[cwiz24]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but did this guy just compare himself to Sartre? Hollywood needs to get over itself.

[Rummyfan]

"In America, they assumed I was trying to make an Oliver Stone movie and that I'd failed."

What could possibly be worse than a failed attempt at an Oliver Stone movie, which by definition is a failure itself?

Speaking of Stone, didn't he say something to the same effect concerning ALEXANDER and why it was such a flop?

[oblomov]

Another loser blaming his failures on his customers.

And how can he claim that a movie that depicts "the frivolousness of war" does not declare what side it's on?

[elli1]

"Fundamentally, Jarhead disobeys all the laws of American movies,...

Starting with the 'Know your audience' law, apparently.

[Niteranger68]

Oscar-winning film director Sam Mendes claims American viewers don't understand his new movie Jarhead as well as Europeans

Translation? Stupid Americans!

[cwiz24]

The movie based on the novel Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by Anthony Swofford, and focuses on the frivolousness of war, rather than the glory - something Mendes feels Americans don't grasp.

Yeah right. Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, and Platoon were all about the 'glory' of war.

[Fenris6]

Former Marine here who refuses to see Jarhead b/c its just more propaganda to demean our soldiers. Screw him and his stupid movie.

[A.A. Cunningham]

A concept Mendes doesn't grasp - direct-to-video

[Pro-Bush]

i saw this movie on HBO last night and it was a piece of shit movie. Don't watch it, it will disgust you. Liberal views were the only views expressed. Pissed me off bigtime.