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A lot has been said about this movie very recently, so we took a slightly different approach this time and brought on DIF Guru Matt "emfayder" Vayda to sit next to Eddie and talk Army with us.
Unfortunately, we do spend a lot of time just being our usual selves. We tried to be smart and topical, we did!
Oh man, you guys! I just had this from Netflix last week, but I already sent it back. I really like you guys and your site, but I wish you would put a schedule out so we know what movies are coming.
Hm. Anyone else want a calendar?
Oh I dunno Teague I've only been telling you you need one for the past year.
I would be very much down for a calender.
I'm curious what people think of our opinion of the movie. Matt and I did wax nostalgic about the Army, sure, but I think we landed on a solid critique of the movie and I'd like to know what our listeners think about the film.
Well I only got about halfway through the movie so far, (got really weighed down by all the military reminiscing and technicality, not really my thing) but from what I've heard so far (In addition to what I heard from the anniversary show) it seems like you guys started out saying that this movie got a lot of things right and things were really realistic and all that. But as the movie went along the primary thing I noticed was that when it came to the nitty gritty details (guns, vehicles etc.) you guys were pretty much in agreement that they were accurate (Except for the youtube reference and the uniforms...). But nearly everytime someone (Usually Teague) brought up "So is this how the real EOD would do it?" or "So is this how it would really happen?" I heard an overwhelming amount of "Oh no, that's completely a movie fabrication." or more more usual, "Oh hell no."
Which leads me to wonder, how much of this movie is actually right?? (I mean on a character level, as a representation of what actually goes on over there)
Again you guys probably wrap it up nicely in the last half, but since you asked, I wanted to get that out there.
Oh and hells yes to the calender. I'm sure I've asked about this before...numerously.
Link doesn't do anything for me.
My favorite modern war movie is Blackhawk Down. I love the quote from it. "Politics go out the door the minute the first bullet flys by your head."
Didn't care much for this one (film, not the commentary).
I watched this and Body of Lies in a sort of double bill and found both to be the very similar - they're both wishy washy films too blatantly skirting around very current issues presenting a story about... well nothing really.
THL seems like a series of vignettes, the best of which is the opening and the worst is the encounter with the mercenaries, which suffers from very bad direction and editing - I can't believe Oscars were handed out for this shoddy work. The two mercenaries that survive the initial attack simply disappear entirely. The camera almost deliberately shoots around them, despite the fact that they are right there in the ditch with them, instead choosing to focus on our heroes who have gone from soldiers to supersoldiers. At one point they're attacked from the rear and it's like the two extra guys with weapons have evaporated. I keep thinking, 'wait, what happened to the other guys?' and there I am distracted for the remainder of the scene.
With the ending, I felt the entire film was rendered moot.
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