FULL METAL JACKET (1987) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION

[@NiaMakiReacts]

Wow, after having time to process it and understanding the tone of the moving, the re-watch with the editing was a different experience for sure! Brilliant! The full length reaction can be found here: www.patreon.com/posts/104939022?

[@Sirala6]

Kubrick's a genius. This is art. Art is sometimes ugly, mysterious, and ambiguous. Well done!

[@Tempest_Elixir]

Understandable. You can only see a film once for the first time and it's quite an experience like all of Kubricks work. Glad you enjoyed and appreciated 👏🏻

[@widowmaker7831]

The part where Joker had to hit Pile with the soap sock was one of those catch 22 situations. Section 8 is when a soldier can't hack it and has lost their mind, gone insane.

[@Jlastinger88]

Love you ma'am ❤

[@pleutron]

"Animal Mother" is Jayne Cobb's ancestor on *Earth That Was* :P

[@reservoirdude92]

If life were fair, R. Lee Ermey would have gotten an Oscar nod for what HAS to be one of the most iconic performances in American cinema.

[@richardrobin5837]

Exactly. It was a crime that he didnt

[@fusionaddict]

Yeah, well, Oscars are for acting, and Gunny wasn't acting.

[@reservoirdude92]

​@@fusionaddictgood point, I guess haha

[@RobertJ-vo4bk]

Wasn't iconic when it came out. Gotta consider how time passes.

[@johnmiller7682]

The thing is, he wasn't acting.

[@hayatotheninja]

"Who is John Wayne?" Has never made me feel older in my life.

[@Verdenfell]

The reason I love reaction videos from youngsters; gives me a whole different perspective

[@JBugz777]

Dude, some girl in a bar 12 years ago already asked me that... :P

[@infinitelybi2064]

Watch Battle:LA 😂😂 there's a line that a soldier says that definitely made me feel old at the young age of 28 😅😂

[@josemondragon7695]

I was born in 90 and know Clint Eastwood, not John Wayne.

[@darkerthanblack4430]

Don't feel bad. I'm 27 and I know who he is and his significance to the film. It all boils down to how people are raised, and many won't know who many greats are.

[@meanmax9663]

I'm an old Marine, I served from 1982-1986 and went through 13 weeks of boot camp at Parris Island (3rd Battalion, H Company). This movie's depiction of boot camp is spot-on. The first time I saw it, I had only been out of the Marine Corps a short while. It gave me serious flashbacks to my own experience. RIP R. Lee Ermy Semper Fidelis!

[@IlNyaPasdOrchestre]

Uncanny flex

[@nimblehealer199]

Sargent Hartman was played by R. Lee Ermey, who was a Marine Drill Instructor. He actually fought in Vietnam. Section 8 is Discharge due to mental illness. The door gunner was played by the actor who was originally cast as Sgt Hartman.

[@mbe3404]

Despite all the awesome one-liners Ermey has made it clear in interviews that Hartman was an awful drill instructor.

[@abnatick]

R. Lee Ermey was my uncles commanding officer back in Vietnam

[@nickmitsialis]

Thought Ermey was wounded by a boobytrap and rendered unfit for combat duty.

[@matt88876]

wow you knew that too

[@matt88876]

Not many people know about the drill instructors

[@russellward4624]

There is a mental and physical test that's given to soldiers, but during Vietnam the minimum IQ requirement was lowered from 92 IQ and above to allow people with as low as 72 IQ, which falls in the bottom 10% of the population. But 30,000 that fell below that minimum, which is considered a cognitive disability, were still permitted to inlist through some loopholes. This is clearly where the character of Private Pyle fell. It was called project 100,000

[@John-ir4id]

Yeah. It's sad. No one should have to fight for something they do not believe in, much less something they cannot understand.

[@Hereticked]

@@John-ir4id While it's even more tragic when it's someone mentally handicapped, the truth is none of them knew what they were fighting for. The interviews with them said it all.

[@John-ir4id]

@@Hereticked fair enough.

