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ALIEN_WORK2HOP
05/10/20 10:02:16 AM
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I really enjoyed Hurt Locker and the Restrepo documentaries, Zero Dark Thirty was alright iirc.

Any more like this or anything along the lines of Black Hawk Down, Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, Jar Head... in terms of realism, quality and or controversy. But based on modern combat zones in the middle east after 9-11 or so?

I'm sick of unrealistic basically propaganda movies from Clint Eastwood or seeing Chris Hemsworth spraying Taliban and dodging rockets on Horseback.

Looking from something with a little more brain.
Any ideas?

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ScazarMeltex
05/10/20 10:04:31 AM
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ALIEN_WORK2HOP posted...
I really enjoyed Hurt Locker and the Restrepo documentaries, Zero Dark Thirty was alright iirc.

Any more like this or anything along the lines of Black Hawk Down, Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, Jar Head... in terms of realism, quality and or controversy. But based on modern combat zones in the middle east after 9-11 or so?

I'm sick of unrealistic basically propaganda movies from Clint Eastwood or seeing Chris Hemsworth spraying Taliban and dodging rockets on Horseback.

Looking from something with a little more brain.
Any ideas?
As far as modern battlefield ones? I can't think of any. Vietnam has a ton of films like that. Hamburger Hill, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, and Apocalypse Now.

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Hexenherz
05/10/20 10:04:46 AM
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Lone Survivor


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ALIEN_WORK2HOP
05/10/20 5:20:40 PM
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Hexenherz posted...
Lone Survivor

it already kind of sounds like a lone ranger shooter type movie. Especially with Marky Mark. I will give it a shot though.
I think the Middle East is still too touchy of a subject for Hollywood.

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YookaLaylee
05/10/20 5:22:42 PM
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American Sniper, I guess

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ALIEN_WORK2HOP
05/10/20 7:18:12 PM
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Just watched Sand Castle on Netflix which was much better then I expected.

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Atralis
05/10/20 7:24:42 PM
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Generation Kill from HBO is right down your alley but its a show (just 7 episodes) not a movie. Think Jarhead but the invasion of Iraq.
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