Generation Kill

definitely

Hell yeah.

For being written by a liberal Rolling Stone reporter, it was pretty damn good. I've read the book and seen the mini serie two or three times from reruns. There is a few parts Evan Wright gives his opinion of the war. But for the most part, he gives an accurate detail of what it was like riding with Marines during the intial push on Baghdad. After I saw the movie I read LT Fick's book "One Bullet Away". Pretty good read as well.

The dialog is hilarious. My favorite character was the driver who wore the elvis glasses.

Yes. Worth watching.

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worth watching?

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hell yes. Probably the highlight of the summer of 2008. And once you watch the series you will want to read every book you can find to continue getting to know the characters.

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The dialog is hilarious. My favorite character was the driver who wore the elvis glasses.

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What about where the reservists put bull horns on front of a Humvee and go AWOL?

Not sure if that part made the movie.

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Dear Frederick, thank you for your nice letter, but I am actually a US Marine who was born to kill, whereas clearly you seam to have mistaken me for some sort of wine sipping, communist dick suck. And although peace probably appeals to tree hugging bi-sexuals like you and your parents, I happen to be a death-dealing, blood-crazed warrior who wakes up every day just hoping for the chance to dismember my enemies and defile their civilizations. Peace sucks a hairy a-hole, Freddy. War is the mother-fricking answer.

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Cpl. Ray Person: Look at this shite, how come we can't ever invade a cool country, like chicks in bikinis, you know, how come counties like that don't ever need Marines, I'll tell you why, it's lack of pussy that fricks countries up, lack of pussy is the root fricking cause of all global instability, if more hajis were getting quality pussy, there'd be no reason for us to come over and frick em up like this, cause a nutbusting haji, is a happy haji.
Sgt. Brad 'Iceman' Colbert: Ray, how much ripped fuel have you ingested.
Cpl. Ray Person: I'm on it like a mother fricker Brad, haha!...
Sgt. Brad 'Iceman' Colbert: Well, no more of that shite...
Evan 'Scribe' Wright: An interesting theory though.
Cpl. Ray Person: Yeah, yeah, you should quote me on it, you know what, you should definitely quote me on it, this whole thing comes down to pussy! Look, if you take the Republican Guard and comp their asses for a week in Vegas, no fricking war!
Evan 'Scribe' Wright: So the war is not about oil or WMDs.
Cpl. Ray Person: No, in the opinion of this Marine, its about pussy.
Evan 'Scribe' Wright: And its not about Saddam.
Cpl. Ray Person: No, Saddam is just part of the problem, if Saddam invested more in the pussy infrastructure of Iraq than he did in his fricking gay arse army, then this country would be no more fricked up than say, Mexico.
Sgt. Brad 'Iceman' Colbert: Ray, please shut up... thank you.

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I find this funny since I know most of them.

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what I'm talking about is there are other books written that explain some of the disdain for certain characters like Encino Man and the Sgt. Major to name a few.

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such as? Fick's book is the only one I know of.

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Yeah, One Bullet Away is the one I'm talking about. Fick explains quite a bit about other characters as well as his experience with a lot of the marines from Gen Kill in Afghanistan.....and what happened after Iraq. What I'm saying is after getting to see these characters in just that short time it makes you wonder about the before and after and the other book explains some of that.

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The guy who did generation kill sensationalized quite a bit. The portrayals are pretty offensive since they come across as unprofessional and often just plain dumb.

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I disagree. The portrayals were pretty much dead on according to a lot of them. Of course it's hollywood but it's one of the more consistent accounts of Iraq to date. Several of the guys have done interviews since the show premiered and gave no indication of any falsehood. As far as coming off as unprofessional and plain dumb, that's just a matter of opinion. Being embedded with a group of guys for that long and in those intense of circumstances, you are gonna see and hear a lot of shite that's on a young mans mind, it doesn't make it unprofessional, just realistic. I'm sure you served in some magnitude(prob Marines if you really know these dudes) and you should know how shite goes down. In the heat, things can get "unprofessional".

and fwiw Fick even explains in his book that Evan Wright was very accurate and reported from a different angle, not an inconsistent one, just one from a civilians eyes.