ITT: unrealistic movies about the war in Afghanistan

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>>33205999
>a near perfect movie

>>33206019
It made me want to kill myself and him

friend was in Iraq for 7 months and loved the hurt locker and said it was the most accurate iraq/Afghanistan war movie he'd seen. he never saw combat if that makes a difference. i liked it just fine.

>>33205999
I kept waiting for some through line to develop. Movie left me feeling disappointed.

>>33205999
I've been told the supermarket scene is accurate.

>>33206163

Your friend is a dumbass.

anything by Steven Seagal

OP here, I need everyone to post movies with absolutely ridiculous firefights for a presentation I'm doing on the war, I can explain some more if you guys want. When I get to my PC I can post some cool afghan war WebMs that my dad recorded while serving

>>33206228
everybody forgets about trashcanistan no one is making movies about it.

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>>33205999
This movie is so unrealistic, it is almost like it wasn't even taking place in Afghanistan.

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name one (1) Afghanistan war movie that is good/accurate

>>33205999
Swear to fuck, the shittiness of this movie went far beyond its pantsonhead depictions of the sandbox. The fact it won Best Picture with its two-dimensional characters, retarded handling of plot narrative, and lackluster combat segments shows that the Academy is completely up its own asshole. The only thing it got right was the tension in disarming IEDs.

>>33207466
The movie where the SEALS got BTFO?

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>>33207466
I liked Lone Survivor

As for Iraq, Generation kill and, I know its Gulf One, Jarhead captured that "deployed" feeling perfectly IMO.

If it captures that sort of feeling, the movie/series is an instant favorite for me.

The only other movie that does the same for me is The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now(one of my favorites) and Platoon

Anyone else have any suggestions of movies that capture dat "feel"

>>33207466
Restrepo counts right?

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how accurate was this?

>>33207671
>propaganda
It's a fine movie but realistic it is not

>>33207671
Read the book, much better. Getting the actual details reveals how confusing and intense the whole thing was. Also the local militias were alot smarter than just some big guy pointing up and going shoot the helicopters! They had back blast ditches dug everywhere so they could shoot their RPG's straight up, and also timed them to turn them into basically Flak cannons.

>That Haji making every shot with an AK from 600 yards in high wind

In the trash it went

>>33207778
>EOD just cruising around the desert
Anyone got some great EOD response times they remember? Less than 4 hours response time would've been the best day ever

>>33207871
There was just so much a shit about that movie

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>>33207720
>some big guy pointing up and going shoot the helicopters

CRASHING

>>33206228
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
There is like only 1 firefight in it. Movies pretty stupid but its kinda funny at the end of the firefight. Billy Bob Thorton is in it.

>>33207466
Kajaki

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>>33205999
>the Hurt Locker
The rage is real...
>former IRR Aust Army

>>33207871
>Less than 4 hours response time would've been the best day ever
Sorry mate, we got called out to some US convoy being stopped because their captain found a 'suspicious' looking rock on the road.
It was just a rock
But, she was pretty convinced it was a bomb and wouldn't be told otherwise

>>33211228
>Sir let me blip this confirmed pressure IED
>No, we'll wait for EOD
>We can see the entire system, charge and everything, I'm allowed to do it
>We wait for EOD
>Sir we can be moving again in ten minu-
>WE WAIT FOR EOD
goddamn.

>>33211442
Yeah a bit of intelligent initiative once in a while wouldn't have hurt anyone. I mean fuck, even the rear-echelon and reservist units are bombed up with everything from grenade launchers, rockets to mortars and fat chicks in their company. They could have dumped a good old load on an IED and toasted it, kept on moving and not sat there for hours getting cranky because they're being plinked at by cross eyed, 6 fingered, sister fucking Ahmed and his buddies.

We where mostly there to deal with toxins, biologicals and anything super-weird, but the IED/random explosive gig kind of fell in our laps as well. I swear we've 'everything is bomb' by people who really should know better.
>Drink containers
>Irrigation pipes (the most popular)
>Random bits of industrial equipment
>Cardboard fucking boxes
>Tractor tyres
>Car parts

Fair enough if there's reasonable suspicion, but there's an awful lot of garbage in a country with no garbage collectors, that is just garbage

>>33211442
The reason for the waiting is that we try to get any finger prints or any Key ID features off of it and that way we can start tracking who/where it's made

>>33211936
Doing any fbi tier investigation in a fucking warzone

>>33212070
They do actually do that though, the bowling Green guy got charged with bombing US troops in Iraq based on fingerprints found in an IED he built years before he came to the US .

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>>33205999
I hate that movie so fucking much!

It gets in the way of other searching.

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>>33211936
I understand that Cochise;
Exploit those IEDs, post blast analysis and putting some greasy fingerprints into the system and all that jazz, but holy fuck waiting ten hours for you fucks really sucks a crapsack and a half, regardless of your previous or priority calls.
Just saying.
>combat engineers ftw
Pic unrelated; just sharing a wallpaper people should have.

>>33207466
What's that movie about the Russian tanker crew where the crazy tank commander leaves one guy to die who then joins the Northern Alliance to hunt him down?

