My father was a Marine. He was at boot camp in the early 60's. He told me this was the most realistic depiction of boot camp he'd ever seen in a movie.

As Im sure others have mentioned, Sgt Hartman was played by R. Lee Ermey. He was a real Marine Corps Drill Instructor. Most of his lines were from real life experiences. The man was an animal!! RIP R Lee Ermey, you are a Legend.

If you pay attention when Pyle is shooting he ejects an “empty” magazine that still has rounds in it onto the ground beside him while Hartman is talking to him 18:39 and that’s how he got live rounds into the barracks

Everybody knows that the bird is the word. Peter Griffin ruined it for me 😂

Pyle had leearning disabilities but the military didn't care they needed soldiers.

The girl who says Love you long time was Papillon Soo she was born in 1961 in England, UK. She is an actress, known for Full Metal Jacket (1987), A View to a Kill (1985) and Split Second (1992).

46:30 - I think Joker’s rifle malfunction was meant to make a reference to the highly publicized problems with the early M16s in Vietnam. The problems were mostly eliminated with the M16A1, but the earlier versions did indeed cost many soldiers and Marines their lives.

I thought Devin would be having flashbacks, but it looks like he really enjoyed the dressing down of the boots

Private Joker (Matthew Modine) was Dr. Brenner in Stranger Things.

I am a combat veteran ( Vietnam ) You can not possibly know the good you have just done. Thank you for this and God bless you both.

Everytime I watch this movie, it's giving me minor flashbacks to my time in the German Navy (back when the whole system wasn't as watered down as it is today). I was pretty much a "Private Pyle" when it came to PT exercises, although thankfully being smart and skilled enough with everything else to not actually be a "bully target" for others. One day we ran an obstacle course, much like here @09:07, and since I also had a knee injury at the time (which I had kept quiet about; I didn't wanna fall behind on classes and thought it would go away on its own soon enough) I had a really _really_ hard time keeping up. At the end of the day, our instructor called me into his office and I was expecting the absolute worst. What he told me almost made me tear up, out of pride and joy: he said that he was perfectly aware of my physical condition, but didn't say anything about it either, because he wanted to see how far I'm willing to push it. He also had the competitive results of that obstacle course on the table and confirmed that although my comrades had to help me out quite a bit, our group - with combined effort - managed to not only get the best overall time in the end, but was also progressively getting better at every single turn without ever falling behind the previous times. He said he had never seen a recruit before, pushing through the pain as much as I did, while staying focused on the achievements of the team. Granted... he called me out for the stupidity as well, and immediately ordered me to go visit the doc the next morning. But just hearing that felt great nonetheless. I left the office with a pat on the back and rare praise from my superior, which to this day I cherish as one of the best moments of my entire military career.

Great reaction as always! Stanley Kubrick is a BRILLIANT director. Films like Spartacus, The Shining, 2001 Space Odyssey are part of his filmology. Vincent D'Onofrio "Private Pyle" sent in 4 tapes to Kubrick to try & get the role. Originally, the character was written as a "skinny ignorant redneck"; however, Kubrick believed the role would have more impact if the character were big and clumsy. D'Onofrio gained 70 lb for the role, bringing his weight to 280 lb. Still to this day, it is the most weight gained by an actor for a film.

Pyle is clearly on the spectrum and/or mentally slow. There's also a really great press conference with vets, that describe atrocities, they or others committed. It's even worse to stomach than this and you can see where Kubrick got a lot of ideas. Very anti-war movie.

Animal Mother throws a lot of racist terms around. But I like pointing out the fact that he was one of the first ones ready to go to save the two black dudes that got shot by the sniper. That's the way the world used to be when I grew up in it. I'm 50 years old and we would screw with each other even though we were friends. People weren't so sensitive about that kind of stuff back then even more so back then before my time. And it wasn't just black white it was anything Italians would mess with the Irish and vice versa, your ethnic background was a source of humor if you knew how to take the jokes right. There's a world of difference between mocking a stereotype and reinforcing a stereotype and that level of humor has gone away in the modern world with all this hypersensitive stuff. To be clear it's not stuff you just throw at people that you don't know, you got to be friends before you could start doing stuff like that.

The way Pyle was acting, I think he had a mild form of Autism as well as suffering from a few other things like anxiety. Back then, during the draft, they didn't really care if you had problems like that, they needed bodies. Hell, looking at another movie like Forrest Gump and his pal Bubba should show that as well. He should have never been drafted in the first place.

Sgt Hartmans lines were all him. When the director heard him he just let him do his own thing.

Animal Mothers helmet says “I am become death”…. A shout out to Oppenheimer.

I always love watching the difference between Veterans and Civilians when they watch this movie for the first time. All of the Civilians tend to feel so much sympathy for Pyle, and all the Vets realize immediately he's more ate up than used gum. The stark contrast comes with the wisdom of experience and it's truly a sight to behold.

