>Adam Driver recently gave a TED Talk about his challenging journey from being a Marine in the 1/1 Weapons Company, transitioning back into civilian life, and then becoming an actor who ended up playing the part of Kylo Ren in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Does his "service" excuse him for being a shitty actor?
Noah Ramirez
>tfw wanna enlist but I'm really out of shape and don't wanna embarrass myself >also scared of being away from my pupper for months at a time
Nolan Reyes
why the fuck would you want to enlist you want to go fight the war on terror racket?
James Reyes
No. Art should be a meritocracy, if you suck, you suck. Plain and simple. He sucks. He can get better, but he sucks right now
Elijah Ross
Get in shape if you really want to enlist. Serving isn't for pussies who "wanna" enlist.
Joshua Gray
Ye
What's the difference between "want to" and "wanna"?
Ryan Morales
Stop being a faggot and get fit
Noah Torres
Do you think he's able to get better, or do you think he's peaked due to cashing in on the current genre that's popular?
Ryan Thomas
>Stop being a faggot I might be able to get fit but I'll never be able to ignore my pupper feelings
Nicholas Morgan
One sounds stupid. The other is the proper pronunciation.
Mason Rivera
who is worse? adam or hayden?
ive only seen him in two things
Colton Walker
Ok
Jaxon Watson
Surprise OP! sheeple don't appreciate art and talent for it's own sake, and often have difficulty separating things that are only tangentially related to each other.
Brody Bell
What branch you wanna go in? I was army for 8 years ask me anything
Jacob Howard
Wanna isn't acceptable in written form.
Brandon Morris
>wants to enlist >is scared and fat
David Johnson
Hayden. Episode II came out 14 years ago, and his skill level as an actor is still horrendous. He was awful in American Heist.
Luis Wilson
Army
Would I get medically DQ'd for a broken finger that didn't heal right? All it means is I cant make a fist without my pinky knuckle sticking out
Only thing I'm scared of is leaving my little puppy behind at home to grow up without me
Charles Smith
I was at McDonalds and they asked if I wanted to supersize my order. I said, "King me".
Caleb Edwards
>TED TALK
You lost me there.
Anthony Gonzalez
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Wyatt Bailey
>Lena Dunham: What the fuck why have none of the women of Girls been asked to do a TED talk?
Dominic Anderson
I wouldn't even hate fuck her. God she is detestable.
Connor Johnson
Don't even tell them about it.
Ryan Russell
Dont they request your medical records in MEPS? The fact that it healed wrong isn't on record but I'm worried it'd interfere with hand to hand training or something
Robert Moore
>Would I get medically DQ'd for a broken finger that didn't heal right? Probably not, just tell your recruiter and he'll probably tell you to keep that shit to yourself
Levi Foster
>his service WHAT service? He never shipped out. He signed up, completed boot camp, then hurt himself "stunt biking" and got a discharge. >transitioning back into civilian life Wow must have been a rough 4 weeks away from home! Hope mommy made his bed and picked up his toys in that time!
Juan Peterson
Kek
Thomas Phillips
Didn't even serve and calls himself a marine. How would other marines react to this?
Andrew Jackson
The important word here is "transitioning". I believe it is our civil duty as a community to take it out of context and ponder how much of an ugly slag he would make. Also pretend to be outraged about this somehow.
John Bell
MEPS only knows what you tell them. If all it does is make your pinky crooked you should be fine
Carson Johnson
what's the quickest path to killing muzzies within the armed forces?
Isaac Morgan
But I cant punch with my right fist. That won't matter any?
Robert Young
Bullshit.
The conventional force is a bunch of fat asses, women, and faggots.
Justin Williams
It's very unlikely you'll ever be called upon to punch someone in your tour of duty. Your most likely role will be to sit in a beat up old jeep in a desert with no body armor and die to a sniper bullet or explosive gas can buried under the dirt.
Samuel Hughes
I wanna see your pupper.
Cooper Robinson
Don't fucking enlist and be a puppet the leadership gives two shits about, user.
They care so fucking much about the men risking their asses that they're now forcing them to take women and faggots with them into combat.
How pathetic is that?
Isaiah Perez
No This is the army its much more important if you can shoot. I believe they recently added combatives to basic training but its more grappling not a lot of punching
Benjamin Campbell
This is his imitation of a frog
Blake Rivera
>typical Sup Forums user >ever having what it takes to be an officer this is literally the "I dropped out of school" board
Wyatt Brown
>not a lot
So what do I do if I have to punch? Southpaw?
