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	Jarhead (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jarhead is a 2005 film starring Jake Gyllenhaal as U.S. Marine Anthony Swofford, and is based on Swofford's 2003 Gulf War memoir Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles.
		The title is based on a semi-derogatory slang, jarhead, used for Marines, and sometimes by Marines themselves.
		The single disc standard version has been included with a goodie protective silver casing, engraved on the front is the shape of a dog tag with the words "Jarhead" written on it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jarhead_(film) (1645 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Jarhead
		Jarhead didn't do huge box office domestically, and it was passed over by the Academy and other organizations for major award nominations.
		Jarhead chronicles the tour of duty of Anthony Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal, Donnie Darko) as he enlists in the Marines in the early '90s just as the Gulf War heats up.
		Jarhead deals with the exasperatingly mundane small details of doing menial tasks, training to be a sniper, and what soldiers do in their downtime.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/jarhead.php (2188 words)

	HD DVD Review: Jarhead \| High-Def DVD Digest
		But 'Jarhead' is no 'Saving Private Ryan,' and the most exciting sonics you're going to get here are some rounds of gunfire and Mendes' attempts at surreality via the use of popular rock songs.
		Mendes wanted something different for the 'Jarhead' DVD, going for a more video diary-like approach rather than the standard EPK fluff, and also pushed to have real-life marines interviewed to help bring a genuine sense of perspective to the supplementary material.
		I expected more from 'Jarhead.' I've admired Sam Mendes as a filmmaker, but this is his first true misfire for me. The film just doesn't seem to have much to say about war, or doesn't know what it wants to say -- whatever the case, it is a very dramatically flat experience.
	hddvd.highdefdigest.com /jarhead.html (2003 words)

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		Swofford's account is compelling despite the lack of war in his war story, because he's an insightful narrator, placing you inside the heads of men high on their own testosterone, werewolves howling for blood.
		Following this anti-narrative, the movie Jarhead is bound to disappoint those who want it to be a rousing let's-get-the-Iraqis epic and those who want it to be a clearcut horrors-of-war cautionary tale.
		Jarhead is about the soldiers who want to kill -- who saw those movies and fell for the feral glamour of combat.
	www.angelfire.com /movies/oc/jarhead.html (733 words)

	JARHEAD
		Jarhead isn’t so much a war film as it is a film about the complete lack of war.
		Apocalypse Now, which like Jarhead, was edited by Walter Murch, is shown to the Marines to get them pumped up for the impending skirmish against “Saddam Insane.” The Deer Hunter, in ways you won’t believe, helps to show their sexual frustration, as well as the uncertainty of the fidelity of loved ones left behind.
		Jarhead, based on the book about the real-life Gulf War I exploits of Anthony Swofford, follows the sniper scout’s military career from boot camp to Kuwait, where, essentially, he and his other cohorts in the Marines experience sexual arousal for the better part of the yearonly with no money shot in sight.
	www.sick-boy.com /jarhead.htm (569 words)

	Jarhead (2005): Reviews
		Jarhead is about how the experience of being in the military fundamentally changes an individual.
		Jarhead isn't overtly political, yet by evoking the almost surreal futility of men whose lust for victory through action is dashed, at every turn, by the tactics, terrain, and morality of the war they're in, it sets up a powerfully resonant echo of the one we're in today.
		Curiously, Jarhead transforms Swofford himself (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) from the book’s duty-bound youth, desperate to live up to his father's military legacy, into an enigmatic voyeur whose feelings and motivations are rarely made clear.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/jarhead (1550 words)

	Filmtracks: Jarhead (Thomas Newman)
		Jarhead: (Thomas Newman) It's been several years since the initial Hollywood films about the first Gulf War began putting the Los Angeles twist on America's endeavor in that time and place, though 2005's Jarhead comes from perhaps the most notable of circumstances thus far.
		The focus of Jarhead is an intensely personal one, and tells of the narrator's experiences as a 20-year-old sniper who spends his young adulthood preparing for war and is then obsolete by the time he actually arrives on the battlefield.
		Newman turns to the strings during the obvious contemplation cues, including "Jarhead for Life." These are the end result of the useless time spent in the desert; the second half of the score often meanders in a daze of whole notes that extend for entire minutes.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/jarhead.html (802 words)

	Jarhead's Firing Range -Politically Incorrect Military Politics Marine Conservative Immigration
		The President gave a speech that made it quite clear that he went out of his way to NOT be partisan, and all that the Dems can come up with is complaints that a politician acted like a politician.
		Oh, I almost forgot, additional immunity had to be granted to the scumbag smuggler, as he seems to have been caught again with a half ton of dope that he was trying to smuggle into our country.
		Those of you that have not visited Corps Blogger, are not only missing out on good content, but are also unaware that the fine contributors are firing up a live radio show.
	jarheadjohn2.blogspot.com (2291 words)