[@trentrez6643]

McCarthys Morons

[@ExUSSailor]

It's based on a semi-autobiographical novel called "The Short-Timers" by Marine vet Gustav Hasford. 95% of GySgt. Hartman's dialogue was improvised by the late, great R. Lee Ermey. Also, Pvt. Pyle was Vincent D'Onofrio's very first movie role.

[@fusionaddict]

Pyle/Lawrence was only D'Onofrio's first role in a major film (not first overall) by a week. Adventures in Babysitting came out 7 days later.

[@GWNorth-db8vn]

A lot of the dialogue is straight from the book.

[@benmoen]

How can you acknowledge the book but then say 95% of Hartman's dialogue was improvised... Much of it was present in the book

[@Tempest_Elixir]

26:55 John Wayne was a famous actor from back in the day often in War films and Westerns

[@NiaMakiReacts]

I see! Thanks!

[@lanolinlight]

My God, time really has marched on...

[@Verdenfell]

​@@NiaMakiReacts John Wayne produced and starred in a pro-U.S involvement film while the war was actually in progress: "The Green Berets" in 1968

[@johannesvalterdivizzini1523]

@@Verdenfell yes, he was quite a hawk even though he never served (at a time during WWII when many Hollywood stars, professional athletes, rich kids---everybody--else did).My dad and uncles all volunteered and served, with one uncle being KIA.

[@dougearnest7590]

@@johannesvalterdivizzini1523 - Yeah, and now the Left is telling all its minions to call the Duke a "draft dodger". He was marginally old at the time, and had too many injuries to pass a physical. A family man with too many kids to be drafted. He asked John Ford to get him into the service but Ford never responded (many believe Wayne's wife threw away a letter from Ford because she wanted that big money to keep rolling in.) I even read a story about FDR putting out the word that John Wayne wasn't to be inducted into the military and could better serve the war effort by staying home and making movies. And can you imagine what "Private John Wayne died in a training accident" would do to the morale?

[@TruckingInABlueDream]

Did she just ask who is John Wayne???

[@GWNorth-db8vn]

My kid could imitate John Wayne long before he ever saw anything with him in it.

[@hosehead3179]

How the hell does a movie person not know who john Wayne is? Iq below 72

[@darkerthanblack4430]

They're mostly raised on new shit

[@Okaysavingbank]

who is John Wayne

[@darkerthanblack4430]

@@Okaysavingbank He’s a 50s actor that strongly symbolized masculinity like how Arnold and Denzel doing for us now

[@GWNorth-db8vn]

The chopper gunner shooting at civilians was a real thing. They declared "free fire zones" where the locals were cleared out and anyone was assumed to be enemy. Of course people moved back, and they were considered to be supporting the VC. Anyone who had the urge was allowed to shoot at anything or anyone they wanted to in a free fire zone.

[@DevastatorJr]

I think your reaction is exactly what Kubrick was aiming for.

[@4catsnow]

As an opposite to Kubric's fantasy....It was 10 years of government subsidized lunacy,, on an industrial level...and validated by 58 thousand names on a wall....

[@Applejack30three]

A notable bit of trivia from the IMDb.. "Regarding his character Gunny Hartman's brutal discipline of the recruits, R. Lee Ermey once said in an interview that a Marine drill instructor would never physically slap, choke or punch a recruit (at least not openly), even back in his day as a young Marine. Nevertheless, the gunnery sergeant in the book that the film was based on ("The Short Timers" by Gustav Hasford) often resorts to physical violence during the latter part of his drilling period, something that was significantly toned down in the movie."

[@johnscott4196]

My buddy, who said the Battle of Hua scenes were very realistic, after Vietnam was assigned as a DI and got reassigned because he said he had a ring he would turn around backwards and smack knots on recruits heads. However, nobody got hit when I was at Parris Island.

[@Tempest_Elixir]

18:05 yes that is where you've heard that before. 2 Live Crew famously sampled it

[@nileshsmith6282]

And later Sir Mix Alot, with the famous 'Baby Got Back'.

[@Tempest_Elixir]

@@nileshsmith6282 indeed. Another banger 😎

[@dathorndike4908]

Vincent D'onofrio, who played Private Pyle, asked Lee Ermey to slap him for real when he didn't know right from left. That's why his cap flew off. He was really making contact with those slaps.

