Jars

Friday November 4, 2005 - 3:15PM EDT

So I read this review of Jarhead that says it is a war movie without a war. The reviewer is looking for a "war movie" and can't find it. What a loser. I haven't seen the movie but that review tells me all I need to know about that clown's movie watching. He is not reviewing the movie. He is reviewing the movie he wants to see. Why do some of these reviewers do this. They write they're reviews based on such strong pre-concieved molds of genres. Then in the review itself they fess up to the fact that the movie is not what they are looking for but continue to based their review on their imaginary movie. I'm trying to think of the few short reviews I wrote. I hope I didn't do that. I don't think I did. I try to look for what the movie is trying to accoplish and compare it against that. Not against a rigid pre-concieved notion I have of what the movie should be. What the hell am I talking about. I'm hungry. I'll go see Jarhead this weekend probably.

Been reading reviews and all the bad ones are the same. They are looking for the hollywood war pic of blowing shit up and ultra-violence. Never been to war but somehow that picture of war is only part of the story. Especially modern wars. The bad reviewers call the movie uninteresting because there is no political rhetoric or tons of fight scenes. I have a feeling I am going to really like this movie. It will be another one of those thinking man's movies. I like that.

When the grim realities of war and destruction finally set in for Swoff and company when they come upon a charred-up Iraqi squad that has been bombed,- full article

There is the perfect example of this reviewers mindset. This is the mindset of someone who only sees the war picture painted by media and movies. The grim realities are not just the bombing and killing it is also the waiting, the sitting around doing nothing most of the time. This assclown thinks war is all bang bang boom non-stop. What a loser. Read the rest of the review and see the picture of "real-life" this clown has. His "real-life" is a fantasy world. This clown also laments that the soldiers aren't injected with opinion about the war. I imagine that when your at war you probably could care less about the war and just want to go home.

Also I don't think very many people realize that Jamie Foxx took this role before he won the oscar. So questions surrounding that are just ignorant to the situation. Only reason I realized that was saw Jamie Foxx on an interview with Charlie Rose last night and they went over how he took this role before winning the oscar.