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Offline RAIDER14

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« Reply #15 on: April 20, 2006, 06:02:22 PM »
this movie is clearly not gonna be on  the amc channel  in 10 years
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« Reply #16 on: April 20, 2006, 06:05:58 PM »
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HOW SO?  I saw very little corelation between the two.

The movie was good imho.  It's not that an anti-war movie can't be good, it just has to get the message accross honestly.  This was a very honest movie IMHO.  This is also coming from somone that spent 6 years in the Marines.


To me, the entire time I watched it, which was several months ago, all I could think of while watching it was how badly they're trying to copy the "feeling" of FMJ. To be honest, I'd have to go back and watch it again to pick out certain parts of it that came across to me that way. I really dont wanna though. I hated to sit through it the first time, the second time would be like chinese water torture.
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« Reply #17 on: April 20, 2006, 06:22:28 PM »
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Jackal, if you have to use only one hand... no competition :D


Saw, what got ya off track and on the subject of picking your nose? :D
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« Reply #18 on: April 20, 2006, 08:48:48 PM »
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To me, the entire time I watched it, which was several months ago, all I could think of while watching it was how badly they're trying to copy the "feeling" of FMJ. To be honest, I'd have to go back and watch it again to pick out certain parts of it that came across to me that way. I really dont wanna though. I hated to sit through it the first time, the second time would be like chinese water torture.


That "feeling" went unoticed to me.  The only reason that I can come up with is because both depict the "what it's like" in a very true sense.
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« Reply #19 on: May 05, 2006, 10:49:34 AM »
Finally got to see the movie. It was better than I expected, but still not all that great.

Seemed that the movie had three main parts. The beginning was about the training. The middle and largest portion of the movie was about 6 months of boredom in the desert. The last was about the war and the return home.

Throughout the movie, there are only three recognizable characters. Swofford, Sykes, and Troy. The rest just all seem to blend together. Shave-headed Marines with southern accents and one mexican. They're just props. Unfortunately, they're noisy props and the director spends too much time on them.

The story just isn't interesting and the characters are shallow.
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« Reply #20 on: May 05, 2006, 02:17:19 PM »
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The story just isn't interesting and the characters are shallow.


Sometimes that's the story you come home with....Even in a real life war.
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« Reply #21 on: May 05, 2006, 02:29:38 PM »
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Sometimes that's the story you come home with....Even in a real life war.


Exactly. There's just no point in telling it.
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« Reply #22 on: May 05, 2006, 03:10:28 PM »
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Exactly. There's just no point in telling it.


and there's a realistic war story for ya.  I thought the movie captured perfectly what it was like to be a Marine at the time and especially what being in that war was like.  All drssed up with no where to go.
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« Reply #23 on: May 05, 2006, 11:46:02 PM »
that movie is for the gays
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« Reply #24 on: May 06, 2006, 01:03:06 AM »
Pfffft time lost, never to recover.

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« Reply #25 on: May 06, 2006, 06:51:02 AM »
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The story just isn't interesting and the characters are shallow.
must be a movie about the DNC then.
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« Reply #26 on: May 06, 2006, 10:27:55 AM »
I can only think of 2 movies in the last decade or so that portrayed the US military in a positive light (out of....20?) Private Ryan, and We Were Soldiers-- the rest seem to feel that if you aren't uncovering some sinister plot by the military, its wasted celluloid.
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« Reply #27 on: May 06, 2006, 11:17:36 AM »
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I can only think of 2 movies in the last decade or so that portrayed the US military in a positive light (out of....20?) Private Ryan, and We Were Soldiers-- the rest seem to feel that if you aren't uncovering some sinister plot by the military, its wasted celluloid.


I don't think Jarhead was necessarily negative. It was just boring.
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« Reply #28 on: May 06, 2006, 11:17:41 AM »
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The book was not good at all.  I couldn't force myself to get past the one third point.


Same!  One of the very few books I didnt finish after starting.

The author was an arrogant bellybutton who bad mouthed everyone and everything.  His disdain for everyone in the world showed what a jerk he was, not how bad everything else was as he would lead you to believe.
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« Reply #29 on: May 06, 2006, 11:18:14 AM »
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must be a movie about the DNC then.


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