What the corpus says about Full Metal Jacket (1987)

What was said about it (26)

1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:56:40 · David Sims (0.60)] The Woman King ↔ Full Metal Jacket · programming · Both films are about how much you have to break your brain to survive training for war. · "But it's the thing that like Woman King goes into a lot as well of like, how much you have to break your brain to survive an environment like this, right?"
2. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:43 · Lorenz Tate (0.80)] Full Metal Jacket ⇒ Dead Presidents (the maker said so: Lorenz Tate recalling the Hughes brothers' videotapes) · lineage · Allen Hughes made a VHS of Vietnam scenes; Tate was assigned Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, Platoon. · "So I watched Full Metal Jacket."
3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:25:08 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Short-Timers (novel) ⇒ Full Metal Jacket (the host's read) · lineage · Kubrick's film is based on Gustav Hasford's novel and keeps its three-part structure. · "Stanley Kubrick's film, 1987, based on the novel, The Short Timers by Gustav Hasford."
4. [The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:47:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] A Star Is Born ↔ Full Metal Jacket · theme · Offered as a second answer to best half-movie: everything up to the first time she sings Shallow is dynamite. · "everything leading up to the 1st time she sings shallow on stage, which is like, I think an hour, maybe a little bit less."
5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:18:12 · unknown (0.30)] Stripes ↔ Full Metal Jacket · theme · Compared as boot-camp movies, though Stripes loses interest after basic. · "It's it's a little bit like stripes, except the differences."
6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:30:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Platoon ↔ Full Metal Jacket · theme · At release critics said Platoon's visceral combat made Kubrick's sound-stage Vietnam look less real. · "Kubrick doing this on sound stages isn't the same."
7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:59:03 · Jon Gabrus (0.60)] Black Hawk Down ↔ Full Metal Jacket · theme · Eric Bana's Black Hawk Down character is like Animal Mother: scary, but useful when the shooting starts. · "Eric Bana's character is sort of similar where everyone's like, look, that guy freaks me out,"
8. [Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:34:28 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ Full Metal Jacket · theme · Kubrick's later sets-bound movies rewrote the memory of the earlier location-shot ones. · "it just sort of changed the perception of the earlier works"
9. [Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:47:20 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] Paths of Glory ↔ Full Metal Jacket · theme · The firing squad of Paths of Glory is set against the sniper of Full Metal Jacket as the gun advances. · "Well, what's the difference between the firing squat, the end of paths of glory and the sniper at the end of Full Metal Jacket?"
10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:55:14 · Griffin Newman (0.85)] Paths of Glory ↔ Full Metal Jacket · theme · Full Metal Jacket shows how systems hype young men up for war before reality hits; Paths of Glory shows the illusion falling apart. · "the thing that I think full Metal Jacket does particularly well, is you sort of understand the way these systems are built to hype these young men up"
11. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:29:19 · unknown (0.30)] Wartime Lies / Aryan Papers (unmade Kubrick project) ⇒ Full Metal Jacket (the host's read) · career · The speaker says Full Metal Jacket came out of Kubrick searching for the right Holocaust material. · "Full Mal Jack comes out of him searching for the right Holocaust material."
12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:23:33 · unknown (0.30)] Holocaust movie (Kubrick's unmade film) ⇒ Full Metal Jacket (the host's read) · career · Full Metal Jacket came out of Kubrick failing to crack a Holocaust movie, as Barry Lyndon came out of Napoleon. · "it does feel similar to Full Metal Jacket coming out of him trying to make a Holocaust movie."
13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:10:34 · Jon Gabrus (0.60)] The Silence of the Lambs ↔ Full Metal Jacket · people · Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs is a similar case of a performance that explains a whole career. · "Hopkins and Silence of the Lambs is like a similar thing."
14. [Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:13:25 · Jon Gabrus (0.80)] Full Metal Jacket ↔ Hacksaw Ridge · people · Hacksaw Ridge gets around the Ermey shadow by casting Vince Vaughn, a different kind of motor mouth. · "But like Hacksaw Ridge is one of the only movies I think to get around this where it's like, oh, get Vince Vaughn, he's like a different type of motor mouth."
15. [Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 1:20:08 · Jon Gabrus (0.60)] Full Metal Jacket → The Frighteners · people · Ermey plays the ghost version of the drill sergeant in The Frighteners. · "he plays the ghost version of this in the Frighteners."
