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Originally Posted by Heibges
Jarhead - amazingly almost the same story as Naked and the Dead. A long patrol which ends in a mission that is not completed. This memoir/movie shows really how far we have come since WWII. Instead of the Marines being racist and mysogenistic, they are only mysogenistic. You've come a long way baby.
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I've seen Jarhead, witzh high expectations, for I red the book before. The book was disgustin due to the frank and open language, and this probably is what makes it so impressive, and honest. A good book, but due to the harsh language certainly not to be used in school classes: this is no high art of literature. The movie in no way does justice to the book, the characters are lifeless, the stories and incidents got massively glossed over, the details get mentioned but leave you uninterested, it all is very sterile, the sharp teeths got left out. I scored it as one of the worst war movies i know. Book: yes, movie: no.
Since you mentioned that Norman Mailer novel, you probably would like James Jones' novel which the movie of Thin Red Line is based upon. I find the movie more impressive, since it leads beyond the book, but for itself, the novel is outstanding. Maybe I would see it different if I had read the book before the movie, but so, the movie put a spell on me first.
novel:
http://www.amazon.com/Thin-Red-Line-...3330823&sr=8-2
movie:
http://www.amazon.com/Thin-Red-Line-...3331034&sr=8-1