Yeah, it's the "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" movie.

I thought it was pretty good. I got more or less lost by the end, but at least compared to Full Metal Jacket, I preferred it. The abovementioned aside (although I preferred "What do you know about surfing, Major? You're from goddamn New Jersey."), while it may have lacked the eternal quotability of the drill sergeant in the beginning of FMJ, it made up for it by... not being completely fucking boring afterward. Like I said, the gravity of the ending was more or less lost on me, but I took it as the story of a boatful of soldiers slowly going insane/dying in Vietnam. It works.