Jarhead

[modage]

[Stefen]

What reviewers review line is that on the poster? Knowles?

[Pubrick]

What reviewers review line is that on the poster? Knowles?

i think that's the tagline.

and it's sort of stolen from FMJ: In Vietnam The Wind Doesn't Blow It Sucks

[72teeth]

i think that's the tagline.

or an unused/future banner

[NEON MERCURY]

so far mendes doesnt know how to fuck up a film...so, i owe him to see this on opening day......i am not all that excited b/c jamie foxx is ghey and jake gylehnhanllel is a loser......but sarsgaard and cooper own........

[MacGuffin]

Trailer here.

Release Date: November 4th, 2005 (wide)

Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal (Anthony Swofford), Jamie Foxx (Sgt. Siek), Peter Sarsgaard (Troy), Chris Cooper (Lt Col Kazinski), Lucas Black (Kuhn), Brian Geraghty (Fergus), Travis Aaron (Payne), Laz Alonso (Escobar), Evan Jones (Fowler), Travis Aaron (Payne), Peter Gail (Doc John), Ivan Fenyo, Jacob Vargas

Director: Sam Mendes (Road to Perdition, American Beauty)

Screenwriter: William Broyles (The Polar Express, Cast Away)

Based Upon: Based on the book "Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles" by Anthony Swofford, a memoir of Operation Desert Storm.

Premise: Jarhead (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows "Swoff" (Gyllenhaal), a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through Middle East deserts with no cover from intolerable heat or from Iraqi soldiers, always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they don't understand against an enemy they can't see for a cause they don't fully fathom. Foxx portrays Sergeant Sykes, a Marine lifer who heads up Swofford's scout/sniper platoon, while Sarsgaard is Swoff's friend and mentor, Troy, a die-hard member of STA-their elite Marine Unit.

[meatwad]

was anybody else laughing during this trailer?

[72teeth]

Right on, ive been waiting for someone to properly film those flame gysers (not sure what they're actually called) Look like Mendes did a good job.

[killafilm]

What were they thinking with the music? Kanye is good and all, but it really didn't fit for me.  Yeah, it's only a trailer, but umm ewww.

Why didn't they go with something from the early 90s?

[modage]

yeah the rap is sort of bad in the trailer but this will still rule.

[ᾦɐļᵲʊʂ]

I've noticed trailers aren't very indicative of the quality of the movie.

[RegularKarate]

I thought the song fit well... rythmically at least...

Picking something from the 90s would have been too predictable.

[pete]

the only proper place kanye belongs to is the trailer.  his songs suck.
but I predict the film will contain more or less the same predictable indictments against the war but to double back on you with sincerity in the end, if american beauty was any indication.

[Pubrick]

only one question remains: can roger deakins save his ass?

[Redlum]

only one question remains: can roger deakins save his ass?

Mendes' Ass?

I dont think it needs saving but a few of the shots in the trailer are some of the best scope compositions I've seen for a while.