always a joy to hear someone talk about something he knows nothing about because he heard stories about it.

i used to hear voices too. a foil hat helped me.

It's 2 hours of my life i'll never get back. STUPID movie. I knew it was going to be stupid when I saw the commercials for it. The only reason I watched it was because the majority wanted to... and even most of them regretted it.

But of course, opinions are like...

fill in your own favorites.

It made me sick to my stomach and is not a good representation of Marines or the Marine Corps that I know and love.

It's someone's way to make a fast buck by calling attention to all the stereotypes that the Marine Corps has received in the past.

Rick,

Your Liberal ass should know all about the hazzards of stereotyping and to stay away from this sort of thing.

Did you see Farenheit 911 ??? (I turned that one off in 5 minutes). FBMM

TBU

I would guess Rick hasn't seen Celsius 41.11, it has truth in it.

I particularly liked the scene where the main character (forgot his name) showed up for formation and was asked to play ?reveile?. Any vet would laugh and identify with that. Also when the Marines were watching "Apocalypse Now" in their rec hall was a good scene.

"I thank God for each day in the Marine Corps... oorah"

Spend some time with Marines, and you'll know that it's a punchline, not a praise. Needless to say, I haven't, nor will ever watch that movie.

My wife wants to see it. She'll be watching it alone.

I found it to be a good movie simply because I could relate to parts of it. "hurry up and wait" we used to say in the Army, and this movie reminded me of that.

It wasn't an anti-war movie....it was a movie about the workings of the human mind, and the trigger that we attempt to turn off as we enter into war.

A movie full of explosions, gunfire, and killing it was not. A movie about the struggle to find one's sanity in an insane world it was.

was jammee foxx in it , or al pacino, or matt damon, or gene hackman, or ...

i haven't even heard of it until just now. i will be renting this as soon as i can. thanks for the info.

i don't usually think of celsius, bring an american, i usually measure temperature on the farenheit scale.

i just ordered the cd. unlike many of you, i have a strong constitution. pun intended for those of you who didn't recognize the pun. more then likely only the liberal mind would catch it.

I did watch this movie, and found it to be a 3.5 on a 10 scale......"the hurry up and wait" referred to by adroomi is very true of military ops; however, this is

not my idea of a very good movie, forget the right vs left thing.....just a bad flick!

Charlie

Charlie

Does make me believe that i should record and transcript all of my dad's stories of his service "over in country".

I liked it. A lot.

I saw this movie, and it was somewhere betwen bad and entertaining, maybe a little on the bad side. Would I recommend it? Probably not, unless you're a war movie nut, like me, then you might enjoy parts of it; but by and large I thought it was a dog.

Two aspects o the movie were somewhat interesting however. A) the movie showed some aspects of sniper training and technique; mildly interesting, 😎 the movie tried to depict "The Highway of Death" or "Mile of Death", which, for any of you that remember Desert Storm, was the Jahra highway that leads north out of Basra that the Iraqi Republican guard and various other unlucky souls tried to flee Kuwait on. There, on the night of February 25th, and the following day of February 26th, in 1991, the USAF pounded a large convoy headed back to Baghdad.

Here are some sites of that event:

http://tinyurl.com/ohc2q 

http://tinyurl.com/37tzo 

Some bodies were incinerated so thoroughly, that all that was left were almost perfect forms of humans frozen in their death grimace. Jarhead touches on this real life event, though briefly, trying to convey the horror and bizarrness of it. Excepting these few positives about this flick, overall, I thought it was fairly lame and not very entertaining.