[@RoGueNavy]

You need to understand that Gunnery Sergeant Hartmann was played by an actual former Drill Instructor, named R. Lee Ermey. He was originally hired as a military advisor, to teach actors how to sound like Marines. Kubtick quickly hired him to play the role, after hearing him go on a blistering tirade. Ermey deliberately played the role to show how a DI should NEVER behave. I had the honor of meeting Gunnery Sergeant Ermey, a few years before he died. He was amazingly cool. The challenge coin he gave me, is one of my most treasured possession.

[@LordVolkov]

Possibly the most anti-war war film. FMJ is a level of dark satire that you really have to applaud Kubrick for.

[@maxsparks5183]

No. It’s not. You must have missed Das Boot.

[@adamkelly2399]

I totally agree with you. They even played this movie on my bus ride to Marine Corps Boot Camp. Cruel and unusual lmao

[@jamesbarels469]

Kubrick apparently said that this was just a War movie. "Paths of Glory" was his Anti-War film.

[@andreww1225]

They definitely made American marines out to be horrible people in this film. Honestly the first part is good but the second is just a s*** on America.

[@TTM9691]

This isn't an anti-war film and Kubrick specifically said it wasn't an anti-war film. "Paths Of Glory" is his anti-war film, and is often cited as, in your words, "the most anti-war war film". Other than maybe the original "All Quiet On The Western Front". Paths Of Glory" is THE anti-war movie of all time. You must be allergic to black & white photography, how do you not know "Paths Of Glory"? Which, by the way, is ten thousand times beter than "Full Metal Jacket", which was a total disappointment when it came out and is STILL only really half a great movie, the second half is just second-rate Vietnam rehash, done better by Cimino, Coppola and even Stone.

[@g3synth205]

18:10 - Yup! This is where it (2 Live Crew song) is from :)

[@robertdnero2217]

Filmed in the UK. RAF Bassingbourn airfield in Cambridgeshire was used as a re-creation of the Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island in South Carolina. The abandoned gasworks at Beckton in East London was used as a location to shoot the famous bombed-out city of Hue in Vietnam. The helicopter scenes were shot in Norfolk Broads, located in East Anglia in the east of England. The vast expanse of rivers and lakes known as the broads was used to double as the Mekong River near Vietnam.

[@dudermcdudeface3674]

You got awesome energy, girl. Kudos to your patrons for supporting your channel.

[@hollywood3695]

21:45 Joker didn't want to take Raptor man, but if you notice at the end Raptor man is the one that saves his ass

[@PKalashnikov47]

good point

[@ImABadTeammate]

Great point. Never caught that. It is Rafterman though. "In the book we find out that Rafterman's nickname comes from an incident at an enlisted men's club in which he climbed up into the rafters for a better view of the stage, then fell onto the table of a visiting general. In the book he's also killed, run over by a tank, cutting him in half." That is from Shortlist's *20 things you (probably) didn't know about Full Metal Jacket* article.

[@sca88]

Two of my best friends (brothers) growing up and still now, their dad was a Marine Drill Instructor during the Vietnam era. He had cassette tapes of actual Drill Instructors and they really did sound like the one in the film.

[@TruckingInABlueDream]

Cowboy was shot in the back, straight through the heart, the round hit his dog tags hanging on his neck when it exited his chest.

[@Ocrilat]

This was based on a book by a Vietnam vet that really was a combat correspondent, so Joker was the author. He claimed it was semi-real.

[@Lady_Vengeance]

Stanley Kubrick was our greatest filmmaker. He was fearless and endlessly inventive, with a singular vision. Between this film, and two of his other films, Paths of Glory and Dr. Strangelove (my all-time favorite film), Kubrick put together the most definitive and comprehensive anti-war filmography in American history. Each film tackling a different aspect of the horrors of war. In a way all of Kubrick’s films were about the horror men can inflict on one another. A true master and the iconic embodiment of what it means to be an auteur. There will never be another like him.

