Full Metal Jacket vs. Jarhead
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Topic: Full Metal Jacket vs. Jarhead
Posted By: sporx
Subject: Full Metal Jacket vs. Jarhead
Date Posted: 11 March 2006 at 3:15pm
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Alright, I really like both of these marine/war films and I was just wondering which one you guys thought was better. ------------- 
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Posted By: Linus
Date Posted: 11 March 2006 at 3:24pm
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Jarhead made you think more... so it was cool. ------------- 
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Posted By: oreomann33
Date Posted: 11 March 2006 at 3:32pm
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Strrraaaaannngee brew, kill what's inside of you.
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Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 11 March 2006 at 4:13pm
cream was the only time i liked clapton. there is no comparing FMJ to Jarhead. Sergeant Hartman > * ...This is my rifle, This is my gun...  ------------- 
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oreomann33 wrote:Posted By: PaintballkidEPS
Date Posted: 11 March 2006 at 4:14pm
| full metal jacket hands down |
Posted By: chronic future
Date Posted: 11 March 2006 at 4:34pm
| Lee Ermey owns. |
Posted By: Trogdor2
Date Posted: 11 March 2006 at 4:38pm
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I voted Full Metal Jacket, but Jarhead was great too.
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Posted By: ninety8freak
Date Posted: 11 March 2006 at 4:38pm
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Haven't seen Jarhead, but want to. I liked fmj alot. |
Posted By: whack-a-mole
Date Posted: 11 March 2006 at 4:50pm
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Both are great, but my vote goes to full metal jacket because of all the good quotes. ------------- NASA and the Americans spent millions of dollars and hundreds of hours to develop a pen that would write in space.....The Russians used a pencil. |
Posted By: Ph34r
Date Posted: 11 March 2006 at 5:26pm
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They're both such different movies, but I have to give to nod to FMJ because of R Lee Ermey's mouth. ------------- 
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Posted By: sporx
Date Posted: 11 March 2006 at 5:43pm
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^both there are also many comparisons. -------------
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Posted By: XenoSabre
Date Posted: 11 March 2006 at 5:44pm
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Posted By: GThomas
Date Posted: 11 March 2006 at 5:48pm
| Got to go with Full Metal Jacket. |
Posted By: GI JOES SON
Date Posted: 11 March 2006 at 7:43pm
| yea FMJ definitely wins, but i did like jarhead....its hard to compare them, FMJ had more about boot camp, jarhead sorta skipped through it...but yea FMJ is definitely better |
Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 11 March 2006 at 9:44pm
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FMJ was a great drama, and amusing in its own right, but Jarhead hit far closer to the reality of military service. My vote goes to Jarhead. FMJ is an easy civilian vote, but anyone in the forces should be won over by Jarhead due to its brilliant portrayal of the petty bullscheisse of military service.
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Posted By: dodan44
Date Posted: 11 March 2006 at 10:29pm
jarhead all the way. fmj is good but not as good.  ------------- i pawn noobs |
Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 11 March 2006 at 10:31pm
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Anyone who's worn an NBC suit should pick Jarhead... 'Nuff said.
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Posted By: stratoaxe
Date Posted: 11 March 2006 at 10:49pm
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I think Jarhead was a more emotionally intense movie because it came from the perspective of an actual Marine. You're not just observing this Marine-you're living his experience. Full Metal Jacket definately won points for immersing you in the amazing boot camp scene, but the movie's realism and depth drops dramatically when they hit Vietnam. I think FMJ really lost its focus on the soldier and became just another war movie halfway through. So I'd say as movies go, Jarhead is the superior. As far as which one was more memorable, I'd go with FMJ just because I'll never forget the boot camp. ------------- 
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Posted By: PlentifulBalls
Date Posted: 11 March 2006 at 11:41pm
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dude....Kubrick. ------------- 
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Posted By: warman
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 12:28am
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jarhead was quite possibly the crappiest movie I have ever seen. Read the book and you will see the light my friends. ------------- N is for nowledge |
Posted By: darkSIDEofMOON
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 2:06am
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hard to say cuz the wars they involve. but as someone stated above, if you are a marine then you know what it is like. my date is a marine and she loved it. when they started crawling she grabbed my arm and said that is how it actually it is. "field **edited**!" |
Posted By: whack-a-mole
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 10:34am
true Jarhead did follow the book. Amazingly close at that. I was surprised at some of the stuff they didn't leave out. I was sure some of that would get left out, but it didn't. That's one of the things that makes it so good. ------------- NASA and the Americans spent millions of dollars and hundreds of hours to develop a pen that would write in space.....The Russians used a pencil. |
Posted By: Project Irene
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 10:39am
| They are tied in my opinion. I enjoy the closeness and realism Jarhead offers as much as I like the fricken hilariousness that fmj offers. |
Posted By: DBibeau855
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 10:55am
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Jarhead was better because of Jamie Joxxs roll, when i try and rate movies i try and figure out how difficult it was for the actors to pull off a roll. Jamie Foxx has never had to do a roll anything like what he did in jarhead, gylanhol or however you spell his name wasnt bad either. And sarsiguard is coming along nicely as far as his career is concerened. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/DBibeau855/?chartstyle=myspacecolors"> 
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Posted By: sporx
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 11:04am
I do the same thing with seeing it through the actors' eyes. But I still think that it would have been really hard constantly yelling at all those cruel/funny orders like that Sargent guy. I mean that would be hard. I would have so many takes cuz I would crack with laughter -------------
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Posted By: DBibeau855
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 11:06am
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I mean if you look at Jamie Foxxs career, its amazing, he went to playing Shanaynay on "In living Color" to his last roll in Jarhead.
Hes really grown as an actor. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/DBibeau855/?chartstyle=myspacecolors">
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Posted By: sporx
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 11:22am
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You can't forget about Ray. That movie was amazing. He did an excellent job. -------------
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Posted By: Evil Elvis
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 5:33pm
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Jarhead ... because it's so real makes you feel that yoru back in. I still think of the really stupid things we did when bored. Once in a blue moon someone will call me and say
"remember playing baseball with taped granades?" "who was that airman we jumped in Kadena AFB?" "sucks to be them..." ------------- 
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