GREAT!!! war hollywood jamie foxx and kanye west
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GREAT!!! war hollywood jamie foxx and kanye west
the new movie jarhead will be in theaters nov. 4th and i have a feeling it going to be a anti-war movie..
but i could be wrong
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418763/
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.
edgar,
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418763/
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Can anyone confirm if this is anti-Bush/Republican party... America bad type movie? Or will it be worth watching?
Most war movies carry the message that war is hell. However, I like the ones that don't have a political message behind them. Dirty Dozen, Platoon, A bridge too far, We were soldiers, Shaving Ryans Privates...ect. They delt with the personal struggle. They showed how even in the worsrt situation there is hope...
Then there are the politcally motivated flicks that try to cram one parties agenda down your throat for two or more hours. Thanks, don't need the brain washing propaganda.
Most war movies carry the message that war is hell. However, I like the ones that don't have a political message behind them. Dirty Dozen, Platoon, A bridge too far, We were soldiers, Shaving Ryans Privates...ect. They delt with the personal struggle. They showed how even in the worsrt situation there is hope...
Then there are the politcally motivated flicks that try to cram one parties agenda down your throat for two or more hours. Thanks, don't need the brain washing propaganda.
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Originally Posted by Chrisnonstop
Can anyone confirm if this is anti-Bush/Republican party... America bad type movie? Or will it be worth watching?
Most war movies carry the message that war is hell. However, I like the ones that don't have a political message behind them. Dirty Dozen, Platoon, A bridge too far, We were soldiers, Shaving Ryans Privates...ect. They delt with the personal struggle. They showed how even in the worsrt situation there is hope...
Then there are the politcally motivated flicks that try to cram one parties agenda down your throat for two or more hours. Thanks, don't need the brain washing propaganda.
Most war movies carry the message that war is hell. However, I like the ones that don't have a political message behind them. Dirty Dozen, Platoon, A bridge too far, We were soldiers, Shaving Ryans Privates...ect. They delt with the personal struggle. They showed how even in the worsrt situation there is hope...
Then there are the politcally motivated flicks that try to cram one parties agenda down your throat for two or more hours. Thanks, don't need the brain washing propaganda.
I agree, I wish war movies would be more concerned with human struggle, comraderie and sacrifice (like the ones you mentioned). Anything that goes beyond that isn't worth watching in that respect. I'll just go watch a Micheal Moore film and call it a day.
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I'm curious...what did you guys think of Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket? ...just because those are my two favortie war themed movies...
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I'm curious...what did you guys think of Apocalypse Now?
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Best part of full Metal Jacket is the boot camp half. Lee Ermey is da man! As a fan of the majority of Kubrick's work, I'm a little biased though. Dr. Strangelove rules!!
I thought a pile of crap now, err Apocolypse Now....only redeeming feature was the perfomances of Hopper and Duvall. Other than that read the book...it has nothing to do wih Vietnam but it's still better than the movie.
I thought a pile of crap now, err Apocolypse Now....only redeeming feature was the perfomances of Hopper and Duvall. Other than that read the book...it has nothing to do wih Vietnam but it's still better than the movie.
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Originally Posted by svxr8dr
Best part of full Metal Jacket is the boot camp half. Lee Ermey is da man! As a fan of the majority of Kubrick's work, I'm a little biased though. Dr. Strangelove rules!!
I thought a pile of crap now, err Apocolypse Now....only redeeming feature was the perfomances of Hopper and Duvall. Other than that read the book...it has nothing to do wih Vietnam but it's still better than the movie.
I thought a pile of crap now, err Apocolypse Now....only redeeming feature was the perfomances of Hopper and Duvall. Other than that read the book...it has nothing to do wih Vietnam but it's still better than the movie.
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The book (Heart of Darkness) was written before the Vietnam war...so the book has NOTHING to do with Vietnam. It's set in Africa and has more to do with human nature than anything else. I do agree that the book was way better, but I did think the movie was badass.
I left out Dr. Strangelove though...definatly in there with AN and FMJ.
"THERE'S NO FIGHTING IN THE WAR ROOM!!!"
I left out Dr. Strangelove though...definatly in there with AN and FMJ.
"THERE'S NO FIGHTING IN THE WAR ROOM!!!"
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Originally Posted by MVWRX
The book (Heart of Darkness) was written before the Vietnam war...so the book has NOTHING to do with Vietnam. I do agree that the book was way better, but I did think the movie was badass.
I did leave out Dr. Strangelove though...definatly in there with AN and FMJ.
"THERE'S NO FIGHTING IN THE WAR ROOM!!!"
I did leave out Dr. Strangelove though...definatly in there with AN and FMJ.
"THERE'S NO FIGHTING IN THE WAR ROOM!!!"
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Originally Posted by 1reguL8NSTi
Heart of Darkness is one of my favorite books. Thank you 12th grade AP english.
Seriously, that's where I read it too.
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Originally Posted by MVWRX
Seriously, that's where I read it too.
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Close...but my teacher went on a semester long course about existentialsim, so I missed some of those and got The Rhinocerous, The Stranger, other Cammus and Sartre, Sophie's World, etc...
It was a great class though, I passed out of all my english reqs when I got to UCLA.
It was a great class though, I passed out of all my english reqs when I got to UCLA.
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Close...but my teacher went on a semester long course about existentialsim, so I missed some of those and got The Rhinocerous, The Stranger, other Cammus and Sartre, Sophie's World, etc...
It was a great class though, I passed out of all my english reqs when I got to UCLA.
It was a great class though, I passed out of all my english reqs when I got to UCLA.
Oh yeah, I took all sorts of those AP exams, paid for them, bought the stupid study books and spent countless hours trying to save myself some time. Unfortunately military academies don't accept any of them. You take the full load regardless.
what cracks me up about you people is that you have to allready apply your retarded little "filters' (read BIAS) to something before you go and watch it.
Who cares if it is left or right leaning, are you that frail of constitution that you need to only see things that support your warped views of the world? Are you not able to comfratably analyze another view point? One that may be contradicting to your own? Are you not capable of that?
I mean seriously, you want to know what the **** is wrong with american society?
Its the idiots becoming empowered in media, and the smart people figuring this out and making billions on it.
Who cares if it is left or right leaning, are you that frail of constitution that you need to only see things that support your warped views of the world? Are you not able to comfratably analyze another view point? One that may be contradicting to your own? Are you not capable of that?
I mean seriously, you want to know what the **** is wrong with american society?
Its the idiots becoming empowered in media, and the smart people figuring this out and making billions on it.