Jarhead: Who else is excited?

[coolhandkuhn]

I predict this will be a terrible movie...but I may be biased, as I have a brother who was a special force marine, and I actually know marines, and I don't think Hollywood's going to do a very good job portraying them (especially with Jake Gyllanhof[sp?] as the lead). Wasn't Jakethebake a marine...what say you?

[tdarko]

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I predict this will be a terrible movie...but I may be biased, as I have a brother who was a special force marine, and I actually know marines, and I don't think Hollywood's going to do a very good job portraying them (especially with Jake Gyllanhof[sp?] as the lead). Wasn't Jakethebake a marine...what say you?

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we will see for sure but anthony swofford (author of the book and the marine/lead charcter--gyllanhall's character) had a ton of influence in this movie, what went in and out and worked with mendes with the script. this will be a movie that isn't pro war or against war, but about war from the mind of someone who was in it...not the mind of a man behind a camera. if swofford had as much to do with this film as mendes said he did then there will not be too much hollywood fluff about it (there has to be a little to appeal to a broad general audience cause if you read the book you would know that a lot of that grit can't be directed straight to screen).

it could be a bust who knows, i hope not.

mendes has said some incredible stuff about jake g. and why he took the role...

[jakethebake]

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Wasn't Jakethebake a marine...what say you?

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Hollywood typically does a terrible job, but I'll reserve judgement until after I see it.

[Shajen]

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Wasn't Jakethebake a marine...what say you?

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Hollywood typically does a terrible job, but I'll reserve judgement until after I see it.

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Yeah. For now, this movie gets a [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img] rating.

Hopefully, it will get a [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img] rating after I see it. I'll probably go sunday.