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Managed to fit in another film last night, and still get home in time to watch the first in the new series of House :o)
Jarhead
I was pleasantly surprised by this film as I really wasn't expecting to enjoy it all that much. The film is about a bunch of US Marines experiences from the First Gulf War, about how they were trained, and how they coped with the endless waiting around for something to happen. I don't usually like war films at all (I suspect you could all guess my standpoint on war as a problem solving exercise...) but this certainly held my attention, with a good script and another good performance from Jake Gyllenhaal. I personally found it quite depressing in some ways - it really highlighted to me what a bad idea war really is, but others around me didn't seem to suffer the same reaction! Anyway, good film. 8/10
Jarhead
I was pleasantly surprised by this film as I really wasn't expecting to enjoy it all that much. The film is about a bunch of US Marines experiences from the First Gulf War, about how they were trained, and how they coped with the endless waiting around for something to happen. I don't usually like war films at all (I suspect you could all guess my standpoint on war as a problem solving exercise...) but this certainly held my attention, with a good script and another good performance from Jake Gyllenhaal. I personally found it quite depressing in some ways - it really highlighted to me what a bad idea war really is, but others around me didn't seem to suffer the same reaction! Anyway, good film. 8/10
