Posted on 10/14/2011 6:09:29 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Via Jonathan Last, this is as close as most of America will ever get to watching real SEALs in action. How do I know? Because the troops here are all played by … active-duty Navy SEALs. Really.
It started out as a training video and things just sort of ballooned:
Act of Valor has an unusual backstory. The film, directed by Mike “Mouse” McCoy and Scott Waugh, started out as a training video for Navy SEALS. The Navy liked what they saw so much that they decided to turn it into a documentary.
Then, they decided to make a feature, and hired screenwriter Kurt Johnstad (300) to create a fictional story about a squad that goes on a covert mission to recover a kidnapped CIA agent.
Another interesting aspect of the upcoming feature, which will hit theaters on February 17, is that the SEALS are played by actual SEALS. The bad guys, however, are played by actors, including Emilio Rivera and Roselyn Sanchez.
This sort of thing has worked before. And thanks to the SEALs’ new place in the national consciousness post-Bin Laden, there are bound to be curiosity-seekers swinging by the theater who might not have bitten on this last year. Exit question: How much at the box office? Over/under is $50 million.
Update: Commenters are wondering whether the Navy put up the money — i.e. our money — to bankroll this. Good question. Maybe that’s the way we’ll finally eliminate the deficit. All Obama needs to do is finance ten or twenty thousand superhero blockbusters and we’re out of the fiscal hole.
This IS jmac Pelham. True to form you are with your back-handed slaps. “Cult of Lincoln’’? *Groan* When are you going to give that nonsense up?
Oh and btw ‘’Pelly’’ ol’ pal, out of politeness to the good folks on this thread lets not argue here ok? Lets pull this over to a Civil War thread, shall we?
I had to look twice to make sure I didn't post that.
“Band of Brothers” was vastly superior to “Saving Private Ryan.” “Ryan” had timing (the first of the realistic WWII movies) and the D-Day sequence to its advantage, but in terms of overall realism, “BoB” is head-and-shoulders above it.
Oh, and I can’t wait to see this flick.
My personal favorite: “The Dirty Dozen.”
“*Groan* When are you going to give that nonsense up?”
When you’ve seen the light and renounce the errors of your past! We believe in forgiveness around here, even for yankees.
And that will be all until we do battle next time on some War of Northern Aggression thread.
“Add to that MacArthur was a over-rated general “
Dwight Eisenhower worked for MacArthur for a number of unpleasant years in the 1930s. At some occasion after Eisenhower had been the Supreme Allied Commander Europe in WWII MacArthur was asked if he remembered Ike:
“Of course I remember Eisenhower. Best clerk I ever had”
Eisenhower was once asked if he had known General MacArthur. Ike’s reply:
“Did I know MacArthur? Sure. I studied drama under him for 10 years”
Renounce the past? What an idiot you are! The past, what past? 1865? Your side lost the war it started. What a maroon!
The first step to the cure is to admit your error jmac! Free yourself from obeisance to the cult of those ruthless politicians who killed the thousands and thousands that resisted their lust for unrestrained, centralized power!
The marble idol in the Lincoln Temple is no worthier of worship than the deified Caesars in their temples in Rome or the paraffin Lenin in Red Square. The veneration heaped upon that ambitious infidel railroad lawyer is heresy! The idol cannot help you! Abandon the cult jmac! Renounce your fealty to the terrorist John Brown and his Radical Republican supporters!
Pelly old boy, the only ‘’error’’ here is my continued folly in talking to someone as obsessed (and just plain igornant) as you. The Civil War is long over(news flash: The treasonous South lost! omg.!) We’re one nation again(God bless America!) and you need a life. Or a girlfriend. Have a great day Pelly old chum.
+1 on Kellys Heroes
“Maybe theyre republicans..make deal!”
We Were Soldiers is one of my favorites. Finally convinced my wife to allow my 14-year old daughters to watch it. I wasn’t sure if they would like it or not. They LOVED it! (My wife watched it part-way through years ago and it wasn’t for her.)
My wife’s idea of a war movie is “They Died with their Boots on”. Also an easy piece of entertaintment.
Oh - speaking of Custer, we all love the line where Moore says “Well, now I know how Custer felt.” And the Master Sergeant(?) says something like “Custer was a pussy - you ain’t”.
If you haven’t seen Fortress Brest you are missing
a great movie.
Also Stalingrad, the attack scenes are incredible,
and the story line amazing.
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