Yeah, I would recommend highly that anyone with PTSD either wait until they can watch it on the small screen or be prepared for the flood of emotions.
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Lone Survivor - the movie
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Yeah, I would recommend highly that anyone with PTSD either wait until they can watch it on the small screen or be prepared for the flood of emotions.
glockednlocked
Sharpshooter
- Jun 7, 2008
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Interesting point about weapons and yes a point of pride that Crane supplied many of the originals and the movie guns I understand also came from Greene Co. Indiana.
You're not wrong there...
The Bubba Effect
Grandmaster
remauto1187
Shooter
Movie producers/assistants etc. commonly contract out "fake"weapon suppliers for movies. I worked with a guy in Lincoln, IL at the Eaton Cutler Hammer Plant(Electrical Division). He was a machinist there and his night job was a class III manufacture/gunsmith. He built that huge gatling type machine gun for the terminator 2 movie. Arnold fired it at the police that were out in front of the asylum that Sarah Connor was in until he and her son broke her out. Remember, he had orders NOT to kill anyone but the other terminators. Somehow he managed to fire that machine gun with rotating barrels without "killing" anyone.
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remauto1187
Shooter
I have to disagree. Although platoon didnt exactly have state of the art effects, it was a better war movie than lone survivor.
I recall many of the vets that were in at the time, I went in in 76, thought it was garbage. But then again, as is now, their opinion. Personally I think Lone Survivor is the best movie of it's kind.
Bob
Fordtough25
Grandmaster
I was attached to the characters in Lone survivor more than any war movie before! Not since Saving private Ryan did I enjoy a war film so much.
I started crying at the opening credits of Lone Survivor. Michael Murphy was my son in law's cousin. I never met the man but I can tell from the burning hole he left in his family he must have been a great guy. It was supposed to be my SIL, husband and I to go see Lone Survivor but my SIL decided he didn't want to go so it was just my husband and I. Probably a good thing..my daughter and SIL have five kids...number 4 is a a three year old boy and a dead ringer for the pics in the opening scenes. That was it for me. I cry every time I go into Walmart and see the promo pic as it reminds me of my SIL who I really love.
By the end of Lone Survivor in addition to me crying so was my husband and the middle age couple behind us. We picked a school night and luckily the theater was fairly empty. I keep trying to watch. It has at least made it to in front of the computer..maybe I'll watch it alone one night.
My SIL has the DVD and we watched it at home.
Yes, it wells up some tears for the fallen.
Yes, it reinstates the fortitude and courage of our men (and woman) who serve.
Yes, it wells up some tears for the fallen.
Yes, it reinstates the fortitude and courage of our men (and woman) who serve.
The book was a great read. The movie gives a pretty good depiction of the battle scenes. A little Hollywood artistic license on the rescue side of the story. Still a very good portrayal of the events. I read the book just before the movie was released to appreciate both ways of telling the story.
