Posted on Sep 11, 2014
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So for those of you that I had the change to meet at RPx2014 know, I'm a huge nerd but I'm okay with that. Anyways, while sitting in the wonderful construction traffic that will never end here in Pittsburgh, I was looking through my Google Now feeds and came across this article and I thought it was interesting.
We all know that Hollywood never gets it right. I do believe by law they are not allowed to show the uniform exactly correct and this has resulted in many of beer drinking games to pick out the faults during a movie. Some movies get close. Saving Pvt Ryan and the mini-series Band of Brothers brought WWII to our living room. Platoon brought the jungles of Vietnam to America. Yet others were way off.
My question is this, how far will Hollywood take our story? To those that served in Vietnam, Korea, Desert Storm, do you get upside when Hollywood take things too far?
We all know that Hollywood never gets it right. I do believe by law they are not allowed to show the uniform exactly correct and this has resulted in many of beer drinking games to pick out the faults during a movie. Some movies get close. Saving Pvt Ryan and the mini-series Band of Brothers brought WWII to our living room. Platoon brought the jungles of Vietnam to America. Yet others were way off.
My question is this, how far will Hollywood take our story? To those that served in Vietnam, Korea, Desert Storm, do you get upside when Hollywood take things too far?
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Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)
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I think the problem is two-fold:
1) we are still fighting the war. It's hard to get perspective on the war, let alone show that perspective objectively, when we are too close to the subject.
2) Hollywood is overwhelmingly liberal. I am worried that the film makers will inject their own politics into the movie.
1) we are still fighting the war. It's hard to get perspective on the war, let alone show that perspective objectively, when we are too close to the subject.
2) Hollywood is overwhelmingly liberal. I am worried that the film makers will inject their own politics into the movie.
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And who will play the role of SFC Merino? George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Chunk from "The Goonies"???
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SFC Mark Merino
SSG Pete Fleming He went to Iraq in 2003 with Mimi. That took guts! I was on the Syrian border for 2 weeks and missed it. RESPECT!
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SSG Pete Fleming
SFC Mark Merino, He came to my FOB but I didn't get to see him either... the joys of being a Squad Leader...
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I would say that they are already doing movies and failing at getting it very accurate at this point. Hurt Locker and The Green Zone illustrate this.
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LTC Paul Labrador
These movies are aimed at civilians who wouldn't know the difference. Very few movies acknowledge that there are folks who can go "Yeah, I was there and I call shenanigans....."
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SFC Robin Gates
I agree SFC Jason Kendrick very few movies get it right. When they do, they get criticized as war mongering, "LONE SURVIVOR" Latest example.The 40's, 50's patriotism was there, movies were exaggerated putting the military in the lime light . 60's, 70 and 80's were mixed and apathetic. Patriotism was shown again in the 90's and early 2000's but back to the same old, same old again.
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SGT William Howell
My wife wanted to see Hurt Locker. I got up 10 minutes in for popcorn and went to another movie. Left her ass in that sucktacular waste of time. I wanted to dig my eyes out with a spoon in the first 10 minutes!
She asked me if it, "brought back memories and is that is why you left?" I said yes and then made her go buy me ice cream...sucker!! I later fixed her ass for that turd of a movie. I made her go see Range 15 with me, which is the best worst movie of all time!
She asked me if it, "brought back memories and is that is why you left?" I said yes and then made her go buy me ice cream...sucker!! I later fixed her ass for that turd of a movie. I made her go see Range 15 with me, which is the best worst movie of all time!
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