You had best ****** yourself or I will unscrew your head and **** down your neck

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: KaOTiK
I always think of this clip whenever I see someone talk about FMJ, makes me LOL everytime
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...75A&index=0&playnext=1

I like that one. I LOL every time I see it. Probably the best parody of FMJ there is.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: halik
Lee Ermey performance in the first half of the movie is outstanding! It never gets old.

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Sr Moderator allisolm

Lee Ermey is great. he just plays himself and does a great job heh

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Great half a movie, I thought it was a letdown after they got out of boot camp. Of course pretty much anything they did after Pyle shot Hartman and himself was going to be a letdown.

 

[BurnItDwn]

R. Lee Ermey is fvcking pure American awesomeness.

Nobody else, no matter how great the actor would have or could have played his part as well as did in Full Metal Jacket.
Also, the show Mail Call rocks!

On a related, but not really related subject. They used to have a talking cardboard cutout of R Lee Ermey at one of the ranges I like to shoot at. (The name of the place is Gat Guns.) The first couple of times I saw it, I thought it was awesome. But then it got really quite annoying. I do believe FMJ is pure awesomeness, (IMO Kubrick's third best after Shining & 2001) but even pure awesomeness has it's limitations .....

 

[BoomerD]

When my son and his best friend were talking about enlisting after high school, I made them both sit down and watch the first half of this movie. Their eyes were :shocked: at several points in the film. "Is it REALLY like that?" they'd ask. "Yep, this is dead on what boot camp is like."

In spite of this, they both enlisted. My son served for 8 years, his friend, for 12.

I was VERY disappointed when my son wrote and told me that boot camp was NOTHING like the movie. DI's are forbidden from striking recruits, and even though it was tough, it wasn't nearly as bad as the movie portrayed it. 🙁

I met all his DI's at his graduation. They told me that due to many lawsuits since my time, things have changed...not all for the better.