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#004 Full Metal Jacket [VHS]

d3d Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Matthew Modine 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

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#001 UFC Viii 09/08/95, Delajoya vs ? vhs

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#0002 Asteroid 4hr NBC mini Series, Police Chases/Disasters 2 1997 vhs

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#002 Andy Griffith TV Land Marathon 2000

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#002 Drop Dead Fred, Saturday Night Live vhs

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#0003 whiteman cant jump, grand Canyon(steve martin), Dream On

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#0004 Sling Blade, The Big Hit, Rush Hour vhs

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#0005 Pewees Play house Marathon, Fox Family vhs

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#005 Witness to the Mob, mini series NBC vhs

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#0006 The Shootist, Deskset (Tracy & Hepburn vhs

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#007 Star Treck 5, What About Bob, Cliton/Bush/Perot Debate 1992 vhs

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#008 Legends of the Fall vhs

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#009 Reality Super Fights, Jr Jones vs Barrera, Roy Jones vs Mc Collig vhs

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#010 Extreme Fighting Championship 1, Pancreace vhs

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#011 Bowe vs Holyfield 3 vhs

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#013 UFC Championship 1995 vhs

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#016 SNL Eddie Murphy yrs Marathon Comedy Channel vhs

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#020 Hard to Kill, Q & A, Marked for Death vhs

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#021 The Ref(Spacey), Philadelphia (denzel,hanks)Pinochio(WDW)David Letterman, Sound MS 030603 vhs

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#022 Mosquito Coast, platoon, Beatle Guise vhs

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#023 Star Treck marathon vhs

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#029 Rambo, Rocky 4, Stripes vhs

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#036 SNL vhs

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#038 SNL MTV vhs

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#039 Alice in Wonderland, Mary Poppins, Care Bear Movie vhs

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#042 Gona get you Sucka vhs

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#043 While you were Sleeping vhs

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#050 Raw, One Crazy Summer, Gods Must Be Crazy Vhs

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#051 Cantinflas

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#069 Dead and Burried, Stripes, Outlaw josey wales, Roxanne 72106 vhs

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#072 Last of the Mohicans vhs

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#079 Tyson vs Seldon, Trinidad vs ?, UFCXI, Wilfred Rivera vs Wittecar vhs

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#092 When harry met Sally, Road House, The God Father vhs

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#096 Saturday Night Live, Star treck IV, The Simpsons vhs

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#098 JFK, Bad AVI 030603 vhs

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#099 Whyatt Earp, Speed, vhs

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#0131 Up in Smoke, Cheech & Chong vhs

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#132 The Last fling, John Ritter 1987 vhs

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#089 Natural Born Killers & Cheers Final show[VHS]

d3d Oliver Stone Oliver Stone would like to have the last word on America's media culture of voyeurism and violence, but whatever he's trying to say in this grisly, unconventional movie comes across terribly garbled. Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis play traveling serial killers who become television celebrities when a Geraldo-like personality (Robert Downey Jr.) turns their madness into the biggest story in the country. Stone extensively rewrote an original script by Quentin Tarantino, and he employs a mosaic of different film stocks, video, and pop pastiches to create a sense of blurred lines between visual phenomena. (The background on Lewis's character's life as an abused child, for instance, is presented as a sitcom starring Rodney Dangerfield.) But the result of these experiments is a pompous, even amateurish effort at grasping the reins of a real-life national debate. One almost wants to tell Stone to sit down and raise his hand next time if he thinks he has something to say. The controversial director would like Natural Born Killers to be nothing less than a monumental achievement, but it's one of the emptier entries in his filmography. —Tom Keogh

#090 Siege at Ruby Ridge (2pc) [VHS]

d3d Roger Young