re: Go See Warfare In Theaters Before It's Too Late

Anyone check this out on streaming yet? Curious how much of a downgrade it is vs theatrical experience. I think I missed the boat to go see this in theaters.

What streaming service?

You can rent or buy it now on pretty much any major platform for $20. I believe HBO Max will be the first to stream it on subscription based platforms in a few months.

i would go see it if it was in IMAX in my city. unfortunately, Sinners got that spot.

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Don't all SEALS receive medic training? Not advanced SOF medical training, but training akin to what a regular army medic would have?

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Different branch and 15 years after my last deployment and as you know the military changes protocol like underwear but we ALL carried morphine auto-injectors along with our chemical warfare juice. The slowness of the morphine was the only thing that would have made me dubious of accuracy had I not known how this movie was made. We used it on soldiers with scratches relative to those injuries. Again, different war, different branch, and probably different protocols.

I waited to see it for two reasons: I didn't know how it would hit me (I had to break BHD into three episodes and have never done a rewatch except I use the frick Irene scene to demo the extension of my subwoofer system, and contrary to VOR's opinion my HT's SQ is better than any commercial theater.


Things that hit me:

The accurate portrayal of the long periods of boredom set against short periods of mass chaos

The IED smoke. I could taste that dusty acrid yellow smoke and drank over a liter of water in just a couple of minutes without realizing it until my bottle was empty.

The rare accurate view of how difficult it is to drag a casualty.

Possibly the only time I have ever heard a correct depiction of what the radio net sounds like when SHTF. Total chaos.

The irresistible need to fire blindly into the void


We have had Huston, Ford, and Stone movies that were authentic portrayals of their wars but this was an ode to the door kickers. It isn't a movie for veterans, it is a movie for the door kickers embroiled in MOUT combat the rest of us (vets and civs) are allowed to be voyeurs. The lack of artificial drama and dialogue based on real people without screenwriter polish may leave some feeling as if it was lacking something. The only thing that felt a bit inauthentic to me was the language between military jargon. I have never been around soldiers (maybe the Navy is different but I doubt it) that could utter a single sentence without 10 acronyms and a dozen expletives. They could be talking about Thanksgiving dinner with their parents, and the sentence would still be painted with words that would make George Carlin blush.

I think it is important going in to understand it is not so much a war movie as it is a war documentary and you aren't going to get the punched up one-liners or polished soliloquies. You aren't going to get a score that foreshadows the emotion you are supposed to feel in the following scene. Missing will be the tight voiceover of Privates Joker, and Taylor connecting the dots for you. You are going to get a 90-minute sliver of combat that happened years ago and an ocean away.

Its been 5 months is it still in theaters?