16. [Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 2:15:07 · David Sims (0.50)] Full Metal Jacket ↔ Adventures in Babysitting · people · D'Onofrio is Pyle and a Thor-lookalike beefcake in two films opening the same summer. · "Dino Frio is on, you know, different screens in your multiplex in completely different bodies."
17. [Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 2:00:28 · David Sims (0.50)] A Clockwork Orange ↔ Full Metal Jacket · industry · Clockwork Orange got Oscar attention, but The Shining, Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut were ignored. · "obviously, the shining full metal jacket and eyes wide shut are all basically ignored by the Oscars."
18. [Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:12:25 · Jon Gabrus (0.80)] Full Metal Jacket → The Inspection · boot camp shadow · The Inspection is set in basic training and knows not to mess with Full Metal Jacket's drill sergeant; the speaker says it is not a ripoff. · "But I think it knows because every movie knows that it's like, it's everyone knows full metal jacket."
19. [Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:15:10 · David Sims (0.50)] Full Metal Jacket → Major Payne · subversion · The answer to how to subvert the drill-sergeant movie is to do it with children, as in Major Payne. · "Now, which your answer is do it to children."
20. [Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:27:21 · David Sims (0.55)] Full Metal Jacket ⇒ Jarhead (the host's read) · generational template · Jarhead is described as trying to be the Full Metal Jacket of the Iraq war generation. · "like jarhead feels like it's very much trying to be the full metal jacket."
21. [Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:46:53 · unknown (0.30)] Aliens ↔ Full Metal Jacket · scheduling conflict · Rico Ross had to choose between two tyrannical directors with overlapping holds and picked Aliens. · "And eventually it was just like, you're dealing with 2 different tyrannical control freaks."
22. [Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 2:23:42 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] THX 1138 ↔ Full Metal Jacket · least hair · Fewest hairs in any covered film since THX 1138. · "this is like almost the least hair in any movie we've covered since THX. 1138."
23. [Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 1:05:50 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] R. Lee Ermey ⇒ Full Metal Jacket (the host's read) · lineage · Per the dossier Hartman's insults came right from Ermey, whom Kubrick had write down what he screamed. · "No, obviously this guy is perfect and would write down everything he said because all the insults came right from him"
24. [The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:46:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Full Metal Jacket ↔ Stanley Kubrick · craft · The boot-camp first hour is cited as one of the great first halves of any movie; the Vietnam second half is very good with Kubrick hallmarks. · "that 1st hour is funny, terrifying, emotionally wrenching."
25. [Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:08:16 · Jon Gabrus (0.70)] Full Metal Jacket → R. Lee Ermey · people · Anyone who casts Ermey assumes the audience has seen the film and is either paying homage or pulling the rug out. · "anyone who uses him in a movie is like, well, you've seen full metal jacket. So we're either doing an homage to that or kind of pulling the rug out from that."
26. [Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:37:57 · David Sims (0.60)] Michael Herr ↔ Full Metal Jacket · people · Kubrick kept Herr, the writer from one piece of material, to help adapt a different one. · "Yeah, so he sort of absorbs the writer from one piece of material to help them adapt a different piece of material."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

1. [pairs] Full Metal Jacket ↔ Paths of Glory · said 2 times in 2 episodes

Fun items about it (4)

1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:50:18 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Full Metal Jacket · fun · The 3000 open video auditions produced a viral clip of a man at a Sears with a ladder saying hello Mr. Kubrick. · "This was an early case of letting people submit auditions through videotape, like having a pretty open audition because they needed young people and they got 3000 submissions."
2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 1:11:43 · unknown (0.30)] Full Metal Jacket · fun · The opening head-shaving was shot months after wrap, so the actors' misery was real. · "The opening of all of their heads being shaved was shot like 4 months after they thought they had wrapped."
3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 1:43:19 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Full Metal Jacket · fun · The battlefield was Beckton Gasworks, a huge plant scheduled for demolition, so the crew could blow it up. · "They're shooting at what's called the Bechton Gasworks, which was the largest gas plant in the world and was basically scheduled for demolition."
