Rough Draft

Stanley Kubrick Full Metal Jacket (1987) it is an action packed movie. It follows the life of a solder during his tour of the Vietnam War. I like war movies because my grandfather was in the Pacific Theater of World War 2, and I like to hear about all of his stories as a bombardier in the Pacific.

Matthew Modine(Who played Pvt. J.T. Davis or Joker was his nick name) he also played in The Dark Night, Transporter 2, and Vision Quest.

Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times

In his written reviews he says "Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket is more like a book of short stories than a novel. I like it as a short story, and I would not like to see them walking from place to place because it would get rely long and boring. By make it in to a lot more snippets they were able to include a lot more.

The opening passages of "Full Metal Jacket" promise much more than the film finally is able to deliver. I disagree with that, because I thought it was a great movie with a great. War is horrific. The innocent get drawn into it in order to survive but often they don't.

Kubrick seems to want to tell us the story of individual characters, to show how the war affected them, but it has been so long since he allowed spontaneous human nature into his films that he no longer knows how. I really disagree with him, I think Kubrick did a phenomenal job letting you get to know the character.

           My name is Micah Wandell. I am eighteen years old, and a freshman attending Blinn college. I was born in Humble, Texas, however when I was two I moved to Magnolia, Texas on a sixteen acre plot. I have three older brothers and a twin sister who is younger than me. Things I like to do are camping, backpacking, canoeing, rock climbing, and lots of stuff that has to do with the outdoors. When I was seven I joined a Cub Scout Pack. I started in Tiger Cubs where I worked through the ranks, and earned my Arrow Of Light; from there I started my Boy Scouting career. Boy Scouts was a lot better than Cub Scouts because you were not doing arts and crafts all the time. Boy Scouts are about teaching you how to live in the outdoors and learning skills you could use later in life. I have earned a total of 43 merit badges, two Eagle Palms, and my Eagle Scout Award (Eagle Scout is the highest rank in Boy Scout). Boy Scouts have been a big part of my life and I could never think to live without it.

           I have done many thing in my life like this past summer I backpacked in New Mexico at a Boy Scout Ranch called Philmont Scout Ranch. I did a program there called Rayado were I spent twenty one days backpacking and hiking over one hundred and eighty miles in the mountains of Philmont. In 2012 I spent a week at Florida Sea Base (Florida Sea Base is another big Boy Scout Camp) where I scuba dived in the Florida Keys. There I got to swim with sea turtles, Barracuda, nurse shark, stingray, squid, and lots more. I would name them all, but that could take a while. I have attended many Boy Scout summer camps that have taught me many life skills.