Posted on Jan 27, 2015
Are military movies hard to watch because they are poorly executed?
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I feel like every-time I set down and watch a Military Movie I end up Laughing at how unreal it is and how bad of a job they did or so mad I want to throw my TV out the Window..lol Anyone else like this?
here is a list of movies that I feel got it all wrong with Military Parts (small list- but its bigger just did not feel like typing all 100,000 of them..lol)
Hurt-locker
Godzilla
Battleship
here is a list of movies that I feel got it all wrong with Military Parts (small list- but its bigger just did not feel like typing all 100,000 of them..lol)
Hurt-locker
Godzilla
Battleship
Humor
Movies
PTS
PTSD
Edited 11 y ago
Posted 11 y ago
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You would think with a multi million dollar budget Hollywood would get most of it right. I enjoyed Lone Survivor , but almost broke the dead silence in the theater by jumping and yelling holy crap during the final battle scene with an Apache shooting mini gun rounds.
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SPC Robert Treat
Yes it is, I want to watch them, because of my military background, and my interest in history and military BUT I don't always do well. Their are times where I just can't handle it (more often then not). My wife ask me, "Why do you put yourself through this?" It's always the same answer, "Cause I love my Brothers."
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SGT John Galbraith
It is painful seeing a hollywood grenade flip a car and level a building. I also cringe when people get thrown by the blast and get up with only a scratch on their head. No ruptured organs from blast overpressure, no frag or secondary frag. Most of the time I don't like watching them because I miss being in.
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SGT Bridget Lattanzi
It is. War movies are ruined forever, I guess. I'm still going to watch them, I loved war movies so much as a kid. I find the dramatization kind of irritating. It was funny how the sniper in the movie could call home anytime from a radio! After seeing American Sniper I was also really annoyed at people like Michael Moore and those who followed the idiocy making stupid anti military posts on facebook. These were the same "liberals" who knew everything about gun control. No matter what you say, they still know everything.
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I sniper the hell out of military movies! Nothing drives me more crazy than watching a Hummer cruise down a road with M2 mounted and no gunner just to name one.
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SGT Aaron Olivas
I can't recall the movie but, they had one guy driving and guning on a Stryker. .lol not possible ..or is it?...lol
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I have always bee a fan of military movies. Since I served, the only thing that tends to bother me about most military movies, is the fact that most of the actors don't know how to salute properly.
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Hilarious! Unfortunately, movies are fiction. We're in a dilemma similar to cops, firemen, doctors, etc., go through when seeing movies about their professions. These movies and shows are popular because many Americans look up to those professions.
One thing to consider is that these also build up perceptions (good and bad) about us and our profession. As a retired "Gunny," I actually enjoy the fact that civilians have impressions of Gunny's from watching Heartbreak Ridge (absolutely inaccurate movie! LOL) and other movies. I let the civilians I work with stew in their juices. Guys are worried you'll come across the desk and girls admire.
So look at the positives and enjoy them! :)
One thing to consider is that these also build up perceptions (good and bad) about us and our profession. As a retired "Gunny," I actually enjoy the fact that civilians have impressions of Gunny's from watching Heartbreak Ridge (absolutely inaccurate movie! LOL) and other movies. I let the civilians I work with stew in their juices. Guys are worried you'll come across the desk and girls admire.
So look at the positives and enjoy them! :)
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SPC David Sherman
Never being in combat, only undercover, rarely in much danger, but having lost buddies who gave it all I go home and have mixed feelings. The Army let me serve in Europe but would not send me into a combat zone and knocked me out of WOFT for my own good. They probably saved my life and now serving as a Clinical Christian Counselor.
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Extremely hard! Especially without commenting on what I know to be inaccurate in what is being portrayed on screen
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No, I like looking for the mistakes they have. Like in To Hell and Back, I never been to Italy to train, while they were fighting in Italy, I realized that I had been many of the areas of the fight. I was and they were fighting at the Yakima Firing Center. That long long road where they fight in Germany/France, I drove many a time taking log packs to the my Unit at Fort Lewis.
The most recent one I saw was about a Unit from the Washington National Guard, and the patch they wore, never left the State.
While watching the movies, I see that its just a story of events that took place, most of the time they get some of the details wrong.
The most recent one I saw was about a Unit from the Washington National Guard, and the patch they wore, never left the State.
While watching the movies, I see that its just a story of events that took place, most of the time they get some of the details wrong.
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I've been there. I've seen all I want to see. I don't watch any war movies or read any books about war. I've got my own problems from my war in Vietnam. I'm pretty sure I've seen it all over there and don't need to be " entertained " by a figment of someone's imagination as to how it would look like to be in a war.
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Movies are for entertainment. They will not film the " whole lot of hurry up and wait" followed by monument of extreme life threaten situations. It's a roller coaster ride for aloof us.
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SSgt Barry LaMont
Why is it they never show the true military, the hurry up and wait, uniform dysfunctions, equipment missing or too much of the wrong thing? It's called a budget overrun and who in the overall scheme of things is going to notice? Just a very tiny percent of the viewing (Veterans) audience.
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