Ziggy Stardust said:

Me and my dad just finished watching Full Metal Jacket.

Since he was in Vietnam way back then, he was pretty critical of the film's not being very realistic to what actually happened.

I think that Kubrick wasn't trying to make it a war film.

It was a character study.

Still, he thought it was okay.

Pop's rating:

6/10

My rating:

10/10 (one of my new favorites)

My 1960's History professor, who was in Vietnam, insisted that every Vietnam movie except for We Were Soldiers is complete shit that doesn't capture what it was really like.

He particularly hated Platoon, and hated that people generally think it's realistic because they've been told it is, while he claimed that it was one of the most unrealistic Vietnam movies he'd ever seen.