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Hair & Uniforms. When the actors hair and/or uniform is not even remotely close to regulation.
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SN Mike Duffy
I went to a retirement ceremony a couple years ago, saw a 27yr old CPO. Blew my mind. Damn, I'm old. 52. Looked like a kid.
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A lot of films have sergeants being called Sir; the ones I served under would've at the very least dressed you down and let you know that only officers are called Sir. This always annoys me.
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SGT Randall Smith
All Army enlisted have heard this, " Do not call me Sir. I am not an officer, I work for a living."
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Had just returned from a tour with 5SFG in RVN when "The Green Berets" opened in town. Got invited to the opening. It would take a four page post to detail the errors in this disaster - Mattel M16 with a speaker in the stock, the sunset over the ocean, jumping a Chinook without static lines, the Gabriel demonstration....
BTW, anyone ever notice that John Wayne wore his Montagnard bracelet in every movie he made after his RVN tour regardless of setting?
BTW, anyone ever notice that John Wayne wore his Montagnard bracelet in every movie he made after his RVN tour regardless of setting?
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SGT Randall Smith
My brother always wore his bracelet until he died a couple of years ago. It was given to him by the tribe he lived with in the Highlands.
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SSG Raymond Minze
Actually, CPT Schwebach, the bracelet your referring to was a prop from the movie, "Red River" 1948, in which John Wayne played the lead character. He wore the bracelet and at least in his westerns a, "Red River D", belt buckle.
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Anyone ever see "Executive Decision?" Also I echo the many Iron Eagle discrepancies.
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Col Christopher Mardis
Worse than both of these was Interceptor, which featured the bad guys crawling through the tanker boom, cutting a hole into the C-5 fuselage and commandeering the aircraft loaded with F-117s. Our hero F-117 pilot asleep in the troop compartment saves the day by leading them on an aerial Die Hard cat-and-mouse, popping up from underfloor and wherever, with the big finale dogfight after fueling and launching both F-117s from the still-flying C-5…
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LTC Paul Labrador
What kills me about those airplane disaster movies is the "explosive decompression" when a bullet goes through the fuselage...... Uhm, no.....Airplane fuselages are very strong, and a bullet hole is not going to compromise it. To get an explosive decompression, you need an EXPLOSION, ie a bomb. But I guess you need a plot device to keep the good guys from simply shooting up the bad guys on a plane.
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Wargames (1983) when the general(?) says scramble the F-16s from Elmendorf and they show F-15s taking off. I was at an F-16 base when I saw this movie in the base theater. Boy did the BOO birds come out in force.
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TSgt Alan Richard "Rick" Thomas
SSG Pete Fleming - The world was a lot "bigger" when those movies were made. The average "Joe" wouldn't have known the difference. They probably saved money by using props and costumes they already had.
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Lt Col (Join to see)
Yeah most likely that could be the case. Back then no one would have had a clue. A recent movie I saw that had the culture mixed was "Rock the Kasbah," It was supposed to be in Afghanistan. All the signs were Arabic and lot of people were wearing Arabic garb versus the Phoshto stuff.
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Cpl Phil Hsueh
This used to happen all the time on JAG, they'd use stock footage of planes and not only would they often use the wrong plane, the plane would often change from scene to scene as well. At the beginning of the scene we might see a Tomcat taking off, later on we see that the Tomcat is now and F-15, and when they land it's now an F-18.
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TSgt Alan Richard "Rick" Thomas
Cpl Phil Hsueh - The Six Million Dollar Man was even worse then that. It got to be a big joke.
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I saw terrible one last night called
Sniper SpecialOps
With Steven Seagal they sent Thee guys out to secure a broke down ammo truck in Afghanistan with no security. And Steven Seagal must have
Made a fortune for just sittin on his ass the whole movie doing nothing. Absolutely terrble movie.
Sniper SpecialOps
With Steven Seagal they sent Thee guys out to secure a broke down ammo truck in Afghanistan with no security. And Steven Seagal must have
Made a fortune for just sittin on his ass the whole movie doing nothing. Absolutely terrble movie.
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SSG Pete Fleming
Was the movie bad because you thought Steven Seagal should have done more, because he was in it, or because it was the typical movie staring him but otherwise had no value...
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SFC Jerry Humphries
SSG Pete Fleming - He did nothing in the whole movie except sit in a chair. I thought it was going to be A Seagal action film. I think they just got his name to draw people to watch the movie . Sorry I rented it on PPV.
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SSG Pete Fleming
SFC Jerry Humphries - I know the feeling... I don't have an example right now, but they will promote a major star and give them a pointless cameo just to get viewers...
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Lt Col (Join to see)
He finances a lot of his own movies. They are all low budget pieces of crap. I had some friends work on one and it was real piece of garbage. Everything from the cinematography to the editing were all horrible. I think it is the only way he can support his acting career now. Usually all of his movies are the same with a slightly different plot. It is usually always him kicking the crap out of everyone for an hour and a half. Most of his stuff never gets into the theater. Its almost always exclusively straight to DVD. Oddly enough, apparently they do somewhat well in the Asian markets. Maybe the Asians see them as comedy.
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Can't remember the name but there was a TV movie staring Patrick Swazy, when a kid, and the Russians landed and took over Colorado. They were putting people in camps and in one town a group of "kids" broke away and went into the mountains. They had some hunting rifles, a couple of pistols and a couple of bows with arrows. They must have had Boy Scout training because they took on the Russian Soldiers, including their Special Force troops. They picked up foreign weapons and knew how to use them to knock out tanks and APC's. They could sneak into the Army's camps and kill people. They all make Rambo look like a sissy. But it was funny.
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