I saw Lone Survivor over the weekend with my wife...loved every moment of the movie and the intensity of some of the scenes was almost too much...loved it!
Liked the movie but the “extra falls” and dramatic ending were pure Hollywood. I would have been more satisfied had they stuck to the book.
“As long as you’re alive, you’re always in the fight.”
Good tagline.
The one small issue I had was when the CH-47 got blown up by the RPG. You have the Colonel standing at the back of a hovering chopper with the rear open on a very hot LZ and he's asking the rookie SEAL, "Are you ready?! Are you good?!"
Like they're gonna have a conversation about how ready they are waiting to rappel out of the damn chopper! I know it's a VERY small issue, but it just annoyed me to no end.
Never forget those who never came back..
I never understood why they did not simply zip tie and gag the three, given that a search party would have been sent out to look for them after some number of hours. By releasing them right away, they brought upon themselves a Taliban attack many hours earlier than would have otherwise have occurred. In that time span, they could have been evac'd out of the area. While getting out, they could have marked the area where the goat herders were tied up with WP.
I may check the movie out later this year. My question right now is, if you saw the movie, do you think any security secrets were inappropriately made public? I heard the details of Seal Training were shown. Was anything shown about the way our Seals train, the sequences, the intensities, the immediate motivational goals, that may give our enemies an unfortunate edge? I hope not. I hope the producers did due diligence, and did not overtalk in an effort to scare and impress the average civilian viewer.
Badly injured AND wounded? Sounds series ;^)
I looked at it as a descriptive movie about a true event. There was a lot of “Hollywood” in it, but that’s why they call it Hollywood. I know Seals are tough, but the laws of Physics still apply to even Seals. Some of the falls would not be survivable and the RPG’s hit waaay too close to survive. We like to look at it as a patriotic endeavor but Hollywood looks at it as “money”. I have no problem with that. I would rather have more of this than more zombies and homo’s on drugs crying about mistreatment. They know the formula works, but they would rather put out some other puke than salute the flag. Even Disney has given over to the dark side, IMO.
Maybe Walberg is picking up where Mel Gibson became distracted with personal problems and stopped making high ideal movies. Some actors, act to earn a living, other actors learn how to create the entire vehicle, from story board to the night of premiere. Ronnie Howard is that way. Ronnie is one of the few child actors who learned the business and all it’s components. I forgive Ronnie for being a lib, because at least he doesn’t seem to be a hateful lib, or one bent on destroying all pillars of society as does Rob Reiner, aka Meathead. Rob pals around with the ACLU!
There have been a handful of close calls and brushes, but no Navy SEAL since the beginning in ‘62 has ever been captured alive.
Watched it on Saturday in CT. Sold out show again. Pretty good for the second week. The silent majority votes with their wallet.
I read the book when it came out and couldn’t appreciate the tumbling down the mountain until I saw it in the movie.
Good review.
I was kind of surprised that a CH-47 full of SEALs was shot down. My wife asked if that was the SEAL team 6 chopper that went down (she is reading the book “Betrayal”)
I couldn’t answer her for sure because I had not heard of another SEAL chopper being shot down (although this was long before the ST-6 chopper shootdown)
Was this shootdown covered up as well?
