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Desert Scorn (NY Post “Jarhead” review: “No story… just lies from beginning to end”)
NY Post ^ | November 4, 2005 | Kyle Smith

Posted on 11/04/2005 6:51:37 AM PST by dead

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1 posted on 11/04/2005 6:51:38 AM PST by dead
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I'm shocked, just shocked that Hollywood was distort the truth.


2 posted on 11/04/2005 6:52:45 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: dead

I have a friend who goes to a lot of movies. He saw that one and said it wasn't worth the price of a ticket. Pure crap.


3 posted on 11/04/2005 6:53:43 AM PST by Old Grumpy
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To: dead
I'm astounded. The reviewer for National Pubic Radio thought it was great.
4 posted on 11/04/2005 6:55:46 AM PST by eleni121 ('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
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To: dfwgator

Yeah, no kidding. Does anyone have any doubt that Oliver Stone won't rewrite history with his movie about 9/11 too? Making movies and TV shows seems to be the direction that campaign finance reform has pushed us. How long before conservatives get with the program and start making their own film? Mel Gibson can't carry the load by himself.


5 posted on 11/04/2005 6:55:54 AM PST by rhombus
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To: dead

Come on folks, are we really that surprised that Hollywood would distort the truth? Even my 17 year old daughter knew the movie was a farse from the first she moment she saw the commercials for it.


6 posted on 11/04/2005 6:56:35 AM PST by pctech
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To: Old Grumpy

NOT to mention that the lead actor plays......

A GAY COWBOY in a soon to be release upcoming film!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! complete with kissing and screwing his gay lover while he's cheating on his wife and kids.

absolutely sickening.


(saw it in a trailer when I went to the movies last weekend)


7 posted on 11/04/2005 6:57:12 AM PST by Hammerhead
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To: kellynla

ping


8 posted on 11/04/2005 6:57:35 AM PST by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: Hammerhead
absolutely sickening.

Brokeback Mountain.

I'm pretty hard to offend, but I groaned audibly when I saw that trailer in the theater. The audience around me was also visibly unimpressed.

What freak decided America needs/wants a Gay Cowboy movie?

9 posted on 11/04/2005 7:02:18 AM PST by xsrdx (Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas)
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To: Hammerhead
NOT to mention that the lead actor plays...... A GAY COWBOY in a soon to be release upcoming film!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

His sister, who has read some lines a couple of films, was quoted as saying that the attacks of 911 were completely understandable, considering American foreign policy over the last few decades. I would imagine her brother has a similiar world view.

And the director made that worthless maudlin mess of sneering nothing - "American Beauty."

I love it when a group of America-haters get together and make a stinking money-losing bomb.

10 posted on 11/04/2005 7:04:24 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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What freak decided America needs/wants a Gay Cowboy movie?

...The same freaks that decided to inflict "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" on all of us.

11 posted on 11/04/2005 7:04:30 AM PST by wbill
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To: Hammerhead

And... it all takes place in Wyoming.


12 posted on 11/04/2005 7:05:48 AM PST by Probus
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To: dfwgator

I knew just from the previews this movie had every hollyweird war cliche in the book.

I bet there was a guy in a foxhole who kept showing a picture of his wife and kid and talking about what he was going to do when he got home. 3/4 through the movie, he dies in some massively overdramatic way.


13 posted on 11/04/2005 7:06:48 AM PST by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: eleni121

NPR always loves a great war movie.


14 posted on 11/04/2005 7:07:17 AM PST by johnny7 (“What now? Let me tell you what now.”)
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To: dead

I read "Jarhead" the book and was not impressed. It was, as stated, an antiwar book with no point and no reason in it. I don't think I will be seeing the movie.


15 posted on 11/04/2005 7:08:05 AM PST by Probus
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worthless maudlin mess of sneering nothing - "American Beauty."

I rented it because of all the buzz. It was quite possibly, the worst movie I've seen in the past few years. I hated the hollywood stereotypical tough guy Marine-type. And the movie had him turn out to be gay?! I said, "What the..?" Sure.....that happens all the time. Riiiiigght. Maybe in Hollywood, but not in the real world.

I wish that Hollywood types would talk to a few more *real* soldiers, before they cast/portray/write a military character into a script. Very few ever get it right.

16 posted on 11/04/2005 7:09:06 AM PST by wbill
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To: Probus


"Generation Kill" is a better book.

Honestly, what do we expect from Hollywood? For them to tell the truth? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHa...that's counter to their Bush Hating, perception manipulting, dumbocrat propoganda ways.


17 posted on 11/04/2005 7:10:18 AM PST by in hoc signo vinces ("Houston, TX...a waiting quagmire for jihadis.")
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To: dead

Reviews have been euphoric.


18 posted on 11/04/2005 7:10:19 AM PST by luvbach1 (Near the belly of the beast in San Diego)
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To: pctech

In this case, Hollywood is just following the author's lead. He was one of those marines that give the rest a bad name.


19 posted on 11/04/2005 7:11:34 AM PST by Flightdeck (As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free)
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To: pctech

A bad name with libs, of course, I meant.


20 posted on 11/04/2005 7:12:18 AM PST by Flightdeck (As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free)
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