Full Metal Jacket

R. Lee Ermey was so great in that movie that he made a career out of it. You still see it even as recent as that Geico commercial, you jackwagon.
 
Another of my favorites:

"Tonight, you pukes will sleep with your rifles. You will give your rifle a girl's name. Because this is the only ***** you people are going to get. Your days of finger-banging old Mary Jane Rotten Crotch through her pretty pink panties are OVER. You're married to this piece, this weapon of iron and wood. And you will be faithful."
 
"I bet you're the kind of guy that would **** a person in the *** and not even have the ******* common courtesy to give him a reach-around. I'll be watching you. "
 
Actually, I heard it a bit differently. I hear that R. Lee was actually a technical advisor to the film and that after they lost a few actors in the role because R. Lee said they were ****, Kubrick said "How about you do it?" and he did it, sans script.
 
My favorite part is the end, the Marines marching through the city (Hue?) singing the Mickey Mouse song.

I read that Kubric had some foolish idea as to why they were siging this song - some rubbish about how it showed the materialism of Americans or other crap. He must not be a veteran. Any vet would tell you they would sing that song because it was a silly, foolish song, totally inappropriate for that setting, and that's the way soldiers do things. Plus it showed their ease at the setting of war, that they could sing a kids song in a battle zone.
 
Sooo...Does this mean Anne Margaret is not coming?

About 2 years ago I was sitting at a poker table at Wynn. The guy sitting next to me was major howard who played rafterman in the movie. really nice guy. one of my fav roles of his was when he played the rapist/killer in the frank sinatra magnum pi episode. anyway, he also has some kind of a charity for veterans and does something similar to what gary sinise does.
 
Marine Colonel: "Son, all I've ever asked of my marines is that they obey my orders as they would the word of God. We are here to help the Vietnamese, because inside every gook there is an American trying to get out. It's a hardball world, son. We've gotta keep our heads until this peace craze blows over."
 
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