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Full Metal Jacket taglines:An Epic Story of the Vietnam War [Australia Theatrical]

Full Metal Jacket DVD Cover Download “Full Metal Jacket” 1987	Actors: Ian Tyler Matthew Modine Private Joker/J.T. Davis Adam Baldwin Animal Mother Vincent D’Onofrio Private Gomer Pyle/Leonard Lawrence R. Lee Ermey Gunnery Sergeant Hartman Dorian Harewood Eightball Kevyn Major Howard Rafterman Arliss Howard Private Cowboy Ed O’Ross Lieutenant Touchdown/Walter J. Schinoski John Terry Lieutenant Lockhart Kieron Jecchinis Crazy Earl Kirk Taylor Payback Tim Colceri Doorgunner Jon Stafford Doc Jay Bruce Boa Poge Colonel Lieutenant Cleves
	Directors: Stanley Kubrick
	IMDB Rating: 8.4/10 out of 140,364 votes

“Full Metal Jacket” 1987 by Stanley Kubrick – Movie Goofs

“Full Metal Jacket” Plot Summary

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow Marine recruits from their brutal basic training to the bloody street fighting set in 1968 Hue, Vietnam.

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“Full Metal Jacket” Goofs List

• Continuity: The hand that Hartmann punches Private Joker with for talking behind his back.
• Continuity: In the scene were Pvt. Pyle is on the range, the bandage on his right wrist is in and out of the scene.
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Cowboy has finished asking for tank backup on the radio, he makes the common Hollywood mistake of saying “over and out” rather than the correct “out”. “Over” means handing over to the other party to receive their transmission. “Out” means you have finished the conversation.
• Continuity: After Doc Jay and Eightball are killed by the Vietnamese sniper and Animal Mother yells to Cowboy that it is okay to move up the squad, Cowboy calls for Stunt, Dolon, Rock, and No-Doze to follow him while Joker and Rafterman choose to follow him on their own, a total of seven Marines, including Cowboy. In the shot that follows, however, only six Marines are shown moving ahead. In the side shot, just before they meet up with Animal Mother, there are only five. When they crouch down by the first wall, there are six, including Animal Mother. When they move away from the wall, there are eight. When they search the building, Animal Mother order two marines off in one direction and the two reporters to follow him, making a total of five (plus Cowboy), and the same number gather around the fallen sniper; however, it is conceivable that the two missing marines are searching a different part of the building.
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Doc Jay is in the far back of the squad yelling to Cowboy that he is going to bring Eightball in, his mouth doesn’t match up to what he says.
• Continuity: Pyle’s hat when he is being slapped by Hartmann.
• Continuity: When Hartmann slaps Pyle during the drill & comp scene, the second marine in formation behind Pyle is played by two different actors between cuts of Hartmann slapping Pyle with his right hand and Hartmann slapping Pyle with his left hand.
• Continuity: At the beginning when the Marines are being lectured and/or questioned by Hartmann by their bunks, Cowboy’s, Joker’s, Pyle’s and I believe Snowball’s bunks change position relative to one another. In fact, it seems that this is a constant continuity problem when the Marines are depicted in the barracks.
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When crossing the crossing bars, the recruits are told that it should take no less than ten seconds to navigate this particular obstacle. He should have said that it should take no more than ten seconds.
• Factual errors: It is doubtful that Marines would identify themselves by their nicknames when asked by a superior to state their name. This error happens more than once.
• Continuity: When Pyle is on the range he reloads while Hartman is behind him. The magazine which Pyle finishes can be seen fully loaded.
• Errors in geography: Road markings indicate the filming location (England), not Parris Island.
• Continuity: The shape of Private Joker’s flashlight beam as he enters the head to confront Pyle.
• Continuity: The hand Murphy shoots with when they attack Hue city.
• Continuity: Upon the initial attack at Hue City, many of the soldier’s “bullets” are inconsistent with the actual line of fire. Sometimes the buildings show bullet impacts before the weapons are fired, while at other times, the weapons are fired with a clear line to the buildings, yet no impact craters or impact damage and smoke is seen – evidence that the soldiers are firing blanks.
• Continuity: When Crazy Earl holds his rifle up after the initial attack on Hue City, the magazine disappears between shots.
