"Jarhead" The Movie

[Catchawave]

Looks good, eh?

[Der Blaue Engel]

1. I can't tell

It could be good or it could be freeping awful. Anybody have any advance info?

[democracyindanger]

2. Get the latest issue of Harper's magazine

It has a long story about Jarhead and it's relation to Apocalypse Now.

[bigwillq]

3. It does look pretty good.

I always enjoy war movies although I don't really believe in war to solve problems between nations.

[bicentennial_baby]

4. the book was

iirc...hopefully it will be as well :)

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

5. Looks like high potential to be good, but high suck potential too.

Not sure about Jamie Foxx as his NCO yet.

I like the "look" of the night desert warfare scenes with the burning oil wells etc.

[bliss_eternal]

7. Agreed--

I can't tell you how many times I've been suckered into seeing a film, based on a slick, ad campaign. Featuring a slick montage of edited sequences coupled with a cool soundtrack. Then I see the movie and I'm pissed that I fell for the hype.

I probably won't see this one, primarily because I tend to NOT like military or war films.

It was an absolute fluke that I enjoyed Platoon as much as I did. Then again, it was probably because it was more of a character driven piece than anything--and i enjoyed the story.

[Jade Fox]

6. Yeah, it will be real interesting to see what they do with it...

I heard the author of the book speak about 2 weeks before the US
invaded Iraq two and a half years ago.

[DS1]

8. I think it'll be good