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Duplicitous scenes, dialog, and action--yet BETTER. This is an remix of Marine boot camp with hilarious useage of profainity and young-guy criminal hijinx blended in with a look at a new kind of war--one that lasted only one hundred hours.Jake Gyllenhaal threw a lot into the role of a confused young man who joined the Marines following family tradition. His talent equal is Jamie Foxx who plays Jake's platoon sergeant, Sykes. Sykes is such a gung ho, career obsessed jarhead it is both hilarious and frightening all at once. The other members of Jake's platoon exemplify the bizarre cast of characters all of us vets ever met (and were).
Anyone who has "done time" in the military will get a kick from this film. Those who haven't will get another dose of how it real it can be. Jarhead will border on the edge of "classic" in the same vain as Apocalypse and FMJ and will be enjoyed as a memorable two-hour testosterone trip down memory lane for those who made the same journey .
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I served during the same time frame, Hopefully this will be one that can be watched more than once, like FMJ.
I'de have to do 150 push-ups for not spelling that correctly.
It didn't have near the power of those films nor of the book upon which it was based.I thought the writer and director made some poor choices in where they created amalgams from the book (the friendly fire incident, the captain calling in the airstrike,etc.) and overdid some things (like the oil rain) to ridiculous proportions. That may seem like nitpicking but things like that took me out of the movie... to the extent that the movie ever let me in.
I loved how the book gave you a sense of the Marine culture but the movie, in comparison, barely scratches the surface of that aspect of the story.
The feeling of that culture and the confusion, the bonding, the abuse, the intensity, the dehumanization (perhaps, especially... and all the way around) and even the cursing were so much better in the book. I know this is a common problem in adaptations but having read the book just over a month ago and being a big fan of the other movies mentioned (and war movies in general) the most I could give this is a lukewarm recommendation.
Blackhawk Down is a good example of war movie that was well done, gave you a sense of the comraderie and was pretty true to the book.
"Where are we going? And what am I doing in this hand basket?"
supporting actor (Jamie Foxx) is a more compelling character than the movie's protagonist.townsend
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"Where are we going? And what am I doing in this hand basket?"
Thanks for the review. Originally I was looking forward to this film but then the lukewarm reviews on Rottentomatoes.com convinced me that this is a "wait till it comes out on DVD" but your post has me rethinking that premise in that I may see it in the theater in the next couple weeks.Not to spoil it for anyone, but from reading the reviews and discussions on this film one can say that while this is a war film it is not a combat film. The film is suppose to be about a group of marines who are sent over to the Gulf in the first Gulf war but do not get to see any combat.
This is realistic since as you said that war only lasted 100 hours and most soldiers probably didn't see actual combat.
I saw "Jarhead" yesterday and enjoyed it very much. I think the many references to AN and FMJ are intended to show how the first Gulf War was very much different from the Vietnam conflict. This is brought home by the Vietnam vet whop bords the bus at the end; you can see in his face how different this reurn is from his own.
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