Posted on 04/15/2018 3:57:13 PM PDT by Rastus
R. Lee Ermey died according to a tweet from Donald Trump Jr.
That picture looks like Warren Oates.
Warren Oates was pretty funny in “Stripes”.
Hmmm. I think better is...
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making some other poor dumb bastard die for his country.- General George S. Patton
I’ve never seen “Full Metal Jacket”, but Kubrick comes across to me like a guy that mocks/makes fun of, American values and the military, so I’d be surprised if any Kubrick film was actually meant to boost respect for the marines.
Indeed, he died much too young.
I’m not sure the boot camp segment is meant to exalt the Marines, but Ermey’s performance is one for the ages. You really should watch it, and feel safe to turn the movie off when it shifts to Vietnam. It really is a tale of two films, and the second one is not so good.
I’ll be darned. That’s him alright.
Yeah, old R. Lee was a true American hero of the Old Corps. Not many of them left—
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