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Act Of Valour

03-04-2012 8:50pm

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#2 03-04-2012 9:33pm

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Thread in films on it.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056430467

I still think John Ford made the best propaganda movies.

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#3 03-04-2012 9:40pm

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Meh.

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#4 03-04-2012 11:18pm

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it was good fun with lots of headshots, people surviving being shot by rpg's and at least one soldier had a mag of 7.62 emptied into him and walked away and importantly some terrorist type people getting seriously blown up and shot... however saying that i watched it with my mates from my unit and we probably had most fun by commenting on some (in our opinion) shoddy drills shiney helmets, walking on the crest of the hill, etc and all the while we were screaming "contact left", "do the whole f**king village" and "get some" so we probably made our own fun!!! luckily it was the red eye show in the cinema we were in so not too many non mil types to be bothered other than to wonder had we escaped a window licker convention!

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#5 03-04-2012 11:26pm

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Morphéus wrote: »

walking on the crest of the hill

Won't someone think of the camera shot?

Don't forget about using laser sights before contact.

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#6 05-04-2012 1:28am

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Just SQEALs being SQEALs

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#7 09-04-2012 7:46pm

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I thought it was pretty good. The family scenes could have been left out , but thought the non-actors did make the action scenes seem more realistic than the standard hollyword fare.

If you can disregard the gungho its a good film.

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#8 10-04-2012 5:36pm

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Was not a fan. For something that was supposed to "hyper realistic" there was some sillyness in it. I loved the orders scenes "get the bad guys...any questions...no..go get em".

They could of left out all the family scene bullsh!t and just gone balls out and it may have been more enjoyable.

But as with all millitary films anyone with some knowledge in the area beyond COD experiences may over analyse. I also want to somehow squeeze the word ambulatory into the next briefing.

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