Posted on Mar 7, 2016
PO3 Steven Sherrill
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So I was thinking about this after researching for another post, in Heartbreak Ridge Gunny Highway has some great one liners, funny, but not intended to be. Same is true of Gunny Hartman in Full Metal Jacket. So RPers, who do you think is more unintentionally funny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uvF-emJDSI
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MSG Intermediate Care Technician
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"Now it's my will against yours and you will lose. So don't forget, 0600. That's six o'clock in the morning for those of you who don't habla."
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PO3 Steven Sherrill
PO3 Steven Sherrill
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I think the coffee pot scene is funniest. I always laugh at that one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QMrGsm9WRo
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CPT Battalion S 1 Oic
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I love both movies.
My favorite line by far from Full Metal Jacket is "I will motivate you, Pyle! If it short-dicks every cannibal in the Congo!". There's no way for me to watch that without laughing.
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MSG Intermediate Care Technician
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"Webster, if Powers ever comes to a sudden stop your face is gonna go half way up his a*s."
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Who do you think is the more unintentionally funny Gunnery Sergeant, Highway or Hartman?
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MSG Intermediate Care Technician
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Gunny Highway was the certainly the funniest.
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Sgt Field Radio Operator
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Edited 10 y ago
Gunny Hartman reminds me of the DI's that I had. They would say things in a serious manner that would come out funny.
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LTC Jason Bartlett
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For me this is easy I have to support the prior service Soldier and MOH recipient Gunny Highway. Got to love Hollywood heroes, both great movies.
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LTC Jason Bartlett
LTC Jason Bartlett
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The character played by Eastwood received the Medal of Honor for his actions in the U.S. Army during Korean War, he later went on to join the Marines along with his buddy SGM Chozhoo.
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LTC Stephen F.
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PO3 Steven Sherrill hands down Clint Eastwood as Gunnery Sergeant Highway displays many of the characteristics which have propelled him to be both a great actor and a cultural icon. His dry wit and deftly using both visual gags like throwing the radio, breaking the pool cue, etc. with his dry wit.
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SSG Ricardo Marcial
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Clint EAstwood was funny, Gunny.......well he was poetic in every scene, even his last.
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LCDR Sales & Proposals Manager Gas Turbine Products
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What a great question...Highway by a mile. Hartman is well, frankly just terrifying in his blatant bad-arsery. There's no doubt left in the mind that he really DOES see everyone as "equally useless" and that his one mission in life is producing lethally dedicated Marines-Ultimately, he fails to see the biggest threat to his platoon and himself. Highway, by contrast, is a hard-bitten mirror image of the guys he's leading...flawed, but in poignant ways. He's trying to repair a broken relationship, manage careerist superiors, and relate to a "new" generation of Marines who think he's a "has-been". In the end, his tactics elevate his Marines and actually prepare them for the fight of their lives. The fact that he manages to do all of the above while never loosing that 'Blondie' nonchalant attitude leaves you in stitches more than tears.
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Alan K.
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LCDR.....Perfect !
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Id go with Hartman because wasn't even supposed to be in the movie originally. That opening in FMJ was done on the fly. his lines are more famous than Highways

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTQAXX08A-s
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