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Heartbreak Ridge is the worst movie I've seen. Having graduated from basic Recon in Jan. of 1971 I saw zero similarities to what I experienced, unless the movie was meant to be a comedy.
The Army rightly pulled their support I don't know what the Marine Corps saw in it to justify their support beside Eastwood.
Accurate about surface Navy? Well, while I haven't seen all the flicks, I might say "The Bedford Incident" can come rather close.
Captain is God, the Captain will push his ship to accomplish the mission, etc..
"The Caine Mutiny" could also classify.
Most inaccurate? Where to start? I can't think of any titles, but essentially one needs a flick that shows it as a 9-5 job with no watches, limited special evolutions, a benevolent Captain, and an easy pace. Something without the insanity of being in port with all the this, that inspections. A movie that doesn't show leaves being cancelled and slashed for inspections or operational readiness.
Black Hawk Down. The movie was released in 2002 and was about the U.S. Army battle of Mogadishu in Somalia in the early 90's. I had retired a few years before and was working in the D.C. area as a contractor. A lot of local concern during that one day event where 18 U.S. personnel were killed. A still remaining newspaper article on the event: Philadelphia Online | Blackhawk Down
The modern Air Force hasn't been accurately depicted... too much Hollywood and drama, not enough realism, in particular the cockpit setups and depictions, which seem to have been designed by 13 year old boys after playing FightSim. Even Bat 21, based on true events, had a lot of dramatic effect added in. The first Transformers movie did have a very accurate J-FIRE brief from a JTAC before the A-10s and AC-130 engaged a target, but after that it was all Hollywood.
The absolute worst: Iron Eagle. There's a reason the US Air Force wanted nothing to do with that mess of a movie. Grossly overweight and incompetent NCOs, terribly out-of-reg haircuts and uniforms, bumbling Fighter Weapons School (USAF version of Top Gun) graduate F-16 pilots who can't beat a teenager who's only flown the simulator, and the dreaded "Hades Bomb". So many inaccuracies... if it was a spoof like "Airplane!" it might have actually succeeded.
As an aside, I used to tell my students in the F-16 that the best way to prepare for air-to-air combat was to get a Walkman with a Queen cassette and plug it into the comm cord... you'd be King of the Hill in any air-to-air arena. Thankfully none of them ever took that seriously.
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..........The absolute worst: Iron Eagle. ........
The thing I liked about Iron Eagle II was using F-4's as MiGs.
Huh, one might say? Well, a MiG has been described as a brick with enough power on it to make it fly.......and that description could apply to an F-4 as well. If one only knew about that description, didn't know of the Phantom II at all and then came across one, they could accept an F-4 as a MiG.
The thing I liked about Iron Eagle II was using F-4's as MiGs.
Huh, one might say? Well, a MiG has been described as a brick with enough power on it to make it fly.......and that description could apply to an F-4 as well. If one only knew about that description, didn't know of the Phantom II at all and then came across one, they could accept an F-4 as a MiG.
They were already using the Kfir as the MiG 21 and the IDF only has so many types
I was surprised to see an airman among the special forces team in the Transformers, my bad moment was shooting "sabot" rounds (the word is like magic) from a grenade launcher and then watching them explode like explosive rounds
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