New war movie

[mdtn952]

in theatres April 11. This looks pretty intense....Navy seals in Iraq 2006. I thought this might have been about Fallujah but that was in 2004. War movies are way more realistic than in the 50s and 60s....maybe thats why I almost don't want to see it.

 

[Pew]

Eh....There's certain movies, no matter how 'correct' they are, just don't look very appealing.

 

[loneryder]

I just re watched the series Pacific. It is so well done that I enjoyed it the second time.

 

[goblin]

I just re watched the series Pacific. It is so well done that I enjoyed it the second time.

It's surely a good distraction to wind you up for Band of Brothers

I alternate them
One makes me forget the other enough to make it interesting to watch again.

 

[ammolab]

They are not all shooting from the hip…Actually using the sights? Best war film EVER!

 

[mdtn952]

War movies are more realistic now and I find myself more & more bothered by them....I admire the heck out of guys who go to bat for us...they go through some stunning adversity...so it has been since the beginning of time. I recently finished the book On Desperate Ground...a great description of the battle of Chosin reservoir...many Medal of Honor medals were given...as many as D Day. The conditions under which this battle was fought are truly unbelievable...on many levels.. I just shake my head.

 

[bdcardinal]

They are not all shooting from the hip…Actually using the sights? Best war film EVER!

I love watching the videos from the sandbox of the Aloha Snackbar dudes spray and pray from the hip wearing their tacti-sandals and Oakley goggles.

 

[goblin]

I submit that Hollywood has saved countless lifes on the street by promoting shooting from the hip, horizontal handgun, double horizontal handgun, under the armpit, double horizontal handgun, endless mags, Equilibrium Gramatton cleric gun-kata and all sort of similar Darwin filters, and insist that they continue.

Two things Hollywood has always refused to do: teach their actors even the most basic Russian accent when a non-native actor speaks Russian (they can learn 50 regional accents but not ten words in a different language - I don't buy it, hence it must be on purpose), and firearm realistics.

While I never understood the reasons for the former, there's deep logic for the latter.

 

[Bottom_Feeder]

Equilibrium Gramatton cleric gun-kata

So very dumb but people love that movie for some reason.

 

[goblin]

So very dumb but people love that movie for some reason.

I love it, so it must be true.

 

[Pew]

It's surely a good distraction to wind you up for Band of Brothers

I alternate them
One makes me forget the other enough to make it interesting to watch again.

Both are such amazing series. Not only so they very much portrait the physical dirtiness of war, they also have you as the watcher see them progress from beginning to end as a person and the affects of war on the human psyche. It's hard to do that with only a movie.

 

[loneryder]

War movies are more realistic now and I find myself more & more bothered by them....I admire the heck out of guys who go to bat for us...they go through some stunning adversity...so it has been since the beginning of time. I recently finished the book On Desperate Ground...a great description of the battle of Chosin reservoir...many Medal of Honor medals were given...as many as D Day. The conditions under which this battle was fought are truly unbelievable...on many levels.. I just shake my head.

Yes. I started school in the 50's and they just mentioned the Korean War. In recent years I've done a lot of reading about it and those guys really fought in brutal conditions without any proper equipment. All the occupation forces in Japan, who lived like kings with personal cooks and cleaners, were sent to Korea without much equipment and told to hold the line. Those guys never got their due.

 

[I<3oil]

SEALs, Iraq, 2006….first thing I thought of was Michael Monsoor’s MOH actions. News of that hit us hard in Baghdad at the time. If it could happen to SEALs, it could happen to anyone. Made us feel a bit less invincible going out the wire or even just on base with mortars and rockets coming in.

I’ve seen some stuff on FB about this movie. I’ll probably watch it but wait til it’s online streaming.

 

[RaymondP]

Black Hawk Down. In my opinion still one of the best. And here's an old one you might check out. Zulu. Very cool tactics used by Brits at the time against overwhelming odds.

 

[doitmyself]

For some reason, television/movie fist fights and war scenarios never really achieve their true ugliness for me. I don't understand our fascination with these grotesque topics. My good friend (5 ft. tall) doesn't talk about his Vietnam career as "first-man-in tunnel rat". My ex-Marine friend with PTSD says he cannot watch American Sniper for fear of breaking down crying - he looks very similar to Reacher.

Sorry - Debbie Downer on this topic.

 

[97prizm]

in theatres April 11. This looks pretty intense....Navy seals in Iraq 2006. I thought this might have been about Fallujah but that was in 2004. War movies are way more realistic than in the 50s and 60s....maybe thats why I almost don't want to see it.

The soldier who was on the mission to get Osama Bin Laden and ended up actually shooting him said it wasn't uncommon for Seal team 6 or others to go watch war movies as they've lived it and too often producers stretch things for dramatic effect.