NEW Full JARHEAD Trailer Online!

By Charley October 10, 2005 11:36 AM

Jarhead tells the story of a marine's journey through boot camp to the Gulf War battlefield and is based on the memoir by Anthony Swifford.  Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Skarsgaard, and Jamie Foxx star. Could "Jarhead" be the "Full Metal Jacket" of a new generation? Come decide for yourself.

The film is directed by Sam Mendes of "American Beauty" and "Road to Perdition" fame.

"Jarhead" is due out this November.

See the trailer!

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Jake Glennehall   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on October 12, 2005 4:38 PM

I Love Jake Glennehall from Day After Tommorow, But i despise Jamie Foxx. Somebody help me decide if i sould see dis or not

RE: Jake Glennehall   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on October 13, 2005 8:53 PM

Well, you seem illiterate, so you should probably steer clear of movies that require... thinking.  So no, don't go see dis.

RE: Jake Glennehall   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on October 14, 2005 3:05 AM

ooooh, handbags at dawn ladies! sam mendes is a god, it looks hot.

looks good   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on October 18, 2005 8:35 AM

im currently a active duty marine and i cant wait untill the movie comes out. i guess i can relate to it alot better. but jaimie foxx looks like he doesnt do that bad of a part

he tried to get in my sisters pants   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on October 18, 2005 12:22 PM

the dude that wrote this book (now a movie)tried to sleep with my sister.

RE: Jake Glennehall   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on October 18, 2005 3:17 PM

Ure a kid posting in an R-rated film eh govner?

Black SuperStars   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on October 24, 2005 12:10 PM

what a joke

RE: he tried to get in my sisters pants   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on October 26, 2005 3:26 AM

Are you serious, omg!

Yeah I don't think so   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on October 29, 2005 9:40 AM

Active Duty marine infantryman here, Purple heart recipient during the  Siege of Fallujah.  

I won't be seeing this drivel written by a sobbing sissy.

Jarhead   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on October 30, 2005 8:54 PM

think this movie is going to be good +the jesus walkes song fits rite into the beat of the film

RE: Yeah I don't think so   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 1, 2005 9:35 AM

I know what you are thinking about it and I don't think you see the point. I think it is our job to go. I am part of the Foreign Military Training Unit and I wanna know if they got the story somewhat right.

RE: Jake Glennehall   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 3, 2005 10:21 AM

before deciding whether you should see it or not you should stop talking like an idiotl.  the word is THIS not DIS

RE: Jake Glennehall   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 3, 2005 5:57 PM

I'm just worried because MOST of the movies coming out of Hollywood are very left wing and try very hard to make the military look evil.  They do a good job of hiding it, but it's almost always there, depending on who is involved in the movie.  Jamie Foxx is a great actor and I'm sure he does the part justice.

RE: Jake Glennehall   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 3, 2005 6:16 PM

Here is a very interesting review of the book.  I think this review is a must read.  

I roomed with Tony for a year or so. I was not with him in STA plt during the Gulf war, I was there with G 2/7 2nd Plt. I hooked up with STA 2/7 after the war. Tony is a nice enough guy and even then he had ambitions of becoming a teacher. Tony had fun off duty,he loved playing sports, drinking and finding girls to chase. The war as he knew it is represented as he saw it, or remembers it.
My failing memory does not serve me well here. I do know that the war itself was an intense 3-4 days that has since faded to nothing in the light of the current conflict. I read this book in Iraq in 2003. I remembered a lot about Tony. This book is about him and his view of what happened during his time in the Corp. I agree with many other reviewers that a lot is hyped and some stuff was fabricated. I can say that a lot of what he talks about happened but not perhaps as he remembered it.
Tony was not a school trained sniper. He spent very little time with a line company before testing and making STA platoon. The discipline problems in the platoon, when I got there in late 91 were serious. There was a lot of scavenging in the 1st Gulf war and it was rumored, and talked about in the battalion, regards STA stealing engines from the army for our battalion's broken vehicles, in the 6 month wait in Saudi Arabia before the war.
We did have issues with morale in 2/7 during the Gulf War as over 80% of the battalion had just got out of boot camp, it was a real problem. But for every issue in that Battalion there were answers in the NCO leadership and people stepping up to the plate to get the job done. The whining in the book is excessive, and Tony had a tendency then, to do that.
The book is less about combat than it is about a young man trying to find himself, and this included the embellishments with it. To put this thing in perspective the gulf war was nothing compared to the 24/7 combat operations that are going on in Iraq and Afganistan now. For every Swafford there is a lot more squared away Marines who really believe in what they are doing, who are bleeding and dying for each other and their country.
The book is a confirmation to all liberals of their world view of the Marine Corp and our countries mission as being floored. It is a sad work for any Marine who is and remains faithful to God Country and Corp.
I do not deny Tony's right to pen the book. Marines and others are dying to give him that right. He says he has earned it, and he has earned the right to say anything he wants. With that comes the slings and arrows of protest from others who disagree.
The definitive book on the Gulf War awaits its author. This is not it. It was war as he knew it, not as it is, or was. Tony made it where he wanted to be, a professor and writer. He is making money from this thing, with the war going on, a continuation of the 3 day war he never got to fire a round in.
I did not like the book and I can't recommend it. Tony has issues, the book is his liberal agenda.

