The Tale of Two Movies

Rating: 8/10 (16 August 2018)

Stanley Kubrick is hit or miss with me and this one is a hit. The 1st half of the movie when they are in basic training is an easy 10 stars but once the movie transitions to the Vietnam War itself, it falls flat at times.
The movie is a quote machine especially from R. Lee Ermey's iconic drill sergeant character with stuff like:
"Your ass looks like 150 pounds of chewed up bubble gum"
"5'9"??? I didn't know they stacked sh!# that high"
"Give your heart to Jesus but your asses belong to the Marine Corp"
But the quote that would be his demise was the infamous "What is your major malfunction numbnuts?"
The rest of the film is following Private joker as he photographs the war. I see it as anti-war film with Kubrick showing how the military turns people into killers and then just the brutality and horrors of war. He does all of this this with a kind of twisted sense of humor.