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Subject: Most militarily incorrect movie
Jeff_F_F    6/23/2007 10:09:06 AM
My vote is for Godzilla, with Apache attack helicopters firing cannon mounted on the sides of the fuselage and ending with an entire stadium blown up with what looked like a few Harpoons.
 
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Asymmetric    Yip with a claymore, a whole warehouse   9/6/2007 9:10:11 AM
 
I humbly put forward what I believe is a serious contender for if not the most inaccurate military 3:43s on screen then certainly a front runner for the most over the top aerobatics that defies rag doll physics from grenades I have ever seen.
 
I strongly recommend you all watch this clip, if nothing else for a good chuckle.
 
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buzzard       9/6/2007 2:44:43 PM
While admittedly Commando is not by any means a good movie, it does hold one of my favorite lines in it.

After Arnie interrogates on perp by holding him off the edge of a high bridge and then drops him when he is done, he is asked by the obligatory female eye candy companion  "What did you do with him?"
"I let him go."

That just kills me. Of course Commando is only properly enjoyed with a healthy complement of fermented and/or distilled beverages in your system.

buzzard

 
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bob the brit       9/6/2007 4:23:57 PM

300.

 

Any other takers?

 

But it was a good movie, but very inaccurate....


How so? (i'm not doubting you just curious... my history of spartans and thermopylae is weak)
although understandably so, wasn't it from the makers of sin city? (also not a greatly accurate account of crime in the US... not that it was supposed to be)
but finally i will agree, quite a good watch

 
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JIMF       9/7/2007 12:21:15 PM
300. 
 
I guess you could start with the fact that Xerxes wasn't 9 feet tall.  For the actual history we are dependent on Greek sources.  The Spartan force numbered  300, which I believe was King Leonidas (one of two Kings in the Spartan system) bodyguard, but the total Greek force at Thermopylae numbered in the thousands including Thebans, Phocians, Thespians etc.  When the Spartan position was compromised by the traitor Ephialtes most of the Greeks withdrew, the Spartans and I think the Thespians remaining to die to the last man.  
 
The Greeks estimated the Persian force in the millions, one inscription states that "here 300 of the Pelopenese fought ten thousand thousand".  Most modern historians put the Persian force at somewhere in the area of 150,000.   I read that one Spartan who was blinded in the early combat somehow survived and returned to Sparta.  He was shunned, and referred to as "he who came back".  He died blindly swinging his sword in the front line of the Spartan Army at the subsequent battle of Platea.
 
Also check out the movie:  300 Spartans, circa 1962, starring Richard Egan.  Except for the silly romance not a bad movie. 
 
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BasinBictory       9/14/2007 6:23:29 AM
Don't forget that the 300 Spartans were also accompnied by their various servants and shield-bearers.
 
And yes, Xerxes wasn't 9 feet tall. I'm also fairly certain he didn't have quite as many body piercings and speak in an electronically modulated baritone.
 
Any Schwarzenegger movie from the 1980's is just typical '80's shlock. This was in the days before Hollywood actually employed "reality consultants" to lend their pictures an air of authenticity. So Commando, Predator, and a few others were hilariously over the top. I mean, in Commando, he falls from an airplane (sans parachute) that's taking off, falling what appears to be a couple of hundred feet, without sustaining major injury. Yeah - he lands in a marsh, but still, it's kind of ridiculous. In Predator, Jesse Ventura (the WWF wrestler and future governor of Minnesota) carries a freakin' minigun, for Chrissakes! Even if it were chambered in .223, the gun would weigh a couple of hundred pounds (by itself) and with ammo, batteries, etc., it would weigh probably at least 500 pounds.
 
Also, I always found it amusing (particularly in Predator) how military guys would always wear shirts that bared their well-muscled chests and arms. Yeah - I know it's hot in the jungle, but wearing clothes with no sleeves is an open invitation for all kinds of bugs to get inside, plus the straps from your LBE will chafe that much more.
 
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HIPAR    Failsafe?   10/8/2007 8:41:55 PM
What do you all think of Failsafe and Dr Strangelove? 

Although I question the premise of Strangelove's Wing Attack Plan R, I can visualize the debacle unfold exactly as depicted. and the associated military equipment does look convincing.  I never had any real appreciation for the technology depicted in Failsafe and have always been critical of the unfolding drama .  Of course, these are comments about the military details .. two different kinds of movies.

---  CHAS

 
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rb_martin       10/9/2007 7:23:45 PM

What do you all think of Failsafe and Dr Strangelove? 

Although I question the premise of Strangelove's Wing Attack Plan R, I can visualize the debacle unfold exactly as depicted. and the associated military equipment does look convincing. 

Dr. Strangelove was actually quite entertaining. My favorite scene was the closer; Slim Pickens riding the bomb bust me up every time.

I never had any real appreciation for the technology depicted in Failsafe and have always been critical of the unfolding drama .  Of course, these are comments about the military details .. two different kinds of movies.

Never saw the movie; read the book ages ago. It wasn't that bad, though not very factual either. But I am operating on memory here, and I reserve the right to be wrong.

B


 
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scotty       10/10/2007 12:49:11 AM
Under Siege with Steven Seagal.
Don't know which part is the worst. The Harpoon taking out the radar station. The rules regarding Nuclear weapons.The Marine who can't recognize gunfire. The microwave that blows everything to hell. The sub that can't submerge without fixing the dive planes. Everyone getting locked into the chain locker. firing the 16 inch guns. Of course where are all the 5 inch shells.How a North Korean sub can be off Hawaii.
 
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Ehran       10/10/2007 12:52:07 PM

While admittedly Commando is not by any means a good movie, it does hold one of my favorite lines in it.



After Arnie interrogates on perp by holding him off the edge of a high
bridge and then drops him when he is done, he is asked by the
obligatory female eye candy companion  "What did you do with him?"

"I let him go."



That just kills me. Of course Commando is only properly enjoyed with a
healthy complement of fermented and/or distilled beverages in your
system.



buzzard




i liked the part where he shot the guy who was supposed to explain to arnold what the bad guys wanted. 
did that in an rpg once to the horror of the other players.  told them that if what he had to say was important they would send another goon and sure enough they did.
 
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andyf       10/11/2007 2:23:16 AM
anything with chuck norris in it.
he shoots the shit out of the baddie with a badass machine gun, as he falls , chuckie kicks him in the face.
why?
does he doubt the efficacy of 5.56mm?
or is he a bastard?
 
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