[@hapa817]

Great reaction to this great Kubrick film. I guess I'm showing my age, but I nearly spit out my coffee when you said, "Who's John Wayne?"😂 Another good Vietnam War movie is "Casualties Of War" 1989, with Sean Penn and Michael J. Fox. Be warned it's a hard movie to watch, but the performances of Sean Penn and Michael J. Fox makes it worth it.

[@alberttaylor2754]

Hi Nia, Let me start by saying that I am 63 year old and have NEVER served. I DID have a friend in the late 1970's who flew Heuy Gunships in Vietnam. Some of the stories he told me were truly terrifying. Much respect to ALL who serve.🙏

[@iKvetch558]

Oh boy...welcome to the Kubrick insanity version of Vietnam...it definitely makes an impression, doesn't it? I have never seen it specifically stated by Kubrick anywhere, but Private Pyle is a clear representation of a real program that the Defense Department ran in the 1960s. It was called "Project 100,000" and it was a test to see whether the mental and physical parameters for serving in the US military could be widened to make the pool of potential service people larger. Between escalation in Vietnam and all the other military commitments of the Cold War in those days, the military was concerned about a shortage of people to serve. So they started testing whether recruits who were normally just a bit below the normal standard for IQ, or emotional stability, or physical fitness could be turned into effective military personnel. The same program probably would have led to Forrest Gump being recruited and serving in Vietnam. The program had various nicknames including "McNamara's Misfits" and "McNamara's Morons" in honor of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.

[@Natty_arturo]

37:26 jokers real war face

[@luckyent1299]

I’d hold off Hacksaw for Veterans Day now because it would’ve definitely been the right movie for Memorial Day

[@matthewrevell2706]

The character of Pile represents the people with mental handicaps / "slow" that were purposefully recruited by the military during the Vietnam war.

[@Uriahjw]

OMG!! Who is John Wayne? You need to see the movie "McLintock " and all his other great movies! He was a Big Cowboy and Military movie star! I don't think he ever made a bad movie.

[@SlashmanSG]

"Who is John Wayne"????

[@Tune-O-matic]

"War is when the government tells you who the enemy is...Revolution is when you decide that for yourself" - Ben Franklin

[@StevePaur-hf4vy]

John Wayne was a famous American actor who was active from the late 1930's to the late 1970's. He was known for his tough man roles in westerns and military movies. He had a slow kinda cadence to his voice that was often imitated as well as a slight swagger in his walk that was also imitated. He was a large man and he was personified as being the ultimate American man who represented the rugged, fend for yourself American cowboy or the tough no nonsense military leader. He is the man that Joker imitated at boot camp when he got his name Joker from the Drill Instructor.

[@WallyHartshorn]

Your reactions to this movie pretty much mirror the reaction of the US to the war - a mixture of hope, optimism, confusion, anger, empathy, disgust, numbness, etc. It’s a war that tore this country apart and the echoes still reverberate today.

[@mageeaaron2624]

0:24 Aye!!!! I didn't know you were reacting to X-Men 97! Awesome!! 🙏🏽💪

[@kevincaulder96]

You may recognize private Pyke as actor Vincent D'onofrio from the television series Law and Order: Criminal Intent.

[@technofilejr3401]

D'onofrio also played Kingpin in the MCU Daredevil series

[@billymuellerTikTok]

also in the movie 'The Cell'

[@LeftyConspirator]

During the marksmanship practice scene when Hartman commends Pyle for his shooting, you can see that when he sets his magazine aside there are rounds still in it. That's where he got the ammunition for the bathroom scene.

[@Kingfish888]

I was a military police officer which is a police officer & combat soldier all wrapped into one. I can totally empathize with the recruits here. But the Gunny Sergeant is doing what must be done. To place the recruits under extreme stress & to toughen them up so that they can have a better chance of surviving combat. You cannot say to the enemy "You are being to mean, stop it.." If you think basic training was tough, just wait for combat.

[@derekheikkila78]

You are watching a real drill sergeant, no acting💯

[@twoheart7813]

My dad went through Marine boot in Paris Island, he messed up once & had to waddle behind the parade yelling I'm a shit bird. My Marine brother also had his embarrassment story while training in Camp Pendleton. VC Viet Cong, both VC & the NVA North Vietnamese Army were involved in the Tet Offensive. When they took over towns and villages they rounded up important citizens like doctors, teachers, gov leaders and murdered them.

