November 05, 2005
Joyner on the Military in Movies
Apparently, Jarhead is nearly as bad as a lot of us feared it would be. Very little verissimilitude for anyone who's ever served in the armed forces—much less a veteran of the first Gulf War such as Joyner. In the comments section, James is challenged to come up with military movies that are true to real-life experience in uniform. Naturally, Band of Brothers gets raves—but of course one of the reasons it's so successful is that it takes eight hours (or was it ten?) to tell its story. There's a lot of time to capture some of the varied experiences of the men in the 101st Airborne.
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We need more people who have actually served writing stories about the military; as it is, what we're given is too far off the mark.
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There's no way Hollywood is going to make a movie about heroic US soldiers in the Mideast. And since no producer or writer or director has ever met a US servicemember, how could they? The MSM's only interest in soldiers is dead ones
Posted by: beautifulatrocities at November 05, 2005 12:23 PM (yOYjQ)
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That's not true! They are also intersted in ones that treat prisoners badly, or kill innocents by mistake, or kill bystanders on purpose. Or people who were somehow duped into serving under false pretenses.
All members of the armed forces are either brutal killers, or innocent victims. Don't you know anything?
P.S. None of them--the violent, evil ones, or the misguided, good ones--are very smart. There's a "maximum I.Q." of 100 to get into the military. And no one in entertainment or media is dim enough to qualify!
Posted by: Attila Girl at November 05, 2005 01:32 PM (x3SIT)
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