JARHEAD

[critical_phil]

today was the first time i'd seen this advertised....


Jarhead (http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/jarhead/medium.html)




i threw back a few barley pops with some crazy mofo's from the 2/7 way back when.

[Rhino]

Jarhead, The Weather Man and Goodnight, and Good Luck are three movies that I'm super anxious to watch.

[SicEmBaylor]

Jarhead looks pretty good. I'm really waiting for Walk the Line though.

[Ike]

Jarhead was one of the best trailers I ever saw that told me virtually nothing about the movie. Its about marines in Iraq in 1991.....thats about all I know.

[proud gonzo]

i love when trailers don't give away plot!!

[jk the sooner fan]

dont give away the plot?

we won that war....just sayin....

[proud gonzo]

that's not the plot, that's the setting. I doubt the story is about the war itself--movies are about characters, generally.

[jk the sooner fan]

really?

i did not know that.....

note to self, use the winkie face more often.......less confusing

[Widescreen]

Plot? Pfft.

Howard's End, The English Patient, Pride and Prejudice. Blech.


Give me explosions and boobies any day.

[KaiserSooner]

Jarhead's based on a memoir by Anthony Swofford. Read it a year or so ago.

I don't remember what gave me the impression, but I remember thinking that it seemed imbellished just a tad.

Good read, nevertheless. Another good Gulf War memoir is Baghdad Express by Joel Turnipseed. Actually, this one is better than Jarhead.

[soonerboomer93]

look interesting

[proud gonzo]

note to self, use the winkie face more often.......less confusing
definitely--you have to blatantly tell people when you're joking. i mean, since you have no sense of humor I just always figure you're serious ;)

[Widescreen]

Wait. Is it the old JK or the new JK that has no sense of humor. This whole old/new thing still confuses me.

[SCOUT]

It looks a little bit like Full Metal Jacket in the Middle East.

[47straight]

I seen the movie poster at the theater a couple weeks ago, and it piqued my curiosity.

Chris Cooper - I'll hate it if he plays the sterotypical creepy guy.

[colleyvillesooner]

Chris Cooper - I'll hate it if he plays the sterotypical creepy guy.

Was this guy creepy? ;)

http://img.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/030318/143531__cooper_l.jpg

[dolemitesooner]

man this movie looks amaixing ...I love jamie foxx and this movie looks really good ...I love the kanye west music in the back ground. This is by far The best preveiw I have ever seen. Also I think american beauty is great.


What other movie has that guy directed?

[colleyvillesooner]

Road to Perdition

[dolemitesooner]

Man i liked that too

[DCSooner]

You guys can watch this every week in "Over There"

Same filming style, same "plot", everything.

[mrowl]

Movies owl wants to see...

1. Walk The Line
2. Goodnight and Good Luck
3. Jarhead............except Jamie Foxx might ruin it...

[dolemitesooner]

Movies owl wants to see...

1. Walk The Line
2. Goodnight and Good Luck
3. Jarhead............except Jamie Foxx might ruin it...
Ar you kidding me Jamie foxx is amzing :mad:

[DCSooner]

Yes, amuzing.

[Rhino]

You guys can watch this every week in "Over There"

Same filming style, same "plot", everything. With the exception of it being based in an entirely different war.

[colleyvillesooner]

Movies owl wants to see...

1. Walk The Line
2. Goodnight and Good Luck
3. Jarhead............except Jamie Foxx might ruin it...

Kinda like you ruined this thread? ;)

[DCSooner]

With the exception of it being based in an entirely different war.
Says the Republicans!! :D

[GDC]

History of Violence and The New World, because I haven't been to a theater in months.

[jeremy885]

You guys can watch this every week in "Over There"

Same filming style, same "plot", everything.

sweet. I can never get enough hot AWOL bisexual female army privates.

[mrowl]

Ar you kidding me Jamie foxx is amzing :mad:

why? cause he was in a really bad movie about a blind singer?

or was it because he was in a really bad movie about a robot plane?

[DCSooner]

sweet. I can never get enough hot AWOL bisexual female army privates.
Well, no duh!

[SicEmBaylor]

Based on the previews for Jarhead it looks like they're trying to make the film about the first Gulf War a kind of allegory for the War in Iraq. Sort of like MASH wasn't really suppose to be about Korea it was suppose to be about Vietnam.

