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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.
		This cameo takes place approx 20mins in to the movie where the main character Swofford and his colleague Troy and Kruger are sitting on a plane on their way to the Gulf.
		It is a profane parody of Psalm 23.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jarhead_(movie) (1499 words)

	zBoneman Movie Reviews
		Jarhead (based on the 2003 best selling book by real life marine Anthony Swofford) is a haunting war film, but with a twist.
		Given that Jarhead revolves around the war theme, and more to the point, those who fight in a war, it may come as a surprise that the movie isn't necessarily anti-war or pro-war.
		Jarhead isn't so much a political statement as it is a unique glimpse into a side of war that I've certainly never seen depicted in a film.
	www.zboneman.com /movies/Jarhead.html (826 words)

	Jarhead Reviews - Moviefone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		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.
		What's so good about the movie is Gyllenhaal's refusal to show off; he doesn't seem jealous of the camera's attention when it goes to others and is content, for long stretches, to serve simply as a prism though which other young men can be observed.
	movies.aol.com /movie/jarhead/19901/reviews?_pgtyp=pdct (913 words)

	Gearcritech » Jarhead: Collector’s Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Based on Anthony Swoffordâs 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 not a colorful movie, so bright hues are not present.
		Jarhead is available in 2 different editions a Single Disc (in Wide and Full Screen formats) and a 2-Disc Collector’s Edition (Widescreen only), for purposes of this review I will be talking about the 2-Disc Collector’s Edition.
	www.gearcritech.com /index.php/2006/03/09/jarhead-collectors-edition.php (1002 words)

	"Jarhead" - Movie Review by Sean Kernan
		Jarhead perfectly captures the essence of this oxymoronic statement as we watch the soldiers attempt to maintain a constant state of readiness as absolutely nothing happens.
		Jarhead takes a similar metaphoric approach as soldiers openly discuss masturbation in scenes that are crossed with scenes of bonding with their weapons as if that weapon were part of their body.
		The movie is not for all audiences, especially those easily offended and certainly not for young children, but for people who like complicated characters, metaphors and great all-around filmmaking Jarhead is a must see.
	www.smart-popcorn.com /reviews/1068 (1406 words)

	iFMagazine.com Reviews - Movie Review: JARHEAD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		JARHEAD is not a comedy (though it has many extremely funny moments), is not about Army doctors, is not overtly anti-establishment and is not set in Korea.
		There are casualties, corpses, explosions and gunfire, but for the most part, this is a movie that quietly suggests that for a lot of soldiers, the horror of war lies less in mortal peril or moral conundrums than the grinding realization that one’s best efforts may be meaningless.
		One downside of the movie is that although the individual scenes are all beautifully done, the cumulative effect is to get us to empathize a bit too much with the Marines – like them, we start wondering if anything definitive will happen and how we’ll ever get out of here.
	www.ifmagazine.com /transitional.asp?strURL=review.asp?article=1069 (669 words)

	Amazon.com: movie info: Jarhead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The movie follows the trajectory of Swofford (played with thoughtful intensity by Jake Gyllenhaal) from wayward Marine recruit (he joined because he "got lost on the way to college") to skilled Marine sniper, and on into the desert in preparation for the attack on Iraq.
		Jarhead is one of those examples where the book is better than the movie, but not for lack of trying.
		If you were to believe this movie you would have to believe that the Military has sunk to the lowest common level and preform their duty without any logic or reason.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005JO1G?v=glance (2200 words)

	Jarhead (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		I'm here to give a layman's take on the movie and not be concerned with politics or agendas.
		No matter how "Hollywoodized" a movie can get, it's basic concepts and ideas are still generally intact.
		Full Metal Jacket is a good movie for taking the approach that it did.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0418763 (838 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Jarhead (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The most dramatic scene in the movie comes when Swofford has an enemy officer in the crosshairs of his gunsight and is forbidden to fire because his shot may give advance warning of an air strike.
		These are not the colorful dogfaces of World War II movies with their poker games, or the druggies in "Apocalypse Now." They have no wisecracks, we see no drugs, they get drunk when they can, and there is a Wall of Shame plastered with the photos of the girls back home who have dumped them.
		The movie captures the tone of Camus' narrator, who knows what has happened but not why, nor what it means to him, nor why it happens to him.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051103/REVIEWS/51019007/1023 (921 words)

	Movie Review 2: Jarhead
		Part of the problem with “Jarhead” is that everybody is too clever to be in a war, even a war in which they are extremely unlikely to be killed.
		This movie will not continue the tradition of adventure and experimentation director Sam Mendes started with his previous two films, “Road to Perdition” (2002) and “American Beauty” (1999), but it will sell and it is inoffensive.
		Jarhead (the self imposed moniker of the Marines) follows “Swoff” (Gyllenhaal), a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot...
	movies.monstersandcritics.com /reviews/article_1060007.php/Movie_Review_2_Jarhead (930 words)