4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 2:02:59 · unknown (0.30)] Full Metal Jacket · fun · The score was credited to Abigail Mead (Vivian Kubrick) and disqualified from Oscar consideration for being too short, about 22 minutes. · "It was disqualified from Oscar consideration."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (21)

1. [The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:32:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Paths of Glory ↔ Rashomon · programming · Bonus recommendations that are not strictly courtroom movies. · "Paths of Glory the other day, which I don't think is a great courtroom movie"
2. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:54:01 · unknown (0.30)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey (novel) · programming · Film and Clarke's novel were developed side by side, each holding the other hostage. · "But the 2 of them were being done in tandem."
3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:43:02 · unknown (0.35)] A Clockwork Orange ↔ Fight Club · programming · Fight Club is called the Clockwork Orange of another generation, an Edge Lord pick. · "This is kind of the clockwork Orange for another generation."
4. [The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:25:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] The Irishman ↔ A Star Is Born · programming · Producer Bobby suggests The Irishman is this year's A Star Is Born for the hosts' Oscar obsession. · "perhaps the Irishman is this year's a star is born for us."
5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:46:21 · David Sims (0.75)] Paths of Glory ↔ The Bridge on the River Kwai · programming · Box office game: Kwai, the 1957 Best Picture winner, was number one the week Paths of Glory went wide. · "number one at the box office, the week, the paths of glory goes wide, is the best picture winner of 1957"
6. [Blank Check · Dune · 1:12:45 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ Silent Running (the host's read) · lineage · 2001 spawned heady, serious, clean sci-fi like Silent Running. · "2001 leads to a spat of things like silent running, you know, these movies that are like very heady."
7. [The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:22:08 · Adam Nayman (0.55)] A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read) · lineage · The contrapuntal needle drop descends from Singin' in the Rain in Clockwork Orange and Stuck in the Middle with You in Reservoir Dogs. · "all the way back to singing in the rain in Clockwork Orange or stuck in the middle with you in, in, in, in Reservoir dogs."
8. [The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:54:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Mean Girls ↔ A Star Is Born · lineage · The speaker is fine with a new auteur remaking a beloved thing every 20 years, as with Star Is Born / Star Wars-style retellings, here giving the social-media generation its own Mean Girls. · "every 20 years another Otour comes along and is like, I've got a take on this."
9. [Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:22:29 · David Sims (0.40)] Paths of Glory ↔ Dr. Strangelove · lineage · Strangelove is the nearest thing Kubrick made to Paths of Glory afterward, both being people talking through absurdity. · "the closest thing he's made to this since this is Strangelove, because Strangelove is also people talking through absurdity by and large"
10. [Blank Check · Dune · 2:54:20 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 was made because the novel sequel existed, a movie made just because they had to. · "Because Arthur C. Clark had come out with a 2010 novel."
11. [Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:20:24 · unknown (0.30)] Anthony Burgess ⇒ A Clockwork Orange (the host's read) · lineage · The film adapts Burgess's novel, and Kubrick found he had to change very little. · "Kubrick reads the book and is like, I didn't have to do much."
12. [The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:27:47 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] A Star Is Born ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview) · lineage · Merchant says he thought about A Star Is Born, the rags to riches story, as much as the sports side. · "I was thinking as much about films like, you know, like a Star is Born"
13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:25:11 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory ⇒ The Wire (the maker said so: David Simon cites it regularly) · lineage · David Simon reportedly cites Paths of Glory as the number one influence on The Wire: institutions chewing up the people on the ground. · "David Simon cites this regularly as the number one influence on the wire?"
14. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:02:34 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 is the sequel to 2001; the speaker's reaction to the Kubrick film is the benchmark throughout. · "And I said, oh, you know, 2010, the sequel to 2001 and they were like, the what?"
15. [Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:22:36 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] Vinyl ↔ A Clockwork Orange · lineage · The speakers note there is an unwatchable Warhol version of this same book. · "Well, of course, you know, you mentioned Warhol, but of course there's the unwatchable Warhol version of this book."
16. [The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show · 0:30:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] A Star Is Born ↔ Bohemian Rhapsody · theme · Star's schmaltz and old-fashionedness were expected to lift it, but that is what the night rewarded in Bohemian Rhapsody and Green Book. · "it's the schmaltiness and old-fashionedness of Bohemian Rhapsody and Green book that we're really discussing tonight."