Anyway, it looks like it could be a good movie but if it's typical Anti-Americanism and an Anti-War film then I won't see it; I get enough of that **** for free without having to pay 7.50 for it.

[yermom]

playing in the Union on Thursday

[Sooner in Tampa]

A must see movie!

[Scott D]

Hoo-rah Bubbleboy :rolleyes:

[soonerbrat]

today was the first time i'd seen this advertised....


Jarhead (http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/jarhead/medium.html)




i threw back a few barley pops with some crazy mofo's from the 2/7 way back when.



I just saw a "first look" on HBO about this movie and was gonna mention it

it's like you were reading my mind or something

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

I heard or read a review some time ago about the left's up and coming movies that are designed to undermine the war effort. "Jarhead" was on the list. I wish I had saved the review. Also on it was something starring George Clooney. It caught my attention at the time because a)the projections were for a year or so into the future,and b) the list had 5 or 6 productions on it as I remember-not a small number.

[Scott D]

is everything a conspiracy for you? It couldn't be because Hollywood isn't original, and can only make movies that reflect the upgrades in 'special effects' more than actually making a quality story into a quality story could it?

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

Special Effects upgrades are GOOD!

[soonerbrat]

Movies owl wants to see...

1. Walk The Line
2. Goodnight and Good Luck
3. Jarhead............except Jamie Foxx might ruin it...




Mr. Owl
how many licks does it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop?



sorry, i'm sure you've heard that before but i couldn't help it.

[Scott D]

Special Effects upgrades are GOOD!

I'll give you that...it's the only thing movies today have going for them because plot and storyline certainly are major weaknesses :D

[critical_phil]

I'll give you that...it's the only thing movies today have going for them because plot and storyline certainly are major weaknesses :D


it appears that Scott hasn't seen the Wedding Date.......

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

What, we agree on something! amaze! Actually, from reading your many posts, we agree on a lot of stuff. Boring, eh?

[critical_phil]

what?

you loved the wedding date too?



i'll tell howzit...........

[Scott D]

it appears that Scott hasn't seen the Wedding Date.......

If I wanted to watch a movie for plot or storyline I'd watch foreign movies :P

[Penguin]

When Jamie Foxx looks so overly serious and so overly dramatic and says in a overacted serious voice, "Oorah" in the preview, that guarantees that I will never watch that film.


I bet anything that the move ends with an overly dramatic SAAAAAAAA-LOOOOOOOOOOOOOT! a la "A Few Good Men."

[Scott D]

What, we agree on something! amaze! Actually, from reading your many posts, we agree on a lot of stuff. Boring, eh?

not too surprizing, I get miscast as one of those 'dirty libz' way too much :)

[GDC]

When Jamie Foxx looks so overly serious and so overly dramatic and says in a overacted serious voice, "Oorah" in the preview, that guarantees that I will never watch that film.


I bet anything that the move ends with an overly dramatic SAAAAAAAA-LOOOOOOOOOOOOOT! a la "A Few Good Men."

The trailer might have ruined it for me too.

[Scott D]

The fact someone thinks Jake Gyllenhall is a good actor might have ruined it for me too.

fixed that for you chief ;)

[GDC]

fixed that for you chief ;)

thank you sir :texan:

[Scott D]

thank you sir :texan:

not a problem at all my friend.

[yermom]

fixed that for you chief ;)

i hear he makes a good gay cowboy though ;)

[Scott D]

i hear he makes a good gay cowboy though ;)

doleo tell you that? ;)

[yermom]

doleo tell you that? ;)

nah, i just heard about that Bareback Mountain movie

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388795/

[KaiserSooner]

Also on it was something starring George Clooney.
Good Night and Good Luck.

Speaking of which, there's a damn good documentary out on Edward R. Murrow...it's a four dvd set, with one of them focused on McCarthyism and Murrow's total exposure of McCarthy's fraud through his tv show, See It Now.

[Sooner in Tampa]

When Jamie Foxx looks so overly serious and so overly dramatic and says in a overacted serious voice, "Oorah" in the preview, that guarantees that I will never watch that film.


I bet anything that the move ends with an overly dramatic SAAAAAAAA-LOOOOOOOOOOOOOT! a la "A Few Good Men."No dramatics at the end...just the end

It was sure different than what I expected...it was good, but not great. Jamie Foxx did not **** up the movie...actually he was pretty spot on with his potrayal of a Marine SSgt. The movie as a whole was pretty accurate. My favorite quote from the movie is "STA platoon stands for SunTan Association"...that was dead on...STA is a bunch of sun tanners who are ALWAYS running and pt'ing with no shirts.

