Funny story, my friend in high school was obsessed with that movie. I liked guns and airsoft and he used to rope me into playing paintball with him. We went and saw jarhead in theaters along with his brother that was in the national guard...it was awkward after the movie. I don't think either of them had ever seen an anti-war movie in their life and this was the height of the gwot.

[–] towhee@hexbear.net 53 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

jarhead isn't even that anti-war, it's just like "war is a lot of boredom and shit work and any individual's contribution to it is negligible" aka a modicum of realism instead of cawlladuty operators bravely massacring hordes of [racial slurs omitted]

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah but that's the mindset my friend had, he wanted operator shit.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 25 points 2 weeks ago

Every one of these operators types that went to Ukraine either got blown up or came scurrying back as fast as they could the millisecond they realized they were in for an actual war