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07-05-2018, 23:01 #1
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MOVIE: 12 STRONG
Just watched this last night. Really enjoyed it. It's about a special forces team that is sent into Afghanistan to hook up with the Northern Alliance leader and take control of a city in Northern Afghanistan from the Taliban. They end up becoming horse soldiers, not something they anticipated at all...command and control didn't even know it would be that way.
The movie has some issues.......which I'll leave out so as not to be spoiler material. Thing is though....the part that was hard to believe for me.....is actually how it happened. It's based on a true story. But there are a lot of battle scenes and they are enjoyable. If you watch purely for the enjoyment of a good action movie you won't be disappointed. If you are looking for deep emotional content with solid character development etc......you might be.
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08-05-2018, 05:47 #2
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Re: 12 STRONG
Great movie, I really enjoyed it.
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08-05-2018, 07:05 #3
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Re: 12 STRONG
What got me with this movie is that Chris Hemsworth's character always seems to be firing his M4 on Full Auto / Burst... Even after he get his "killer" eyes.
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08-05-2018, 09:45 #4
Re: 12 STRONG
For me it was "skop donder n skiet" to pass time.
For me I was annoyed that attention to detail was severely lacking. ( The costumes were incorrect , the dialects were wrong , the culture of food and hospitality was fucked up)
If one wants to dedicate a movie to real life heroes then at least show respect to them and get simple things correct.live out your imagination , not your history.
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10-09-2018, 22:39 #5
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I was definitely not impressed with some aspects. The battle scenes were thrown together haphazardly, continuously cutting between different areas making it difficult to follow. Airstrikes seem to never kill any tanks, and how far he is seems to matter? For why I do not know. On btw, spoler alert.
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11-09-2018, 08:04 #6
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Yeah, that part was ridiculous....
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11-09-2018, 08:51 #7
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just another hollywood high volume shooter, take it at face value guys,
a movie like lone survivor , now that was a goodie in terms of realism
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11-09-2018, 20:57 #8
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13 Hours was also very good and more realistic.
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12-09-2018, 13:04 #9
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Although 13 hours makes me wonder what the actual body count was on the Libyan side. Probably no where near as bad as depicted in the movie.
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12-09-2018, 17:35 #10
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