roadpig Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 hoorah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fermentor666 Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 HOO-RAH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THANKYOU Posted November 9, 2005 Author Share Posted November 9, 2005 HOO-RIZZZZZZLE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DETO Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 i agree with JohnnyHorton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeking Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 can anyone who's not proven themselves time and time again to be a complete fucking dick nozel give their impression of the film? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oh so modern Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 my girlfriend saw it. likes vietnam flicks. loves jake gyllenhal but wasnt impressed. this is assuming i am not a dick nozel. one love. +spelling+ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THANKYOU Posted November 9, 2005 Author Share Posted November 9, 2005 ok here, here's the real scoop: it was interesting from the perspective that they went through boot camp, and all the other shit they feed you in the marines, like the yelling, the brother hood they develope and shit like that, but to make a long story short here is the movie: sign up for marines, find a job in the marines, boot camp, lots of yelling, brother hood and friendship, we're finally going over seas to war thank god, get over there and walk around in dessert looking at absolute nothing, say hoorah a few times because the commercials said we would, marines get lost in dessert on a mission that wasnt even a mission, marines find themselves back at party camp site to discover the "war is over" and not one bullet was fired (in the direction of an enemy anyhow) movie ends. fucking horrible idea for a movie. i mean if you went there and did the war in real life, and now youre a older dude telling a youngster in the family, fine... live it up. horrible idea for a "entertaining movie" though... that shit shoulda went straight to a shitty documentary dvd series instead. thats whats up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
test pattern Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 that's real Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackfatsoe Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 Hmm. I feel like Full Metal Jacket already covered the whole boot camp thing about as well as it's gonna be done. I still want to see this though. On DVD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THANKYOU Posted November 9, 2005 Author Share Posted November 9, 2005 full metal jacket was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better, hands down no comparassion (sp?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Dazzle Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 Originally posted by THANKYOU@Nov 9 2005, 01:54 PM sign up for marines, find a job in the marines, boot camp, lots of yelling, brother hood and friendship, we're finally going over seas to war thank god, get over there and walk around in dessert looking at absolute nothing, say hoorah a few times because the commercials said we would, marines get lost in dessert on a mission that wasnt even a mission, marines find themselves back at party camp site to discover the "war is over" and not one bullet was fired (in the direction of an enemy anyhow) movie ends. Quoted post That's the whole point of the movie, SHIT.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THANKYOU Posted November 10, 2005 Author Share Posted November 10, 2005 go watch it if you havent and come back here and tell me how cool it was, if you do, i will come and suicide bomb your country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Dazzle Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 You seem to be forgetting that the entire point of this movie was to show the futility of war. Being a marine is boring as fuck, you think that they are shooting people and doing gung ho crazy marine shit every second? No, 90% of the time you're digging toilets, reading porn mags, smoking weed, seeing who's dick is the biggest, and generally doing fuck all while you wait for something to go down. That's what it's like in modern war, and thus, that's the point of this movie. I'm sorry your dumbass feels ripped off because you couldn't tell that it was not a "shoot the shit out of the Iraqis" type movie like everybody else could. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THANKYOU Posted November 10, 2005 Author Share Posted November 10, 2005 even if they didnt shoot anyone, they still could have made it more interesting.... movies = ok to make more interesting than real life. im done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyHorton Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 It was an interesting movie, just not to your simple mind. I thought it was pretty entertaining myself, super cynical. I only looked at my watch once about 10 mins before the movie got out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oh so modern Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 friend of mine has been in baghdad since the US gained control and all he does is play playstation until someones computer breaks. then he fixes it like jimmy fallon on SNL and goes back to playing playstation. one love. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SF1 Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 For the love of God will you knock it off with that rediculous "one love" shit!?! You're such a cornball. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteOx Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 Originally posted by seeking@Nov 9 2005, 06:33 PM can anyone who's not proven themselves time and time again to be a complete fucking dick nozel give their impression of the film? Quoted post classic-seeking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oh so modern Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 for anyone else; maybe. for you; no. one love. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CIPHER_one Posted November 13, 2005 Share Posted November 13, 2005 It was ok. I liked the purpose of hte movie, I didn't like the execution. Too much humor actually...lots of silly jokes and dancing around. Felt like it should of been handled more...dryly? Surprising considering the director. 6/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPORTO Posted November 13, 2005 Share Posted November 13, 2005 yada yada Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oh so modern Posted November 13, 2005 Share Posted November 13, 2005 i am more sardonic than cynical. peace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeking Posted November 13, 2005 Share Posted November 13, 2005 thank you for your synopsis tease, the movie sounds awesome, i'll be trying to see it soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InDY_500 Posted November 13, 2005 Share Posted November 13, 2005 It wasnt a bad movie at all... It could have been better and it could have been worse.. They barely even showed Jamie Foxx through it... It was more based on the soldiers.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THANKYOU Posted November 13, 2005 Author Share Posted November 13, 2005 Originally posted by seeking@Nov 13 2005, 11:24 AM thank you for your synopsis tease, the movie sounds awesome, i'll be trying to see it soon. Quoted post no problem cheif. hope you love it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEROJUANA Posted November 13, 2005 Share Posted November 13, 2005 Originally posted by InDY_500@Nov 13 2005, 12:28 PM They barely even showed Jamie Foxx through it... Quoted post "OH HELL NAH!!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Octavious Posted November 14, 2005 Share Posted November 14, 2005 it sucked. thats all you have to say Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Issac Brock Posted November 14, 2005 Share Posted November 14, 2005 good movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecarwreck Posted November 14, 2005 Share Posted November 14, 2005 Go read the book first (if you've seen the film, read the shit anyway). The film is a horrific bastardization of the book (surprise). Anthony Swofford, the author, had absolutely NOTHING to do with the writing of the film. It's essentially an interpretation of his book without any input from him. The actors weren't even "allowed" to speak to the guy. But what's new? Books to films suck 99% of the time. But the chances of the book being made into a film that follows it directly are slim to nil... the book is that rough. Plus, for all the proverbial 'haters' out there, Swofford's writing is more than readable. William Broyles Jr. (screenplay) couldn't write that to save his life. The whole first person POV is lost in the film. The stuff going on in these guys' heads gets scary as shit and heavily fucked up and Swofford is just putting it down on paper. I taught excerpts from this to a bunch of college seniors and there were girls straight crying in class the next day. Hoorah that. In review: book=good, film=not so good but it could've been worse i guess but still the book is way better which is usually the case anyway so fuck a film that came from a book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maus1985 Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 TO DEVILDANCE hey your not the only marine on here bud. I agree the film was pretty accurate. for SF 1- why don't you grow a fucking spine and go see what its really like over there, you want to see people die? you think its a fucking video game? I lost friends in Iraq, brothers, fucking guys i went through boot with, seeing people die isn't all that great when you were eating with em 20 minutes before. and to the guy who said that his friend just plays playstation all day, theres probably some truth to that, hes probably at camp america, for guys who were in the 1st suicide Bat, its a little diff. I don't need to go into detail, but we didn't have it so easy. and whoever said it was a propaghanda film is a fucking moron, the story is the memoir of a grunt who was over there in the first gulf war, he had no vested intrest in painting a picture of something that wasn't true. Born to Die but never will Semper Fi! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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