The new Sam Mendes film is teh suck
08-09-05 | 06:43 PM
#7
DVD Talk Hero
This is a movie. Based on a book. I remember seeing the author on Conan a few years back. Good interview. But I kind of forgot about the book.
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From IMDB.
Jarhead (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows "Swoff" (Gyllenhaal), 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. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they don't understand against an enemy they can't see for a cause they don't fully fathom... Foxx portrays Sergeant Sykes, a Marine lifer who heads up Swofford's scout/sniper platoon, while Sarsgaard is Swoff's friend and mentor, Troy, a die-hard member of STA-their elite Marine Unit.
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From IMDB.
Jarhead (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows "Swoff" (Gyllenhaal), 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. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they don't understand against an enemy they can't see for a cause they don't fully fathom... Foxx portrays Sergeant Sykes, a Marine lifer who heads up Swofford's scout/sniper platoon, while Sarsgaard is Swoff's friend and mentor, Troy, a die-hard member of STA-their elite Marine Unit.
08-09-05 | 07:00 PM
#8
DVD Talk Legend
While it may not have any inidication of the movie, that is a horrible tagline.
It will be interesting to see how Sam Mendes can do without Conrad Hall as his D.P. The cinematography of his last two movies contributed greatly to my enjoyment of them, I hope he can still do well without that net.
It will be interesting to see how Sam Mendes can do without Conrad Hall as his D.P. The cinematography of his last two movies contributed greatly to my enjoyment of them, I hope he can still do well without that net.
08-10-05 | 12:22 AM
#9
Originally Posted by Dr. DVD
It will be interesting to see how Sam Mendes can do without Conrad Hall as his D.P. The cinematography of his last two movies contributed greatly to my enjoyment of them, I hope he can still do well without that net.
08-10-05 | 12:49 AM
#11
DVD Talk Legend
Originally Posted by Dr. DVD
It will be interesting to see how Sam Mendes can do without Conrad Hall as his D.P. The cinematography of his last two movies contributed greatly to my enjoyment of them, I hope he can still do well without that net.
08-10-05 | 08:30 AM
#13
DVD Talk Legend
Agree about the writing for AB. However, Road to Perdition's appeal was almost 90% in the way it was shot. Almost every frame could have passed for a painting in the film.
08-11-05 | 04:26 AM
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are you guys judging this on the presumption that "welcome to the suck" is exploiting popular internet vernacular? my understanding is that "the suck" is cold war era slang for the marine corp... as in FTS, or "fuck the suck".
no, i'm right...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps
no, i'm right...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps
08-11-05 | 10:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Cygnet74
are you guys judging this on the presumption that "welcome to the suck" is exploiting popular internet vernacular? my understanding is that "the suck" is cold war era slang for the marine corp... as in FTS, or "fuck the suck".
no, i'm right...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps
no, i'm right...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps
08-11-05 | 12:31 PM
#20
Originally Posted by Cygnet74
are you guys judging this on the presumption that "welcome to the suck" is exploiting popular internet vernacular? my understanding is that "the suck" is cold war era slang for the marine corp... as in FTS, or "fuck the suck".
no, i'm right...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps
no, i'm right...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps
08-11-05 | 01:06 PM
#21
DVD Talk Hero
I kind of like the tag-line myself.
Anyhow - I've been waiting to see this for over a year. Love that one-sheet, too.
Anyhow - I've been waiting to see this for over a year. Love that one-sheet, too.
