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
Movies
Posted 11 y ago
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Oh right hundred.... oh isnt a time... saying zero right isnt very difficult.
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The blunt truth. Civilian movie audiences don’t give a fuck about this small-minded crap that annoys you military assholes.
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Epaulets flipped up over collars- often unintentional as in some scenes they get it right. But sometimes it seems they think that's how the uniform is supposed to be worn! Every epaulet flipped over! I can't watch that ... just can't!
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“Roger that.” Unfortunately, I also heard it in the Army, not just in the movies. Drove me f@cken nuts!
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I see this more in the low budget b movies and t. V. Shows but when they walj around with the whole mandrin collar lapels thing wrapped around their neck it just looks gross It really ocercooks my grits when i see it on an AARP commerical I get ticked with the squad movements and spacing crap too but that can be explained away because of production camera view angles and stuff but the artillery grenades or the flower bomb grenades and rpg's I've no excuse for
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I apologize in advanced for all the typos and grammer I have fat thumbs a tiny keyboard and a redneck edumacation
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Have to add another one: any movie depicting Michelle Rodriguez as a soldier, Marine, etc. Always badest of the bad, toughest of the tough, able to take down any 12 of the enemy with a toothpick - and almost always with her go-to facial expression: grim and grumpy.
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The worst example ever (IMHO) was not in a movie but in an episode of Law and Order SVU. It was the scene where an actor was depicted as a Marine Gunny and was wearing chevrons meant for Dress Blues on his “Greens” uniform. That one just floored me.
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Another one is walking around with a cigar/ cigarette in your mouth, trashed uniform, telling officer to f--k off. All officers are idiots and have no spine. Riiiiight!
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The 6 mile per hour grenade explosion. Grenade lands, take off running, jump, fly 10 feet from blast. Get back on feet rejoin fight. No blast injury and hearing is fine. Mine is bad from small arms and noisy trucks. Actors are the best
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