17. [Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:25:22 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory ⇒ David Simon (the maker said so: David Simon cites it regularly) · lineage · The speaker calls Paths of Glory a Rosetta Stone for Simon's stories of institutions versus the people below. · "this is the sort of Rosetta Stone, if you will, for him."
18. [Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 2:48:04 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010 (the host's read) · lineage · Peter Hyams made a film sequel to 2001, following the books. · "But, like, he rolled up his sleeves and he was like, 2001?"
19. [Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:28:51 · Alex Ross Perry (0.80)] A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Her Smell (the maker said so: Alex Ross Perry, the writer of Her Smell, speaking on this episode) · lineage · The speaker says the film's five-act structure was a huge inspiration while writing Her Smell. · "This movie, I think, and this was a huge inspiration in when I was writing her smell."
20. [The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show · 0:30:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45)] A Star Is Born ↔ Green Book · theme · All three films share a polished, studio, historically Hollywood approach; Star has more grit and anxiety. · "There's something like very polished and studio and historically Hollywood in the approach of all 3 of those movies."
21. [Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:33:38 · David Sims (0.70)] Humphrey Cobb ⇒ Paths of Glory (the host's read) · lineage · Paths of Glory is based on Cobb's novel, which Kubrick read in high school and never forgot. · "Humphrey Cobb's novel pads of glory."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

1. [speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
2. [speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
3. [speaker] Jon Gabrus · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · Action-movie guy from Action Boys who loves war films, 80s actioners, Michael Mann and synth scores. Has rewatched the film at different ages and now prizes the journalism section; can't stand the Iraq war cash-ins. · stances: the first part is the best part and the second half is underrated; Hartman is the nexus of the movie drill sergeant; the Jarhead sequels are cynical
4. [speaker] Alex Ross Perry · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · Loves Fight Club as a formative film he saw at the AMC Marple on opening night and again on Saturday, and says it still ranks among his heart picks despite finding it juvenile now. Respects a movie that looks good. Cannot stand the Fincher perfectionist myth, and thinks his push for digital had a bad influence. A sucker for Zodiac, which he ranks first. · stances: Fight Club is a time capsule: deeply embarrassing to admire but loved spiritually; Fincher's perfectionist myth and digital proselytizing are overrated; The second half and Project Mayhem say nothing new; Zodiac is the best Fincher
5. [speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
6. [speaker] Lorenz Tate · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · Believes Dead Presidents is unique in showing Black veterans' experience. · stances: no other movie shows what that experience was like for Black men

The shows' running bits (2)

1. [bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
2. [bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)

The whole prompt

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Full Metal Jacket (1987) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about Full Metal Jacket (1987) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:56:40 · David Sims (0.60)] The Woman King ↔ Full Metal Jacket · programming · Both films are about how much you have to break your brain to survive training for war. · "But it's the thing that like Woman King goes into a lot as well of like, how much you have to break your brain to survive an environment like this, right?"
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:43 · Lorenz Tate (0.80)] Full Metal Jacket ⇒ Dead Presidents (the maker said so: Lorenz Tate recalling the Hughes brothers' videotapes) · lineage · Allen Hughes made a VHS of Vietnam scenes; Tate was assigned Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, Platoon. · "So I watched Full Metal Jacket."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:25:08 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Short-Timers (novel) ⇒ Full Metal Jacket (the host's read) · lineage · Kubrick's film is based on Gustav Hasford's novel and keeps its three-part structure. · "Stanley Kubrick's film, 1987, based on the novel, The Short Timers by Gustav Hasford."