Pyle became what the Marines wanted. a killer. job well done.

As a Reagan Marine back in the 80s, I can attest to the realism of the boot camp sequences in this movie. Though it wasn't as tough in the 80s as it was during Vietnam, the actions and attitude of the drill instructor are on point. Obviously, this is a result of R. Lee Ermey - an actual Marine Corps drill instructor - playing the part when they couldn't find anyone else that could perform the role properly.

I couldn't help but notice your lady with her hand on your arm for most of the movie 😊😊 its awesome to see such a happy couple . I thank god every day for my beautiful misses. I know its totally off topic but couldn't help but smile and appreciate it

I had the same job these guys had when I was in Iraq. We were the fourth most deployed MOS during the war. We were on combat patrols in almost every single day. Was rewarding but definitely put me in the middle of the action and combat.

Devin ready to strap a 50 lb bag to his back and go on a 5K run after watching those boot camp scenes. 😂

The thing that rarely gets talked about when people criticize Pyle is the fact that most of them were drafted into the military during the Vietnam war, unlike the vast majority of people who make comments about him. It should come to no surprise that people who should have never been in the military were in the military.

Can’t wait to wait to watch this reaction when I get off work!! Hope y’all have a great weekend!!🙌

I saw FMJ at the theater when it came out. What a visceral experience

It's called a blanket party!

They filmed the combat scenes in the East end of London…did a hell of a job making it look like urban south east asia

R Lee Ermy said that he and his fellow drill instructors would see the obituaries of the guys they processed through bootcamp

Actor that played private Pile was excellent! One part in the movie that I completely laughed my ass off was when the drill instructor said he would gouge out his eyes and skull fu&$ him, and then Pile closes his eyes tight. 🤣 😂 like he was preparing to stop him.

Great reaction and thanks for sharing. The opening haircut scene, Director Kubrick literally filmed this on wrap day. So they all celebrated filming was over, then he marched the actors that were playing soldier and cut their hair off. So I imagine they realized they had survived the movie, grew back most of their hair and now had to be buzz cut and then off to Hollywood shaved bald. He was such an arsehole of a director. The Marine Drill Instructors never rehearsed with the recruit actors, so each scene was new to the recruits which makes the reactions so much more real. Gunnery Sgt Hartman the Senior Drill Instructor is played by R. Lee Ermey a former Marine DI who was hired to coach the actor that should have played that role. But when Ermey showed Kubrick the videos of him drilling recruits, he had Ermey take the role and the actor that should have played the Senior Drill Instructor instead played the Door Gunner of the Helicopter Joker flies into Viet Nam in. 'You Shoot Women, Children? Isn't that hard?' Joker asks the door gunner. The door gunner's response is classic. Thanks for sharing. Chris

The drill SGT was a retired Marine Drill SGT who was originally an advisor on the film

Devin's reaction was most refreshing. I felt alone the way I viewed what was going on in this movie, but Devin reacted the exact same way I did.

Some of the action and comments in the war were exaggerated but the basic training was real. I was in basic - army - in 69, not as hard as Marines, and just about everything shown happened to us. However, physically assaulting recruits was not allowed sometime before that and we had a drill instructor court martialed for doing that. But, blanket parties happened. Lots of bad, and good memories from that time

After watching this movie a lot I felt like Animal mother and Private Pyle are meant to be the same character representing the duality of man. I feel like it’s 3 different acts, all represented by the fading to black. Had Pyle not done what he did, it feels like he would have been Animal mother based on how good he got. Animal looks down at Joker when they meet with the, like he knows him. Like he is saying “now what writer, I have the big gun” as if Animal mother went through the same stuff Private Pyle did but made it. This is something that is true in the workplace, school and life. At least I saw it that way. Either way, great film. Love it.

Such a great movie, excited to see what ya'll thought of it!

11:16 Gotta love it the heart of the other trainees. Pyle fell down but they were trying to bring him along.

If any didn't know, the military was a little different back then as opposed to today.

As someone who may or, very much, may have not locked their locker during like the second week of basic, and watched a chief fling all my shit across the room, the locker scene is always a “Yep, that one is, 100% true. No fibbing.” Lmao

You were bang on the money when you said Animal Mother was like a saner Private Pyle. That is one of the key messages of the book the moviewas based on. If Pyle had not self-destructed he would have become just like Animal Mother- but the latter was a functioning product of the training, Lawrence broke at the last moment.

Most people think Pyle was one of 'McNamara's Morons'. Due to low recruitment rates during Vietnam, the government lowered the IQ requirements for 100,000 men as a trial program. It turned out these men died at 3x the normal rate once in combat and God knows how many Soldiers and Marines died due to their actions. You need roughly an IQ of about 80-85 to be militarily useful. This means roughly 10-15% of the population(35-50 million Americans) are so mentally lacking they are actually a burden on the battlefield.

