The Most Realistic War Movie Is Full of ---- [10 minute video by a U.S. Army veteran]

Cracked channel at YouTube ^ | February 14, 2017

[grundle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w__x_NGO-K0

[grundle]

This U.S. Army veteran points out errors on the 2009 movie "The Hurt Locker"

[SkyDancer]

Then there’s that tank movie called Fury which has so many hilarious goofs in it.

[Uncle Sam 911]

It could not be as bad as farces like the Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now and other Vietnam related “war” movies.

[BipolarBob]

Hot Shots was good one.

[Larry Lucido]

[Larry Lucido]

:-)

[shanover]

I thought Fury would be epic but as the movie went on, it sucked more and more just like Hurtlocker and American Sniper.The screenplays are horrible and usually never are better than the book or story it’s based upon. I have heard excellent reviews of Hacksaw Ridge pertaining to the realistic nature of the battle scenes.

[TADSLOS]

lol

[rlmorel]

Thanks for posting grundle...

[yarddog]

I was asking my neighbor, who was awarded the Silver Star in Vietnam, about “Apocalypse Now”. I knew he had seen combat so valued his opinion.

He said the movie was full of errors but at points he did feel he was back there.

[Billthedrill]

My late Dad would occasionally watch The Battle Of The Bulge - Henry Fonda version - and shout at the TV. I learned some interesting words that way.

[yarddog]

Yes “The Battle of the Bulge” was probably the least authentic war movie ever made. They filmed it in the desert.

[wbill]

I watched that movie with my Grandfather. He saw it (his words) “on its first run, in Technicolor”.

Afterwards, I asked him what he thought. He said that “it was a fine movie, but no one looked cold enough”.

Changed the way I watch war movies forever. Now I judge them on how cold or hot, dirty, hungry, exhausted, tired and generally miserable the actors look.

[Rockingham]

Even "Saving Private Ryan" was hard to credit at numerous points. Worst of all was having Tom Hanks and his platoon wandering about the Normandy countryside, chatting and skylarking as if they were tween boys wandering in the woods at the edge of their subdivision.

[huldah1776]

I judge movies by how often I can watch them. I’ve seen the Passion once. I usually watch Black Hawk Down around Memorial Day. We Were Soldiers is another I can’t watch too much. Don’t watch them for entertainment, for that I watch Bruce Willis.

[Thumper1960]

Was it only WW1 that can be described as:
“War consists of long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of extreme terror.”

[DesertRhino]

Flags of our Fathers was good.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

A realistic war movie would be watching a bunch of people doing things like repairing stuff, cleaning stuff, loading stuff, unloading stuff and dealing with the guy who demands "Where's my stuff?" War is a whole lot of grunt work, paperwork and waiting around for things to happen while watching your socks mold.

No one would ever go see a realistic war movie.

[SkyDancer]

My dad picked it up and we got our popcorn and ran it ... we had fun pointing out the stupidity of the action scenes. It was a hoot.

[Charles Martel]

Afterwards, I asked him what he thought. He said that “it was a fine movie, but no one looked cold enough”.

Changed the way I watch war movies forever. Now I judge them on how cold or hot, dirty, hungry, exhausted, tired and generally miserable the actors look.

Yeah, Hollywood usually shies away from gritty detail, that's what made the Normandy beach scenes in Saving Private Ryan so noteworthy - they actually tried to show it without the candy coating. I've seen foreign films that do a consistently better job - good examples being Talvisota (The Winter War, 1989) and Stalingrad (1993).