Jon Gabrus

1 sketch, 6 claims, and 3 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

Blank Check — Patreon: Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) (guest)

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

Humor: Loud, anecdotal riffs and personal stories that spiral into bits.

In their words

  • “my take on full metal jacket is the 1st part's the best part, and the 2nd part isn't as good.” (0:17:14)
  • “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.” (0:13:25)

Their shows' recurring bits

Running bits, not opinions; a critic read aloud is cited, not present.

Their claims

Showing 1–6 of 6 claims.

  1. people (typecasting shorthand): Full Metal Jacket → R. Lee Ermey. 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 with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:08:16 · Jon Gabrus (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. people (performance parallel): The Silence of the Lambs → Full Metal Jacket. 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 with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:10:34 · Jon Gabrus (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (boot camp shadow): Full Metal Jacket → The Inspection. 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 with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:12:25 · Jon Gabrus (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. people (drill sergeant casting): Full Metal Jacket → Hacksaw Ridge. 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 with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:13:25 · Jon Gabrus (0.80 sure it was them)
  5. theme (character parallel): Black Hawk Down → Full Metal Jacket. 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 · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:59:03 · Jon Gabrus (0.60 sure it was them)
  6. people (casting echo): Full Metal Jacket → The Frighteners. 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 with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:20:08 · Jon Gabrus (0.60 sure it was them)

Their fun items

Showing 1–3 of 3 fun items.

  1. fun, about Vincent D'Onofrio: A former Hard Rock Cafe bouncer who taped his own audition, mailed it to England and put on a record amount of weight.
    “Vincent DiNofrio, as we said, he was a bouncer, right, at the Hard Rock Cafe, I think.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:20:28 · Jon Gabrus (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Vincent D'Onofrio: He listened to No Woman No Cry between takes.
    “Dnofrio says he's listening to no woman, no cry a lot in between takes on his headphones”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:31:31 · Jon Gabrus (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Leonard Lewis: The closing credits end with a Hair by Leonard card on a film with almost no hair.
    “It just says hair by Leonard because he does like the classic Kubrick end of credit shit”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 2:23:03 · Jon Gabrus (0.60 sure it was them)