Shifting from the raw brutality of basic training to the dehumanising effects of combat, Full Metal Jacket deftly combines nonstop action with scathing dark humour. Grain texturing is light-moderate and mostly organic looking, but there is at least one shot where it’s obvious that some digital manipulation has been done. The black level is solid and seems so much deeper than ever before, and bright daytime scenes look just stunning. the late director's preferred policy of no black bars as his films were routinely shot "safe" for 4x3.

Despite its relatively short running-time (the film clocks in at 116 minutes), the pacing is very methodical and precise, often lingering on characters as they react to the horrors around them.Pyle goes through such an intense time, that D'Onofrio transforms into something unrecognizable from when his character is first introduced with a smile that he can't seem to remove. Although, in my case, even when I told them 40 years ago, I knew they were distasteful (I stopped telling them before I graduated from high school. It may not quite be top-tier Kubrick, but it's damn close, and a tremendous anti-war movie nonetheless. Hartmann's performance and the recruits' reactions as convincing as possible, Matthew Modine, Vincent D'Onofrio, and the other actors playing recruits never met R. Blu-ray , Abigail Mead , Adam Baldwin , Full Metal Jacket , Jay Cocks , Kubrick , Matthew Modine , R.

Although Kubrick shockingly only made a dozen feature films over a near half-century career, and this one isn't anywhere near the top ( 2001, The Shining and Dr. There’s no obvious CGI or green-screen work here, with helicopters flying over the heads of actors, large numbers of extras and some terrific set-dressing with the ruined buildings littered around Vietnam. It’s worth noting that the 2007 Blu-ray release of the film only contained uncompressed LPCM (Linear PCM) and a (lossy AC3) Dolby Digital 5.for having released the film as a single, along with the Kubrick 3-Film 4k Collection, which also offers The Shining and 2001, for those who may not have been keeping up with new releases. The color timing has been slightly changed up just a bit and makes for more accurate flesh tones and even more accurate colors on the uniforms. This 4K catalog release offers a nice image upgrade over the previous Blu-ray, though it’s probably not the disc you’re likely to pull out first when showing off your Ultra HD display. Pyle, breaking Robert De Niro's movie weight-gain record (60 pounds) for Raging Bull (1980) (a record that still stands as of 2020).