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From what I've been told, this movie is a total misrepresentation of the Marine Corps. One guy said that his higher-up once told him "Guys, don't do anything stupid, because when it goes on the news, they won't say your name, but they will say "Marine".

Swofford was a whiner not to mention did he commit various crimes in his short stint in the service such as larsony when he sold MRE's to a surplus store every few weeks for $80.00.

With that said, you can't really expect a very accurate movie with the total idiot Jamie Foxx as Swofford (though it's a fitting role), along with Kayne "George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People" West as the theme song writer.

While the dicking around while bored may be true, the whining etc is not...

Don't give any money to these greedy movie bastards, instead, donate it to your local VFW chapter or anything.

What you said about the corps really offends me on a personal level.

Especially after I worked my ass off on MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON to load up many military vehicles onto trailers for a PARADE tommorow.

Seriously guy, why don't you go and jump in a raging river or crash your car into a brick wall or something.

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I really hope it portrays the book. I will try and convince someone to go see it with me, I hate going to the movies alone, having to do all the handwork yourself is just so tiresome biggrin_o.gif

Maybe changing your attitude will make you a more likeable person and you won't have to try to convince people to go with you to movies.

Jerk.

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With that said, you can't really expect a very accurate movie with the total idiot Jamie Foxx as Swofford (though it's a fitting role), along with Kayne "George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People" West as the theme song writer.

Jamie Foxx isn't Swafford but Staff Sgt. Sykes in the movie. I heard that it is not a bad movie but ranges from ok to good. I will wait for it to come out on DVD like I did for <s>Joseph Goebbels'</s>* Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11.

<span style='font-size:4pt;line-height:100%'>(j/k on the Joseph Goebbels thing! )</span>

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Quote[/b] ]While the dicking around while bored may be true, the whining etc is not...

All my experience comes from ferrying around British Infantry who hold a bloody superb record of capabilty. I will explain to you a few traits of the average infantry as you seem to have little clue.

>They bitch and moan like little schoolgirls.

>They have a very very sick sense of humour.

>They have a lot of comradery.

>They are very immature.

>Most of them are ill educated.

For example:

An Infantry pub game called 'speckle' is a drinking game where they place a nice fresh shit between 2 beer mats, the person who loses the drinking game in any way then has to slam the two beer mats together creating a lovely new decor. Those who gets least covered in shit then have to pay a forfeit of some kind. Truly disgusting.

Being in the Infantry is a fucking awful job and it takes a lot of character to actually make something of it. The British infantry show massive immaturity at all times, act like wankers and basically cause trouble. If you stick em in battle they instill solid fear into the enemy and prevail 9/10 times.

Quote[/b] ]What you said about the corps really offends me on a personal level.

I cannot help but laugh.

Well if you aspire to join the marines when you are old enough you need to learn to take it all in your stride. You need to develop a thick skin because if you go in as a blue eyed little virgin brimming with ideals and middle class values you ain't going to have fun. You are going to be showering with an arse bandit pretty soon.

A Military's purpose and profession is to exterminate life, as psycotic people make it their purpose of existence and exercise it as if it was a profession.

I don't resent organisations that kill people, I was part of one. Killing is part of our developed values and partly instinctive and everyone has to accept that is how it is. However I do resent civilians abusing the usage of Military force for perverted means.

I also resent killing as a whole and wish to see it ended via better communications and education. Ain't never gonna happen though because there are too many people like you.

On a personal note, I really love having these little highlights in my day, they give me a little giggle and speed up the entire process of waiting to die.

Thankyou for being so naive! inlove.gif

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I also resent killing as a whole and wish to see it ended via better communications and education. Ain't never gonna happen though because there are too many people like you.

Also naÄve to be a pessimist like you... wink_o.gif

Thank you for being so naive too!

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That is ENOUGH.

By far you people have gone beyond making a point and are making everything personal.

I was hoping that this forum would allow me to try and understand the viewpoints of people from different nations in a peaceful and respectful manner.

But so far all I've seen is jingoism and patriotic flag waving stuck between the lines to achieve nothing but to piss the other party off. Not in this thread, but in many. The innuendo, the hidden messages, the tiny little inklings of an insult in order to make sure that the other people around you feel smaller.

This thread I ask to be closed and locked away forever. The fact that some of these members cannot discuss a movie without going to personal insults and childish mannerisms  is downright disgusting.

Over and over the only thing that is accomplished in many threads on this forum is to be drag every discussion down to a personal contest over who has the larger vocabularly and internet website links. Everyone should be ashamed of themselves for conducting not in the matter of adults, but children.

Get over it. All of you. Don't like what you see, ignore it. It's a forum, and there is not obligation to throw your own weight around to show who's better or who's the boss. If you FEEL that you have to respond, or have a vendetta against another member, then LEAVE IT out of the threads and use the Personal Message system.

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Mr Necromancer we only have history and past experiences as a basis for predictions of future human development.

Being cynical and negative is not being naive, it is simply repeat conditioning from what has been learned from history and past experiences.

The only way I can possibly see a realistic movement to peace is to accept internet communications and socialisation as an acceptable form. At the moment it is shunned by society to have 'online friends'. However if we all have friends on the internet in places like Iran, North Korea and the Congo then people will be less likely to be persuaded into voting pro-war.

Communications is the way forward, because once you know someone you are less likely to want to see them dead in most cases. I always stress that online friends are just as valid as real friends in many dimensions, made a lot more real by expanded use of webcams and voice comms.

However the unfortunate situation is that countries like Iran will only get such communication devices widespread via equalisation of income, which is something that strangely capitalistic values oppose. Another convenient coincidence.

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Could have sworn this thread was about a movie, crazy.

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