Good Lord, could they have screwed up the story any more??? Fox Tv Show “911” tonites episode... The had a sequence of Afghanistan night fight, of a Helo shot down, and medics on board with wounded... All were wearing hemet mounted DUAL Night Vision Gear, it was a firefight at night and NOT ONE of these supposed Troops, ever pulled the NV gear down over their Eyes during the whole battle... What a crock... They got saved by the QRF that came in with a Helo w/mounted Gatlin Guns on both sides, that just ripped the Bad Guys total new A$$holes, and saved the day... Where was the Military Consultant on this Show... The producers should be Ashamed...
Any movie ever made with combat scenes in it ,, is not fit to watch unless they use those guns that never need reloading ,, Probably directed by one of them California gun hatin' liberal's that swears we need more gun laws .
I've yet to see one of the recent crop of pseudo military type shows that is accurate in many details other than speaking some form of English. FBI, SWAT, 911, your pick.
OMG...continuity, special effects and the 3rd acting deputy assistant director screwed up technical verisimilitude to the dissatisfaction of the kibitzers watching from the peanut gallery....it's 'entertainment', not a combat newsreel documentary...oh, and they have been faked too...lol The Early History of Faking War on Film | History | Smithsonian Magazine Necsus | The din of gunfire: Rethinking the role of sound in World War II newsreels Goodness Bruce....isn't it so obvious....those heroes had been eating their carrots, and eating their spinach...they had no need of NVGs or Benzedrine to save the day, and win...Murica! Murica! Murica! Yankee cultural propaganda don't need no realism lol...and ever has it been so in American entertainment media. I have to let you in on a secret...entertainment film and TV companies may make some effort to achieve some verisimilitude to combat, but not to the extent of it getting in the way of telling a story that will satisfy most uncritical viewers in order to make a profit...they are not making much money off satisfying technical purists.
Actually, the Show “Seal Team” does a reasonable job of portraying the Combat sequences... and they actually do use the NV Gear, and inter-Team CommGear similar to the real thing... They do, however, not show the Encrypted SpreadSpectrum Comm Gear that the Teams use to keep Comms back to the mobile Command...
I saw a TV show once where a dude with a lever-action Winchester shot some guy at close range, and the "spent cartridge" instantly "ejected"--just like with a modern sem-auto. Except that it was to the left, of course. Thatk you, CGI! That was actually very entertaining.
I watched boxing with Pops a lot growing up. For this reason I can’t stomach a boxing movie of any type. The Rocky’s? Barf. Not even close to realistic. The lineman movie with John Travolta is out of the question. Never.
I was never in the military, but I think Audy Murphy would have objected if the movie telling his story had been too far off the mark.
Bosch is one of my favorite characters in Michael Connely's books. I've watched the video online and it's pretty good.
I just watched what was billed as the top five gun fights Hollywood ever produced, Heat was one and Special Forces have started using it as training, but Saving Private Ryan lost me when the MG42s were killing soldiers ten feet under water.
Myth Busters shot a number of rifles into water. All the cartridge firearms were traveling too fast to penetrate far into water. The one that went farthest was a .58 cal. muzzleloader The cartridge arms were moving faster and the bullets fragmented.
yep it wuz not a single tool, they tested multiple tools and multiple calibers including a Barrett .50 BMG, M1 in .30-06, and many more