I had a cousin who served in the Army in Vietnam, was a shy guy before going. He came back less shy, yet fairly normal guy. He never was like the stereotype of Vietnam movies. He even claimed in firefights he didn't know if he hit anything. Didn't see the enemy in the jungle, just shot into it. If he hit anyone it was pure accident.

Jesse Ventura said that Full Metal Jacket is the most accurate Vietnam war movie of all time.

Went to basic in San Diego in 94...the first night after receiving and we were put in our training platoon and after the Sr Drill Instructor introduced himself and the other Drill Instructors (when all hell broke loose, iykyk) our Sr stayed awake all night in his duty hut laughing like satan...probably the most un-nerving thing in my entire enlistment 🤣

only stanley kubrick could have this off. the man was a genious

Devin, from one vet to another, thank you for your service! Was glad to hear your input, and I agreed with all that you said, as far as tactics, and you saw the sniper as a combatant, rather than a girl, alot of ppl don't realize even a child or a woman can be a threat, great reaction from you both! Glad you enjoyed it! Take care!!

They played this movie on my bus ride to Marine Corps Boot Camp in 2007 lol

Love y’all’s videos! You guys are so real and I love it! Keep it up please!

You both together are great. Love your channel. Greetings from Germany 😍

One of the writer's of the movie was a combat writer named Michael Herr. A few of the things are in the movie actual happened. He wrote it in his book dispatches. The door gunner and the wearing peace pin Herr wrote about in his book "Dispatches".

I love Devon's reaction to these drill scenes! You can tell he knows how important this type of intensity is to train men to become solid soldiers!

This was a sliver of Vietnam. After training it felt like being tied to a bullet. I got over there in '68. Once in country came another 3 weeks of being sick. Snakes an centipedes filled with herion addicted troops

Minute 11:55 The way she smiled at Snowball 😂😂😂😂😂

What I loved about just before Hartman was shot was he went out on his own terms, although not the smartest he was hard, knowing he was about to get shot he let it rip one more time.

32:30 it says i am become death ... " i am become death , the destroyer of worlds " J.R. Oppenheimer , the father of the atomic bomb ... thats his famous quote .. thats wat he thought wen he saw the " Trinity " blast go off .... trinity was the first test of the AtomBomb

The Vietnamese Tet offensive was a real thing.

As a Navy Hospital Corpsman attached to the Marines it was like that into the 80s. When Pvt Pyle got smacked for not knowing his right from left his cover (hat) spun around like in a cartoon.

All of FMJ was shot in the UK because Stanley Kubrick hated to travel. The guy firing the gun in the helicopter was the original actor cast as the senior drill instructor until R. Lee Ermey was cast from the instructional video he made.

On Animal Mothers helmet it says "Now I am become Death" a quote by Oppenheimer

That Vietnamese female sniper had more balls than all the us "soldiers" put together lol

I love watching vets reactions to this movie.

"I am become death, destroyer of worlds." One of the men who created the atomic bomb said that. It's a quote from some Indian religious book.

Honey, Believe it all. Devin speaks the truth. He's enjoying this because he has fond memories. I enjoyed Europe, but I was ready when I got short. My ETS couldn't come fast enough. The objective was simple: keep your sight low and sharp, obey your orders, accept the medals and go gratefully home.

I check out every reaction to Jacket I can find (love the movie, most Stanley Kubrick movies) and this is one of the best I've seen. It's tough sometimes- too many reaction creators treat a movie like an opponent they're supposed to outsmart and the result is constant fail predictions and uninformed mind reading of the characters, making themselves look silly. Of course speculating about what's gonna happen next is just part of the pleasure of movie watching but when I saw you both do it in a smart, entertaining way you got my respect and I subbed right away, which I don't often do with reaction channels. Thanks for the great post see ya around.

Pyle pretty much would’ve turned out as animal mother if he lived, one my favorite movies 💯

OMG I loved D&C. The precision, the moves, the counts. But the PT running cadences were the best. I'd heard every one done in this movie and lots that weren't. US Army 1978, Ft, Sill, OK. Gunny reminds me so much of Drill Sergeant Burleson. ...A yellow bird...... LOL ...If I die on the Russian front...... rofl

22:59 The reason why the camera was taken. Wasn't for money. It was for intelligence. The film in the camera could have pictures of the base and defenses that raptorman took without thinking when taking pictures of his buddy's in the base.

This is my Dad's era. When he went to basic training. He was not Marines. But Army. His brother Mickey was Army,Brothers Paul Army,Billy Navy,Tommy Air Force. Back then you could switch over with out losing your rank. And like R.Lee he went to Vietnam. And when I see them. I say thank you to them for their service.

