I was watching this movie with high hopes for a great and dark war movie. I liked how the Sergeant Instructor was a iconic dick and all the trainging. It was nice seeing Joker help Pyle. But then there was the scene with everyone strapping Pyle to his bed, and they all beat him, even Joker was in on it. That’s called a “blanket party”.
Okay this movie sucks now.
A blanket party is fucking stupid.
THEY ARE A TEAM! EVERYTHING THEY DO IS AS A TEAM! TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAMWORK. That’s why Shrek was a good movie. You don’t fucking do that to your own team, you fucking idiot.
The whole team doesn’t all have to be friends. It would be cool if they were all friends. But the most important thing is DON’T HATE YOUR TEAM. You can hate your Sergeant Instructor. That’s fine. The Instructors are not trying to make you like them. But not your team. If one member hates the whole team, then don’t expect that one member to have your back or stab you in the back.
HE NEVER EVEN GOT TO FIGHT IN THE WAR! THATS BULLSHIT! And they all never said they were sorry. Cunts! I mean, it’s never brought up again other than the sounds at the end.
This movie would have been better if Joker was dying and Pyle sees him and dosn’t help because… fuck him. OR THEY NEVER DID THE BLANKET PARTY IF REAL SOUILDER NEVER DO THAT AT ALL! You don’t fucking do that to your teams. Or he could have switched and joined the Vietnamese. Saying “I’M IN A LOT OF PAIN! I’LL SELL OUT MY COUNTRY! JUST PLZ DON’T MAKE ME GO BACK!”, and fucking kills his whole USA team. But he also helps Vietnam. REAL HELP. He does farming, fishing, and some army tips, and kills his whole USA squad. He takes his dog tags and leaves it on Joker's burned body, faking his death. Soon, Pyle gets a new life in Vietnam by becoming a legal citizen. He falls in love. has kids. He gets old with his lover and sees the landscape of the country he was supposed to destroy. And at that point, he was happy.
If that blanket party shit happens to me, I’m done. I quit the army. I know I can’t do that but I’m doing it anyway if I have to be teammates with those cunts. I’ll also punch the first fucker I see there. And try to beat everyone up. I rather be in a cage has the Health Inspector as my boyfriend rather be in a team with those assholes in a war that’s pointless. Or I could wait until I’m on the battlefield. While in the chopper, we all go crashing down.
But I feel like blanket parties should never have existed, and the team helped the fat guy more and cared about him. He would have fight in the war, and you would care more about them if they died.
But what was weird was that the second half was a whole different movie I didn’t enjoy the other half. I did not give a shit about any one in it.
I am not happy that Joker lived at the end. He could have died and I would not give two shits about it. I would not care if someone raped his dead body. But at the end of the day, they still lost the war. Suck it.