Jarhead

Watching a war movie was not what I thought was it going to be, a movie that was very sad in the end and slightly depressing. Within the first few minutes of watching Jarhead I was smiling or laughing.

The movie is a story of a boy, turned man named Anthony, nicknamed Tony who goes into the marines after trying to get into college failed him. It tells about how he becomes a marine and goes through training and becomes a marine sniper. It tells of how war gets announced and how he goes to war, but is stationed in the desert. All through the movie he has a girlfriend, and it shows how he is worried about his girlfriend cheating on him. The movie has a lot of humour, and shows how some guys really act with the immaturity that they show.

I thought the movie was good at the funny parts, but when the movie started to turn serious in some parts the seriousness wasn’t taken as serious as it could have been. I don’t feel like the tone was very good. The movie in general was good, and amusing, but when it tried being a bit serious, the seriousness wasn’t as genuine as it could have been. The ending didn’t make me feel a great amount of emotion to the characters, I had some friends of mine say the ending was sad, but to me it wasn’t as sad as it could have been. I just thought… he could have had worse happen? Overall in grace points* I would them 7 cookies.

(Note: Movie poster is link to IMDB & other picture is to the website)

* Grace points are how many cookies I would give the director/people in the film. If I liked the movie a lot, they get a lot of cookies, but if I don’t like it, then they might very little cookies, or I might even steal cookies from them (as in negative points).