I know its old now but we just watched Jarhead.
One mans tour as a marine ,good movie.
Great acting,and a different view of desert storm .
I give it 7 1/2 out of 10
DS, didn't see the movie, I heard mix reviews mostly on the negative side. Here are some military or war movies that I think you'll like.
1) Sand Peebles, with Steve Mcqueen. Oldie but Goodie. I can relate to Steve's character in the movie to some extent. Very sad ending.
2) Full metal Jacket, can't remember whos in it. If I recall the first part of the movie is about Marine Corp Boot Camp, pretty intense. The second part of the movie, I was totally disappointed.
3) Platoon, director Olive Stone. Excellent movie, some say its too politcal. I liked it alot. It showed the politics that goes on in a platoon, fairly accurate. Great story line. Sad a times.
4)Of course, Private Ryan with Tom Hanks. Excellent Omaha Beach action in the beginning. If you watch closely, Hanks while pinned down on the beach, calls for a (combat) engineer to take out some constantena wire with a bangalore torpedo. That s what I did in the Corp. The life expectancy for a combat engineer is but a few seconds when the fire fight starts. Anyhow a bangalore toredo( b.p.) is basically a five foot section of pvc(actually its light steel or aluminum) pipe,roughly 2 inches in dia and packed with C-4(plastic like explosive) more like clay it can be molded and shaped to whatever you want. There are about 8 5 ft sections in a box, with one dumby one for the nose. What you did was shove each section through the barrier(wire, wood and mines) like a snake, connecting each 5 ft section to the other and push it on through to the end of the barrier. The dummby five foot nose section located on the front was in case you hit a land mine. So, you really had to make sure you had the dummy and not a live one on the nose. Anything can happen in combat.
Then you put a blasting cap on the end and let her rip with a time fuse. Get the hell out of there. When it blows it usually makes a path 3 feet wide and about a foot deep. Just enough for the infantry to go through. Well, that s it for now .