RE: Jake Glennehall   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 3, 2005 6:16 PM

Here is a very interesting review of the book.  I think this review is a must read.  

I roomed with Tony for a year or so. I was not with him in STA plt during the Gulf war, I was there with G 2/7 2nd Plt. I hooked up with STA 2/7 after the war. Tony is a nice enough guy and even then he had ambitions of becoming a teacher. Tony had fun off duty,he loved playing sports, drinking and finding girls to chase. The war as he knew it is represented as he saw it, or remembers it.
My failing memory does not serve me well here. I do know that the war itself was an intense 3-4 days that has since faded to nothing in the light of the current conflict. I read this book in Iraq in 2003. I remembered a lot about Tony. This book is about him and his view of what happened during his time in the Corp. I agree with many other reviewers that a lot is hyped and some stuff was fabricated. I can say that a lot of what he talks about happened but not perhaps as he remembered it.
Tony was not a school trained sniper. He spent very little time with a line company before testing and making STA platoon. The discipline problems in the platoon, when I got there in late 91 were serious. There was a lot of scavenging in the 1st Gulf war and it was rumored, and talked about in the battalion, regards STA stealing engines from the army for our battalion's broken vehicles, in the 6 month wait in Saudi Arabia before the war.
We did have issues with morale in 2/7 during the Gulf War as over 80% of the battalion had just got out of boot camp, it was a real problem. But for every issue in that Battalion there were answers in the NCO leadership and people stepping up to the plate to get the job done. The whining in the book is excessive, and Tony had a tendency then, to do that.
The book is less about combat than it is about a young man trying to find himself, and this included the embellishments with it. To put this thing in perspective the gulf war was nothing compared to the 24/7 combat operations that are going on in Iraq and Afganistan now. For every Swafford there is a lot more squared away Marines who really believe in what they are doing, who are bleeding and dying for each other and their country.
The book is a confirmation to all liberals of their world view of the Marine Corp and our countries mission as being floored. It is a sad work for any Marine who is and remains faithful to God Country and Corp.
I do not deny Tony's right to pen the book. Marines and others are dying to give him that right. He says he has earned it, and he has earned the right to say anything he wants. With that comes the slings and arrows of protest from others who disagree.
The definitive book on the Gulf War awaits its author. This is not it. It was war as he knew it, not as it is, or was. Tony made it where he wanted to be, a professor and writer. He is making money from this thing, with the war going on, a continuation of the 3 day war he never got to fire a round in.
I did not like the book and I can't recommend it. Tony has issues, the book is his liberal agenda.

RE: Jake Glennehall   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 3, 2005 6:18 PM

The above review was copied from amazon.com

RE: Jake Glennehall   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on January 14, 2006 5:30 AM

its Jake Gyllenhaal, not Glennehall

jarhead   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on December 31, 2006 6:09 PM

hell,i was a jarhead in the gulf war a scout sniper in fact and it was nothing like was swaff depicted