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:47:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] A Star Is Born ↔ Full Metal Jacket · theme · Offered as a second answer to best half-movie: everything up to the first time she sings Shallow is dynamite. · "everything leading up to the 1st time she sings shallow on stage, which is like, I think an hour, maybe a little bit less."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:18:12 · unknown (0.30)] Stripes ↔ Full Metal Jacket · theme · Compared as boot-camp movies, though Stripes loses interest after basic. · "It's it's a little bit like stripes, except the differences."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:30:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Platoon ↔ Full Metal Jacket · theme · At release critics said Platoon's visceral combat made Kubrick's sound-stage Vietnam look less real. · "Kubrick doing this on sound stages isn't the same."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:59:03 · Jon Gabrus (0.60)] Black Hawk Down ↔ Full Metal Jacket · theme · Eric Bana's Black Hawk Down character is like Animal Mother: scary, but useful when the shooting starts. · "Eric Bana's character is sort of similar where everyone's like, look, that guy freaks me out,"
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:34:28 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ Full Metal Jacket · theme · Kubrick's later sets-bound movies rewrote the memory of the earlier location-shot ones. · "it just sort of changed the perception of the earlier works"
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:47:20 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] Paths of Glory ↔ Full Metal Jacket · theme · The firing squad of Paths of Glory is set against the sniper of Full Metal Jacket as the gun advances. · "Well, what's the difference between the firing squat, the end of paths of glory and the sniper at the end of Full Metal Jacket?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:55:14 · Griffin Newman (0.85)] Paths of Glory ↔ Full Metal Jacket · theme · Full Metal Jacket shows how systems hype young men up for war before reality hits; Paths of Glory shows the illusion falling apart. · "the thing that I think full Metal Jacket does particularly well, is you sort of understand the way these systems are built to hype these young men up"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:29:19 · unknown (0.30)] Wartime Lies / Aryan Papers (unmade Kubrick project) ⇒ Full Metal Jacket (the host's read) · career · The speaker says Full Metal Jacket came out of Kubrick searching for the right Holocaust material. · "Full Mal Jack comes out of him searching for the right Holocaust material."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:23:33 · unknown (0.30)] Holocaust movie (Kubrick's unmade film) ⇒ Full Metal Jacket (the host's read) · career · Full Metal Jacket came out of Kubrick failing to crack a Holocaust movie, as Barry Lyndon came out of Napoleon. · "it does feel similar to Full Metal Jacket coming out of him trying to make a Holocaust movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:10:34 · Jon Gabrus (0.60)] The Silence of the Lambs ↔ Full Metal Jacket · people · Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs is a similar case of a performance that explains a whole career. · "Hopkins and Silence of the Lambs is like a similar thing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:13:25 · Jon Gabrus (0.80)] Full Metal Jacket ↔ Hacksaw Ridge · people · Hacksaw Ridge gets around the Ermey shadow by casting Vince Vaughn, a different kind of motor mouth. · "But like Hacksaw Ridge is one of the only movies I think to get around this where it's like, oh, get Vince Vaughn, he's like a different type of motor mouth."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 1:20:08 · Jon Gabrus (0.60)] Full Metal Jacket → The Frighteners · people · Ermey plays the ghost version of the drill sergeant in The Frighteners. · "he plays the ghost version of this in the Frighteners."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 2:15:07 · David Sims (0.50)] Full Metal Jacket ↔ Adventures in Babysitting · people · D'Onofrio is Pyle and a Thor-lookalike beefcake in two films opening the same summer. · "Dino Frio is on, you know, different screens in your multiplex in completely different bodies."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 2:00:28 · David Sims (0.50)] A Clockwork Orange ↔ Full Metal Jacket · industry · Clockwork Orange got Oscar attention, but The Shining, Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut were ignored. · "obviously, the shining full metal jacket and eyes wide shut are all basically ignored by the Oscars."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:12:25 · Jon Gabrus (0.80)] Full Metal Jacket → The Inspection · boot camp shadow · The Inspection is set in basic training and knows not to mess with Full Metal Jacket's drill sergeant; the speaker says it is not a ripoff. · "But I think it knows because every movie knows that it's like, it's everyone knows full metal jacket."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:15:10 · David Sims (0.50)] Full Metal Jacket → Major Payne · subversion · The answer to how to subvert the drill-sergeant movie is to do it with children, as in Major Payne. · "Now, which your answer is do it to children."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:27:21 · David Sims (0.55)] Full Metal Jacket ⇒ Jarhead (the host's read) · generational template · Jarhead is described as trying to be the Full Metal Jacket of the Iraq war generation. · "like jarhead feels like it's very much trying to be the full metal jacket."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:46:53 · unknown (0.30)] Aliens ↔ Full Metal Jacket · scheduling conflict · Rico Ross had to choose between two tyrannical directors with overlapping holds and picked Aliens. · "And eventually it was just like, you're dealing with 2 different tyrannical control freaks."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 2:23:42 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] THX 1138 ↔ Full Metal Jacket · least hair · Fewest hairs in any covered film since THX 1138. · "this is like almost the least hair in any movie we've covered since THX. 1138."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 1:05:50 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] R. Lee Ermey ⇒ Full Metal Jacket (the host's read) · lineage · Per the dossier Hartman's insults came right from Ermey, whom Kubrick had write down what he screamed. · "No, obviously this guy is perfect and would write down everything he said because all the insults came right from him"
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:46:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Full Metal Jacket ↔ Stanley Kubrick · craft · The boot-camp first hour is cited as one of the great first halves of any movie; the Vietnam second half is very good with Kubrick hallmarks. · "that 1st hour is funny, terrifying, emotionally wrenching."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:08:16 · Jon Gabrus (0.70)] Full Metal Jacket → R. Lee Ermey · people · Anyone who casts Ermey assumes the audience has seen the film and is either paying homage or pulling the rug out. · "anyone who uses him in a movie is like, well, you've seen full metal jacket. So we're either doing an homage to that or kind of pulling the rug out from that."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:37:57 · David Sims (0.60)] Michael Herr ↔ Full Metal Jacket · people · Kubrick kept Herr, the writer from one piece of material, to help adapt a different one. · "Yeah, so he sort of absorbs the writer from one piece of material to help them adapt a different piece of material."
