Duplicitous scenes, dialog, and action--yet BETTER. This is an remix of Marine boot camp with hilarious useage of profainity and young-guy criminal hijinx blended in with a look at a new kind of war--one that lasted only one hundred hours.Jake Gyllenhaal threw a lot into the role of a confused young man who joined the Marines following family tradition. His talent equal is Jamie Foxx who plays Jake's platoon sergeant, Sykes. Sykes is such a gung ho, career obsessed jarhead it is both hilarious and frightening all at once. The other members of Jake's platoon exemplify the bizarre cast of characters all of us vets ever met (and were).
Anyone who has "done time" in the military will get a kick from this film. Those who haven't will get another dose of how it real it can be. Jarhead will border on the edge of "classic" in the same vain as Apocalypse and FMJ and will be enjoyed as a memorable two-hour testosterone trip down memory lane for those who made the same journey .
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Topic - Full Metal Jacket: The Next Generation (Jarhead) - mr grits 19:17:39 11/05/05 (9)
- Great, been wanting to see it, Sepmer Fi! - Bolt_Snypr 08:31:50 11/16/05 (1)
- "Semper Fi" - Bolt_Snypr 08:33:23 11/16/05 (0)
- IMO it was no where near the films that FMJ and AN were. - sjb 21:52:55 11/06/05 (4)
- Agreed . . . I also thought this was a movie where the - townsend 10:28:10 11/07/05 (1)
- I'm wondering if there will be any "buzz" for JF? Guess we would have heard by now. * - mr grits 11:32:10 11/07/05 (0)
- Sometimes reading the book first is not such a good idea. 8^) * - mr grits 07:30:58 11/07/05 (1)
- I do wish I could've seen the movie without the book in my mind. nt - sjb 09:16:48 11/07/05 (0)
- Re: Full Metal Jacket: The Next Generation (Jarhead) - ftran999 14:56:12 11/06/05 (0)
- Re: Full Metal Jacket: The Next Generation (Jarhead) - rico 08:15:57 11/06/05 (0)