Full Metal Jacket In Band Class

Rating: 9/10 (9 February 2015)

Holy cow, this movie works, but only as a comedy. I was in stitches throughout the film. Full Metal Jacket Drill Instructor decides to run a music school and to teach band class. Absolutely hilarious. More blood than Full Metal Jacket as well, mostly soaking up and covering drum kits.
The ironic bit is that it is not supposed to be a comedy. Perhaps a satire of some sort? On that level it works and delivers.
I'm a jazz musician and attended arguably the best Jazz school in the country, Berklee, and this movie's treatment of jazz and its musicianship is nothing but comedic. Under the tutelage of a vengeful, demeaning, sadistic, sociopath, who makes them practice until their fingers bleed and have nervous breakdowns, and calls the Jewish student Hymie, insults his mother, calls out gay students, etc... Totally over the top.
On a sadder note, the movie does not have the first clue about what jazz really is, much less what it is like studying jazz and learning to play it proficiently. The only explanation for anyone being in that particular school band, is low self esteem and a masochism complex. The father form the movie Juno, plays the perfect bald, Nazzi-like sadist. You have to see this film to believe it. Highly recommended.