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Luke C:
Saw it on Friday. Very enjoyable, your standard war film mixed with elements of realy comedy.

I went with a female friend and she especially liked the scenes where the male actors had no top on. Which there was a fair few of.

Merkava:
I hear it sucked. Well, what I hear about it makes me think that it sucks. I was expecting a psychological drama like Fullmetal Jacket (without the overuse of the "happy music while doing horrible things" gimmick), but someone who saw it told me it was just women cheating on their husbands while they are at war. While I don't think this is the whole story, I'm still not that excited.

Leonidas:
But you're missing the point. It's not supposed to be a psychological drama, nor a glamorisation of war. It was supposed to show a realistic and comedic account of what one man's experience was of serving with the US Marines in the first gulf war. It's all about the fact that they were pumped up and psyched up to such an extreme that they were expecting to be taking part in "The Mother of all Battles", when in reality they were sat about in the sand gaurding oil rigs. Imagine the chaos having hundreds of psyched up, fit, horny young men, raised on the image of Full Metal Jacket and The Deer Hunter, and instead being faced with digging latrines in the sand and having to create a Wall of Shame where they place the pictures of wives and girlfriends back home who have cheated on them in their absence!

I Am Not Amused:
Loved this movie.

COMPLETELY disagree with it being a 'standard war movie.' I mean, the only person killed in the entire movie is killed DURING TRAINING. I loved the juxtaposition of their hard-ass training with their do-nothing war.

It wasn't a psychological thriller, but it was definitely psychological. The U.S. Military breaks down these young men, turns them into killing machines, and then - at the peak of their frenzy - gives them absolutely nothing to do. The fallout from which has terrifying (Gyllenhal almost murdering his squadmate), crushing (Gyllenhal and his targeter nearly beating their commanding officer), and sometimes amusing (Gyllenhal with a santa hat around his bits) consequences.

sjbrot:
I think I had got enough out of the movie when Jamie Foxx says his one line of importance in the trailer:

"Oou-Rah."

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