'Full Metal Jacket' actor R. Lee Ermey dies at age 74

[Industrial Toys]

I really never cared for the combat part of that movie. I think it was filmed in London, as Kubric (sp?) didn't really want to go any other place. I wonder what his major malfunction was? They brought in the palm trees!

 

[QRTRHRS]

I saw FMJ when it first came out. A friend and I got to the movie a bit late, it was BIG theater, much bigger than what we have today, and the place was packed. We found two seats in the back row which I think was a good thing. We really did not know what to expect and when Emery showed up and started chewing out the recruits, the theater audience was stone called quiet. They were SHOCKED and STUNNED at the language as well as from what he was saying and doing. I was laughing so hard because he was so brilliant. He was a master. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

I have read that he was originally an adviser to FMJ and they had a script written for the actor who was supposed to play the DI. Ermey, without a script, just started up and kept going and going and going, and he got the part instead of a "real" actor. The guy was a genius and will be missed.

Now I laughed through the first half of the movie but stopped laughing after the DI got shot which I thought was pretty lame. The second half of the movie has to be the best view of combat ever.

There are supposed to be two endings of the movie, the one show in the theater and the one deemed unworthy of making the movie. The unshown ending had one of the Marines cutting the head off of the sniper which I guess was deemed to violent.

Ermey will be missed.

Later,
Dan

I was Army, not Marine but after a somewhat quiet couple of days at Dix we met our DI's. Talk about scared s***less while hitting the ground running?

 

[k0ua]

The door gunner (get some, get some!) Was cast to play Gunny Hartman, but Ermey filled that role, and filled it well.

Pvt. Joker: "have you ever shot any women or children?
Door gunner: "sometimes"
Pvt Joker: "how can you shoot women and children?"
Door gunner: "easy, you just don't lead 'em as much!" "ain't war ****!"

 

[YLee Kioti]

A true Alpha male we are now short one Alpha male as the sissified beta cucks with their man-buns are cropping up like Johnson grass.
Only way to deal with Johnson grass is erasure, beta males with more Alpha males. Hmm hope we raise a few more of those Alpha types....

My DI was never quite that colorful.
He had just return from 'Nam.
SSG. Christopher;his demeanor, intense stare and voice told us all he was absolutely a no nonsense man.
Much respect for him and Sgt. Perfecto his assistant DI.
Just as firm, my first real exposure to the good cop bad cop routine..heh..oh thanks for those flashbacks Ermey. Oh-rah......

 

[Stimw]

The only time the DI's were nice to us was about the 6th week of basic when we went to the rifle range. ???
They're job was to teach us skills to save our lives not change diapers.
Another GREAT DI movie was "Officer and a Gentleman" . Louis Gossit Jr nailed it also!