I just want to do a couple of years so I can grow the fuck up and then leave
Zachary Allen
Lmao kid not him, the gov gives not one fuck about anything other than controlling everything it can
Hunter Allen
says the guy who's never served
Eli Sanders
You sound like a 16 year old.
Benjamin Diaz
cute doggo
Mason Anderson
I don't know, I know a lot of 16 year olds and a lot of them don't actually sound that retarded.
Tyler Torres
Stop worrying about your fucking pinky. You're making excuses for yourself. Are you sure you wanna join?
John Richardson
just because i dont give a fuck about a shitty thread on Sup Forums doesnt mean im an edgy highschooler
Dominic Ward
The officers get fucked just as bad as the enlisted, dipshit, which is why most of them resign their commissions the first chance they fucking get.
Our military has been completely politicized, thanks to Obama, the democrats, and the weak ass republitards that appeased them, and is 100% shit now.
Anybody that joins today deserves what they get.
Hudson Evans
You sound like a highschool dropout.
Zachary Adams
Yeah but what if SeƱor Donair Trunk wins?
Then he'll just Make the Armed forces Great Again and it'll have been worth it to enlist
Elijah Foster
Says the fucking fat ass pog that has some faggoty ass support job, or some nigger tier mechanized "infantry" job...
Ryder Barnes
Not him but what was your MOS? 13B here
Evan Peterson
still better than being a worthless piece of shit who hasn't done anything for anyone but themselves.
Ethan Rivera
You sound like an ignorant pussy.
Nothing will change.
Jaxson Miller
So have you served
Adam Diaz
11B3V.
I did a year in A-stan, and 2 years in Iraq.
Mason Robinson
Fuck it mane I'm still gonna enlist, I'm not looking to make a career out of it
Henry Diaz
Because not being in the military implies that you haven't done anything for the world. And this is why I hate most military fags because you want fucking praise for your service. Do it to serve your country and not boost your ego if you're going to do it.
Connor Ross
what if I want to do it for both those reasons?
Connor Parker
>wanna enlist
Good goy!
Landon Bennett
>I did a year in A-stan, and 2 years in Iraq. Ha I'm the opposite 1 year in Iraq 2 in Afghan. Been out for 5 years now
Connor Perry
Still a faggot, but I at least respect you for genuinely doing something to benefit your country and doing something with your life.
Oliver Martinez
Total waste of lives, time, and money.
Congress...hell, D.C., should get hit by a giant meteor and wiped off the planet for the amount of incompetence they've displayed since 9/11.
Hunter Carter
He's not a shitty actor at all.
Robert Cox
Agreed My first deployment in Afghanistan was 15 months. 15 fucking months where we did fuck all. Made some good friends though
Isaiah Morgan
>shitty actor
Supporting actor ole on Scorsese ''Silence'' this autumn Lead actor role in Jarmusch`s Paterson which premiered at Cannes with positive reviews Lead actor role in Gilliams Don Quixote. Supporting actor role in Soderberghs new heist movie
>bad actor
Luis Martin
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Juan Sanders
Ok, only comment on military service you need here, if anything I'm about to say worries you than probably don't waste your time. Tell anyone about anything remotely negative about your physical or mental health and you will likely need to fight tooth and nail to keep from being discharged if it gets to the right people. Your family and pets will grow up without you. Many people cannot realistically imagine amount of time they will miss, but you will likely spend at least 3 years seeing your loved ones less than 6 months in that time (unless they are a spouse and come with you). Your younger siblings will nearly transition through an entire stage of schooling before you see them again; they will start puberty, they will start driving, they will get jobs, etc. If you are unlucky like me, they will die while you are gone. You will not make the world a better place or save anyone. You will watch men be killed from half a mile out with mortor fire, you will mop floors and fill out paperwork for the entirety of your service, you will have more restrictions on your personal demeanor, time, and physical appearence than you'be ever known and it is in the name of having "disciplined" desk jockeys and mechanics. If you want someone to pay for your college or you reaaaally want the uniform but if you want to "serve your country" become a domestic civilian doctor or mechanic. Hell even the zit faced teen working the register at 7/11 does more for this country than the swabbie who takes tax dollars to float around the ocean for 8 months, stacking cans and cleaning bulkheads.
Gabriel Brown
How is stealing oil for israel and being a welfare queen "serving your country". You're serving a country alright.
Joshua Thomas
you show some god-damned respect you fucking civvie.
driver could rip you from limb to limb.
Camden Carter
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Camden Cooper
Playing CS:GO doesn't mean you're serving in the army, fatty.
