5.7

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

2008, USA, Czech Republic

• Actors: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Byung-hun Lee, Sienna Miller, Rachel Nichols, Ray Park, Jonathan Pryce, Saïd Taghmaoui, Channing Tatum, Arnold Vosloo, Marlon Wayans, Dennis Quaid, Grégory Fitoussi, Leo Howard, Karolina Kurkova, David Murray, Kevin J. O'Connor, Gerald Okamura, Brandon Soo Hoo, Chris Akers, Fabrice Baral, Michael Benyaer, Peter Breitmayer, Michael Broderick, Elena Evangelo, Mark Hames, Jacques Frantz, Wayne Lopez, Kellie Matteson
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): Stephen Sommers
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Two soldiers stationed in Kazahkstan (Captain Duke Hauser and his partner "Ripcord") are ordered to transport special warheads created by MARS, an arms' manufacturer controlled by James McCullen. When they are attacked by thieves (led by Anastasia DeCobray, with whom Duke has history), they are saved by a top secret, international special forces unit known as "G.I. Joe". The leader of G.I. Joe, General Abernathy (or Hawk) is on the trail of the thieves: an evil organization called "Cobra". While Duke and Ripcord train to join the Joes, McCullen ("Destro") is secretly working for Cobra and plotting to recapture his metal-eating "Nanomite" warheads. Duke and Ripcord (with help from Heavy Duty, Snake Eyes, and the rest of the Joes) must prove that they are Real American Heroes -- by stopping the launch of these warheads before Cobra uses them to take over the world.

  7.1

Jarhead

2004, Germany, USA

• Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Scott MacDonald, Peter Sarsgaard, Jamie Foxx, Lo Ming, Lucas Black, Kevin Foster, Brian Geraghty, Damion Poitier, Riad Galayini, Craig Coyne, Katherine Randolph, Rini Bell, Dendrie Taylor, James Morrison, Arman Zajic, Brianne Davis, Brian Casey, Ernest Ozuna, Tyler Sedustine, Jacob Vargas, Laz Alonso, Jocko Sims, Jonathon R. Mize, Joel Prato, Kristin Richardson, Iván Fenyö, Peter Gail, Jamie Martz, Evan Jones
• Genre: Biography, Drama, War
• Director(s): Sam Mendes
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Anthony "Swoff" Swofford, a Camus-reading kid from Sacramento, enlists in the Marines in the late 1980s. He malingers during boot camp, but makes it through as a sniper, paired with the usually-reliable Troy. The Gulf War breaks out, and his unit goes to Saudi Arabia for Desert Shield. After 175 days of boredom, adrenaline, heat, worry about his girlfriend finding someone else, losing it and nearly killing a mate, demotion, latrine cleaning, faulty gas masks, and desert football, Desert Storm begins. In less than five days, it's over, but not before Swoff sees burned bodies, flaming oil derricks, an oil-drenched horse, and maybe a chance at killing. Where does all the testosterone go?