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F.M.
If I wanted you're opinion, I would give it to you bastard! Make fucking sure you call me today regarding what we talked about. Be safe dick. :)
F.M.
Has anybody seen the movie?
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Just saw this trailer for the first time today. With interview of the parents...I will watch this, but man will it be tough...something that gets to me everything I see the trailers is the scene where the guys are getting into the choppers and heading out for a rescue. In a movie, they're supposed to make it "just in time". They are not supposed to be blown out of the sky. Damn.
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Okay, I'll bite. First, I'm curious how you got the viewing since it has not been relased yet.
What about it was "fantastic?". Channel your inner Ebert a bit and expand?
ThunderHorse
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Hollywood Arclight dude...
policemedic
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Movies are sometimes released earlier on the left coast.
Which tells most of us nothing.
I know they had a red carpet preview that they invited a bunch of veterans to out here in Denver a few weeks ago.
When I was OCONUS, from time to time we'd get "directors releases" or whatever sent out to us before they were officially released. Sometimes someone would get a black market version before the official release.
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It has been playing where I'm at since Christmas.
ThunderHorse
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https://www.arclightcinemas.com/movie/lone-survivor?lid=1001
I wanted to see it on Christmas, but it had one showing. It has weird showtimes it seems, one one day and five another.
I wanted to see it on Christmas, but it had one showing. It has weird showtimes it seems, one one day and five another.
Watching it now. Good movie, crap for details at times. They didn't even get Turbine 33's callsign right and a memorial patch for Marc Lee in 2005? Sadly, Axelson's death in the movie conflicts with Luttrell's book.
Good movie, but details and events are just plain wrong.
Good movie, but details and events are just plain wrong.
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Worth seeing? Yes. Worth seeing more than once? Nope.
I thought the firefight scenes were done pretty good. Historical inaccuracies aside, the movie was good IMO.
Which is funny because of the numerous interviews and stories where the director and others talked about "getting it right."
Here's a great one:
http://collider.com/peter-berg-marcus-luttrell-lone-survivor-interview/
3 times Berg talks about "getting it right" and if you Google that phrase there are others instances out there.
I'm thrilled that the movie was made, and it is a well-made movie (more or less, the slow-mo scenes were a bit much), but don't jerk us off with comments about getting it right or honoring the fallen. They didn't take understandable shortcuts like Blackhawk Down's composite characters, Lone Survivor fabricated whole scenes and botched basic details. There's enough controversy around the event in general and Mr. Luttrell that the movie could have at LEAST refrained from adding to it.
How do you honor anyone when you fabricate the story or alter it to suit whatever ends you have in mind? The story is ridiculously powerful on its own without Hollywood being Hollywood.
If it were just a fictitious event the movie would be amazing, but "based on a true story" is hollow because of the many things it did wrong. If anyone thinks I'm off, go compare Luttrell's book to the movie.
Go see the movie, but know that what you're watching deviates from actual events....per Luttrell's book and not some inside scoop I may have (and I have none).
