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Posted on 10/12/25 at 9:31 pm to GruntbyAssociation
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Blackhawk Down
Listened to Tom Satterly on Mike Ritlands podcast recently. Tom was a delta member who was part of Operation Gothic Serpent (operation Blackhawk down was based). He said the movie was told from the Army Ranger perspective. The Delta members couldn’t tell their story because everything was classified. He said it was hell on earth. He said the night they were protecting the first chopper that went down it felt like a walking dead episode. The militants were drugged up and just kept coming. The little birds killed hundreds that night. They had spent ammo from the helos raining down on them.
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Posted on 10/13/25 at 10:50 am to The Torch
The Outpost. I served with two of those guys in the movie and it’s pretty legit. They are in talks to do a movie about my platoon in Iraq 2003 based off a book written about some things that happened during that tour. Not sure how much fighting will be in it. A lot of it will focus on my buddy that was killed and his dad making his way to Iraq where he was killed. It’s called a Fathers promise. I just hope they make us out to be the crazy assholes we were. Ohh and Hurt Locker was the most unrealistic piece of shite movie ever made.
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Posted on 10/13/25 at 11:01 am to lake2280
Posted on 10/14/25 at 2:38 pm to MWP
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which I found very odd since it didn't exactly paint some of the officers and senior enlisted in a good light.
this is my beef with Generation Kill.
first off, there is zero chance that Recon company commander wouldnt know what danger close meant. zero. i dont care how dumb he was.
also Nate Fick is a liberal jerkoff who, shockingly, is the only officer portrayed in a good light by the Rolling Stone.
still a pretty good show anyways.
Posted on 10/14/25 at 9:59 pm to Sam Quint
I’ve seen a few listed that I liked and Kinda realistic. But, the one I was uncomfortable in was Fury. I think it was because we moved in to a new house and it had a theatre room with a true surround sound. I really didnt care to hear gun fire from coming all around.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:24 am to lsufan1971
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The militants were drugged up and just kept coming
All the skinnies there especially those that served a warlord were jacked up on cot. It was a leaf on a local plant you pulled, chewed, and were basically high.
My unit had left the Mog that summer right before this went down. I knew many of those guys involved. The Mog was like that daily it seemed. The wild west with the SNA controlling most of the city. The burning of the tires along with the Pakistan army which has to be the most unorganized group I have ever run across.
So Blackhawk Down was very accurate in a lot of respects.
Full Metal Jacket especially boot camp but I had 5 DIs not one.
Jarhead with all the down time in the Gulf was very realistic. In long deployments like that so much down time. I did learn how to play every variation of spades there is.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 9:03 am to TideWarrior
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Full Metal Jacket especially boot camp but I had 5 DIs not one.
i love FMJ, but the boot camp stuff is like 10% of the intensity of real Marine boot camp.
i'm also in the rare camp of liking the second half of the movie way more than the first half.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 8:02 pm to Sam Quint
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i love FMJ, but the boot camp stuff is like 10% of the intensity of real Marine boot camp.
I agree and as mentioned I had 5 DIs that were all worse than that but maybe for draftees it was different is trying to mimic that culture of the day.
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i'm also in the rare camp of liking the second half of the movie way more than the first half.
I agree here as well because it showed what it was like fighting in the cities where the majority of movies always focused on the jungle fighting in Nam.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 9:23 pm to BHTiger
Platoon was the most hackneyed tripe ever put on screen. It was every leftist's anti-Vietnam cliché rolled into one movie.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 10:19 pm to couv1217
Saving private Ryan
Posted on 10/16/25 at 12:21 am to Tigeralum2008
From a submariner point of view - some blend of Hunt for Red October and Down Periscope.
Basically take the scenes from Hunt for Red October but make the characters be smart asses.
Crimson Tide can be good cinema but it absolutely whiffs on submarine culture.
Basically take the scenes from Hunt for Red October but make the characters be smart asses.
Crimson Tide can be good cinema but it absolutely whiffs on submarine culture.
Posted on 10/16/25 at 6:23 am to TideWarrior
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I agree here as well because it showed what it was like fighting in the cities where the majority of movies always focused on the jungle fighting in Nam.
+Animal Mother
Posted on 10/16/25 at 1:59 pm to ManBearTiger
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GI Joe: Rise of Cobra
I was going to make a joke about setting swamps on fire but that would have been Retaliation
Posted on 10/16/25 at 4:56 pm to couv1217
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What movies have you seen that most emulate what you experienced in your time serving?
For fictional work, “Warfare” is the undisputed top dog for me (if you consider it fictional).
“The Outpost” is really good as well. I love “Black Hawk Down”, but it’s tough for me to comment on it since it was a different time, different military, different war. “Beasts of No Nation” is a really good depiction of African insurgencies.
For non-fiction “Restrepo” is the standard. I knew / know several of the guys in the unit. One of my instructors in infantry officer school was one of the main NCO’s in the movie. One of my best friends was in the battalion but in another company. I met Colonel Ostlund a few times and saw him speak in person. Almost to a man, those guys were emotionally torn up after that deployment.
One other doc I’ll shout out that I think is really good - and relatively unknown - is “Only the Dead”. Extraordinary in a lot of ways, and in particular, I like that the film maker follows units (towards the end of the doc) that were fighting in that area north of Baghdad between Baghdad and Baqubah and Tarmiyah, around where I spent most of my time. There were several areas of Iraq that were complete meat grinders that never got the publicity that places like Fallujah, Ramadi, Mosul, and Baghdad did; think areas like Baqubah / Tarmiyah, Mahmudiyah / Iskandiriyah / Lutifiyah, Hawija, Tal Afar, etc.
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