(CNN) -- "Jarhead," a ... jets with burning oil wells lighting up the ink-black desert skies. All their sacrifices have been for nothing. Quite frankly, so has the movie. Screenwriter William ...

While Jake Gyllenhaal slogs through Iraq’s burning oil fields ... the scene in which troops gun down Vietnamese from helicopters. “It’s an influential movie,” says “Jarhead” music ...

That was the tagline of Anthony Swofford’s best-selling Gulf War memoir, Jarhead ... When discussion in the movie turns to whether the war is just a bid for oil, a Marine says to his buddies ...

It's not clear whether director Sam Mendes intended, with his new movie Jarhead, to fashion a tragic ... about the implications of a war fought for oil and empire. Based on an account of the ...

From burning oil fields to bomb sites, and soldiers on the ground in Saudi Arabia, Gassner said his on-set building experiences from “Jarhead ... For one scene, Gassner had to create a ...