Full Metal Jacket (Deluxe Edition) Blue Ray $14.99

muppetkiller

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000UJ48UO
REGION FREE
And works out at 14 euro posted

Stanley Kubrick's 1987, penultimate film seemed to a lot of people to be contrived and out of touch with the '80s vogue for such intensely realistic portrayals of the Vietnam War as Platoon and The Deer Hunter. Certainly, Kubrick gave audiences plenty of reason to wonder why he made the film at all: essentially a two-part drama that begins on a Parris Island boot camp for rookie Marines and abruptly switches to Vietnam (actually shot on sound stages and locations near London), Full Metal Jacket comes across as a series of self-contained chapters in a story whose logical and thematic development is oblique at best. Then again, much the same was said about Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, a masterwork both enthralled with and satiric about the future's role in the unfinished business of human evolution. In a way, Full Metal Jacket is the wholly grim counterpart of 2001. While the latter is a truly 1960s film, both wide-eyed and wary, about the intertwining of progress and isolation (ending in our redemption, finally, by death), Full Metal Jacket is a cynical, Reagan-era view of the 1960s' hunger for experience and consciousness that fulfilled itself in violence. Lee Ermey made film history as the Marine drill instructor whose ritualized debasement of men in the name of tribal uniformity creates its darkest angel in a murderous half-wit (Vincent D'Onofrio). Matthew Modine gives a smart and savvy performance as Private Joker, the clowning, military journalist who yearns to get away from the propaganda machine and know firsthand the horrific revelation of the front line. In Full Metal Jacket, depravity and fulfillment go hand in hand, and it's no wonder Kubrick kept his steely distance from the material to make the point. --Tom Keogh

Enda89

whats d story with importing blu ray's from the US? do we get hit for VAT when it comes over here? And what about import duties?

muppetkiller

There's no duty I believe on an item this cheap..

pvt.joker

good find. One of my favourite films of all time.

iggy

just ordered it.

Great find and a great movie
Thanks OP

Mossy Monk

What is the difference between the standard edition and the deluxe edition?

muppetkiller

Mossy Monk wrote: »

What is the difference between the standard edition and the deluxe edition?

The original had a very poor picture and sound for HD and also there's a few extra bits on this too...
http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/1031/fullmetaljacket_de.html

savemejebus

The differences are mainly a different transfer VC1, more languages and commentaries

rewind@dvdcompare.net wrote:

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Bluray ALL America - (Warner Bros Home Entertainment)
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Extras:
Theatrical trailer
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Subtitles:
English HoH, English, French, and Spanish
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Aspect Ratio:
1.78:1
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Picture Format:
1080p 24fps
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Soundtrack(s):
English Dolby Digital 5.1
French Dolby Digital 5.1
Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1
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Case type:
Amaray (Keep) Case
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Notes:
1080p transfer, using MPEG-2 compression. Confirmed to be "R0". It seems that this transfer was just upconverted to 1080p from a 1080i master.
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Bluray ALL America - (Warner Bros Home Entertainment - Deluxe Edition)
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Commentaries:
Audio commentary with actors Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio and R. Lee Ermey, and critic/screenwriter Jay Cocks
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Extras:
"Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil" -documentary (31 min)
Theatrical trailer
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Subtitles:
English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, and Finnish
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Aspect Ratio:
1.78:1
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Picture Format:
1080p 24fps
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Soundtrack(s):
English PCM 5.1 (4.6 Mbps)
English Dolby Digital 5.1 (640 Kbps)
French Dolby Digital 5.1
Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1
German Dolby Digital 5.1
Italian Dolby Digital 5.1
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Case type:
Amaray (Keep) Case
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Notes:
Using VC-1 compression.

Mossy Monk

Good stuff. Will have myself one of these. Got A Clockwork Orange also. Nice and cheap

Basq

pvt.joker wrote: »

good find. One of my favourite films of all time.

Who'd have guessed?!