Okay, so I watched this while babysitting, and the kids loved it. I thought it was infantile with an unlikaeble lead and a bunch of mostly unpleasant kids. His best friend is sweet but fairly two-dimensional. Chloe Moretz lights up my world but isn't given much to do. It's mostly just...it's dealing with that transition from child to teenager, so they're at a pretty difficult age, but they main kid is so awful you just don't side with him at all.

I don't know why they don't make good kids' movies for this age group like they used to.

Jarhead was really well acted, written and directed, but the thing about Jarhead is that it achieves its aims too well. The aim of the movie is to show how boring, frustrating and ultimately fruitless the first Gulf war was. The film has the effect of leaving you bored and frustrated, which is not the best thing to be when watching a movie.

Still, the stuff of the oil falling from the sky and the bombs dropping around Jake is fantastic and Jake himself gets naked a lot and is beautiful. Peter Sarsgaard is great, of course, and Jamie Foxx is terrific too.