Capo
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Post by Capo on Apr 17, 2007 23:18:08 GMT
Jarhead Sam Mendes 2005 USA A platoon of Marines struggle to avoid boredom during the First Gulf War. An effective succession of non-events and anti-climaxes, it is marred by its own failure to avoid - or decision to acknowledge - war movie clichés; if the message is that these soldiers are just kids, why do they always have to be noisy retards? References to other like-minded war movies save it from being lost, but as Gyllenhal says at one point, "All wars are different; all wars are the same." A reference, perhaps, to the film itself.
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Post by svsg on Apr 18, 2007 16:56:53 GMT
Yet it avoided the biggest war movie cliche - the actual fighting Great great movie. Highly underrated.
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