[@mwhyte1979]

Retired AF vet here, and you should keep in mind whenever you watch a film about former and current military folks, we tend to have a very dark sense of humor. That goes double for vets who've actually served in combat situations. Keep that in mind when you watch films and wonder why folks are saying and laughing at things that most folks will be appalled at.

[@butkusfan23]

True, but you do know this film is supposed to be purposefully satirical and anti-war, right?

[@mwhyte1979]

@butkusfan23 Yes, I'm very aware of that about this movie, but it doesn't make what I wrote any less true. I've watched many reaction videos to this movie, and I've always been able to find out who's served and who hasn't served in the military. The ones who was never in will usually react like this channel with statements like " why does he have to be so mean" whole posts from vets will laugh at it or at least give one of those knowing smiles. On another note if you want a much better anti-war film, I would suggest watching Kubrick's "Paths of Glory.""" It's a much better film in my opinion.

[@jamesbarels469]

Pvt. Pyle was a representative of a program to allow less than competent people serve in the Vietnam War. Look up "McNamara's Misfits" to learn more about it. And, yes there was a lot of shocked Pikachu face in the reaction.

[@ChrisMathers3501]

-Without my rifle, I am useless. -But what about these hands? -...Put your hand on that wall, Trooper.

[@The_Dudester]

On the day I enlisted, all of the recruiting offices were closed, except the Marine office. I had spent four years in a military (Army) school. Emotionally, I was prepared, and even though I had run triathlons, the physical training caught me off guard. My DI's didn't like that I couldn't be fazed.

[@ScottMayys]

The boot camp part is very accurate I graduated from Parris Island in 1998.

[@NiaMakiReacts]

Oh wow!! Thank you for ur service by the way!

[@ScottMayys]

@@NiaMakiReacts Thank you I am only a peace time veteran though. I had to wait a day to comment I was in KZbin jail I probably hurt a gen z wussies feelings again.

[@44JMK]

Stanley Kubrick was an awesome filmmaker (2001 a Space Odyssey, The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut, Dr. Strangelove). This is a hard movie to watch, as it shows what both war and the organized preparation for war can do to men. Leonard wasn't mentally, or physically able to hack Basic Training and he eventually snapped. But the war itself changed everyone in it. What it didn't show was the disgraceful reaction of many Americans when those guys came home. GREAT reaction video...heartfelt. . John Wayne was the quintessential American hero from the 40s through the 70s. Often played cowboy roles, but always the good guy.

[@davidmc1489]

10:26 the party is about to start. The blanket party that is.

[@thewizard6077]

Awesome reaction! I subscribed Peace

[@ExUSSailor]

A Section 8 discharge is a medical discharge for those declared mentally unfit for service.

[@GWNorth-db8vn]

There was some pretty funny stuff in the book about one of the squad who tries to get a section 8 by constantly masturbating in front of people.

[@GWNorth-db8vn]

@@KS-xk2so - It's about guys who've broken under stress being sent home as no further use. It certainly shows nothing about human abilities or anything else so poetic.

[@GWNorth-db8vn]

@@KS-xk2so - We're having two different conversations here. The comment was talking about Section 8's, which are a pretty clear cut and dielectic thing. You're talking about the contrast between Pyle and Mother and how Kubrick might have been trying to use them as an allusion to the range of resiliency of the human mind.

[@KS-xk2so]

@@GWNorth-db8vn Actually we're not having a conversation at all. I thought I left that first comment on an original comment comparing Hacksaw Ridge and Full Metal Jacket.... thats the comparison I was making... not anything to do with Section 8's.... this is weird.

[@GWNorth-db8vn]

@@KS-xk2so - Glad to meet you.

[@kylrean3891]

That's called a blanket party. I went through boot camp in the mid 80s, and they were certainly still a thing then, though I'd be very surprised if it still happen today (could be wrong though!).