If you are interested in the military at all, this is a pretty decent movie.

[LilSooner]

It was a good movie I enjoyed it and there was a guy sitting next to us who apparently was a Desert Storm vet he kept saying how it was dead on.

Although honestly, I just enjoyed the sceen with Jake wearing nothing but two santa clause hats. But that is just me.

[Sooner in Tampa]

It was a good movie I enjoyed it and there was a guy sitting next to us who apparently was a Desert Storm vet he kept saying how it was dead on.
We went with several people and a few of them made the trip to Desert Storm...they echoed the same sentiments...it was dead on. I have heard many many stories about some of the crazy **** that happen while the guys played in the sand and waited for the war to start. My best friend actually learned how to make his own "hooch" with kool-aid, sugar and yeast.

[usmc-sooner]

from what I've heard from some of the Marines I knew who were there in the first Gulf War say it is really good and accurate.

There are a lot of motivated guys in the Marine Corps like the one portrayed by Foxx. You know the whole the few the proud thing.

[Sooner in Tampa]

The scene in the movie where he checks into his first duty station is WAY overblown. No Marine is going to walk into a squadbay and start unpacking...you going to be escorted by an NCO and introduced to folks...embellished for the movies, no doubt about it.

[sooneron]

I've heard that it's more of a character study.

[skycat]

I liked the movie, up until the emotional climax: SPOILER AHEAD:




I know why they did it the way they did, but having the 24 President come in at the last moment, sit on his little stool and call in an air strike to prevent the Swofford character from taking a shot literally the second before he was ready sucked the life out of the movie for me. That scene was just way too Hollywood for me.

[yermom]

the spoiler tag is your friend

um, isn't it based on a true story?

[Sooner in Tampa]

I liked the movie, up until the emotional climax: SPOILER AHEAD:




I know why they did it the way they did, but having the 24 President come in at the last moment, sit on his little stool and call in an air strike to prevent the Swofford character from taking a shot literally the second before he was ready sucked the life out of the movie for me. That scene was just way too Hollywood for me.That is one of the best scenes for me...that is EXACTLY **** like that goes down!!!! The freakin O's **** block all the time so that they can get all the glory!!

[skycat]

Eh, spoiler tags are for wimps. Besides, I never know if it's a real spoiler or a make fun of Norm spoiler. ;)

But there is no way that I believe that the ending wasn't embellished all to hell and back. I guess I could be wrong, but that seems as likely as my wife winning the lottery this week to me.

[skycat]

That is one of the best scenes for me...that is EXACTLY **** like that goes down!!!! The freakin O's **** block all the time so that they can get all the glory!!

OK, I must admit that I have less than zero experience in this area. And I don't doubt that stuff like it happens. But would an Officer with a bum knee really go to the exact spot where a sniper has set up within the eye line of an enemy to call in an air strike? And then what are the odds that something would happen right as the spotter is on his final count?

Like I said, I don't doubt the spirit, but the execution seemed too pat.

[GDC]

Well, I missed all that because I fell asleep.

[Petro-Sooner]

Towards the end when the guy gets the USMC brand and Swofford says he deserves it was he saying it in a mean way cause he was being discharged or was it in a good way? Coudnt figure that one out.

[critical_phil]

o.k.

this DVD has been on top of my TV for about a month and i just got around to watching it last night.

i have NOT read the book, so i can't say how closely the movie follows swofford's account.

i would never characterize this movie as "spot on". about half of it was pretty accurate. it was the other half of complete BS that kind of ruined it for me.

it was hot. it was boring. we dug many holes. some **** went down. we went home. i don't know how you make a good movie out of that....but jarhead wasn't it.

[usmc-sooner]

I read the book and Swofford was a ****bird who blamed all his mistakes on the Marine Corps he was a pansy *** crybaby. He tries to pass it off as a true story but he prefaces the book by saying he doesn't remember so he has relied on other people's word about some of the things that happened. How the hell do you write your story then say your not sure about everything so you had to have other people fill you in. Bottom line is he knew it was a bogus story and he wanted an out when other Marines like me called BS on his sorry butt.