[pairs] Full Metal Jacket ↔ Paths of Glory · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:50:18 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Full Metal Jacket · fun · The 3000 open video auditions produced a viral clip of a man at a Sears with a ladder saying hello Mr. Kubrick. · "This was an early case of letting people submit auditions through videotape, like having a pretty open audition because they needed young people and they got 3000 submissions."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 1:11:43 · unknown (0.30)] Full Metal Jacket · fun · The opening head-shaving was shot months after wrap, so the actors' misery was real. · "The opening of all of their heads being shaved was shot like 4 months after they thought they had wrapped."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 1:43:19 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Full Metal Jacket · fun · The battlefield was Beckton Gasworks, a huge plant scheduled for demolition, so the crew could blow it up. · "They're shooting at what's called the Bechton Gasworks, which was the largest gas plant in the world and was basically scheduled for demolition."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 2:02:59 · unknown (0.30)] Full Metal Jacket · fun · The score was credited to Abigail Mead (Vivian Kubrick) and disqualified from Oscar consideration for being too short, about 22 minutes. · "It was disqualified from Oscar consideration."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:32:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Paths of Glory ↔ Rashomon · programming · Bonus recommendations that are not strictly courtroom movies. · "Paths of Glory the other day, which I don't think is a great courtroom movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:54:01 · unknown (0.30)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey (novel) · programming · Film and Clarke's novel were developed side by side, each holding the other hostage. · "But the 2 of them were being done in tandem."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:43:02 · unknown (0.35)] A Clockwork Orange ↔ Fight Club · programming · Fight Club is called the Clockwork Orange of another generation, an Edge Lord pick. · "This is kind of the clockwork Orange for another generation."
[The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:25:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] The Irishman ↔ A Star Is Born · programming · Producer Bobby suggests The Irishman is this year's A Star Is Born for the hosts' Oscar obsession. · "perhaps the Irishman is this year's a star is born for us."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:46:21 · David Sims (0.75)] Paths of Glory ↔ The Bridge on the River Kwai · programming · Box office game: Kwai, the 1957 Best Picture winner, was number one the week Paths of Glory went wide. · "number one at the box office, the week, the paths of glory goes wide, is the best picture winner of 1957"
[Blank Check · Dune · 1:12:45 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ Silent Running (the host's read) · lineage · 2001 spawned heady, serious, clean sci-fi like Silent Running. · "2001 leads to a spat of things like silent running, you know, these movies that are like very heady."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:22:08 · Adam Nayman (0.55)] A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read) · lineage · The contrapuntal needle drop descends from Singin' in the Rain in Clockwork Orange and Stuck in the Middle with You in Reservoir Dogs. · "all the way back to singing in the rain in Clockwork Orange or stuck in the middle with you in, in, in, in Reservoir dogs."
