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Originally Posted by That Guy
i thought jarhead was just a really really bad remake of full metal jacket. they spend half the time in training, wander around the desert for a few days and then the movie just ends. Felt kinda pointless.
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yeah, but coincidentally i think that was what a lot of marines out there felt too... i saw it with my buddy who was in the gulf during that time (he's a marine) and he thought jarhead was spot on (except they never hydrated out of water bottles). before seeing it, he said if the movie was anything close to his reality, a bunch of people weren't going to like it at all. one of the scenes he identified with was when the marines were told to take a pill without question- my friend's unit was told that if they didn't want to die, they had to basically take this new drug that wasn't commercially available yet (much less FDA approved).
it's kind of interesting comparing the boot camp scenes between FMJ and Jarhead... the marines have changed with the times. I was reading a book by a former drill instructor where DIs aren't really allowed to curse or "verbally denigrate" a private anymore during camp... quite a fascinating read when you compare the tone of today's drill camps to the 60s.