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The B list movies on SCIFI channel. All military units will always have one hot women on the team and the leader of said team will have a beard or something like that to make him more leader like. Then there's the HQ in the movies lights everywhere and some E4 is the NCOIC of the whole thing will the commanding officer yells at everyone because he's in charge.
Then there is the robot soldiers going around killing civilians because the leadership told them to and of course dumb non-thinking soldiers just to anything their told to include killing American civilians just because.
Then there is the robot soldiers going around killing civilians because the leadership told them to and of course dumb non-thinking soldiers just to anything their told to include killing American civilians just because.
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SSG Pete Fleming
There are certain stereotypes that must be in most military films... squad will have the hard core one, the weak/caring one, the smart one, the country/city one (sometimes both they conflict). the newbie, the seasoned...
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SSG Pete Fleming - They do like to play those stereotypes pretty well. The country boy is an uncultured bumbling idiot but knows how to shoot well, but usually gets shot himself. The city kid has street smarts and usually is a former gang banger who joined the military to get a new life. He sorta knows how to at least use a weapon but still talks ghetto and acts like a bad ass he usually gets shot also. The newbie has a 5 minute stint of curling up in a little ball, but then gets a second wind of courage. The seasoned guy is your well rounded pragmatic guy figures out how to accomplish the mission and usually is of one of them to get out alive. The hard core guy usually has something to prove but acts haphazardly but gets killed, only after he's taken out 30 of the enemy in a quick swoop.
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I forget what show I was watching but they had a female answer a phone call wearing SPC rank and answered as if she was a SGT I thought it was funny, not necessarily bothersome as its not like they are allowed to fully duplicate our uniforms anyway.
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SSG Pete Fleming
Actually they can duplicate our uniforms. That is one of the myths that won't die. It is not against the law for movies to properly portray the military and uniforms. Most costumers do the best they can, and the average person won't know the difference anyway. But some pride themselves in getting it right, down to the last detail.
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That is absolutely correct! You are probably one of the few who know that outside of Holly Wood. There was supreme court decision in the early 70s I believe that said if it was in portrayal of the arts it is free speech.
I will give you a fun fact though. There is an issue if the uniform is using prior art on release. Where this comes in as a headache is some unit patches. Some unit patches were designed by someone outside the DOD and licenced for free. Usually this only effects flying squadrons. Some flying units in the Navy and Air Force have cartoon characters that are allowed by the artist to be used under licence for the military. A common NAVY patch is the VF-31 "Tomcatters." That patch has Felix the cat holding a cartoon bomb. Because of this, films have to get permission from copyright holder of Felix's image to use that patch on a movie.
Due to this, many films doing Air Force or Navy flight suits will alter squadron and wing patches just to be on the safe side to not inadvertently violate someones prior art. That is the only time they will go out of their way to alter a uniform.
I will give you a fun fact though. There is an issue if the uniform is using prior art on release. Where this comes in as a headache is some unit patches. Some unit patches were designed by someone outside the DOD and licenced for free. Usually this only effects flying squadrons. Some flying units in the Navy and Air Force have cartoon characters that are allowed by the artist to be used under licence for the military. A common NAVY patch is the VF-31 "Tomcatters." That patch has Felix the cat holding a cartoon bomb. Because of this, films have to get permission from copyright holder of Felix's image to use that patch on a movie.
Due to this, many films doing Air Force or Navy flight suits will alter squadron and wing patches just to be on the safe side to not inadvertently violate someones prior art. That is the only time they will go out of their way to alter a uniform.
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Oh my. Where to start. All of my brothers have covered good ground. One thing, A good gunner doesn't carry belts of ammunition around his neck, especially with the nose of the bullets into his neck. That is so wrong. The thing that really irritates me is the assumption by Hollywood actors that they understand what it is to be a grunt after they have gone through a truncated basic course. My hat's off to Dale Dye, but you can't turn a weinie into a grunt that easy. Being a grunt requires a whole lot more sweat, pain, and simple willingness to hump a ruck than any actor can ever imagine. They may get the look right, but don't tell me you understand what it means to be infantry until you've eaten ham and mothers, cold, in a rainstorm, at midnight, in a muddy hole in the ground. The documentaries of the making of good films like "Band of Brothers", and "Saving Private Ryan" just piss me off. These actors think that they have some insight into the mind of a grunt. They don't understand us, much less anyone else in the service. They can't know. And they don't know what they don't know. But then, we had something beyond words. That's the thing most missing in the movies. Not the gross mistakes. I'm not expressing myself well. The respect, even between services and arms. If you've been there, you know.
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Saluting indoors improperly and/or saluting without a cover on your gourd.
Ellis Badon
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Ellis Badon
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The Sun setting in the South China Sea off the coast of Vietnam in the Green Beret.
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How about the commercial were the guard is wearing a robe, flip flops, eating chips and reading a newspaper...
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SSG Pete Fleming
In context of the commercial, it is meant as joke, about taking off days or something to that effect.
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Overtly semintemental/emotional war movies. Bring back john wayne style movies
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In The Walking Dead, the bolts never move when they shoot. The flash and sounds are added in post production.
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