Heartbreak Ridge" was crap, and the only really good part of FMJ was the Boot Camp stuff except for the part with the dead gook in the chair.
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02-14-08, 11:12 PM #23
Sorry to hijack the thread but has anyone ever read the book that Full Metal Jacket is based on.
Short Timers by Gustav Hasford.
The book is divided into three sections, written in completely different styles.
The Spirit of the Bayonet: bootcamp, Body Count: time as a war correspondant, Grunts: time as a grunt.
The movie mixed the two last parts.
The book is out of print and can't be found anywhere, I'm hoping they reprint it but I doubt they will. Meawhile you can get a free download on Hasford's site.
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02-15-08, 12:16 AM #24
Yes i read Short Timers and recall the squad leader known as "Craze" lost it and cashed in not from a booby trapped stuffed animal but bouncing BB's from his Red Ryder air gun off the chests of attacking NVA which he kept slung over his shoulder as 'Back up' in the movie.
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02-15-08, 04:21 AM #25
Until FMJ; a made for TV movie called Tribes, with Darren McGavin, was one of the best representations of USMCRD,SD. I had ever seen. Had the DIs down pretty good too.
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02-15-08, 05:45 AM #26
Fire Base Gloria is a great movie and you should see it if you haven't. Yeah, it's odd that both Full Metal Jacket and Platoon were meant as anti-war but those are two of our favorites. Heartbreak Ridge was pretty freakin' cheesy and damn sure doesn't represent a Recon unit. I would love to see an outstanding remake of Full Metal Jacket or I guess a completely new version that was meant to show that hardcorps side but then in the end put us in a good light. That would be outstanding but I won't hold my breath. I am lookin forward to The Pacific in 2009 though. That should be squared away if they do half the job they did with Band of Brothers.
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02-15-08, 06:00 AM #27
Tribes, with Darren McGavin
Forgot about this one....very good!
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02-15-08, 06:35 AM #28Originally Posted by RLeon
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02-15-08, 08:26 AM #29
Marine Movies
Eastwood used to make good movies as an actor. I only watched "Flags" once. It was too touchy,feely. The book was 1000 times better. The DI with Jack Webb was well done.
Semper Fi,
Eric
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02-15-08, 08:48 AM #30
Ther was a movie that came out in the seventies called the " Boys of Company C'' about the Marines in Nam. Can't remember alot about it but hell I can't remember alot about yesterday. Maybe I'll Google it.
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