Full Metal Jacket

     

Full Metal Jacket1987

Stars: Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey
Genre: Drama, War
Rating: R
Runtime: 116 minutes

Stanley Kubrick's 1987, penultimate film seemed to a lot of people to be contrived and out of touch with the '80s vogue for such intensely realistic portrayals of the Vietnam War as Platoon and The Deer Hunter. Certainly, Kubrick gave audi… more »


Private Joker:
How can you shoot women and children?

Door Gunner:
Easy... you don't lead 'em so much.

Door Gunner:
Ain't war hell?

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  • Bob Joseph Krinsky
    Bob Joseph Krinsky
    I just aim a little lower.
    LikeReply4 years ago
  • Scott Burch
    Scott Burch
    If you don't get the joke. Leading is how you hit a moving target. You shoot in front of the target and let it move into the bullets.
    LikeReply 74 years ago
  • Robert Rush
    Robert Rush
    Don't use so many bullets? Less bullets so you can kill more later?
    LikeReply5 years ago
  • Roger Dowell
    Roger Dowell
    Dont get it
    LikeReply6 years ago
  • Michael Duff
    Michael Duff
    Watch the movie. This quote is slightly off.
    LikeReply 16 years ago

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