I never planned on seeing or wanted to see this movie. I also never want to see this movie again, or the rest of it lol. I assume @Neo The Resurrected ONE was only asking about how realistic the combat was, and that’s all I’m really talking about, in my original response.
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant
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I never planned on seeing or wanted to see this movie. I also never want to see this movie again, or the rest of it lol. I assume @Neo The Resurrected ONE was only asking about how realistic the combat was, and that’s all I’m really talking about, in my original response.
daemonova
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@Neo The Resurrected ONE it's unfortunate then that you won't get a fair answer to your question, go find another military expert.
@Neo The Resurrected ONE I’m not sure why he wants me to care about the rest of this movie, but I have personally witnessed an AC-130 at work, less than a football field’s length away. The Combat it portrays is terribly unrealistic. The action sequences do actually look like they were written by a kid playing with toys.
That being said, some people seem to enjoy it as a movie. There’s nothing wrong with it being loved as such. Coach Carter isn’t a good realistic portrayal of basketball, but I love it.
daemonova
hit it, & I didn't go Erykah Badu crazy, #yallmad
Have no desire to see Coach Carter so I'll take your word for it
Now you get it, unlike that “kids playing cops and robbers, with finger guns” action sequence at the end of covenant.
daemonova
hit it, & I didn't go Erykah Badu crazy, #yallmad
There is scene earlier in the movie where they take a Taliban enclave, wonder if you feel the same way about that scene but I guess we'll never know.
Now you get it, unlike that “kids playing cops and robbers, with finger guns” action sequence at the end of covenant.
I was going to respond with “the budget was too small for the crescendo of the movie, why would it be better elsewhere?”
Instead I went on my Amazon account, found this movie, went through the other “combat sequences” in the movie (like the checkpoint scene, etc).
Surprise, they’re the same. Guy Ritchie didn’t have the budget (equipment, effects, choreography), want, or need to pull off realistic portrayals of combat.
And you know what? THAT’S OKAY. They all can’t be “zero dark thirty”, or have the brutality of “Fury”.
If you like this movie then like it for what it is. Most people aren’t going to care if it’s realistic or not. They just want the plot to move along. It’s Guy Ritchie, I expect as much from his war movie as I would from Spike Lee’s.
daemonova
hit it, & I didn't go Erykah Badu crazy, #yallmad
I never saw the end of Miracle ar St. Anna and have no desire to. So I can't comment on what you're talking about.
I can't describe anything that happens in "Da 5 Bloods" as a war movie since it happens decades after the Vietnam War. I do consider it a epic though.
This movie is pretty much "Lone Survivor " remixed. Lone Survivor is based on a true story, this is not. Though it has elements of other accounts in it.
I enjoyed the story and acting in The five bloods but didn’t like the action too much. I feel it’s going to be a classic to be celebrated in the future.
Miracle at St. Anna, I felt, was a lost opportunity to really show how successful Black soldiers were at fighting, and how brutal the Italian theater was.
“Lone survivor” was a good story too. It wasn’t very realistic, but I still enjoyed it. The director did a good job of portraying the desperation and hopelessness of the situation, like “Black hawk down”.
The story it’s based on is dubious as hell. People throughout the Army and Navy community have accused buddy of lying about what happened, for years. Actual footage of his team, shortly after infil, and death popped up on YouTube.
@Neo The Resurrected ONE @daemonova the bond between some units/teams is slightly realistic as some do grow to really rely on each other.
Our terp’s don’t typically fight though. Some did but they had a commando background and were assigned to special operations. Our interpreters didn’t fight and we actually had one with a commando background.
Our terp’s don’t typically fight though. Some did but they had a commando background and were assigned to special operations. Our interpreters didn’t fight and we actually had one with a commando background.
Neo. The Only. The One.
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"Some"?
I would have thought it would be more than some teams growing to rely on each other, as you're literally trusting your team to have your back and keep you alive.
"Some"?
I would have thought it would be more than some teams growing to rely on each other, as you're literally trusting your team to have your back and keep you alive.
Lol it’s mostly just a paycheck for them. We had two, Hunter and J. They showed up, when they felt like it, and called a number where a local rep would pick them up and bring them on base to stay with us for a week. They alternated.
J was a chill family dude. He was always sick, he seemed to get into arguments everywhere we went, and he slept through every mounted patrol. We didn’t trust him and thought he was going to set us up or suicide bomb us. He was best at getting us discounts at local bootleg movie markets. And getting free food from everybody we stopped to shoot the shyt with. He even slept through fire fights
Hunter was also a family man, former commando, who had been with US special operations early in the war. Brought us food his wife made, regularly identified local Taliban (even the taliban biker gang), helped identify Booby traps and IED’s, we trusted him enough that we gave him a Barretta M9 and some frag grenades. The locals, police, Army, and commando’s loved him, no matter the town. He liked to donate to poor families we came across.
We escorted EOD mostly, so we technically had a third interpreter. She wasn’t Afghan but could speak Pashtun really well. She got us in trouble with the locals because she would chastise them for doing socially backwards things like making women do all the farm work. She always screamed and cried during fights. During a bad situation she fell and cried, telling the locals we killed a car full of children (it was 2 grown ass bomb makers, a corrupt off duty police officer and his nephew in the car). Fox News and others reported the car full of 11-12 year old kids story before they retracted and corrected. She would make everyone food and brought us free cigarettes.
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