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06-30-2018, 12:07 AM | #21711 (permalink) | ||||
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Up your critical thinking game, bro. Quote:
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06-30-2018, 12:20 AM | #21712 (permalink) |
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Black Hawk Down made the US military (and government) look like ****. You still implying it had the Pentagon's backing? And funding? Simply because one soldier was a PR nightmare?
Way to lose sight of the big picture. Movie was extremely well made with lots of awesome special FX, but if at the end of it you felt compelled to join the army..... well, you were pretty damn ****ed up years before the movie came out. That movie, along with the other's I listed, completely destroyed the John Wayne "America, Gung-Ho" cliche forever. Wanna watch propaganda? Check out "The Green Berets". Don't be drinking any soda during it. You might hurt your nostrils.
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06-30-2018, 12:33 AM | #21713 (permalink) | ||||
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And the actual military operation made us look like idiots. The movie made us look like scrappy badasses.
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06-30-2018, 12:44 AM | #21715 (permalink) | |
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The movie made us look like badasses who quickly became groveling shrews once the real **** went down. The scenes with Ron Eldard as Durant, and his captors tells it all. Scrappy badass? Actually, makes you seem kinda tough.
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06-30-2018, 01:18 AM | #21717 (permalink) | |
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So are you just going to ignore the rest of the post? You were wrong about military involvement and maybe you should ask yourself why the hell the they would be involved in a movie that supposedly made them look bad.
Oh and here's a "complete" list of movies produced with Pentagon assistance given by the Pentagon itself. Hamburger Hill and Black Hawk Down are on the list. I might have missed others on your list because it's long and unorganized, and there's no telling if the list actually is complete. Complete List of Commercial Films Produced with Assistance from the Pentagon | Stephen Underhill - Academia.edu
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06-30-2018, 07:07 AM | #21719 (permalink) |
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Guys I just wanna gush about good movies not have arguments
Opening the floor to people that have seen Hereditary again, because god damn i love that movie
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06-30-2018, 10:16 AM | #21720 (permalink) |
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Seeing it today. I have very high hopes.
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