>>33206163
>he never saw combat

Lol

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>>33213090

The Beast of War

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>>33213134
Thanks, loved that movie.

>>33213060
>F-18 escort
>No weapons

>>33213164
>end of an era
>any weapons needed except the tears of those who care

>>33213171
>implying anyone who actually cared about space flight gave a shit the old broke dick shuttles were gone

>>33213060
everything about your post is utter peasantry. i recommend going back to facebook Military Me-Me pages

I liked the hurt locker, but I was just a fucking aegis tech so idk wtf actual deployment in iraq was like.

I feel like I did nothing the whole enlistment.

>>33213880
>I feel like I did nothing the whole enlistment.
Everyone feels like this, senpai

What exactly is wrong about the depiction of that shit in the movie? Besides the gun fights, I mean. I thought it was enjoyable, but I'm a never served fag, and I want to know more.

That scene in the cereal aisle tho

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>>33207613
>>33207654
>Lone Survivor
>Accurate
kek

>>33205999
Real combat would mostly look boring on film. A bunch of people shooting at shit they can barley see. Things happening fast, and then nothing changing for a while.

Its almost like movies are for conveying feelings and not being accurate.

>>33207664
Not really
>pogs pogging
>actual grunts jacking each other off all day, go outtawire once, can't see shit cuz pussy cameraman and Restrepo's dead
Shit editing, shit camera work, uninteresting subjects

>people who never served hating on a perfectly fine movie
I loved the hurt locker

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>>33213222
Americans are the type of people to get emotionally invested in an outdated or terrible idea.

>m2 browning

>>33213902
>That scene in the cereal aisle tho
I liked Hurt Locker but that scene was a cheap nod to one of the most basic bitch American novels, Hatchet.

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>>33214700
>talkin shit about Hatchet

>>33206223
>223 get

>>33214260
Theyre not going to show footage of real people dying. Im not saying this is a good or bad thing, but that is why the camera work sucks and you never see any of the action. Watching real people get wounded and killed is not really allowed on most media outlets.

>>33207466
Rambo III

>>33209086
>my sides

goddamn it anon

>>33207466
Armadillo, more of a documentary though.

Haven't seen the Hurt Locker, what was wrong with it? Also i thought it was set in Iraq, not Afghanistan.

>>33211844
I was scared shirtless the first few times this happened.
>Holy shit, if I was the Taliban I would have morters zeroed for this position.
>Captain Numbnuz waits for EOD.
>3 FUCKING HOURS.
>IMGONNADIE.
>Nothing happens.
Then it just got annoying. If I was Muhammad, I would plant random wires and shit every mile or so, we would just die of starvation before our patrol was over.

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>>33205999

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>>33205999
>throwing mortar shells at hoards of charging Japs

>>33218182
This shit was cartoon level silly at times, the tonal inconsistency totally pulled me out of it.

>>33207466
9th Company is pretty fucking cool. It's Ruski propaganda though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0lWUpcQO24

>>33213164
>F-18 has NASA in red letters
Of course they don't have weapons

>>33214903
"Only the dead have seen the war" has a 10 minute scene of a wounded Iraqi chocking on his own blood and then eventually dying. It's pretty gud scene, mang. Overall, the doc was good but not great. The focus was some faggy Australian journalist and he got annoying.

>>33218435
*"Only the dead have seen the end of war"

>>33213902
>What exactly is wrong about the depiction of that shit in the movie?

Anyone that loose and fast with their behaviour, I would have clipped their nuts- hard and they would have been very unhappy. If they kept doing it, I wouldn't have to because the rest of their team would have held them down and personally twisted their balls off. Ordinance guys are some of the most professional soldiers (and navy) I've ever worked with in any country, they don't 'bend the rules' so to speak, because that will get them and possibly a lot of other people killed and injured. The other major problems I can remember off the top of my head, (been a few years since I saw it) are that they're running around without an escort and that was a big no-no, when you're lugging around a fair bit of explosives yourself, you're a big target for the enemy who will want it and are prepared to kill you for it. Plus ord specialists aren't exactly a dime a dozen, so any losses are a big impact on the performance of the whole unit.
Somewhat secondary, their communication was fucking rubbish. Back in command, I'd have a whole other team of guys plotting them, where they are, where they're going, if there's any problems ahead or when they're coming back, do they need anything else and how they're going. That might seem like nagging, but they work long hours in a shit environment and they'll grudging admit, at least they know we've got their back 100% and will scramble extra teams/escorts if they're in the shit or go out of comms.

Post invasion Iraq was very challenging compared to Afghan, there seemed to be a lot more people gunning for you, so we had comparatively lot of contacts and anything urban was always a complete shitfest.

>>33215752
>we would just die of starvation before our patrol was over.
They got pretty nasty in Afghan, they'd take a position long enough to cover the whole fucking area in mines, IED's, booby traps and then bug out.

>>33205999
>Yeah I keep a box of shit under my bed that's tried to kill me, a box full of numbers from strippers at the Matador.

>>33207654
>>33207613
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJgjS19JpHg