Posted: 11/3/2010 7:57:29 AM EDT
| What did everyone think of this movie? A little late to the party on it. |
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Most Marines seem to rag on Jarhead The one movie that matched up with a guy who would be able to verify its verity was Generation Kill, and he refused to watch it and give me his opinion of it. It really seemed to capture him though, a young guy in that era, in marine Recon in Iraq. Really gung ho and in a combat unit but tolerant of gays and hating toward organized Christianity. But he refused to watch it and give me his opinion. |
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I went to see it with my parents, they both being career Marines. We left, and they got refunded their tickets Of course that's what you'd expect from a mother who was a DI at OCS and then TBS Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile They don't have Drill Instructors at TBS. |
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I went to see it with my parents, they both being career Marines. We left, and they got refunded their tickets Of course that's what you'd expect from a mother who was a DI at OCS and then TBS Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile They don't have Drill Instructors at TBS. I don't think that is what he meant. TRG |
Whatever. It's all lies.
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The only part I like is when the NCO says 'I thank God for every day in the Corps' or words to that effect. I could feel his dedication and loyalty and I know there are men out there who feel the same way. The rest of the movie, I agree, is pretty much overly melodramatic and over-acted. 4073 |
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Jarhead was pretty messed up...right up there with Hurt Locker. Jarhead was FAR worse than Hurtlocker. Granted, everything that Hurtlocker portrays about US Soldiers in combat, their tactics, techniques, culture, etc; is the purest bullshit. The characters are two-dimensional cartoons of stereotypes, and the all the shit where the EOD team is just off by themselves is retarded However.... I thought Hurtlocker had a few redeeming scenes. When he is at home and the wife sends him out for cereal, and he is overwhelmed by the gocery store was something that really hit home for me. When he is at the house cleaning the eaves, looking disgusted with life, and then you see him back in A'stan with a spring in his step, that was pretty on the money too. So Jarhead is complete retard-faggotry. Hurtlocker is just retarded with a few good bits at the end. If you disagree, I can't be blamed, I usually watch movies while drunk. |
| Read the book and saw the movie. The impression I got from the main character is that does not understand the concept of taking responsibility for his own actions. It was his choice to join the Marines. He wasn't drafted. It was his choice to goof off and get drunk in the desert with his platoon. He then bitches about being punished with his platoon sgt. gets back. He makes a series of bad choices and then whines about them. I don't have respect for people like that. |
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Jarhead is so bad it's funny. Every Marine Corps Urban Legend and Myth by far. Both the Book and the Movie were dreck.
The funny thing is that on paper, Swofford was actually a good Marine. PIG, meritorious Corporal, combat vet, & went to Jump School. But he absolutely shits on the Marine Corps and the Scout Sniper community both in that book and that fucking movie. Jarhead does however have two of my favorite speeches. The Platoon Sergeants speech about thanking God for every day he gets to be in the Corps and the "A Man fires a Rifle for many years..." speech. I love both of them. Otherwise, Generation Kill was a thousand times better. |