Lone Survivor realistic or not? What was your favorite part?

Well the hurt locker won best picture and it was about the most unrealistic military movie ever....

Wasn't Marcus Luttrell on site during filming? I mean he was in the film... I'd say it is pretty accurate with a little Hollywood pizzazz.

Watch the behind the scenes with Walberg and his family. You would be amazed at how serious Wahlberg was in playing that part. Makes all of this a lot more valid, and it's not like they did not assess the situation from all aspects to make the right call.

Movie was entertaining, but I suggest reading the biographical book... you'll get a much clearer picture & insight to the actual event without the Hollywood gloss over. Same with Blackhawk Down.

Favorite part....well....the the fact that some REAL Team members were the extras, including Luttrell. To question whether or not it was realistic is absurd, at least 90% of what was in the movie came directly from the book and declassified documents pertaining to Operation Red Wing. Of course there is going to be discrepancies from actual accounts to what is on screen, even though the Navy gave a green light to the project as well as the book...but with that said, no Hollywood director, producer, writer, or any of the myriad personnel involved in making movies can get it exactly correct or know what it was like unless they themselves have been through it...and most of Hollywood has not. For quite sometime now Saving Private Ryan was the go to movie for battlefield realism according to many, including WWII Veterans...Pearl Harbor, Fury, Unbroken to name just a few have also garnered praise as to their realism from Vets who served in similar positions as those films portrayed...
The point is...unless you yourself have been in that same exact situation, you will never know or understand fully what was happening in the moment. And in this Marine Vets opinion...to say anything against the way the film was done or against the book it is based off of, is basically calling those men who died and those who survived liars and frauds. I have personally known SEAL Team members from my time in and they are by no means frauds. They are as bat shit crazy as their reputation, and there is no other person I would want to attack the missions they go on, that most never hear about, than the men who take up the mantle of becoming a SEAL. I have friends who were Force Recon, and have much respect for the job they do, but the SEALs are given a certain set of guidelines that even Force Recon cannot follow due to our mandates in the Marines.

Why not gag them and zip tie them to a tree? Surely someone would have come looking for them. Could have dosed them with Morphine too, put them out to give you time and give you an out.

I say realistic as the man who survived assisted in the production of the movie.

I enjoyed the entire movie. It is amazing the perseverance of our Soldiers in action.

Really??? One typing comment then you copy and paste it four times to other responses. How original!!!

SrA Jeff Campbell, I'm tempted to down-vote that comment, but I'll resist the urge. You do realize that statistically approximately 1 out of 4 SEALs is shot at or gives ultimate sacrifice for cause? The ratio is about the same across the other branch special forces.

What happened on that dreadful June 28, 2005 was a minuscule detail as to scores of spec ops missions gone wrong for whatever reason.

You do realize that you can train and prepare only for so much?? How dare you label them as true or not true? 4 highly-skilled spec ops warriors also miscalculate and SHTF for them unfortunately. Come on now, THINK, PLEASE!

You do realize it's based on real events, right? The team chose not to kill civilians to preserve their secrecy and paid a terrible price for it. So yes, I think it portrayed "True Seal Fashion," but I wasn't a SEAL, so I'd leave that to one of them to declare with any sort of definitiveness.