	Jarhead Review (Jake Gyllenhaal) Empire Movies
		While the movie starts off light-hearted, you know where this is all going to eventually lead.
		Not one character in the movie is a cliche.
		If I have one gripe about the movie, it's that the effects work was a little sub par.
	www.empiremovies.com /reviews/reviews.php?id=6510&jarhead.htm (816 words)

	Jarhead: The Movie & The Book Highlighting Anthony Swofford's Personal Experiences As A U.S. Marine - from Jim and ...
		But what REALLY intrigues me about the Jarhead movie is the person that the movie is about: Anthony Swofford.
		The movie, "Jarhead", takes you through one guy's journey from boot camp to active duty in the Marines.
		After reading more about Anthony Swofford and hearing his take on the movie, the war itself, and his book I've come to the realization that the movie was mostly Hollywood's way of telling the story, and the book will surely shed more light on Swofford's own personal experiences there.
	thefuntimesguide.com /movabletype/archives/2005/12/jarheadswofford.html (880 words)

	Interview: Jake Gyllenhaal (Jarhead) - Movie-Fever.com - Movie Previews, News, Trailers, Reviews, Pictures
		"Jarhead" follows Anthony Swoff, 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.
		We were in the last day of shooting, Sam brought me into the ADR stage and we read some excerpts from the book and we read the voice over that had already been written in the book and in the script, so the book itself just spoke to me somehow.
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	www.movie-fever.com /index.php/content/view/1162/2 (1612 words)

	Review: Jarhead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Jarhead shows these events not from the perspective of a civilian, war correspondent, or diplomat, but from that of a jarhead (jargon for marine) sniper who was supposed to be on the front line of the ground conflict - except there was no front line.
		Jarhead is compelling in the way it presents a new facet of a genre that some would argue was mined out long ago.
		Those who entered the corps and were sent to Kuwait were disconnected from their previous life and all that went with it: wives/girlfriends, friends, jobs, families But, instead of accomplishing what they were trained to do, they wait, and Godot is nowhere to be found.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/j/jarhead.html (1115 words)

	"Jarhead" - Movie Review by Funslinger (Chris Scheno)
		Jarhead the movie ended up being pretty much what I expected, succeeding on some levels (cinematography, realism, performances) while falling short on others (subject, plot).
		While the movie lacks the constant action of your run-of-the-mill, generic, genre-specific "war movie," the emotional involvement one has with Swoff's platoon bridges the gap between the lack of action and compelling characterization.
		I believe this to be true because Jarhead is not a war movie, nor a political film, nor a polemical film, nor an ensemble film that follows a few characters in great depth.
	www.smart-popcorn.com /reviews/1156 (1258 words)

	Jarhead
		Though the movie itself is not a protest against the current war in Iraq, it does add another voice, a soldier’s voice, to the discussion about how war ultimately affects those fighting.
		What Jarhead the film succeeds at, in a way that Jarhead the book did, is in spending a lot more time than many war films do in the psychological landscapes, the emotional landscapes, of warfare and of the fighter.
		MJ: In Jarhead, you wrote about how you and the other marines used war movies as preparation—to get yourselves psyched up—just before you were deployed in the Saudi desert.
	www.mojones.com /arts/qa/2005/11/swofford.html (1836 words)

	Jarhead - Movie Message Boards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		From the director of American Beauty, Sam Mendes, we are given Jarhead: A darkly comic and unpredictable tale based on a US Marine’s experiences of the first Gulf war.
		Jarhead kicks off to a running start as we are thrust into the harsh and chaotic lifestyle of the US Marine through the eyes of Swofford (Gyllenhaal).
		Jarhead fails to have the same effect on the audience however, as we never really get close enough to Swofford to feel his pain.
	www.chasingthefrog.com /forums/showthread.php?t=1508 (733 words)

	Jarhead Movie Review - MovieWeb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Jarhead is the film adaptation of Marine Anthony Swoffordâs bestselling novel about his experience during the first Persian Gulf War in 1991.
		Jarhead will be seen primarily as an anti-war film and there is a veiled stab at the current Gulf War.
		Jarhead is certainly a far cry from his next film, âBrokeback Mountainâ, where he plays a gay cowboy in love with Heath Ledger in the 60âs.
	www.movieweb.com /movies/reviews/review.php?film=2855&review=4791 (743 words)

	OpinionJournal - The Western Front
		With Iraqi mortar shells exploding around him, the main character in the new film "Jarhead" is ordered to leave his foxhole, run down a sandy berm, and retrieve a fresh battery for a radio.
		What the viewers were hoping for was a rousing film portraying U.S. forces as the good guys sacrificing for a worthwhile mission, or at least, a sense of joy in the victory.
		What "this" turned out to be was a succession of deflating experiences leading up to the conclusion that war is a waste of time and it destroys all those who engage in it.
	www.opinionjournal.com /columnists/bminiter/?id=110007517 (948 words)

