'Jarhead' Teaser Trailer

Basq

'Jarhead' Teaser Trailer

Director: Sam Mendes
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Peter Sarsgaard, Lucas Black, Chris Cooper, Dennis Haysbert
Plot Summary: "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.

An irreverent and true account of a war that was antiseptically packaged a decade ago, "Jarhead" is laced with dark wit, honest inquisition and episodes that are at once surreal and poignant, tragic and absurd.

Definantly looking forward to this... looks fantastic!!

Kazaanova

I never check out trailers for films I havent heard about but that looks really good. Could of used a bit more dialogue though. Jamie Foxx looks great in it too.

Basq

Kazaanova wrote:

..Could of used a bit more dialogue though..

It is a teaser trailer though.. expect a theatrical trailer late September / early October with plenty of dialogue.

Kingp35

It looks like it could be ok. The teaser trailer doesnt give much away but suppose that is to be expected. I hope it doesnt turn out to be another advertising campaign movie for the american army like some more recent movies about war. Ill keep an eye out

Hugh Hefner

Bloody hell, that looks like some bastardised mix of Stealth and Full Metal Jacket!

*Shivers*

torrid

Anybody read the book of same name? Supposed to very good and if film is anyway reverent to it's source material I can't see it being a PR exercise for the US army in any way; From Publisher's Weekly:

"A witty, profane, down-in-the-sand account of the war many only know from CNN, this former sniper's debut is a worthy addition to the battlefield memoir genre. There isn't a bit of heroic posturing as Swofford describes the sheer terror of being fired upon by Iraqi troops; the elite special forces warrior freely admits wetting himself once rockets start exploding around his unit's encampment. But the adrenaline of battle is fleeting, and Swofford shows how it's in the waiting that soldiers are really made."