military personnel?

Question

I had a question for any military personnel who may be reading this. When you watch a movie like "Tears of the Sun" or "Black Hawk Down" or "Three Kings" or any other military movies, what do you think about Hollywood's representation of you? Are they accurate or is there a lot of misrepresentation? Just curious.

Answer 1

Some of those movies are based on true stores, but they are still just movies that Hollywood created to make money.

Not saying that they are not good movies, but that is all they are.

Answer 2

There is some realism, there is some "Hollywood".

Some movies are more realistic in the battle depictions, some, not so much.

If you research the stories behind most films, you'll find the "based on a true story" doesn't mean that things actually occurred as they do in the movie (this isn't restricted to military movies).

Unless the movie is a documentary (no actors or pre-written dialog, just filming & interviews) the depiction of military members is the director's vision, not necessarily reality. So they may be attempting to create a certain feeling, or they may be trying to make it as real as possible.

For me it's not so much "Was Three Kings realistic?" (not really) as it is whether the characters do things according to how they would in real life. The Tom Clancy movies are very realistic. Black Hawk Down - pretty realistic and true to life.

The characters should do what a real military person would do.

The movies where the characters do things that a real military member in their position wouldn't do, is just Hollywood trying to create a storyline. (Think Top Gun - "Tower, this is Ghostrider, request permission to do a fly by.")

That's my 2 cents.

Answer 3

there are a number of motives, yet maximum boil all the way down to time. once you're continuously shifting (maximum flow an universal of each and every 2-3 years), it rather is totally stressful to settle everywhere. purely once you get gentle, it's time to devise on shifting returned. because of this, once you meet human beings they're at assorted stages of their shifting cycle. Time will become lots greater useful once you meet somebody you hook up with. thoughts additionally are heightened, and as a manner to hold directly to that feeling, they get married. militia existence can be fairly lonely, quite if it rather is stressful so you might make pals. despite in case you have a super kind of pals, there continues to be a void because of the fact the familiarness of kinfolk isn't there. i've got seen this phenomenon outdoors of the militia besides. Marriage, divorce and prenancy ensue way too in many circumstances interior the militia. lots of the time the militia member can spend deployed which makes is rather uncomplicated for the companion (or the member) to cheat. it rather is uncommon to work out a pair who has not cheated on one yet another. apart from cheating, divorce in many circumstances outcomes because of the fact the two human beings locate they're incompatible or the militia member is away too in many circumstances. militia existence is fairly stressful on anybody.

Answer 4

99% of what Hollywood portrays in movies is crap. The most accurate war movies I've ever seen are "Platoon," "Glory," and "Saving Private Ryan." From what I've read on the WBTS, the battle scenes in "Glory" were bang-on accurate.

Answer 5

after 2 tours in iraq the closet movie to war is office space

Answer 6

I can only speak for me and my time in Nam and the only accurate depiction of combat that I have ever seen is "Platoon"!

Answer 7

Extreme misrepresentation.

Answer 8

There is a LOT of "it can't happen that way' in all the war movies.
The worst was JARHEAD. I've read of US Marines walking out of that movie in the middle.

Answer 9

the one that depicted what war was like to me was platoon. that one pretty much was right on the mark.

Answer 10

Usually huge misinterpretations.