Jarhead - Trailer

Jarhead - Trailer - Medium

I really liked enjoyed the book 'Jarhead', so I was interested to see they had made a film of it.

It's got a great cast and looks like a film I will go to see. However I worry that the film will only capture the entertaining and funny aspects of the book and might miss the gritty realism so well communicated in the book.

I read the book a good while ago now, but I seem to remember the book giving an incredibly real feeling of what it must be like to be thrown into a warzone. Despite seeing very little action, from what I remember, the book describes the inability to prepare for a warzone, the insane orders that come down from the top, equipment that is unsuitable for the environment, no understanding of geography or culture of the area, and the generally scary reality that these are not altogether the brightest sparks who have been let loose in another country with firearms and little or no understanding of objectives...