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Before Private Cowboy’s squad moves up to search for the sniper, Joker reloads his rifle. Between the scene where he reloads his rifle to the scene where he prepares to shoot the sniper, he doesn’t take any shots with his rifle, but when he attempts a shot on the sniper, there is no ammunition in his magazine. While some people claim that Joker’s M16 was out of ammunition when he attempted to shoot the sniper, in fact it was jammed, which was a common problem for the M16 in Vietnam.
• Continuity: When Eightball ducks behind the debris to inform Cowboy of their misdirection in Hue City, a handle on his back pack is seen leaning against his gun in one shot. In the next shot, the handle is nowhere to be seen.
• Continuity: Animal Mother’s M-60 changes position between the shots where he tries to get the squad to help Eightball and Doc Jay.
• Continuity: Palm trees move unexpectedly.
• Continuity: The magazine on the rifle that the sergeant is using when they are going into the bombed-out area.
• Continuity: Animal’s aimless shots blow away parts of the “My Toan” sign, but it is later seen intact.
• Anachronisms: A modern communications tower is visible in a shot of a helicopter taking off after they enter the city and it is being strafed by the tanks. Occurs during the scene of them being filmed by the film crew while they are sitting down waiting for orders.
• Continuity: When Hartman discovers Private Pyle’s unlocked footlocker and throws Pyle’s belongings on the floor, the position of the thrown items changes between almost every shot.
• Continuity: When Hartman inspects Private Pyle’s rifle, he opens the chamber twice.
• Factual errors: Throughout recruit training, Joker wears wire framed glasses instead of government issue glasses like Cowboy’s (although it is true that recruits with special prescriptions may have to wait for spectacles to be supplied).
• Factual errors: On several occasions, the word “repeat” is used while speaking on the radio. In the Marine Corps, the use of the word “repeat” on the radio is reserved solely for talking to artillery units to request a repeat of the last fire mission. The term used would be: “say again your last” or “I say again.”
• Continuity: Animal’s ammunition belts change length and position between shots during the initial sniper confrontation.
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In most scenes, the movement of Animal’s machine gun and the ejected casings indicate that he’s holding down the trigger, but the sound indicates that he’s firing short bursts.
• Continuity: Blood disappears from Cowboy’s face after he is shot.
• Continuity: Prior to the killing of Cowboy, you see the hole that the sniper shot through is covered. The cover is removed after “Cowboy’s peek”.
• Anachronisms: When Joker is on fire watch (where he finds Pyle in the head) he’s using a modern Mag-Lite brand flashlight, which didn’t exist at the time.
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Animal calls to Cowboy to bring the squad in and find the sniper, Rafterman turns to Cowboy and speaks a complete sentence, but the sound has been cut and replaced with a comment by Cowboy.
• Continuity: When the marines are training and going over the obstacle with the two bars, Joker goes first and Pyle goes next. But if you look behind Joker when he starts, Pyle is not the next marine in line.
• Continuity: When Hartman shuts off the lights for the first time in the barracks, he uses the four switches beside him. But when he enters to awaken the privates using the garbage can, he uses the single light switch outside the barracks room.
• Continuity: The mud on Pyle’s back changes when he’s trying to navigate the obstacle in which he has to go up the parallel bars.
• Crew or equipment visible: When the men are running forward and singing “eskimo pussy is mighty cold” a crew members shadow is briefly visible in the bottom right hand corner of the screen.
• Continuity: When Joker and his photographer travel in a Sikorsky UH-34 helicopter to report on the action at the front, there are several exterior shots of the trees rushing by underneath them. During these shots, the shadow is of a Bell Jet Ranger, a different, newer helicopter.
• Continuity: The direction of the smoke from the burning buildings changes between shots in the ruins of Hue.
• Continuity: When Hartman is reading out the marine placements after the graduation march, several of the marines change positions between shots.
• Factual errors: At the conclusion of the Colonel’s questioning of Pvt. Joker in front of the mass grave, the Colonel salutes Joker. Apart from being improper for a colonel to salute a Pfc., salutes are not rendered in a combat operations area, due to snipers actively seeking officers as targets.
• Errors in geography: When the Sergeant is talking to Pyle and he is l

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