Jarhead

[JumpCut]

Overall, I thought the movie was decent. The beginning of the flick was very intriguing. Had great style and rhythm, drew the audience in quite nicely. However, towards the middle of the film this consistency was lost and I felt like I was watching just another mediocre old war movie. At the beginning, the audience was on a personal journey with Swafford, but by the middle we didnt even know who he was anymore; our main character with whom the audience likes to identify. The overall style of the movie was NOT consistent at all. It dwelled heavily on certain points in the beginning and then just threw those same points away playfully at the end. Also, some very graphic shots that were used were not necessary to get the same point accross, I feel as if the filmmakers attempted to use a certain ""shock factor"" to make the film more interesting. Other than that, I thought the character development was great and very necessary in a military movie. I would tell friends to wait, however, and rent it on DVD later.

[movielover]

Ok, I get the fact that this movie represents what some people in the war are going through right now, but come on, this shouldn't even be considered a war movie, I mean, all it was, was some soldiers, in the desert, and how they kept from killing themselves, one of those ways was repeatative jacking off, I mean, it doesn't show anything, but it's mentioned like ten times in the movie, and it's like ""what the hell""?

[usmc1963]

Your film is total bullshit ... Hollywood's version of a Marine. I was not in the Gulf War but I was a Marine for four years and this film is disgusting in it's theatrics ... a poor man's Deer Hunter. Obviously, the director was more interested in promoting a liberal political agenda than portraying what it is like to be a Marine. My only hope is that some day the Hollywood fags that produce such bullshit actually get to experience sitting in a foxhole with incoming fire.