war movies go so well with heartbreak

so, i'm going to watch as many war movies as possible. and i probably won't, because i never follow through with plans like this. i could use deerhunter in my life right now, you know? maybe magnolia, too? although that last one is mostly, not all but mostly, emotional violence. anyway, the other night at the cottage I watched jarhead. that's the one about desert storm with jake gyllenhal and the guy who married his sister. i love movies about war. when ryan and i split forevs, i watched band of brothers, and while i know it's not that great and definitely overscored, i got so into it. same thing with MASH after chris and high school aaron. if you have any war movies to suggest, bring em on. just no comedies please.

so, jarhead i guess the deal is that the crewcut makes a marine's head look like a jar. and one of the shitty jobs marines that screw up have to do is drag a pot of excrement out of an outhouse and set it on fire and stir it, so horrible. there were other horrible parts, like when jake gyllenhaal's gf back home has a new guy friend who's a good listener and then he can't masturbate to her picture anymore and he's like banging his head against the bathroom stall. sometimes, like the movie where the mom humps the dad's urn, masturbation scenes are so sad.

and people die and shit gets blown up and it's your regular war movie where people do the unthinkable or freakout or whatever. i think it just kind of ended. after seeing the fighter, i really wanna see three kings again. also the village voice review of jarhead called three kings bold and messy. that sounds like me right now.