Rip-Off of A Classic

Rating: 1/10 (19 April 2006)

Did you ever get the feeling that Hollywood has just been rehashing and updating the same movie over and over again? Well Jarhead proves it. For all the people that have called this a modern day Full Metal Jacket, you are right. Very right. Word for word in at least five parts this movie "borrowed" lines from FMJ. I mean seriously, is this their idea of paying homage to one of the best war movies ever made, by ripping it off? Maybe Swofford never thought it would get turned into a movie so he didn't mind plagiarizing in his book, thinking no one would ever see it. Or maybe just maybe its a sign that filmmakers are scared. They are scared to try new and exciting ideas or stories. I'm not saying all of them, but the majority would rather just repackage old films and hope to god that we have never seen them before, so you wont catch their lack of creativity, which this movie has pouring out of its butt. Don't waste your time. Watch FMJ instead, at least its ideas were original.