20 Most Rewatchable Movies Of The '80s

15. Full Metal Jacket

It may not always be fun viewing, but true cinema fans would be lying if they claimed they hadn't watched that opening half of Full Metal Jacket so many times they've got the dialogue memorised. The training sequence of Stanley Kubrick's penultimate film, starring R. Lee Ermey as a barbaric drill sergeant and Vincent D'Onofrio as a simple-minded new Marine recruit, is the single most purely entertaining anything that Kubrick had a hand in. The rest of the film is no slouch, either - when the freshly-trained Marines finally get to Vietnam, Kubrick adds together pop tunes and bloody slo-mo combat to create one of the most unique portrayals of the conflict on-screen. The blackly comic opening scenes, though, have become rightly iconic. Forget Platoon and Born On The Fourth Of July - Full Metal Jacket was the best war movie to come out of Hollywood in the '80s.