Jarhead

[G!]

Anyone seen it yet? it's an awsome film, sums up the us marines for sure. Just wanna kill, shoot eachother and cock up. Na, all credit the film is an awsome film. If anyone gets the chance, i recomend you go watch it:)

[DLink011]

Yes mate, I watched it when I was out in USA in November...to be honest it was slightly disapointing, but was deffinatly a good watch!

This topic was discussed a little on MF&T

Cant remember what topic it was under.

Cheers
Dan

[dalo]

Yeh i went to see it, it was alright. I can understand why americans where moaning about the film and couldnt understand that its not a war film, cause there all gung ho and green.

[flo]

cause there all gung ho and green.

Hmmmm sounds familiar.

[dalo]

lol

[pompeyandy]

didnt think too much of jarhead personally, very similar to full metal jacket but lacking in the gritty reality.bit to polished, but still worth a watch

[Chappy]

didnt think too much of jarhead personally, very similar to full metal jacket but lacking in the gritty reality.bit to polished, but still worth a watch

The soldiers of Desert Storm expected to go to a war resembling war portraited in films such as FMJ or Apocolypse Now, but the war turned out to be a bit different. That's the point of the film.
This film is about boredom, waiting, and some more boredom. That's the point, the uselessness of war. How they go half way around the world, and implode from the fact they cant do what they were trained to do and that their world back in the USA is destroyed as a result of going so far from home.

[Tom_running16]

The film was excellent, the book was better though. Just proves there doesnt have to be blood and killing to make a decent film. I honestly thought it could turn out very Rambo, I was wrong.

[flo]

Managed to get hold of a copy so will give you my opinion tomorrow................hope there is some decent fellas in it

[dalo]

The film was excellent, the book was better though. Just proves there doesnt have to be blood and killing to make a decent film. I honestly thought it could turn out very Rambo, I was wrong.

Yeh i thought the book was good aswell, got it years ago.

[harry hackedoff]

Go to recommended media.
Read about this book/film and compare that to The Making of a Marine Officer.
Swofford has a huge chip on his shoulder and his account of his time in the USMC doesn’t impress many Marines over the pond. They see him as an arsewipe and his tale as fiction. With several hundred thousand US Grunts, many bad apples will slip under their net.
Gung-Ho is a term much misunderstood outside of the US Marine Corps in the same way, I think, that "Tell it to the Marines" is outside of our Corps.
Outsiders think it means rash or imprudent or aggressive when it means none of these things. To call our Cousin a Gung- Ho Marine is a compliment but I won’t tell you why.
Tell it to the Marines doesn’t mean because we’ll believe anything, we’re that stupid.
Quite the reverse.
I’ve read Swofford`s book and there’s a few things in it that gave me concern. He has a severe attitude problem and whatever you people with no experience of our Cuzz think, he`s an arse hole with a mega sad-on caused by his own inabilities, it seems to me.
Any military Unit has it`s share of hackedoff losers, even our Corps. I`ve known some right tossers who I wouldn`t piss on if they were on fire. This guy is just another sad fark. Everything that happens to these mingers is someone else`s fault, of course.

Because it`s a nice phot on the front, it doesn’t mean it`s a true story. Ask Sadly Mcgrab.
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story and Swofford has conned Hollywood into making the bestest truest story of USMC post Viet Nam.
Except he hasn’t.
He`s a w4nker.
There you go girls, that was a bit different from what you expected now wasn`t it

[tonyh762]

Go to recommended media.
Read about this book/film and compare that to The Making of a Marine Officer.
Swofford has a huge chip on his shoulder and his account of his time in the USMC doesn’t impress many Marines over the pond. They see him as an arsewipe and his tale as fiction. With several hundred thousand US Grunts, many bad apples will slip under their net.
Gung-Ho is a term much misunderstood outside of the US Marine Corps in the same way, I think, that "Tell it to the Marines" is outside of our Corps.
Outsiders think it means rash or imprudent or aggressive when it means none of these things. To call our Cousin a Gung- Ho Marine is a compliment but I won’t tell you why.
Tell it to the Marines doesn’t mean because we’ll believe anything, we’re that stupid.
Quite the reverse.
I’ve read Swofford`s book and there’s a few things in it that gave me concern. He has a severe attitude problem and whatever you people with no experience of our Cuzz think, he`s an arse hole with a mega sad-on caused by his own inabilities, it seems to me.
Any military Unit has it`s share of hackedoff losers, even our Corps. I`ve known some right tossers who I wouldn`t piss on if they were on fire. This guy is just another sad fark. Everything that happens to these mingers is someone else`s fault, of course.

Because it`s a nice phot on the front, it doesn’t mean it`s a true story. Ask Sadly Mcgrab.
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story and Swofford has conned Hollywood into making the bestest truest story of USMC post Viet Nam.
Except he hasn’t.
He`s a w4nker.
There you go girls, that was a bit different from what you expected now wasn`t it

A mate of mine is a Marine officer, we discussed this movie before it came out, he had nothing good to say about this guy, much along the lines of what harry has said.

The true story behind "Gung Ho" read it and weep Jarheads

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung-ho