	Jarhead (2005): Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Jamie Fox, Chris Cooper - PopMatters Film Review
		As Jarhead begins, Swoff and his fellow trainees -- a company of "retards and fuckups" -- don't know they'll be headed to the Gulf War in a few months.
		Anthony Swofford's Jarhead, a memoir of that brief encounter in the desert, is one man's story but more than that, it's a smart, sad treatise on war.
		Showing their boredom, Jarhead pokes at the troops' conditioned desire for action, their commitment to marine ideals, their need to believe that "kicking Iraqi ass" is the means to self-definition.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/j/jarhead-2005.shtml (1170 words)

	Jarhead DVD - Jarhead - Jarhead movie
		The Jarhead DVD stars Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx and Jake Gyllenhaal in this critically acclaimed, brilliantly unconventional war story from Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes.
		Jarhead (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows Swoff (Gyllenhaal) from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, where he sports a sniper rifle through Middle East deserts that provide no cover from the heat or Iraqi soldiers.
		The Jarhead DVD is filled with many powerful moments that change from loud, visceral warfare to quiet, poignant moments.
	www.jarheadmovie.com /welcometothesuck.html (178 words)

	Jarhead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The slang originated during WWII when the Mason Jar Company started making their helmets, and refers to the similarity that the shape of the helmet shares with a jar as well as the typical haircut new recruits are given
		Jarhead (film) - the 2005 movie based on Swofford's book
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jarhead (141 words)

	Urban Dictionary: Jarhead
		Jarhead marines usmc leatherneck marine marine corps devil dog devil dogs devildog gyrene jody leathernecks sea-going bellhop the suck united states marine corps
		The term "jarhead" comes from the shape of the Old Corps covers (hats) that were worn by Marines.
		The term jarhead came out because of the very short hair cuts which resembles that of a jar.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=Jarhead (459 words)

	Jarhead
		Jarhead is a movie that walks up to some of the most urgent and painful issues of our present circumstance, clears its throat loudly and says nothing.
		Jarhead is a personal story about one Marine that helps give us insight into a world most of us will never experience.
		Jarhead, taken from the book by Anthony Swofford, a veteran Marine sniper from the first Gulf War, takes what might seem the easiest soldiering job in the world and tells you something profoundly different.
	rottentomatoes.com /m/1152567-jarhead (1026 words)

	Crimson Celluloid :: Resident DVDvil :: Jarhead
		Speaking of pictures (I know… that was a terrible segue), I recently caught the new one from director Sam Mendes, "Jarhead." The film is based on the memoirs of Anthony Swofford, who served in the first Gulf War.
		"Jarhead" is a very introspective film, and while I thought there was a strong pervasive message about war in general, there were times I felt it did not deliver that message consistently throughout the film.
		"Jarhead" is a film that simultaneously tries too hard and not hard enough to tell a story about the horror of war.
	www.lethaldeath.com /Crimson/Archives/ResidentDVDvil/Archives/RD_Jarhead.php (789 words)

	Jarhead \| movies : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Jarhead, a high-potency adaptation of Swofford's book that is nevertheless a tricky movie to warm up to, presents American soldiers confronting globalized warfare as a highly controlled yet unstable experience, a mosh pit of testosterone in search of an outlet.
		It would be easy to say that Jarhead fails as a story, except that Mendes, refusing to coerce the details of Swofford's experience into arcs and resolutions (let alone the facile American-heroes-get-the-gold uplift of something like Three Kings), forges, perhaps, a new kind of drama: a portrait of war stripped of all glamour and design.
		Jarhead is an existential docudrama: cool and funny, vivid and remote at the same time.
	www.ew.com /ew/article/review/movie/0,6115,1125289_1_0_,00.html (1048 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Jarhead [2005]: DVD: Jake Gyllenhaal,Wade Williams,Matthew Atherton,Jamie Foxx,Peter Sarsgaard,Jacob ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Based on Anthony Swofford’s excellent memoir about his experiences as a Marine Sniper in Gulf War I, Jarhead is a war movie in which the waiting is a far greater factor upon the characters than the war itself, and the build up to combat is more drama than what combat is depicted.
		Jarhead is one of those examples where the book is better than the movie, but not for lack of trying.
		Jarhead is tonally very different from the book, as the film seems to look for a more comedic side to war.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Jarhead-Jake-Gyllenhaal/dp/B000F2DCRG (1538 words)

	Jarhead \| On DVD \| PM Media Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		about his experiences spent in Desert Shield, Jarhead is a wide-eyed look at what the anticipation of war can do to a group of young soldiers desperate to defend their country with the hopes of returning home as national heroes.
		Jarhead is not your traditional war hero film.
		That's what Jarhead is. It's a film whose meaning isn't found in battle victories but in how a soldier deals with the demons that the war created.
	www.pmmediareview.com /archives/2006/03/jarhead.aspx (814 words)

	One Hand Clapping » Blog Archive » Jarhead - a review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Jarhead is running 57% favorable overall (everything under %60 is considered rotten) and 53% in the elite reviewers category.
		Jarhead (book version) did not purport to be a nonfiction account of the first Gulf war.
		Jarhead is a picture of a still lost young man who does not find (even)in warfare meaning.
	www.donaldsensing.com /index.php/2005/11/04/jarhead-a-review (5479 words)

