Jarhead (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows "Swoff" (Gyllenhaal), a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through Middle East deserts with no cover from intolerable heat or from Iraqi soldiers, always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they don't understand against an enemy they can't see for a cause they don't fully fathom... Foxx portrays Sergeant Sykes, a Marine lifer who heads up Swofford's scout/sniper platoon, while Sarsgaard is Swoff's friend and mentor, Troy, a die-hard member of STA-their elite Marine Unit.
It's poor. It envisions a chaotic atmosphere that has no relationship to the disciplined machine that anihilated the fourth largest army in the world in a matter of months. To do that, with as few freindly fire casualties as we had required rigidly enforced movement discipline. Nobody from the lowest boot recruit to upper echelon command staff went around withot the guards at each checkpoint expecting them ahead of time. So far there have been no fiction stories set in the gulf war that reflect the atmosphere of that war. Try looking for something from the history channe, because this is beyond lame.
drphogg said: "It's poor. It envisions a chaotic atmosphere that has no relationship to the disciplined machine that anihilated the fourth largest army in the world in a matter of months. To do that, with as few freindly fire casualties as we had required rigidly enforced movement discipline. Nobody from the lowest boot recruit to upper echelon command staff went around withot the guards at each checkpoint expecting them ahead of time. So far there have been no fiction stories set in the gulf war that reflect the atmosphere of that war. Try looking for something from the history channe, because this is beyond lame."
Don't make me laugh. Your overly romanticized and idealistic ideas about military life and discipline are ridiculous. You have no idea, so why don't you just keep your mouths shut?
For all you haters out there this is not a WAR film, it is about one mans struggle with life. I was in the Corps from 98-02 and saw the sand, this movie has parts where it isnt realistic, but I think overall it is a good film that portrays everyday dealings when you are thousands of miles away from everybody.
Swofford wrote a heavilly fictionalized account. I served 3 tours in the millitary, (1980 - 1991) and went into Kuwait with a 2ndMEF TOW company during the first gulf war.
One of the best movies ive seen and like someone else said it cant by any means be compared to BHD the are two different genres of movies, if you start watching it looking to see a war movie that has blood and gore dont even watch it, the movie is about swafford who goes into the marines and becomes a sniper, he then goes into operation desert shield which turns into desert storm, and he never gets to fire a shot and he never gets that JFK Shot "The Pink Mist"
Gyllenhaal annoys me to no end. Haven't seen this movie solely because of him. He's kinda like the male version of Julia Roberts for me - I'll avoid any movie she's in!
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