Stanley kubrick was truly a genius

The guy who played Sergeant Hartman, R Lee Ermey, was a real life drill instructor. That's what made those scenes so realistic. Ermey was the real deal. He made that movie.

Yeah this movie and Platoon were like the go to Vietnam war movies of the 80's. Then there was hamburger hill but i can't remember if that was the 80's too. Dead Presidents should kinda count but it's really more of a street movie but I wouldn't consider Forrest Gump to be a true Vietnam war movie and Apalaclypse Now is kinda ridiculous but i mean hey you're the vet not me but you most likely served in the middle east based on your age. I know not all war movies can be all action all the time but there are still qualifiers.

When I was in high school in the early 70s, my PE teacher was a retired DI. And he was just like R Lee. One thing I’ll never forget is them damn squat thrust excersize he made us do !!!!!!!!!

Those barbers were being gentle compared to when I went through. They were brutal with us. Guys came out with bleeding scalps.

Wow, Devin, you got mugged in basic training. The first haircut was always free. Every week after that though, you had to pay $3.50 for a haircut, usually in the form of a chitbook, since they didn't like recruits to have cash money in large quantities. Paper newspapers were our only source of outside information, and we could only buy them on Sundays. But we couldn't keep them. At the end of the day, all of the newspapers were collected and used to clean the windows every morning. If you ever got caught with any papers in your footlockers, you were in for a world of punishment.

Hi guys I love your reaction to full Metal jacket🪖 The Sarge was the best part of the movie😂😂😂❤

In all the years since I first saw this movie in theater's I've never understood the lack of empathy for Leonard. He was clearly someone who should never have been allowed in the corps. in the first place.

Frm VietNam Marine : It's their job ... "they HAVE to Kill the ENEMY" ...

The one private at Paris Island you could hear him across the parade deck. He was over there screaming at a tree. Sometime later we came back and he was still screaming at that tree screaming at it. This is my rifle. This is my gun. So we didn’t have to ask what he did wrong called his rifle gun.

I didn't actually noticed your shirt, holy crap That fits so well in this FMJ reaction video

So many lines from Sgt Hartman. 2 live crew and so mant musicians sampled this movie.

Love you guys. So glad you are doing one of my all time favorite movie.

I do understand instructor shifting to punishing the group. Cause you need to operate as a single unit. One missing sliver of unity can get your unit over run.

I remember they lost a Gomer Pyle, in another company. Granade never made it out of the pit.......BOOM!!!!!! That's why it's has to be tough.

As a Marine this was accurate boot camp 1989.

"I am become death, destroyer of worlds" is a quote from Oppenheimer upon developing the Atomic Bomb. That's what Animal Mother wrote on his helmet

Marines us a bar a soap in a towel for a blanket party. In the Army, we used a shoe shine brush in a sock. Lol

I AM A MARINE FOR LIFE. 89 TO 98. THIS IS REAL. TRUST ME.

My brother went into the Marines in 89', this movie on our TV I think weekly after he came out in 93.

With the number of incidences with Pvt Pyle, and how long recruit training was... he had to be fucking up twice a week.

I have become death on the dudes helmet. I could see it. If you fought in Vietnam, you were a kid when Japan got nuked, so if you were a army kid, obsessed with army stuff, they probably saw interviews with Oppenheimer on the tube, and if you thought that was cool and you heard a line like "I have become death" that would stick with you.

Those live rounds that Pyle had in the bathroom came from the shooting range. Sgt Hartman didn't notice that when Pyle pulled out the magazine after firing, there were still some live rounds that weren't fired. He snuck those back to barracks.

One of my favorite cadences, from my 8 weeks in U.S. Air Force Basic Training: Birdie, birdie, in the snow, Broken wing and a broken toe. Took him home and fed him bread, Then I squished his little head. Was I right or wrong? (Squad: "You're right") Correct me if I'm wrong? (Squad: "You're right") Was I right, was I wrong? Was I right, or wrong? (Squad: "You're right") What can I say? ..... We were a bunch of sadistic sicko's!

The boot camp scenes are just how i remember the Corps being and I learned a lot. I hear it's softer nowadays.

Thank you dev. For doing this one bro.....

They had to be super hard on them like that back then. They shortened boot camp length because they needed people in Vietnam. The drill Sargents had to get these guys ready for a meat grinder like Vietnam in half the time.

he was once a real marine d.i.

"Here you are all equally worthless!" R.I.P. Gunny

Nobody ever pointed out that Joker would be court marshaled for Sgt. Hartman being killed while he was on guard duty

A navy corps man went to help 8 ball. Very f*cking real.

I think Stanley Kubrick plays the camera man filming the war.