Posted on Oct 13, 2014
What ONE incorrectly depicted thing pisses you off most about military movies?
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My question is really no more complicated than that.
For me, it is the rendering of the salute. Hands down. No second place. This pisses me off to no end!
In my opinion, this is THE most important of all military courtesies, and it should always be given with the most possible precision and exacting attention to detail.
FFS! It is something that is taught to every 'cruit in week 1 of basic training! It is perfected throughout training! In a military movie, this should be the EASIEST thing to get right!
It seems to me, that if an actor or actress can spend weeks or months learning hundreds, if not thousands of lines of dialog for a movie, they can at least spend an afternoon or a day, practicing with the advisor (there is ALWAYS an advisor who is a Vet or SM) on the set until they get it right.
I know there are bigger, or more obvious problems with some military movies. Weapons or uniforms or lingo that is anachronistic to the time period of the battle on screen...but DAMMIT, getting the salute wrong in any time period just frosts my shorts!
Usually, it's a fail with what I call the, "I'm shading my eyes from the sun" salute. Your f'n hand doesn't belong on your forehead like you're trying to watch the right fielder shag the fly ball! It belongs where you were TAUGHT to place it!
I find myself commenting out loud to friends, while watching movies that jack this up...they don't seem to understand why it pisses me off so much.
What does it for you?
For me, it is the rendering of the salute. Hands down. No second place. This pisses me off to no end!
In my opinion, this is THE most important of all military courtesies, and it should always be given with the most possible precision and exacting attention to detail.
FFS! It is something that is taught to every 'cruit in week 1 of basic training! It is perfected throughout training! In a military movie, this should be the EASIEST thing to get right!
It seems to me, that if an actor or actress can spend weeks or months learning hundreds, if not thousands of lines of dialog for a movie, they can at least spend an afternoon or a day, practicing with the advisor (there is ALWAYS an advisor who is a Vet or SM) on the set until they get it right.
I know there are bigger, or more obvious problems with some military movies. Weapons or uniforms or lingo that is anachronistic to the time period of the battle on screen...but DAMMIT, getting the salute wrong in any time period just frosts my shorts!
Usually, it's a fail with what I call the, "I'm shading my eyes from the sun" salute. Your f'n hand doesn't belong on your forehead like you're trying to watch the right fielder shag the fly ball! It belongs where you were TAUGHT to place it!
I find myself commenting out loud to friends, while watching movies that jack this up...they don't seem to understand why it pisses me off so much.
What does it for you?
Saluting
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Posted 11 y ago
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Until certain officers stop returning a salute like it’s a shark fin in the middle of their face, I will forgive actors.......but I do feel your pain.
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That's 1- magazines that never run dry as you are being over run, never missing a shot even with the incoming fire is so heavy you can see is another.
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The amount of political correctness in the film depicted, i.e. After capturing the shepherds, the team was discussing how to avoid releasing them and alerting the Taliban. A suggestion was made to naturalize the situation, camouflage the remains and depart the area before discovery, however, Wahlberg’s character insisted on the humane aspect and pleaded with the individuals to allow them to be tied up instead and we all know how that turned out. The lives of his team mates and mission were secondary in his eyes. He was so frozen with fear of how the news media may betray him that he opted to sacrifice the lives of his team mates. And as the story progressed, made himself out to be the hero of the story. He was right about one thing, no one knows what took place on that mountain other then he was the “Only Survivor”.
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Wrong uniforms poor weapons discipline and everyone packed together like sardines on patrol. I could go on but there is not enough bourbon in the Kentucky to make it go away
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The one thing movie magic doesn’t cover -changing your drawls after a firefight!
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Anyone watch the new TV series "Shooter", based off the movie? First, the Bob Lee Swagger character was sighting in a .338 Lapua at 1,800 yards on a pumpkin. He fired the shot and, with absolutely no movement of the scope, he watched the pumpkin explode from the impact. Then, when the actual sniper shot the Russian President, from 1,800+ yards, you heard the shot at the same time the bullet hit the target. I'm not sure what bullet/powder combination he was supposed to be using but, a Barnes precision 280 grain factory load takes about 3.2 seconds to travel 1,800 yards and, it would take the sound of the shot about 5 seconds to travel that same distance. There should have been roughly a two second delay between impact and report. Then, the bullet was supposedly a 400 grain "polymer" bullet that was so dense, the rifling didn't even leave marks on it. Epic FAIL!
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Things that bother me? Hmmm, how about Fighter Jets that do manuevers that would kill the pilot in the plane? How about dropping fuel tanks and getting a massive fireball? The firebomb hand grenade? Getting shot and getting up? Running through explosions without getting blown up? The 600 round, 30 round mag? Could go on and on. Although, watch London has Fallen, towards the end when they are going to get the President, he actually changes mags after firing 30 RDS, I thought it was pretty impressive, for an actor!
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Intervals during movement to contact. Another neat Hollywood shot. Looks like a bunch of f*ck sticks wandering around in the woods.
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