[The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:54:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Mean Girls ↔ A Star Is Born · lineage · The speaker is fine with a new auteur remaking a beloved thing every 20 years, as with Star Is Born / Star Wars-style retellings, here giving the social-media generation its own Mean Girls. · "every 20 years another Otour comes along and is like, I've got a take on this."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:22:29 · David Sims (0.40)] Paths of Glory ↔ Dr. Strangelove · lineage · Strangelove is the nearest thing Kubrick made to Paths of Glory afterward, both being people talking through absurdity. · "the closest thing he's made to this since this is Strangelove, because Strangelove is also people talking through absurdity by and large"
[Blank Check · Dune · 2:54:20 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 was made because the novel sequel existed, a movie made just because they had to. · "Because Arthur C. Clark had come out with a 2010 novel."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:20:24 · unknown (0.30)] Anthony Burgess ⇒ A Clockwork Orange (the host's read) · lineage · The film adapts Burgess's novel, and Kubrick found he had to change very little. · "Kubrick reads the book and is like, I didn't have to do much."
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:27:47 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] A Star Is Born ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview) · lineage · Merchant says he thought about A Star Is Born, the rags to riches story, as much as the sports side. · "I was thinking as much about films like, you know, like a Star is Born"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:25:11 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory ⇒ The Wire (the maker said so: David Simon cites it regularly) · lineage · David Simon reportedly cites Paths of Glory as the number one influence on The Wire: institutions chewing up the people on the ground. · "David Simon cites this regularly as the number one influence on the wire?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:02:34 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 is the sequel to 2001; the speaker's reaction to the Kubrick film is the benchmark throughout. · "And I said, oh, you know, 2010, the sequel to 2001 and they were like, the what?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:22:36 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] Vinyl ↔ A Clockwork Orange · lineage · The speakers note there is an unwatchable Warhol version of this same book. · "Well, of course, you know, you mentioned Warhol, but of course there's the unwatchable Warhol version of this book."
[The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show · 0:30:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] A Star Is Born ↔ Bohemian Rhapsody · theme · Star's schmaltz and old-fashionedness were expected to lift it, but that is what the night rewarded in Bohemian Rhapsody and Green Book. · "it's the schmaltiness and old-fashionedness of Bohemian Rhapsody and Green book that we're really discussing tonight."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:25:22 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory ⇒ David Simon (the maker said so: David Simon cites it regularly) · lineage · The speaker calls Paths of Glory a Rosetta Stone for Simon's stories of institutions versus the people below. · "this is the sort of Rosetta Stone, if you will, for him."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 2:48:04 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010 (the host's read) · lineage · Peter Hyams made a film sequel to 2001, following the books. · "But, like, he rolled up his sleeves and he was like, 2001?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:28:51 · Alex Ross Perry (0.80)] A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Her Smell (the maker said so: Alex Ross Perry, the writer of Her Smell, speaking on this episode) · lineage · The speaker says the film's five-act structure was a huge inspiration while writing Her Smell. · "This movie, I think, and this was a huge inspiration in when I was writing her smell."
[The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show · 0:30:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45)] A Star Is Born ↔ Green Book · theme · All three films share a polished, studio, historically Hollywood approach; Star has more grit and anxiety. · "There's something like very polished and studio and historically Hollywood in the approach of all 3 of those movies."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:33:38 · David Sims (0.70)] Humphrey Cobb ⇒ Paths of Glory (the host's read) · lineage · Paths of Glory is based on Cobb's novel, which Kubrick read in high school and never forgot. · "Humphrey Cobb's novel pads of glory."
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[speaker] Jon Gabrus · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · Action-movie guy from Action Boys who loves war films, 80s actioners, Michael Mann and synth scores. Has rewatched the film at different ages and now prizes the journalism section; can't stand the Iraq war cash-ins. · stances: the first part is the best part and the second half is underrated; Hartman is the nexus of the movie drill sergeant; the Jarhead sequels are cynical
[speaker] Alex Ross Perry · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · Loves Fight Club as a formative film he saw at the AMC Marple on opening night and again on Saturday, and says it still ranks among his heart picks despite finding it juvenile now. Respects a movie that looks good. Cannot stand the Fincher perfectionist myth, and thinks his push for digital had a bad influence. A sucker for Zodiac, which he ranks first. · stances: Fight Club is a time capsule: deeply embarrassing to admire but loved spiritually; Fincher's perfectionist myth and digital proselytizing are overrated; The second half and Project Mayhem say nothing new; Zodiac is the best Fincher
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] Lorenz Tate · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · Believes Dead Presidents is unique in showing Black veterans' experience. · stances: no other movie shows what that experience was like for Black men
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)

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