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Post by SixOfTheRichest on Apr 12, 2023 12:21:16 GMT
Never, Apocalypse Now is a classic. FMJ was filmed partly on the Isle Of Dogs in London though. Beckton gas works. I thought Kubrick had quite a surreal look going on when the film represents these climatic sequences, though I really don't get whatever message he was going for, it is confused and even seems like a cheap shot. Whatever he wanted to say about the war and the military, it was said in the powerful first 45mins. Kubrick decision to film entirely in the UK is FMJ's biggest flaw for me and any emotional impact is really only delivered with Pyle's character in the first part. Since Kubrick was a perfectionist and OCD with his film-making techniques, it seems strange that he didn't care to give his film a more realistic, tropical Vietnam look. His decision to film Lolita in the UK, (the film should have been a slice of Americana and the remake with Jeremy Irons does a better job here), and Eyes Wide Shut on faux looking exterior studio sets in the UK mars these films for me too.
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Post by Stammerhead on Apr 12, 2023 18:03:23 GMT
Never, Apocalypse Now is a classic. FMJ was filmed partly on the Isle Of Dogs in London though. Beckton gas works. It was filmed in both the Isle of Dogs and at the Beckton Gas Works. Another cinematic appearance of the gas works comes at the climax of Brannigan.
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Post by WarrenPeace on Nov 10, 2023 3:34:46 GMT
So last night I was at my retro movie theatre where in one they were showing Full Metal Jacket and I was in the other watching Phantom Menace.
Somehow the two movies mashed into one and I get Jar Jar Binks going up to a couple of marines saying, "Mesa horny! Mesa love you long time!"
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2023 18:22:48 GMT
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Post by PaulsLaugh on Nov 18, 2023 4:52:17 GMT
I rate FMJ with 9/10. Beats "Apocalypse Now". The first half is certainly excellent but the second is let down by Kubrick's lack of willingness to travel, so the sets of Vietnam look absolutely useless - a few walls, some buildings which were clearly never a town and some trucked in, straggly palm trees. Ever notice that in the second half the camera is always very low down, below the level of the walls? This is so you can't see what's really there as they are actually in East London. It's shoddily cheap fil-making - something that is also my complaint about A Clockwork Orange - the production looks incredibly cheap. I have no idea why he was so lazy in these things. Take Apocalypse Now, though - that crazy bastard made his actors and crew live in the jungles of Thailand for 9 months or so. Now that's commitment. He was able to recreate Parris Island in England, but not the jungle of Vietnam. I don't think I've watched the second part of the movie since the first time. The marine training part is a movie into itself.
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Post by PaulsLaugh on Nov 18, 2023 4:58:07 GMT
It needs that wide, muddy "rice paddy" look. Like this:
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