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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There are a lot of things, but as much as haircuts, uniform issues, awards issues and general bearing piss me off, the main thing I hate is having some POS writer/director/actor put shit into a patriots mouth to make a political point they couldn’t make with the truth.
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In Lone Survivor I there are two people in the background standing at parade rest for each other
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The grooming standards while in a dress uniform!!!! No haircut, and a mustache if one worn way out of regs...
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Hollywood loves those multi-barrel guns, but when fired they sound like a regular machine gun. What was the point of the other barrels? Let'em hear an A10 firing then they'll know.
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The air to air rearming of a fighter aircraft, like in "Iron Egale". It was so amazing to see an F-16 first without weapons up loaded, then suddemly have weapons appear. And after expending those weapons, having more weapons magically appear, to blast the bad guys!
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I guess the movie salutes don't bother me too much (a little, sure) because I see it done so poorly in real life.
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Firing hundreds of rounds and never reloading. :-) Or pulling the pin on a hand grenade with their teeth.
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It's not just military movies, but all movies in general. The fact that Hollywood can't seem to differentiate between an automatic weapon and a semi-automatic one drives me crazy. They further complicate the issue with bottomless magazines. This leads to the general civilian populace being ignorant on basic firearm reality.
As far as military movies specifically go, uniforms almost always stand out to me, then the behavior of the troops. It's hard to watch a film by Hollywood now that doesn't involve someone running out to be a hero all by themselves, or watching a single person clearing room after room in a five story building. When I was in, we would sit around in the barracks and pick out all the stupid/unrealistic shit the actors were doing in movies. We didn't go into it with that intention, but it just happened.
As far as military movies specifically go, uniforms almost always stand out to me, then the behavior of the troops. It's hard to watch a film by Hollywood now that doesn't involve someone running out to be a hero all by themselves, or watching a single person clearing room after room in a five story building. When I was in, we would sit around in the barracks and pick out all the stupid/unrealistic shit the actors were doing in movies. We didn't go into it with that intention, but it just happened.
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