Movie and TV shows with inaccurate military content-do people sometimes avoid watching them with you? https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/movie-and-tv-shows-with-inaccurate-military-content-do-people-sometimes-avoid-watching-them-with-you <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>My wife almost never watches anything with me that has a military theme, as she can't stand my tendency to call things out...<br />Case in point, as a prior helicopter rescue swimmer, I can't watch "The Guardian" with a straight face, there's so many points of ridiculousness-but to my wife... I'm just ruining the movie. Thu, 06 Nov 2014 23:20:54 -0500 Movie and TV shows with inaccurate military content-do people sometimes avoid watching them with you? https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/movie-and-tv-shows-with-inaccurate-military-content-do-people-sometimes-avoid-watching-them-with-you <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>My wife almost never watches anything with me that has a military theme, as she can't stand my tendency to call things out...<br />Case in point, as a prior helicopter rescue swimmer, I can't watch "The Guardian" with a straight face, there's so many points of ridiculousness-but to my wife... I'm just ruining the movie. PO1 John Pokrzywa Thu, 06 Nov 2014 23:20:54 -0500 2014-11-06T23:20:54-05:00 Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Nov 6 at 2014 11:26 PM https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/movie-and-tv-shows-with-inaccurate-military-content-do-people-sometimes-avoid-watching-them-with-you?n=314870&urlhash=314870 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I still watch them since many are funny to watch especially pointing out the idiotic discrepancies. One that I noticed the other day was when we were watching the Dustin Hoffman movie "Outbreak". Donald Sutherland is in it playing the 2 Star General. He has an SF patch, Airborne Tab and an SF tab as his combat patch. WRONG!!! SF Tabs are not utilized on the right shoulder. LOL. SSG Private RallyPoint Member Thu, 06 Nov 2014 23:26:46 -0500 2014-11-06T23:26:46-05:00 Response by SCPO Private RallyPoint Member made Nov 6 at 2014 11:36 PM https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/movie-and-tv-shows-with-inaccurate-military-content-do-people-sometimes-avoid-watching-them-with-you?n=314894&urlhash=314894 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I've got a more general problem with historical movies. I spot and point out various anachronisms. The anachronisms are often military - use of modern stirrups in ancient movies, cannon balls that explode, etc... Other times it is a references to something not yet discovered - e.g. -hummingbirds referenced in the Roman Empire (hummingbirds were exclusive to the Western Hemisphere), potatoes in Europe before the Columbian exchange, etc... SCPO Private RallyPoint Member Thu, 06 Nov 2014 23:36:39 -0500 2014-11-06T23:36:39-05:00 Response by LCpl Steve Zupan made Jul 10 at 2019 9:15 PM https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/movie-and-tv-shows-with-inaccurate-military-content-do-people-sometimes-avoid-watching-them-with-you?n=4799421&urlhash=4799421 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Code Red... Not a Marine Corps thing....Lt Col. Jessup, standing around the whole movie with his hands in his pockets.... Not a Marine Corps thing...Lt. Kaffee telling, Lcpl. Dawson.... &quot;Don&#39;t look at me, like I told you to clean the latrine!&quot;.. Not a Navy or Marine Corps thing.... LCpl Steve Zupan Wed, 10 Jul 2019 21:15:26 -0400 2019-07-10T21:15:26-04:00 2014-11-06T23:20:54-05:00