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To: Chainmail
I’ll add this to my list of totally unrealistic and unwatchable war movies.

You have some points of disagreement with the way the actors and director portrayed the weapons scenes, which may be quite accurate objections. However, your words "totally" and "unwatchable" are extreme and absolute. For those of us with less experience in weaponry, there was still much to learn from the film.

I was struck by the two scenes of the children handling weapons, the woman and child approaching the squad with a weapon hidden in her hijab, the scenes inside the home where a meal was served and then a weapons cache was discovered, the outdoor scenes showing both the countryside and the towns with satellite dishes all over the primitive houses, the uniforms and equipment in general, the scenes in hospital with the wounded, his interaction with the wounded, and many other things, including the news footage of Chris Kyle's actual funeral procession and funeral in a stadium in Texas. My experiences with combat wounded as a volunteer at Walter Reed were well represented in the film.

It's good to take movies with a grain of salt, or even a bag of salt, but overall, the film was not so distorted as to mis-portray the main gist of the story.

18 posted on 04/25/2015 9:18:36 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (The greatest danger facing our world: the marriage of militant Islam with nuclear weapons.-Netanyahu)
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To: Albion Wilde
Most war movies are really cartoons and this one was more cartoony than many. The excessive use of automatic fire was ridiculous - one of the last things you'll ever do on earth is run out of ammo in a firefight. People never bunch up if they want to live: one grenade, one burst of fire, one booby trap and everybody's hit. Nobody makes noise: you use hand and arm signals and move quickly and quietly. Noisemakers get killed.

If Chris Kyle was on the phone with his wife during a firefight, he was derelict in his duties. Leaders lead, they don't distract themselves from the mission and leading those around them. In combat, distraction is death.

The movie had some small OK moments but in the main, it was amateurish and unrealistic. Note to people who want to make war movies: incoming fire makes a ton of racket and when somebody's hit, it makes a loud bang like breaking board. You almost never see that many enemy out in open. They're not that stupid.

19 posted on 04/25/2015 11:01:43 AM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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