AC's Jarhead movie review

A_C_Slater · #1 11-04-2005, 11:59 PM

This movie rules! Hard. That is all.

RustedCorpse · #2 11-05-2005, 03:04 AM

I didn't think the movie was that good as a movie, but it was at least realistic which is what I was hoping for.

phixxx · #3 11-05-2005, 03:42 AM

I wanted to see some americans dying. Such a dissapointment.

ThaSaltCracka · #4 11-05-2005, 04:43 AM

totally watered down from the book.

I give it 3 out of 5.

Jake and Jamie were good though.

tdarko · #5 11-05-2005, 11:25 PM

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yeah, they spent two hours on the war and that was 20 pages of the book.

when the war ended in the movie, i leaned over to my gf and said, "this is gonna have to be a really long movie," knowing that they hadn't even got into troy's death and many other things.

but i did go into the movie expecting this, so i was entertained at least. jake's performance was very good.

dblgutshot · #6 11-05-2005, 11:34 PM

regarding troys death: this was one thing I wanted to see in the movie (the bender these guys went on after the war).

That woulda been fun...

tdarko · #7 11-05-2005, 11:36 PM

and the crushing of the locals in the bar fight after troys death.

A_C_Slater · #8 11-05-2005, 11:39 PM

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So he gets killed in a barfight and then the marines take revenge on the guy's that did it?

rusty JEDI · #9 11-05-2005, 07:27 AM

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People who go with expectations like this will be disappointed.

Overall I think it was the best movie without a plot that ive seen. However, movies are supposed to have plots.

It was very slow through times.

I got the narnia bucket popcorn combo. Seemed like I got more popcorn than the standard bag.

rJ

Lazymeatball · #10 11-05-2005, 07:34 AM

Will people who liked "Black Hawk Down" with Josh Hartnett like this movie? Does it stick to a plot and ignore all sorts of political messages? (TSC said it has no plot already) Is there good action? Does it accurately depict marine life in Desert Storm?

And I don't wanna here about whiners who say the book was better. The book is ALWAYS better, and if I wasn't so lazy I'd take the 5-10 hours to read it. I want to know if it's better than all the other crappy movies that are out there.

ps. Did anyone see "Green Street Hooligans" with Frodo in it? That looked good. maybe there's already a thread on it or something.