Jarhead

""Every war is different. Every war is the same." says the voiceover narration in the closing moments of Jarhead. The same is necessarily true about war movies and war books which this movie was originally and a bestseller at that. I think that this being the personal story of a soldier makes for an easy comparison to All Quiet on the Western Front and Catch22 which it most definitely attempts imitation in terms of it's irreverent humor and irony. So what is different about this movie is not really what but where and let me say that the dessert imagery complete with burning oil fields is pretty cool. Lastly, Jamie Fox is one bad ass negro