Talk:R. Lee Ermey

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On the new Ministry (band) album "Rio Grande Blood" track 3 contains a voice that sounds very much like R. Lee Ermey. The CD sites "Sgt. Major" as the voice so I am unsure as to whether or not Mr. Ermey should be credited. Thoughts or confirmations? NezzerX 19:30, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Excellent observation NezzerX, I visited several forums for the band and that is indeed Ermey's voice. --Theelectricchild 17:24, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

As a side note, Ermey's "You will not kill!" from Full Metal Jacket is sampled in Ministry's song "Thieves." Willbyr (talk | contribs) 16:02, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Also (FWIW) just about everything he says in that movie has been sampled by Combichrist and Grendel. 00:02, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

someone said the 30 cal is a heavy machine gun in the page its not its a light machine gun. dont change it back because there is absoutly no way it can be classifed as a heavy mayby a meduim at best but defityl not a heavy. im taking the thing out/changing it

"Initially, he was only intended to be the technical advisor, but Kubrick changed his mind after putting together an instructional tape with Ermey, where Ermey went on an extended hair-raising DI tirade while being pelted by oranges and tennis balls, all without repeating himself, stopping, or even flinching."

Heh...I'd really like to see that video. ;-)

Why aren't all of his films listed in the filmography section? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.218.70.182 (talk) 04:22, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

1 Ermey's appearance in ACTION (1999)
2 DI
3 Ermey w/gun
4 Tupperware

[edit] Ermey's appearance in ACTION (1999)

It's worth noting that Ermey appeared in several episodes of the television series Action (1999), playing the grizzled veteran film director "Titus Scroad". In the series storyline, Scroad comes out of reclusion to direct a new action film being produced by the series lead "Peter Dragon", played by Jay Mohr. Scroad is said to have consumed every drug know to man over his long career, but ends up dead in a swimming pool before he can direct the film. One of his tics is to keep grabbing and squeezing men by the genitals, to see if they have "the balls" to get the job done.

Can some please add this listing to the main article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tony Ventresca (talk • contribs) 17:05, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DI

I see this used twice in the article, and I have no idea what it means. Dxco (talk) 04:28, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

"Drill instructor". 67.87.115.207 (talk) 06:24, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ermey w/gun

I know there seems to be a mentality on Wikipedia that "If there's a free picture available, it should be used in the article." But we already have a decent free picture, and the user who has edited it into the article is putting it one of the worst possible positions. Show me any other decent article cramming the picture on the opposite side of the main one at the beginning.--CyberGhostface (talk) 19:57, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Must be your display; on my screen, it's in the middle of the article and quite unobtrusive. Regardless, the solution to an ill-placed photo to is to move it around, not to delete it without an edit summary. Moreover, it's a decent image. Deltabeignet (talk) 23:31, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
- Its not a bad image (compared to the blurry crap that passes for free images) but its not necessary. With my browser, I can barely tell that its Ermey as he's wearing a huge helmet and he's looking downwards. There are probably much better images of Ermey with a gun that can be freely licensed than this one.--CyberGhostface (talk) 20:12, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tupperware

Does anyone have a citation for this? Either Ermey has a sense of humor when taking on these assignments, or someone who is not a fan of Glock edited it in for laughs. Well, either that or it's a coincidence, but a Google only reveals articles that have copied this article. --Joffeloff (talk) 15:58, 13 January 2008 (UTC)