	"Jarhead" by Anthony Swofford - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Anthony Swofford's "Jarhead" is one of those books; you imagine him half-wishing, as he gets to the end of the book, that he could reach back and start erasing it from the beginning.
		Marine barracks are not known for their decorum, but Swofford describes his mates and himself as brutal, petulant, thoughtless, wretched, sadistic, wrathful and sometimes borderline sociopathic.
		From "Jarhead," you will learn that Marines pump themselves up by watching war movies on video: "We yell Semper fi and we head-butt and beat the crap out of each other and we get off on the various visions of carnage and violence and deceit, the raping and killing and pillaging.
	www.salon.com /books/review/2003/03/10/jarhead/index_np.html (776 words)

	Our Common Text: 2003-2004 - Jarhead
		We are pleased to announce the Common Text for 2003-2004, Anthony Swofford's Jarhead, a raw and riveting memoir of the Gulf War sure to rouse dialogue, provoke debate, and challenge intellectual complacency - as any great book should.
		"Jarhead is some kind of classic, a bracing memoir of the 1991 Persian Gulf war that will go down with the best books ever written about military life." Mark Bowden, New York Times Book Review, March 2, 2003.
		John Gregory Dunne, in his May 29, 2003, New York Review of Books, refers to Jarhead as "a bracing and unforgiving corrective to the spectator patriotism so prevalent today" and talks about the culture of today's military as well as the typical profile of today's enlisted soldier.
	wally.rit.edu /depts/ref/research/jarhead (597 words)

	DVD review of Jarhead (Widescreen) - DVD Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		"Jarhead" plays it right down the middle and its refusal to choose sides may have left it overshadowed by the left-wing sensibilities of "Crash", "Syriana", or "Good Night and Good Luck." Too bad as "Jarhead" gives us a refreshing take on the war film.
		"Jarhead" doesn't concern itself with a "War is Hell" message, instead it focuses on the mundane aspects of warfare.
		Exclusive to the second disc are Jarhead Diaries, an intimate behind-the-scenes documentary done by giving cameras to the cast and crew; Semper Fi: Life After the Corps, a documentary about real-life Desert Storm veterans and their adjustments into the civilian world; and Background, a feature about the extras that filled out the film’s military ranks.
	www.dvdtown.com /review/jarheadwidescreen/18437/3512 (1055 words)

	BBC - Movies - review - Jarhead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Jarhead takes a perverse pleasure in confounding your expectations of what a war movie should be.
		Kicking off with the usual brutal training sequence - mouthy sergeants, ritual humiliation, you know the routine - Jarhead quickly progresses to the Saudi Arabian desert, where Jake and his fellow squaddies stave off the hot, sandy tedium with illicit booze, football matches and war flicks.
		Some critics have attacked Jarhead because it refuses take any stance on America's intervention in the Gulf, but amoral despair is kind of the point; Jarhead looks into the desert and sees absurdity.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2006/01/10/jarhead_2006_review.shtml (362 words)

	Variety.com - Award Central 2006 - Jarhead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Throughout, global politics and the motives behind the troop buildup lie far in the background, as the film strives to portray a state of being rather than a reason for action.
		Once the stage shifts to the promised battleground, "Jarhead" becomes a vaguely existential story of being all dressed up with nowhere to go, about men awaiting chemical warfare and an alleged million-man army while playing football in the sand sporting gas masks, surreptitiously pleasuring themselves and giving each other grief about unfaithful girlfriends and wives.
		Trained as snipers, Swoff and his partner Troy (Peter Sarsgaard) are finally called uponto ply their specialized trade, but at the last second are thwarted by the arrival of yet more air power, rendering their lengthy sojourn in the desert essentially pointless.
	www.variety.com /ac2006_review/VE1117928699?nav=reviews (994 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Review: Jarhead
		The film gives credence to the jock-boy mentality of its horned-up troops, whose collective experience is insensitively reduced to a preposterous and elaborately sustained ejaculation metaphor which tries to pass as a comment on the sometimes frustrating inaction of war.
		Some will argue that because Jarhead is about a battalion's frustrating wait for war that its lack of a political stance is appropriate, but that ignores the fact that inaction in times of war is itself a political and moral action, a choice Mendes clearly doesn't want to deconstruct.
		Jarhead is just a juvenile war-as-dick metaphor that wants to leave it audience, like its characters, with a case of blue balls.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=1878 (776 words)

	Jarhead review, Jarhead DVD review
		“Jarhead” is easily one of the best films of the year, with a strong screenplay adaptation by William Broyles Jr.
		Many expected "Jarhead" to be the next-generation “Platoon,” but it's not; it’s actually better.
		The two-disc Collector’s Edition of “Jarhead” is shaping up to be one of the best DVDs of the year with a nice selection of audio commentaries, deleted scenes and production featurettes.
	www.bullz-eye.com /mguide/reviews_2005/jarhead.htm (824 words)

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