While I wouldn’t call Full Metal Jacket one of my favorite movies, it’s more my taste in movies rather than the quality. It’s really a good movie and exploration of the Vietnam War and the dehumanizing effect of war itself. It also boasts former drill instructor R. Lee Emery in his first big role, and one fitting his former career. There’s also a certain scene that got sampled into a 2 Live Crew song, but we like to keep things clean here at the Spotlight.
So imagine the concern that Matthew Modine had when he saw the poster for the movie had been changed on Amazon’s streaming offerings, taking the message written on the helmet of his character off of the poster, and brought the issue to social media. Having it on the poster speaks to the movie’s theme, so pulling it off is just the latest bit of censorship by someone at a studio who doesn’t understand the point of what they think is offensive and altering it. This time is only a movie poster image, but as the article notes, they’ve altered the movies themselves.
It’s strange, and sad that a plot Cobra tried to pull off in the 1980s G.I Joe cartoon is now actually used by the supposed stewards of our movie history.
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