Full Metal Jacket the 1960s. At that time, Kubrick talked about wanting to explode the usual conventions of narrative structure. Sergeant Hartman (renamed from the book's Gerheim) has an expanded role in the film. In the film, Private Pyle's incompetence is presented as weighing negatively on the rest of the platoon and in the film, unlike the novel, he is the only under-performing recruit. The film omits "Hartman's" disclosure to other troops that he thinks Pyle might be mentally unstable, a "Section 8". In contrast, Hartman praises Pyle, saying that he is "born again hard". Jenkins says that the character of Hartman could
Berserker (1987 film) to avoid unless you are have a burning desire to see every 80s slasher film". Todd Martin from "HorrorNews.net" offered the film similar criticism, calling it "a boring, confusing, hokey, mess of a film". Will and Roni agree that the Viking element was underplayed. Berserker (1987 film) Berserker (a.k.a. Berserker: The Nordic Curse) is a 1987 American slasher film written and directed by Jefferson Richard.The film centers on a group of campers who are stalked and murdered by a Viking berserker. According to an old Nordic legend, a Berserker was a bloodthirsty warrior who ate human flesh, forbidden a restful