[@flibber123]

In the first part of the movie Leonard is the most childlike recruit. We see what training does to him. At the end of the movie, the guys who made it through training and combat are singing the theme song of the Mickey Mouse club. That was a kid's show. I think that is intentional. It ties into the duality concept. At the end they are hardened killers but they also still retain a childlike side to themselves, although it has been twisted.

[@johnscott4196]

Some truth in the movie, except for the hitting of recruits and someone getting killed, this was exactly like Parris Island when I was there beginning in Dec 1977. As far as I know we didn't have a blanket party, but heard of them. We had 4 DI's who rotated night duty, but one senior. Everything else is exactly what it was like.

[@michaelolivares2509]

I can say from experience that the foot locker reaction is real!!

[@GrouchyOldBear7]

Thanks for the video. I enjoyed it.

[@PKalashnikov47]

Stanley Kubrick created a thoughtful analysis of war with subtle details. In the scene where Joker shoots the sniper the camera pans in on his face. The words Born to Kill on his helmet are framed to show "to Kill". He turns & the peace button is blocked from view, as he struggles to shoot the girl at point blank range, the "duality of man"

[@DrJohnnyFever.]

If you want to find out who John Wayne is he has dozens of movies but I'd say start with The Cowboys. Fun and serious and tragic movie.

[@mikegrasty5521]

I heard the some of the BEST cuss words of my life in Boot Camp. I got dressed down one day, and literally, when he finished, I jotted down every insult.😅😅 The most difficult part was not to crack a smile or laugh in front of him. I still throw some of those insults around to this day. 😂😂😂🇺🇸👍🏿

[@DesertNoyz]

You can download load a soundboard with many of these sayings. It's funny as hell. As a Marine there are things I heard in boot camp back in '97 that I still say today.

[@NiaMakiReacts]

Lmao I’m gonna need them hahaha

[@eugeneodonnell4680]

Amazing thing about this movie is that it was all filmed on movie sets in the UK built to look like Vietnam. Director Stanley Kubrick was an American expatriate who refused to leave his home in England. It cost a lot but I'm sure not as nuch as Coppola spent in the Philippines on Apocolypse Now.

[@ZyggyZero]

Hi Nia!. New subscriber. The look of horror in that last closeup of Joker's face is the War Face that the drill sergeant demanded at the start of the film.

[@Uriahjw]

My uncle on my mom's side was in Vietnam. He never spoke about it to me or my brother. Our neighbor was also in the war and about the same time my uncle was. They would talk to each other about it but never in front of us. My neighbor said we wouldn't understand because we were never in that kind of situation. Only those who served in war would understand.

[@billymuellerTikTok]

18:05 everyone gets the 2 Live Crew / Sir Mix A Lot samples but missed the Ministry ones

[@harrynewman6988]

FMJ was mostly rewritten, by Kubrick and war correspondent Micheal Herr, from a former Marine war veteran’s novel “The Short Timers” (which sold pretty well). Kubrick rewrote books he thought needed improvement into his [better] screenplays so most of the labor was “done”. Note: Herr also cowrote another acclaimed Vietnam movie “Apocalypse Now”. Kubrick put more of his explorations of evil into the rewrite, so in FMJ there’s the toughening during training and macho bravado needed to go to war, then brutality from all sides fighting. Joker’s bravado evaporates when having to shoot, including putting the sniper out of her misery. You get similar explorations of other evil from his 2001:A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, etc. Great attention to detail on FMJ but the most real feel of Vietnam comes from Platoon by Oliver Stone .. based on his own Vietnam experience (note: all these war films need a little Hollywood treatment).

[@4catsnow]

We got the crap kicked out of us in basic at Ft Jackson in '67.....in the movie,, watching sarge's heart turned into salsa by that 7.62 out of Pvt Pyles gun gave a lot of people that warm and fuzzy feeling..

[@jeffburnham6611]

I think the movie is based loosely on a book, which I read as a young Marine. The Battle for Hue did happen, following the Tet Offensive, but Kubrik went all Hollywood for the 2nd half of the film. SDI Hartman.is about the most accurate depiction of a Marine Senior Drill Instructor in the 1960's.

