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LOST BOYS.(Jarhead)(The Weather Man)(Movie Review)
"Jarhead," which is based on Anthony Swofford's 2003 memoir of the Gulf War, gets under way with a standard scene of boot-camp training. Tony Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal), a young Marine recruit, screams "Sir! Yes, sir!" as a drill instructor curses him out and slams him around. That noisy tyrant is an old acquaintance. In American movies, the drill instructor--unreasonable, unfathomable, louder than a public-address system--has become a comic staple, a licensed foulmouth who would probably disappoint moviegoers if he weren't so hammily outrageous. Tony survives, and passes into the hands of his next tormentor, Staff Sergeant Sykes (Jamie Foxx), the head of the special ...
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