Drone movie

[Kraut783]

Naw....only a MSM

 

[Florida173]

Will I get a BSM for sitting through this movie?

It is as valid as anyone receiving a BSM for nothing more than doing their job downrange, or just showing up.

 

[DA SWO]

Will I get a BSM for sitting through this movie?

No, just hemorrhoids (and PTSD).

 

[Ooh-Rah]

This thread is driving me to drink! :dead:

 

[racing_kitty]

This thread is driving me to drink! :dead:

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A drive around the block would have taken longer.

 

[Gunz]

Will I get a BSM for sitting through this movie?

With "V" for video game.

 

[AWP]

Bumping this thread because I ran across a review. The most redeeming part of the movie is contained in three paragraphs:

Good Kill: Unintentional Zombie Movie Depicts Hard-Knock Drone Life

Most realistic is the movie’s depiction of drone operators as the “garbage men” (and women) of the war effort. Much of the damage to Egan’s eggshell psyche arises from the fact he lacks any meaningful choice in who he kills, and has no valid channel to raise moral concerns. While a “peasant revolt” is always an option, he knows it would destroy his chances of escaping back to his beloved F-16. So he continually yields to a system where faceless bureaucrats have codified a way to make questionable killing legal and now compel junior personnel to carry out their dirty work.

This can be seen as a dilemma of modern airpower and modern warfare in general. The extension of politically determined decisions to the tactical level of war without an accompanying deliberative process is a trend about which not enough people have thought carefully, and it’s among this film’s few redeemable subjects.

Should trigger pullers have enough information about their targets to judge the lawfulness of the orders they’re given? Does our commitment to legality in war require this? Does the Constitutional duty of an officer to safeguard rights and disregard unlawful orders that infringe on them imply the requirement for enough information to meet these obligations? Does the power to kill with impunity heighten, rather than diminish, the necessity to ensure the reasonability of commanders issuing lethal orders, and to brake those orders when necessary? Good Kill hints serviceably at these questions.

I thought this sums up what many of us are thinking:

But just in case you didn’t, the plot clubs you over the cranium with weepy sob stories about Egan’s longing for his glory days as an F-16 pilot, and how if he could only get back to killing people from merely thousands of feet rather than thousands of miles, his guilt would be vanquished and his sense of purpose restored.

The conclusion:

Good Kill succeeds in the modest task of exploring the trials and contradictions of life in the RPA world, but the depiction lacks heart or entertainment value (aside from unintentional comedy). It also lacks accuracy except at the most abstract level. The real story of the drone community is more troubling in some ways than what we’re shown here.

1 of 4 stars

 

[Blizzard]

Speaking of zombies...

Clearly, we don't need to worry about a shortage of quality cinema. It's stars Michael Dudikoff for crying out loud; arguably one of the greatest military film actors to grace the screen.

 

[The Hate Ape]

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[DA SWO]

I tried to read the reviews, but it seemed the reviewers were just droning along.

 

[Kraut783]

well...it was only a matter of time

 

[x SF med]

I tried to read the reviews, but it seemed the reviewers were just droning along.

Well played.... nicely done.