[@johnscott4196]

Btw it showed the training of the Marines but Doc J was a Navy Corpsman. Just as tough and dedicated

[@gazoontight]

VC and Charlie refer to the Viet Cong. VC in the phonetic alphabet is Victor Charlie, ergo Charlie.

[@bahhab9361]

15:45 where did he get them from?" if you watch him shooting he doesnt empty the mag fully and keeps a bullet each time hes at the range (assumed oiff screen with how many drills they do daily). one would think every round is accounted for, but IRL do you want the paper work of a missing round every few days or ignore it....

[@mageeaaron2624]

4:45 Amen!! 😂 🙏🏽💪

[@benschultz1784]

Part of the Unholy Trinity of antiwar Vietnam films, along with _Apocalypse Now_ and _Platoon_ . Although my top 3 antiwar films are _All Quiet on the Western Front_ (1930 original), _Иди и Смотри_ [ _Come and See_ ] (1985), and _Johnny Got His Gun_ (1956) My sociology professor's first deployment after graduating from West Point was doing psych evals of troops coming back from Vietnam laying over in Japan from 73-76.

[@alextaunton3099]

I wonder what psych problems were encountered

[@thepea27pod]

This is not movie stuff; he is a real drill instructor they used for the movie. This is an accurate picture of real Marine Corps boot camp. 89 days, if you fail the midpoint physical, you can get a medical discharge or go back to day one. I know several people who went back to day one.

[@Jaxons-dad]

Stop leaving out the best part of the whole reaction that’s why we come here !!! This is the fourth tuber to do this leave it in its part of cinematic history.

[@pat5882]

The entire movie was filmed in England.

[@jakemorrow-jp6iy]

He was a actual drill instructor for the marines in real life in Vietnam

[@Madeintheshade65]

Nia that’s not the look of determination that’s the look of a crazy person

[@UniqueLibra1981]

Thank you algorithm 🙌🏾

[@NiaMakiReacts]

Hey hey 🙌

[@cainealexander-mccord2805]

Okay, you saw that kid get beat mercilessly and THAT'S what you took from it? Motivation? You didn't see a young man completely shatter? Motivation. Holy sh*t.

[@zgSH4DOW]

Them standing over the sniper sounding like kids trying to be dramatic, and even Animal Mother being shaken by the situation That's their classic military friendly trashtalk slowing to a stop. You really can't expect people to handle this kind of trauma

[@hugary2576]

Film de guerre. Trop violent. Trop de sang. Quand vous commentez des comédies, je préfère et j'adore ❤

[@davidgagnon3781]

Yeah. It would not be easy for Leanord to get live rounds. They are usually locked up securely.

[@stephensmith1307]

Let's be real, Pyle had it coming. He thought everything was a joke and continued even though it was causing pain and punishment to the others. He was obviously capable of being a solid soldier because the party made it come out of him. He just didn't care 🤷

[@LordVolkov]

"It's getting dark, I don't want to stay here..." I wish the sniper had the same thought Nia 😢 She needed to dip out under the cover of dusk... but she was just a kid and didn't know any better. For a movie about snipers you would enjoy - Enemy At The Gates, with Jude Law and Ed Harris Based (loosely) on the seige of Stalingrad in WW2 and Soviet sniper Vasily Zaitsev.

[@jiujitsujackson9831]

There were actually collection of all his insults. They are classics

[@lynxharpthorn7764]

Who is John Wayne?!? Love the reaction. Keep up the great work

[@victorramsey5575]

I think what makes this movie so iconic, besides Sgt Hartman(!), is it's just a little TOO realistic in parts. We dont really like to think about the finer details of war. Imagine a Vietnamese family that moved to America in the late 1970s.. a few years ago these people were shooting at your relatives, and vice versa, and now everyone just carries on like oh well.. nothing personal. This is how PTSD is born. On both sides.

[@mostaley5049]

👏👏Great reaction Nia as usual. Marine Corps boot camp has changed of course. 😊👏🥰 Semper Fi. Let me see your war face. 😂

[@trewells]

3:56 Nia, your reaction. LOL I'm a vet and they don't play in boot camp

[@NiaMakiReacts]

😂 I wasn’t ready for this movie

[@trewells]

@@NiaMakiReacts Did you watch the whole thing. There were other rough lines and scenes that I didn't see on your review.

