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I know enough about guns to know that they're all using proper trigger protocol (just rewatched the movie the other day, and in that particular moment they're not under fire). I'm impressed enough that they ARE doing the trigger thing right, since so many movies don't even get that correct. But I don't know enough about guns to spot whatever might be wrong.
I suspect Eddie or Matt could, tho...
The butt of the guns should be in their shoulder the proper way? I don't know much about guns. Also maybe they're obvious replicas since they're swinging them around whereas the real ones are super heavy?
Just guessing.
Is it that none of them are wearing hats or helmets? I think Eddie said something about that on the Hurt Locker commentary.
Well, that's covered in the story - they're FBI agents (and the other two guys are Saudi police). So none of them are military, and at this point in the story they've just been caught in an ambush. The only reason they have vests is that the plot established early on that they have to wear those when out and about.
Again, I think the Kingdom is a really well made flick and it certainly seems from the making-of that they went for a high level of realism. Curious to see what Ash has spotted.
Trey is spot on with the helmets.
I agree, it's a good movie, and I really like Peter Berg as a filmmaker. I generally like everything he does. The Rundown is one of those fun adventure movies I love. Friday Night Lights was a good show (beside the Landry second season run in with the law).
I'm dying to tell you but I would like to see if Eddie or Matt get it. My money is on Eddie 
I liked Cabin In The Woods and the DiF podcast about said film that involved a shack in a forest.....
Let's stay on topic, Jimmy.
I just listened to the Cinefantastique podcast on the movie (and if nothing else, this film let me discover that magazine still exists in some form), and had fun comparing their criticisms to my own and yours. Something they touched on, and I agree with, is the "ritual" of the film... doesn't exist in modern real world horror movies, or at least not to a great extent. It's mocking something that hasn't been around for twenty years, and was old when "Scream" first created the rules of horror film. The group of teens is a sub genre, yes, kept alive in some form either for nostalgia reasons or to be made fun of, but it's the kind of thing that mainly applied to the Friday the 13th movies. An easy target, in other words. I liked the film, and will probably see it again, but it's more fun then great.
Saw this a while ago tonight. I spent much of the time giggling at this movie. I pretty much saw what you guys saw in the movie except I took a different idea away from it. The movie isn't really saying, "so, you thought this was torture porn. Don't you think there's something wrong with that?" It was saying more along the lines of: "look at how we manipulate you with our little stories." At a young age, a person who watches movies or tv, picks up on how a movie or tv show is supposed to work. In a way, said person "gets" that in order to be satisfied by entertainment, it MUST adhere to certain guidelines. If the entertainment in question does not adhere to said guidelines, that the person feels unfulfilled. Cabin in the Woods pulls the curtain back for the audience to see the Wizard is just a dirty old man. I see where you guys are coming from in the commentary though. Really fun movie. I'll have to pick it up when it comes out on Blurry. 
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