Full Metal Jacket (4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital)

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Here are tons of interviews with Matthew Modine and the rest of the cast, discussing the making of the film, shooting on location, working with Kubrick, the themes, and characters.

Once we hit Da Nang, again the palette appears to be fairly normal for Vietnam war movies, while HDR enjoys some more vibrant greens as well as the warmer climate, but it's only once the fires and flares erupts that we are really wowed by what this new 4K presentation can do, delivering some absolutely stunning vistas, bathed in gorgeous golden orange hues and fiery reds, cast upon the impenetrably black night sky. Sniper shots echo out across the surrounds, and there's some nice LFE weight to both the gunshots and explosions. This is definitely reference material and the best you’ve ever seen this 1987 Stanley Kubrick film look. Parker sent Kubrick some tape clips of Modine, “being the most Birdy that he could be,” said Hughes. The highlights are just as striking with the bright orange fires, and the facial toning of the multi-ethnic cast is lifelike without any color shift.All four people seem to have had a different experience on the set of the film and working with Kubrick, but after the boot camp sequence, two of the four people are no longer heard. For those of us that didn’t, Full Metal Jacket feels like a history lesson that shows the hell and doesn’t shy away from the negative aspects of war and military life. released the film on Blu-ray three times, with the two most recent editions offering the same A/V presentation and bonus features.

That doesn’t stop these extras being great for new eyes, of course, and the 30-minute Between Good and Evil featurette and brilliant chat track from Vincent D’Onofrio, R. It's quite the opposite in fact, as Kubrick showcased the mundane and dull colors of military life in the first half of the film at the Marine recruit training facility.Detailing the dehumanizing effect of military combat, the film follows a platoon of Vietnam conscripts as they join the US Marines and undergo rigorous boot camp training overseen by sadistic drill instructor Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (Ermey). Lockhart” ( John Terry), his cameraman “Rafterman” ( Kevyn Major Howard), as well as some other troops like “Animal Mother” ( Adam Baldwin), “Eightball” ( Dorian Harewood), “Lt.

A pragmatic US Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue. Two of those happen to be Kubrick films too, so let’s just say that they have an impressive track record (so far) for doing his work complete justice.Joker also encounters other soldiers in varying degrees of pleasure or pain as he goes in and out of battle as a war reporter for Stars and Stripes, the military magazine. Perhaps the most colorful scene is the first sequence after the recruit training, where Joker is enjoying some off-time in the city. Leastways, it closely matched my experience at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego back in the early 70's.

The scenes with Hartman show that he is hardened by his experiences and hasn’t got an ounce of sensitivity in his body. The disc presents a native 3840 x 2160p resolution image in the film's original theatrical aspect ratio of widescreen 1.This film probably has the most subtle and not so subtle messages and symbolism out of all of his movies. Back to the film grain, the reason you’ll see so much more of it here is that they’ve not only respectively left it but now with the high bitrates the 4K UHD Blu-ray format can run you’ll be able to see the fine grain come through so much more visibly.