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Summary: Imaginative and Intriguing
Review: When a crusading chairperson of the military budget committee pressures the would be Navy secretary to begin full gender integration of the service, he offers the chance for a female trainee to join the elite Navy SEALS commando force. Lt. Jordan O'Niel (Demi Moore) is given the assignment, but no one expects her to succeed in an inhumanly punishing regime that has a standard 60% dropout rate for men. However, O'Niel is determined to prove everyone wrong. It's a story about what would happen if women were not stereotyped as weak and unable to fight, physically and mentally.
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Summary: TREZKU13 needs to check his sources.
Review: This movie is a good girl power sort of film. TREZKU13 is actually incorrect. My sister just completed SEAR/POW training. They did everything, including the simulated rape. She had black eyes, couldn't talk because they punched her in the throat, even had to kill a rabbit while there with her bare hands. Anyway, yeah, the movie does play on some stereotypes and there are some inaccuracies (i.e. you don't fight back in POW training or you're gone). Overall, it's a decent film.
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Summary: Moore or Mortensen?
Review: I can see why some people may be attracted this film because of its bursting emotions of self-determination and the overtones of sisters doing it for themselves while some people may be put off by the excessive violence. I urge any potential viewer to cast of any negative vibes. This film is a gem, indeed. It chronicles Lt. Jordan O'Neill (Demi Moore) as a test case in the US Navy for an intensive course and Master Chief John 'Jack' Urgayle (Viggo Mortensen) as her main adversary and ironically, her main source of encouragement in my view. Pros: Mortensen! Mortensen! He is so brilliant in this film! He seems very violent but there is something about his character in this film that suggests that he is quite sensitive. You can try and hate him for being a man who hits women but you just can't; he is great. Demi Moore is quite good although I felt that she didn't put in as much effort as Mortensen in terms of how she played her character. Physically she did but emotionally, she lacked the intensity that Mortensen had. There were memorable characters here such as McCool played by a young Morris Chestnut, Pyro played by Kevin Gage and James Caviezel too who played a funny role for once as Slovnik. This film contains a great performance from Anne Bancroft who plays Senator DeHaven, at first Moore's friend than swiftly backstabs her to get what she wants. Cons: I wish the script would have developed more verbal action between Mortensen and Moore. Something was lacking between the two except the thorough beatings.
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Summary: this movie blows, dont waste your time or brain cells
Review: The MP5 has a silencer but when one of the so called SEALS or CRTs?? or something fires it, it makes noise as if it does not have a silencer. And how about the training base in the movie. Last i checked the SEAL training base is in Coronado California and is called BUDs. Lets see what else... oh yeah i dont think that Navy SEAL recruits carry weapons during training the second week. The first couple of months or so is physical training culminating in hell week and if a recruit passes this, then they progress to the diving and land warfare phases. SO THEY DONT CARRY WEAPONS AT ALL DURING THE FIRST PHASE OF TRAINING!!!. Anyway obviously i dont recomend this movie because it is fake, stupid and boring and the action at the end is so confusing that i literally got up and left my apartment with the tv still on. By the way Demi Moore sucks and females have no place in the SEAls thank you
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Summary: Awful military film
Review: There are really two different bad movies in this thing. There's a horribly inaccurate military film, and there's just a bad Demi Moore film (which isn't any thing new). First there's the innacurate side to it. Commanders are the stereotype of old white men with cigars (the head of the army is a middle aged Japanese-American - end of story!). Of course, there's the uniform and equipment errors found common in most military films. Military research must have been scant because not much of it is shown here. Second, its just a bad film. Bad dialogue, predictable characters...just bad. Luckily, Ridley Scott made up for this with "Black Hawk Down." If you want a good movie about today's modern military, check that out. I'm sorry none of the characters are women, but hey - what are you gonna do?
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Summary: Extreme Motivation
Review: Pretty soon I'm going to find out if I can hang with the big boys of basic training in Cape May, NJ. I know that the U.S.C.G. is a cinch when compared to the S.E.A.L.S, but watching Demi Moore pump out those one-armed push-ups and hanging crunches is all the motivation I need to prepare myself for what's to come. Thanks, Demi!
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Summary: A Motivating Military Flick
Review: This movie, starring Demi, is an entertaing military drama that sees the first women entering America's special warfare community. The movie is fairly accurate and is just cool to watch. There's plenty of controversy and military action that will keep any movie lover in their seat, completely engrossed in the film.
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Summary: Could have been better.
Review: This movie was so bad, on so many levels. I had the most problem with Jordan's having to (choosing to) forfeit her feminity entirely in order to hang with the boys, so she could play soldier. There being no other females in the troup, except the female doctor on base, I don't really see why she wanted this so bad. I don't know, this movie just did not do it for me. There were too many contrived scenes, that just didn't click as realistic. Especially the 100 lb. Jordan dragging the 200+ lb. Master Chief to safety across the beach. If this was not a movie, and "real life", would Jordan have made it through all that ? I honestly don't think so.
And that's where the movie lost me. And the "Suck my stick !!" indeed. Give me a break. That was so incredibly stupid. I almost hate this movie. The one saving grace, (well, two actually) is watching Demi bust her ass into shape, especially the upside-down crunches (WOW); and where she shaved off all that gorgeous hair. Everything else just bored me to tears.
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Summary: Demi Moore's career falls after this movie.
Review: This movie was catastrophically damaging to Demi Moore's career as a high paid female actress. The point here was that this movie gave an image of Demi Moore as being more masculine,and an image of a man,then her feminine public image. In plain English, she lost a lot of her male fans due to this image,and still haunts her career to this day. May have contributed to her divorse with her ex-husband Bruce Willis,and her fall as a highly paid female actress.
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Summary: "G. I. Jane" Trashes American Naval Heroes
Review: Americans would like to think that strong and courageous men defend our shores. "G.I. Jane" makes the elite corps of Navy Seals look like raving lunatics. Compare it with "Fargo," which features a strong, sensitive, and intelligent American woman police investigator from America's Heartland. In "Fargo" some men actually care about their daughters, mothers, wives, and lovers. In "G. I. Jane" all the men are disgusting, crude, sadistic moronic monsters, and the women are not much better.
The writers, directors, and producers of "G. I. Jane" appear as deranged as Hannibal Lector. I fear for the safety of the cast and crew of films like these.
When watching "Fargo," I have some trust that no human beings were seriously injured or killed in the making of the film.
I think classic films like "Pride and Prejudice" and "Show Boat" with Greer Garson give women and men better feelings about themselves. The men and women overcome their mistrust of each other in most cases.
Watching "G.I. Jane" creates a sense of a hopeless divide between women and men. The characters are to a person homicidally deranged.
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