	Movie Review: Jarhead
		For most of 2005, movie goers have been waiting for a film that is instantly recognized as a work of excellence (one that doesn't require you to mull it over the next day).
		If this is the case, you shouldn't see JARHEAD since the views stated in my review are very much shared by the filmmakers and Anthony Swofford, the one who was actually there and wrote the book on which this film is based.
		I found the movie very accurate in its portrayal of what many Marines went through and found it odd that I can say “yeah, it was like that” Relating anything more than that requires a different movie.
	movies.monstersandcritics.com /reviews/article_1059765.php/Movie_Review_Jarhead (1934 words)

	Jarhead (2005) Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Peter Sarsgaard - Three Movie Buffs Review
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		The majority of the movie is spent in the desert during the Shield portion of the war and shows how the Marines cope and sometimes don't cope with the wind, the sand and the mind numbing boredom of constantly waiting.
		Perhaps director Sam Mendes wanted the audience to get the feeling of what it was like for the soldiers because like them we are force to wait for far too long as this portion stretches on and on until we're experiencing the same boredom that the characters are.
	www.threemoviebuffs.com /review.php?movieID=jarhead (508 words)

	towleroad: A View To A Kill, Without the KillREVIEW: Jarhead
		My first thought after seeing the movie was that Jake Gyllenhaal has chosen two movies this season, Brokeback Mountain and Jarhead, that have taken conventional movie genres, the Western and the war movie, and turned them on their heads.
		People who go to Jarhead thinking they are going to see a movie about war with lots of bombs, actions scenes, and killing, may be disappointed, because Jarhead is for the most part a movie about loneliness.
		Nov 4, 2005 10:53:50 AM I'm sorry, but I saw the movie today and that does NOT count as a "full-frontal." But the few seconds of Jake pumping away on his girlfriend toward the beginning were worth the price of admission.
	towleroad.typepad.com /towleroad/2005/11/a_view_to_a_kil.html (1431 words)

	TimesDispatch.com \| MOVIE REVIEW: Jarhead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Watching the movie about the war, then, takes a full 2 percent of the time it took to fight it.
		So even though "Jarhead" is excellently made, it is art that serves little purpose.
		In this movie, Jake Gyllenhaal as Swofford is insulted, humiliated and dehumanized to the point where he becomes an expert sniper, eager to do battle (the soldiers are seen cheering "Apocalypse Now" and not understanding its anti-war message).
	www.timesdispatch.com /servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1128767932656 (681 words)

	Jarhead (2005): Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Peter Sarsgaard, Sam Mendes, Wade Williams
		"Jarhead" stars Jake Gyllenhaal ("The Day After Tomorrow") and Jamie Foxx ("Ray") and is rated R for language, violence and sexual content.
		But, I think this movie should've focused more on the preparation for war and less on their boredom.
		I know this movie is supposed to be about the time training and waiting for war, but it didn't start getting good until the war started.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /click/movie-1152567/reviews.php?critic=columns&sortby=default&page=5&rid=1453911 (614 words)

	Jarhead DVD - Jarhead - Jarhead movie
		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.
		The Jarhead DVD will be released on March 7, 2006.
	www.jarheadmovie.com /welcometothesuck.html (178 words)

	Jarhead Suffers Typical Military Movie Flaws » Outside The Beltway \| OTB
		Sometimes bad military movies are the left’s bias creeping in, other times I think it is just laziness, and a belief that the audience won’t know the difference or care.
		The only movie I have seen that looks at what is may be like for a wife whose husband was off at war.
		The movie does an excellent job of portraying what it is like being a young Marine growing up in the Corps and with dealing with the wait and then experience of war.
	www.outsidethebeltway.com /archives/2005/11/jarhead_suffers_typical_military_movie_flaws (2688 words)

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		Egypt Today - Jarhead (R) T he movie is based on the best-selling 2003 novel Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by former sniper Anthony Swofford and follows Swoff in Saudi Arabia (pre-Desert Storm) and fighting in Kuwait.
		This boy has grown up in the movies (he was the kid in "Sling Blade" and the dissident grunt in "Jarhead").
		AZCentral.com - In the beginning of the movie, when the hero (Lucas Black) jumps his ragged-out Monte Carlo, he wrecks on the landing, which is more true to life.
	www.chickmoviesforguys.com /jarhead-movie.php (556 words)

	Jarhead Movie Review at Hollywood Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The question then becomes, "Is this particular look at one young marine's adventures—or lack thereof—in the first Gulf War enough to qualify as satisfying entertainment?" Answer: it's a movie that requires both patience and artistic appreciation to fully enjoy its merits, and that might just prove to be too much work for most mainstream audiences.
		And it's in Saudi Arabia where the action ends and the inaction begins, for Swafford and his elite sniper unit must wait and wait...and wait until there is a reason to strike.
		The rest of the Jarhead cast is impressive as well, especially Jamie Foxx as the take-no-prisoners squad leader.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=141108&LF=HP (1800 words)

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