[@edgarcia4794]

A based on a real event from a book written by the American commander was "We Were Soldiers. " It also shows the wives of the soldiers as well.

[@ronnierodriguez6247]

great pick nia

[@classic_sci_fi]

Secretary of Defense Robert Macnamara drastically dropped IQ requirements to swell the ranks of draftees. Leonard was an embodiment of conscripts who could barely function in the civilian world.

[@harryrabbit2870]

Yeah, this is heavy but follows Kubrick's feelings about war probably better than any of his other films and there were many: Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove even Barry Lyndon. Maybe a comedy is in order next. Enjoyed the reaction.

[@privateer9181]

Uh…i dont think the marines gave a shite about legal reasons in the 1960s. Or anytime before the military became woke

[@raymondmanderville505]

Lenard had a the look of a madman. You can google “ 1000 yard stare “ and see the images of combat soldiers staring with the eyes of a dead man

[@NiaMakiReacts]

The state I mentioned was the scene after he got jumped 11:35 and he was not joining the others as they were shouting… then yeah he went the other way and for sure that was the madman stare

[@JohnnyUtah15]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@NiaMakiReactsyes, on that issue look up “Project 100,000”. I don’t believe Leonard had “1000 yard stare”, he wasn’t mentally fit for service, hence the Section 8 (military) reference by Joker, and mentally lost it after the beatings and how he said “everyone hates him now”.

[@LordVolkov]

"I would have gone, fully intending to visit the jewel of Asia..." 😅 As someone who was very fascinated with learning the why of the Vietnam War (short answer - they asked America for freedom from the French and America backed the colonist. China took the deal if Vietnam became communist. America loves to fight any 'threat' to capitalism.) I really hope you enjoy your trip and learn a lot. If this video releases before your trip, I hope you are able to visit and learn about the tunnels under Vietnam. It's one of the most interesting facets of the war to me.

[@LordVolkov]

@yt45204 And I also want the US to keep supporting freedom around the world. Just as I wished they had supported Vietnamese independence from France.

[@Hereticked]

If it feels like FMJ is an anti-war film, that's because it is. Kubrick denied that it was, but he was known to lie/mislead people about his films (usually for marketing purposes) and anyone who's seen Paths Of Glory knows how he really felt about war. It's not just the second half of the movie that's anti-war either, it's the whole movie. The first half is about the dehumanization inherent with turning people into trained killers for the state. The second half is showing the real world consequences of that dehumanization and just how senseless the Vietnam war (and most wars) truly are. It's not a coincidence that the drill instructor yelled "What is this Mickey Mouse shit?!?" right before being blown away, that there are Mickey and Minnie figures sitting by the windows of the Stars and Stripes office and the remaining soldiers are singing the Mickey Mouse theme at the end. Kubrick is likening soldiers to children, not only because they do what they're told by authority figures (in this case, the state), but because just like Pyle, they have mentally regressed to deal with the trauma imposed on them. Whereas many movies try to valorize soldiers and war, films like Full Metal Jacket and Apocalypse Now show us the ugly truth of it.

[@LordVolkov]

I think I must have been missing the Mickey in the S&S office for years 🙃 I always thought of Mickey as chapter ends to highlight the absurdity, but with it in the reporting office it ties him directly to Joker and the propaganda coming out of the war, and I love the use of an icon of greed as a mascot of satire even more now.

[@johnscott4196]

Undoubtedly America was safer and the military more effective when people were tested and only the best were allowed. Wokeness and weakness are destroying the military and this country.

[@dedcowbowee]

"Who is John Wayne?", you should watch "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" or "True Grit".

[@celticviking4562]

Blanket party motivation 👌🏻

[@andrewlustfield6079]

Great reaction

[@TheNyquilDriver]

Second year in a row I've seen a reactor watch FMJ for memorial day not expecting it to be one of the most cynical anti-war films ever made.

[@NiaMakiReacts]

Yeah I didn’t know the message or tone getting into it and was thrown for a major loop!