Jarhead (2005)

Okay, so I was kind of glad I didn't see this at the movies, though I wanted to at the time. It wasn't "my" kind of movie. Though I did find it very interesting. I thought it was filmed incredibly, the way it was shot, the colors, the fires in the desert. It truly made me feel (uncomfortably so) that i was really there. However, it just reminded me of how crazy war really is. I can't imagine anyone that goes through that kind of situation, ever comes out unchanged. I know that just watching it, made me feel crazy. Some of the scenes were just really out there, with a manic like feeling. It was done really well. Jamie Foxx was especially good as his role as the Staff Sargeant. My favorite guy was surpisingly not Jake Gyllenhall (which was the reason I wanted to see this movie) but instead, was Peter Saarsgard (spelling??) I am thinking he really transforms for his roles. Even though he can't do much to change his apperance....he never seems the same to me. He is really very talented and it made me want to run out and start renting movies of his that I haven't seen yet. Overall, if you can handle war type movies, I thought this was one of the better ones I have seen. It makes you kind of uneasy when you see how "important" the oil really is over there, how important it is to "us" as americans. It definetly made me want to go out and buy a hybrid. There was a scene when they were in the desert and a horse comes wandering over to Jake Gyllenhalls character, and the animal was just slick with oil covering him...and it was just so sad and such an amazing scene. Very telling. So I guess it was worth watching.