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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Saintaw on April 20, 2006, 07:16:22 AM
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Saw the movie last week, am not surpised it wasn't discussed here as it isn't a "Gun ho harr!" kind of movie... I liked it, and it helped me understand why Jackal seem to have a left numb arm ;)
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http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=163810
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POS movie imho.
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Originally posted by SunKing
POS movie imho.
ditto
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I didn't see it cause all the adds had crap music in the background.
lazs
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Originally posted by SunKing
POS movie imho.
yep
a perspective on the war by a guy who drank ex-lax trying to get out of the marines and then thought he was joining the band lol
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The book was not good at all. I couldn't force myself to get past the one third point.
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Originally posted by Saintaw
Saw the movie last week, am not surpised it wasn't discussed here as it isn't a "Gun ho harr!" kind of movie... I liked it, and it helped me understand why Jackal seem to have a left numb arm ;)
Haven`t seen it, so I don`t know what the reference is to, but knowing SAW, I can imagine.
Dam Frenchmen. :rofl
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5 bucks says it's pretty subtle.
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*hands Moot a fiver*
Jackal, there is a tremenbous amount of "wanking" shots involved. No wonder our wwWarriors wouldn't like it :D
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Hey, I may have probs with the left arm sometimes, but I can still take you out with the right. THAT`s the one that gets all the exercise. :rofl
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The movie SUCKED. They tried to copy FMJ far too much.
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Originally posted by Morpheus
The movie SUCKED. They tried to copy FMJ far too much.
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.
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I thought it was good. It conveyed the frustration of not being able to carry out your job as trained for, while leaving you wondering whether it is moral to feel such frustration. If he was trying to get that concept across to an audience consisting mainly of people who have never served in the military, it worked in my case.
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Thank you Dowding, my french to english Google translator couldn't have said it better.
Jackal, if you have to use only one hand... no competition :D
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this movie is clearly not gonna be on the amc channel in 10 years
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Originally posted by Gunslinger
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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Originally posted by Saintaw
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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Originally posted by Morpheus
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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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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Originally posted by Sandman
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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Originally posted by Gunslinger
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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Originally posted by Sandman
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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that movie is for the gays
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Pfffft time lost, never to recover.
Alpha Bravo, Charlie Mike....
Mac
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Originally posted by Sandman
The story just isn't interesting and the characters are shallow.
must be a movie about the DNC then.
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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.
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Originally posted by bj229r
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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Originally posted by lasersailor184
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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Originally posted by storch
must be a movie about the DNC then.
:noid
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Originally posted by Saintaw
Saw the movie last week, am not surpised it wasn't discussed here as it isn't a "Gun ho harr!" kind of movie... I liked it, and it helped me understand why Jackal seem to have a left numb arm ;)
I rented it yesterday from movielink.com $4.50 for 24 hrs, outstanding quality... it did take about 30min before it started playing.
BTW if you set the date back 1 day in Windows, it loses count of the 24hr period.. lmao