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Full Metal Jacket Patreon Full-length Reaction (Patreon)

Published:
2025-03-26 22:23:36
Edited:
2026-05-21 00:52:04
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2026-09
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"The dead know only one thing… it is better to be alive." Our full-length watch-along to Full Metal Jacket is LIVE today exclusively for our Totally Legendary members.

Our YT edit will post this Friday, 3/28 - (🤞hopefully, we are running into some issues)

Please note: Because of copyright, full-length reactions are watch-alongs, so you'll need your own copy to sync up with us! When syncing please know this is the 1hr. 56min. version.

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Full Metal Jacket WatchAlong

Join us for the full, uncut watch-along of Full Metal Jacket! Exclusively for our amazing Patrons — thank you for supporting Totally Whatever! When syncing please know this is the 1 hr 56 min. version. Because of copyright, full-length reactions are watch-alongs, so you'll need your own copy to sync up with us! Join our Caffeine Club: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Gy-dQdSjhxTdEXS8qYKug/join Custom Reaction Videos: https://www.reactr.tv/totallywhatever Business inquiries are accepted at: info@totallywhatever.com Mail accepted here: Totally Whatever c/o Nanette PO BOX 372 Damariscotta, ME 04543 *Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED. All rights belong to their respective owners.

Comments

Shawn Goforth

Double bourbon poured and buckled up. Here goes nothing.

Shawn Goforth

That transition from the island to Vietnam is so difficult as a viewer. I've seen this quite a few times, and it never gets easier. We aren't given any time to breathe between the rifle shots and Nancy Sinatra. The camera is already stolen, before we can even ground ourselves into paying attention to the next scene. I always felt the the two halves of this movie could have belonged to completely different films. The tone feels a bit uneven, but what we witness is absolutely an artistic choice, from beginning to end.

Totally Whatever

We didn't see any of that coming; this movie really caught us off guard.

Mike the Ginger

Good full reaction. I had not watched this in a couple of years. It isn't a happy film, but quite well done.

FranciscoGios

You two never disappoint, it seems you can react to almost every movie out there. And also I’m glad you guys reacted to this one first before watching A Few Good Men. This Marines go thru hell and back in training for 3 months straight just to be killer machines. Section 8 refers to service members to be discharged for being mentally unfit, so you guys can know what Joker was really referring to Cowboy about Pyle.

Totally Whatever

Thanks, Francisco. We are glad we watched this one first. A Few Good Men is coming up soon - we loved it.

Totally Whatever

Thanks for watching with us. It was difficult to watch, but we are so glad we did.

JAKH

- NVA or November Victor Alpha = North Vietnamese Army. The regular army of North Vietnam. Nicknamed "Victor". They wear tan uniforms. - VC or Victor Charlie = Viet Cong. South Vietnamese insurgents. Nicknamed "Charlie". They wear all black clothing instead of uniforms. When armed while wearing regular civilian clothing instead of the readily identifiable all-black, the Geneva Convention classifies them as "Illegal Combatants" who are not protected by the Geneva Convention and are legally subject to summary execution in the field. - Viet Minh = Previous name of the Viet Cong from the 1940's & 1950's when fighting the French. - ARVN (pronounced "Are-vin") = Army of the Republic of Vietnam. The regular South Vietnamese army. - Full Metal Jacket or FMJ = a type of bullet having a copper alloy "jacket" over the lead bullet. This is required for military ammunition by the 1898 Hague Convention on Land Warfare to prevent the bullet from expanding and causing unnecessarily damaging wounds. Also the jacket itself. Civilian police and self-defense ammunition is just the opposite: being specifically designed with a cavity in the nose to expand and the jacket being scored to open up like the petals of a flower ("Hollow point" ammunition). These are intended to expend all of their energy and stay in the target to prevent the bullet from passing through the target and hitting a bystander in a civilian self-defense or police incident.

JAKH

Vincent D'Onofrio was in "Law & Order Criminal Intent" and the Netflix "Daredevil" series. Also the sci-fi comedy movie "Men In Black"

JAKH

"Full Metal Jacket" is all fiction. Kubrick had no military experience. Two much better movies about Vietnam are: - the true story "We Were Soldiers" (2002) based on the book "We Were Soldiers Once . . . And Young" by reporter Joe Galloway & Lt. General Hal Moore. Joe Galloway is played by actor Barry Pepper who also portrayed Jackson the marksman in "Saving Private Ryan". - "Platoon" (1986) fiction, but based on the experiences of director Oliver Stone, who did serve in Vietnam.

Totally Whatever

You have answered all of our questions. Thanks for sharing these extra details.

Lana Gorgeous

This movie is intense. I saw it in the theatre when I was stationed at FT. McClellan, Alabama. I was an army officer, executive officer of a Basic Combat Training Company. Prior to my commission and ROTC , I was and enlisted soldier and NCO. I was not old enough for Vietnam, but I served with many senior NCO’s and Field Grade Officers who served in that war. My brother was a US Marine and I had an uncle who was a retired US Marine, an E-8 Master Sergeant, who served in the Korean War. The only problem I had with the film, well, was not war scenes, it’s impossible to truly depict that experience in film. The few movies that talking to combat vets, that got that depiction close were possibly Black Hawk Down, the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan and Hacksaw Ridge, films like that. I did have a big problem with the basic training part. Now I was in the Army and went through Basic training in the late 70’s and led a Basic Training Company in the 80’s, but I spoke to both my bother and uncle who told me it was extreme. But let’s say it’s true, and a Drill Sergent actually did single out one Private for abuse, let’s look at that Private. When I first saw him, I saw some characteristics of cognitive severe issues maybe even mild Down Syndrome, and if not that some definite learning disability, even his facial expression when the DI choked him. People had to help him button his uniform and tie his shoes for goodness’ sake. During the Vietnam War, rich kids, kids with connections, college kids got to get out of serving. That’ s why people like Clinton and Trump and many others did not have to serve. That was by design as President Johnson wanted an ‘out’ for those with influence. Most of those who did serve at least initially were the kids from working class or poor families, disproportionality black kids in combat units, at least initially. But that wasn’t enough manpower so they lowed basically the IQ scores so that kids who would not normally even qualify for military service could be drafted and forced into service in that war. They were called McNamara’s Morons. “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J2VwFDV4-g; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrQX0RIF2v0 ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCXL9_RuUqc This Private in the movie fits that description perfectly and that’s what makes his treatment even more sad. So while others see a Private who doesn’t follow orders, I just saw a kid who should not have been there to begin with but was drafted and abused. Another that happened during Vietnam more than any other war was fragging “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klWPVNNDhHk”. So, when people glorify that DI in the movie all I see is a kid who was abused fragging the source of his torment then turning in on himself. Now the actor R. Lee Ermey was former US Marine DI and in an interview he reports that the director Stanley Kubrick, asked him to go over the top for effect. R. Lee Ermey was in another movie closer to his own Military Service as a Marine Drill Instructor called The Boys of Company C. I encourage you to on your own if you must compare him then in the 1978 movie to him in Full Metal jacket. Ask yourself which leader men and women would be more apt to follow 😊 Remembering that his butt got fragged in the Full Metal Jacket!

Totally Whatever

Thank you for your service and for sharing your insightful perspective. We haven't seen Black Hawk Down yet, so we should move that one up on our list.