Marine/Military Movies

[kimphil]

Originally posted by phrogdriver
Move it to the book list too. It's by Robert Heinlein. The book has a lot of good combat, training, and leadership lessons in it. The movie was cool, too, but only because it was fun, and because of that Diz girl!

Don't forget the coed showers!

 

[Attilla]

oops forgot my favorite movie....Predator!

 

[Undertow]

Predator owns. Band of Brothers is my favorite series of all time.. however, the purpose of my response is to SLAM the freakin' innacuracies of Tears of the Sun.
Tom Skerrit (sp?) Seal Team OIC, why in the hell is he on the flight deck? He has no reason to be there while his men are out. He'd be O level dealing with the IS team.
Bruce Willis, Seal team commander.. shiny bald head, big beacon saying "HI I'M HERE!" stands up in a firefight.. uh their missions and training stress stealth.. anyone else see this problem?
When air support is called for 2 F-18's take off without ordanance.. where the hell did they get any for the air support coverage later in the film? I saw the film with 4 of my devil dog buddies and we were sorely dissapointed. Just my 2 cents.

 

[chiplee]

Originally posted by Undertow
Predator owns. Band of Brothers is my favorite series of all time.. however, the purpose of my response is to SLAM the freakin' innacuracies of Tears of the Sun.
Tom Skerrit (sp?) Seal Team OIC, why in the hell is he on the flight deck? He has no reason to be there while his men are out. He'd be O level dealing with the IS team.
Bruce Willis, Seal team commander.. shiny bald head, big beacon saying "HI I'M HERE!" stands up in a firefight.. uh their missions and training stress stealth.. anyone else see this problem?
When air support is called for 2 F-18's take off without ordanance.. where the hell did they get any for the air support coverage later in the film? I saw the film with 4 of my devil dog buddies and we were sorely dissapointed. Just my 2 cents.

yeah I saw all those problems but you're wasting your time if you watch that stuff for accuracy. My lord look at "The Rock" or if you want bad, watch the "P'cola wings of Gold" movie. Holy crap it is bad. Harm's single engine trap with 45* wing rocking in the groove was so funny I could hardly breathe. It was just recently on TNN or something. I didn't even know it existed but it would make an awesome pre-brief clip for CQ if any of you are about to go to the boat.

 

[vegita1220]

yeah Rock was pretty wack...an elite band of highly trained Navy SEAL shooters is unable to kill ANY Marines in a standoff. High ground or no, if SEALs cant nail a nonmoving target when they get the first shot then chances are they aren't SEALs.

Although when I saw that movie while my bro and his school buddies got together at our place the Marine ROTC guys were going "Yeah, die squids, die!" and then the Navy guys jumped up and then a big fight broke out. Man the place was a mess after that.