Demeaning, degrading and demoralizing

Rating: 1/10 (6 November 2005)

Jarhead shows what contempt Hollywood has for our military. It portrays our noble Marine Corps as a misguided bunch of pigs, slobs,and self-centered cry-babies. When one Marine doesn't get to kill someone, he is subordinate to a superior, then cries and bangs his head against a wall. Guys talk to each other as if in a soap-opera rather than a war, and Sam Mendes did everything he could to degrade and demean our Marines.
How such trash ever made it to the screen in the first place is a mystery, but based on most of the reviews I have seen, it is just the kind of garbage Americans are looking for. What a sad commentary for us as a nation. That such rot is shown during a time of war is a disgrace.
I was tremendously disappointed in this movie.