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I plan on seeing it soon 🙂

I'm not one for war flicks, never been into them, but I like this cast, and might pop by to see it, but on half price night 😛

It's not violent at all if that's what you're worrying about.

yea.. go see it..

Originally posted by silver_tears
I'm not one for war flicks, never been into them, but I like this cast, and might pop by to see it, but on half price night 😛

think of this as more of a story of the life of a marine not a war flick

Originally posted by forumcrew
think of this as more of a story of the life of a marine not a war flick

well of course it's a war flick, just no real battles take place in the film.

I think i'll be seeing this movie this weekend. Despite the mixed reviews it is getting, the cast is what is drawing me in...

yeah, ignore the reviews. this is a very well made movie. the cinematography is excellent. you will enjoy watching this story.

Originally posted by supertruper
I think i'll be seeing this movie this weekend. Despite the mixed reviews it is getting, the cast is what is drawing me in...

mixed reviews are just from people that have no understanding of history and thought the gulf war was Viet Nam. So these people went into this movie looking for big time battles and lots of explosions and blood shed.

I prefer the movie the way it was done instead of having actual battles take place. I thought it was beautiful.

that movie looks so sick...

Pretty good movie. A little too long, but I liked the way it was able to mix humor with horror. Donnie Darko was good, so too was Caleb from American Gothic, but President Palmer could have been used a little more. Also, it had some very pertinent observations that can be applied to the current situation in that 'shit hole'...

Caught it tonight on DVD and was pretty disappointed. I understand that it was adapted from a book, which was written from one persons perspective, but even in that case, it was fairly bland. It opened like "Full Metal Jacket" which had me excited, but dwindled into a focus of infidelity, which I stuggled to find any relevance or importance in. After that, there were a few standout scenes, namely by Jake Gyllenhaal, perhaps a few singular shots of gorgeous cinematography, but over all, it bored me.

I thought it was great. I had no idea what to expect and I didn't want to make any assumptions about what it was gonna be like before I saw it. Overall, I was impressed. Every actor in the film did and excellent job.

Originally posted by Ya Krunk'd Floo
I liked the way it was able to mix humor with horror..

Horror? You must scare easily because I didn't sense any horror in that film.

Originally posted by BackFire
I thought it was excellent.

It was visually stimulating and beautiful and offered a new perspective on war and military service in particular. It exposes how meaningly and trivial most of the time spent in the military is to so many people. On top of this it has some outstanding scenes of poetic irony.

Also I'd hesitate to call this a war film. War films are generally centered around war and it's basic premis - fighting. This film is centered on the personal wars and confusion of the soldiers in a war that, to them, doesn't exist outside of propoganda and rhetoric. There is not one "war" scene in the whole movie.

The acting was also superb, Sarsgaard stole the show and I think is going to be really big in the near future, he's very talented.

I think if you go into this movie with the correct expections, you won't be disapointed.

Very well said. I just about agree 100% on that. I thought it was an excellent movie. I'm not at all really a war movie fan, but this was great. Just from the visuals I could tell it was a Mende's film.

Originally posted by Myth
Horror? You must scare easily because I didn't sense any horror in that film.

Oh, dear.

You didn't find the burnt freeway scene abhorrent, or do you just not know the meaning of the word 'horror'?

no you just dont understand film genres. This is in no way horror

Oh, look! Another one!

First, read my post. I never applied 'horror' as a generic term. Then, try looking up the definition of the word 'horror' in a dictionary. My post was at the top of the page, so there was no need for you to be ignorant.

Originally posted by Cinemaddiction
Caught it tonight on DVD and was pretty disappointed. I understand that it was adapted from a book, which was written from one persons perspective, but even in that case, it was fairly bland. It opened like "Full Metal Jacket" which had me excited, but dwindled into a focus of infidelity, which I stuggled to find any relevance or importance in. After that, there were a few standout scenes, namely by Jake Gyllenhaal, perhaps a few singular shots of gorgeous cinematography, but over all, it bored me.

I got that same FMJ feeling in the beginning. Funny thing about this movie was that they went to war, all riled up and prepared for Chemical Weapons, Sniping and Combat and they didnt even fire a bullet.

Funny thing is that when they were at training camp, Jamie Foxx's character yells at the guy that just got killed by a bullet through the head. They prepared for that type of assault and it never materialised, and only got shot at by their own planes in Kuwait or Iraq. They all went for war and could not fire a single bullet while their partners at home were getting into realtionships.