Posted on May 27, 2016
What is the biggest military movie/TV goof, basically the military Movie/TV mistakes that annoys you the most?
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“Panzers.” I understand that real, operational German armor is very rare. But quite a few movies simply used contemporary American tanks, invariably painted gray with giant Balkan crosses and huge red numbers, to represent them. Fury was one of the few movies I know of which had an actual panzer (a Tiger I which had been captured in Tunisia in 1943 by the British). Even dressing up modern armor as panzers is fine by me (Saving Private Ryan with its T-34 Tiger but apparently original Marders, Band of Brothers with its assortment of panzers based on British APCs), but simply taking what’s available and painting it gray doesn’t do it for me.
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Santa Fe trail it shows a bunch of civil war generals all in the same class at West Point and has JEB Stuart and Custer as best friends
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Saving Private Ryan - Using your medic in an assault on a machine gun nest. As soon as they took off I turned to my girlfriend and said, “Bet you anything the medic’s going to die”. After the assault I walked “How did you know”? I replied, “that’s why you don’t use your medic in the assault”.
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Battleship, so to fool the alien monster they steam full speed away with guns faced in safe direction from monster then drop anchor which spins a US Naval Warship 180 degrees immediately firing weapons which now face the unsuspecting enemy WTF
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I detest sloppy salutes. I can count on one hand the number of proper salutes. Oh wait, no I can’t.
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Where to begin? Never ending magazines, calling magazines “clips”, the weapon firing with the safety on, single action weapons firing with the hammer forward, everyone forgetting that there is a round in the chamber that can be fired even though the magazine is released, using incorrect ammunition for the weapons they use, people ALWAYS having their grubby fingers on the trigger, and last but certainly not least, the cocking/chambering/racking of a shell to somehow signify “it’s about to go down”.
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How about Rambo firing two M60s with and endless amount of ammo wrapped around his arms until he decides it's time for the ammo to run out
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Fake tanks when they could get the real one,.like the fake tiger in private ryan with open no glasd vision block and 55 gal lid for a hatch
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Getting the Missouri ready for sea in a few minutes with only a few people in the movie Battleship
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