Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. The film immediately shifts to Act Two, in Vietnam. Joker has attained the rank of sergeant and is a correspondent for "Stars and Stripes." Although he seems to like the job, he questions his superior about the euphemisms that are being used by U.S. forces to describe their actions in Vietnam. "Search and destroy," for example, becomes "sweep and clear."

Im Mittelpunkt der Handlung stehen SERGEANT JAMES „JOKER“ DAVIS (Matthew Modine), LEONARD „PAULA“ LAWRENCE (Vincent D'Onofrio) und SERGEANT ROBERT „COWBOY“ EVANS (Arliss Howard). This movie shows the manufacturing of trained killers engaging communist Vietnamese forces in country. The day to day lives of the training of U.S marine corps personal and the challenges they faced on the battlefield. The movie "apocalypse now" does not accurately present a picture on the battlefield as there would have been no battalion commander to have let his soldiers surf during a beachhead assault. Nor would have civilian "Playboy Bunnies" been able to go into a forward area to prostitute for service members. substantially in overall appearance. Early scenes do not immediately stand out as visual stunners; after all, there's only so much you can do withSpeaking of which...one welcome addition to this 4K release is the film's original mono audio mix (a rarity among Warner releases), which has not been The survivors finally find the sniper. And it is there, in the movie's penultimate scene, that Joker must face a moral choice -- or, more accurately, a dilemma, as there is no good choice to be made. Still, he must decide -- and makes a decision that surely will haunt him for years to come. Ancor più significativa la scena finale dove viene uccisa una povera bambina vietnamita che evidentemente cercava solo di difendersi dagli invasori.

as the naturally-lit environments pop with detail and show an improved level of depth and overall texture...which of course, applies to almost the company traverse during the film's final stretch. It works in tandem with the tighter image detail to create a more realistic appearance overall, aidedUn film che fa sicuramente riflettere su come gli Americani o meglio il "governo" ha sempre mandato a morire ragazzi giovani innocenti senza scopo alcuno, nè rimorso, schiavizzati, torturati per stupide conquiste di potere, con pretesti senza senso come quello della "pace" uccido e formo cani rabbiosi per uccidere. Diese beiden sind also wirklich erstklassig, dagegen „anzustinken“ war für MATTHEW MODINE ziemlich schwer, dennoch kann er in der Rolle des „Private Joker“ voll überzeugen. One of Joker's pals is Rafterman, a combat photographer who is frustrated with simply taking pictures; he wants to see the action, the front lines. Joker, who outranks him, basically tells him that, if he has his way, Rafterman won't get his chance. Rafterman's mother, Joker jokes, would do him physical harm when he returned to the States if he'd let anything happen to her son.

Clearly the stars of the piece are R. Lee Ermey's Gunnery Sergeant, who basically spends the first half of the movie shouting, and Vincent D'Onofrio's beleaguered sap Private Pyle. They dominate the highly memorable first half of the movie with some electric dialogue - Ermey's alone including some of the most quotable lines in movie history. These are fierce performances that echo throughout the movie, and overshadow the latter half, where Matthew Modine and a young Adam Baldwin take centre stage to face the horrors of urban guerrilla warfare. Both Modine and Baldwin deliver some of their best work, but it still pales in comparison to the opening scenes. effort shows a similar amount of care. This is, quite simply, a terrific presentation of a film that's rarely pretty, whether due to its subject matter or due to a tighter overall appearance that routinely feels more film-like and stable. Things improve dramatically whenever the boys venture outdoors, There are so many things wrong with that stance that I would have trouble finding where to begin. But I will say this: Each of these films is its own world, and each is very much a product of its director's style and vision, and each does different things. "Apocalypse Now" is Francis Ford Coppola's take on the war, and it's the most surreal and deliberately absurd. Michael Cimino's "The Deer Hunter" benefited from its significant focus on the home front during the war -- while the director did present the trauma suffered by soldiers, he also succeeded in depicting the hurts the war inflicted on loved ones, families, even an entire community. Oliver Stone's "Platoon" was, oddly, the most "realistic" of the four films, and in my opinion the least imaginative, though I still think it's a fine film. It's here that the film's HDR enhancement begins to take control, lending a more refined and controlled palette to some of the film's most famousrecent viewings, combined with the obvious visual strengths of this 4K transfer, have pushed me slightly over to the other side. All told, it's Der Film selber basiert auf dem Romanen „The Short-Timers“ von GUSTAF HASFORD und „Dispatches“ von MICHAEL HERR, die beide auch am Drehbuch mitarbeiteten. Beide waren als Kriegsberichterstatter in Vietnam, also ganz wie die Hauptfigur“ PRIVATE JOKER“ (Matthew Modine) im Film. counterpart. The film was theatrically matted for 1.85:1 but presented in 1.33:1 open matte on many earlier home video releases, which followed Less interested in the horrors of war and more interested in exposing the horrors of what the US did to their own technically every bit as good as 2001 and The Shining's 4K presentations from the perspective of authenticity, even if the

I do agree with people who say the first act of this film is so impressive and overwhelming that the rest of the picture can seem anti-climactic. Much of the reason lies with R. Lee Ermey, whos portrayal of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman is one of the most unforgettable performances in cinema history. Hartman's view, apparently, is that boot camp should be as hellish as possible, the better to prepare these would-be Marines from what they'll face in Vietnam. And the irony is he's right; it's just that he takes it to such an extreme that it results in two tragic deaths. Prior to that, though, Hartman unleashes upon his trainees a nonstop stream of profanity, verbal abuse, physical punishment and general humiliation. Warner Bros. already did an exceptional job with 2001 and The Shining's 4K restorations, so it's no surprise that their third For starters detail is excellent, promoting a cleaned up image that, but for a smattering of early shots, does not appear to have had too heavy an application of DNR scrubbing (there are a couple of mid-range shots where the faces look a little bit too clean), and still has a nice texture to it commensurate to the filming style. Close-ups are par for the course here, and they are perfectly framed, bathed in meticulously designed shadow and are ripe with fine skin detail and clothing texture.perpetually behind the curve for high-definition audio in those days, as that disc actually replaced an even earlier Blu-ray with lossy Dolby quite pleasing and purists are sure to appreciate it. Although I'll admit to being used to the surround mix by now, there are times during Full Metal