Jacob Smith
no but you fucking civvies piss me off. the bravest and best men (more in each regard than you'll ever be) sign up for the marines, let alone the armed forces.
you have no right to ever diss any serviceman who made it through boot camp. you wouldn't last one single day.
Henry Barnes
Stop pretending to be in the army, Billy.
Jayden Richardson
>4 weeks it was over 2 years
Nicholas White
He still never deployed
William Carter
I thought that was the shitty TEDx It's the actual shitty TED talks lol
Xavier Wood
Yes, and? Muh deployments.
It is hardly as if he was dodging doing so, and served his time. Sure it wasn't the most noble or lengthy, but he did it. Thats more than 99% of the population in the States can say.
Ethan Jenkins
>tfw all you want to do is go on a float or go anywhere not continental US
>tfw you get a nondeployable duty station out of MOS school and the contract lasts your entire enlistment
>tfw don't wanna reenlist because I'm cyber and can make better money outside than in
Blake Thompson
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Joseph Nelson
True I'm just giving him shit. But if you've ever served you know damn well that deployments fucking matter especially in combat arms. If you were in my unit without a combat patch you were basically a piece of shit until you got one
Jose Butler
>cyber >deployments kek its not like you would do shit anyway.
If you were in actual field unit you'd whine about cleaning the motor pool 24/7
Adrian Brown
Yeah but we're probably not going to war again any time soon
Samuel Butler
Marine here.
There are an equal amount of turds and shitbags in every service.
Everyone thinks Marine boot camp is the hardest, and it probably is. But it is literally the easiest thing you will do your entire enlistment.
Bentley Russell
What if I work and get government money?
Cooper Gutierrez
>maintain network, ensure the officers can access Facebook
>make sure GBOSS is working properly
>make sure no fuck boy decides to charge their iPod on SIPR
>find an 03 Sgt and suck his dick until he lets me go on patrol
Not that there's active combat deployments, but I'd like to see a different part of the world than fucking California for 4 yearz
Colton Perez
Da fuck you talking about? We never stopped being at war. How many troops we have in Afghanistan right now?
Brandon Campbell
But he's a good actor, he has a strong presence and commanding voice, he's pretty funny and can actually emote properly. Can't wait for Paterson
Hudson Foster
I don't really remember him being particularly bad in TFA, and he was good in Midnight Special (the film was kind of disappointing though).
Alexander Clark
Active combat deployments aren't really a thing anymore. Not at the stage that they were. It's mostly SF/SOF now
Dominic Sullivan
That's not necessarily true. I would suppose there are literally millions of brave and physically fit men who don't ever join the military.
Some people have legitimate problems with the military complex, some don't but aren't nationalist enough to consider it, some people already have careers lined up where joining the military would be a waste of time.
I always thought it was really strange how certain military men behaved as though joining the military made them better than other people. Better than themselves, maybe but applying such a specific standard to everyone else is just ridiculously self serving and asinine.
Carter Flores
I can see why its more strongly emphesized on the combat arms side. Most of my enlisted time was as medical (68S) and we mostly are either in hospitals or tiny field detachments (which is almost always around 12 people tops). Medical gets a lot of people who can somehow go 12+ years without deployments. I think if you are a deployment dodger, you're a piece of shit. But, if you served and just never got that chance? Oh well.
Right now I am torn between going the next ~12 years or getting out. But man moving to 640A was the best move of my life.
Bentley Nelson
Yeah I was a 13B (artillery) Deployed 3 times once in Iraq twice in Afghan. When we weren't doing our actual job we were either doing infantry shit, training the locals, or pulling guard. Actually we were always pulling guard no matter what we were doing. I did 8 years and got out. Glad I did. Got a nice chill job now.
Michael Moore
Enlisting is for poor cunts that desperately want out of a town and poor cunts that can't afford college.
Either way it is for retards that can't succeed.
Every now and again they rope in some autist that loves call of duty or joins because their dad was in.
Don't join.
Joseph Rivera
see
Jace Clark
OP does you poor bait excuse you for being an irredeemable faggot?
Levi Moore
He's not a shitty actor, though. He was very good as Kylo, it just happens Kylo is a pretty shitty character.
Adrian Ward
This.
I can easily imagine them casting some pretty-blonde boy who would`ve absolutely butchered the lines, especially Rey-Kylo interrogation and Kylo-Han scenes.
He squeezed the most he could out of those lines. Did a superb job in TFA and if the reviews of Pateron are true, he`s gonna have a very good career.
And I think Gilliam and Soderbergh casting him is a proof of that.