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Mistakes

posted 18 years ago by Pro_Air_Guitarist
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This is an okay movie. But Ive noticed two mistakes.

1. When Hawkins kills the terrorist guy underwater, he slits his throat. But as the terrorist floats away, where's the blood? He cut his jugular, there should be a lot of blood visible.

2. When all of the SEALs are running away from the burning car, one of their guys is dead and still inside the car. Real SEALs would go back and get him, regardless of the danger. The SEALs never leave a man behind, dead of alive. Thats a basic policy in all of the US military.

"This cannot be William Wallace! I am prettier than this man!"
-Crazy Irish Guy (aka Stephen)

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[–] Pro_Air_Guitarist 18 years ago

The thing is when you slit someone's throat you slit cartilage first, then comes the jugular, and then the 2 vessels where your pulses are. The way Charlie Sheen cut his throat he would have cut his jugular, the trachea is behind that. Thus, there should be lots of blood.

And the SEALs could have gona back to get the guy stuck in the car. They were not under fire at that moment. And they were not outnumbered, there were about 3-4 guys chasing them. They could have sent one guy to the car to pull the dead SEAL out.

As for Gothic Serpent, yes they did leave men behind. But they went back in the morning to go get them. And after the big rescue convoy returned the men at the crash site to the Pakistani stadium, more men went back out to rescue men that were still trapped.

"This cannot be William Wallace! I am prettier than this man!"
-Crazy Irish Guy (aka Stephen)

[–] kingerik32 18 years ago

BM1 are you sure about the seals not being left behind, i'm not sure on vietnam. but the seals in grenada were killed in a bad drop over the ocean and it's not so much as being left behind as it's more a symbol of respect to the fallen ones. and the seals killed in panama weren't really left behind either, Their bodies were left on the tarmac while the rest of the team conducted the assault on noreigas aircraft but they left together.

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[–] sjayne 17 years ago

I have not so much of a mistake as it is an irritance. Admitedly, im not in the military so i wouldnt have the faintest idea about tactical errors and such, but the thing the really irritated me was clair. when curran was taking clair out to see the training or whatever, she was wearing high heels. what woman would go trasping through the woods in heels. first off, she would probably have sprained or broke an ankle and secondly (and most importantly) she would have RUINED the shoes! that is like number one rule in girl-world!

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[–] ussjuanc 17 years ago

guys, it's still a movie, so something always is not going to be like real life, procedures, tactics, etc..so relax!

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[–] sjayne 17 years ago

haha. thank you super for that very-indepth and informative analysis into the male psyche. i will have to remember that the next time i am in a bar getting hit on by navy seals (or any branch of the military, for that matter).

no, i don't think this movie was made for me or females my age, so i now understand the whole stilettos-in-the-woods-scene.

C'est le temps que tu a perdu pour ta rose qui fait ta rose si importante...

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[–] glasgordijn 17 years ago

Also at the beginning of the movie when the SEALS rescue the helicopter pilots they all have the same guns but all sound different from eachother

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[–] jpycior-1 17 years ago

A friend of mine worked as a P.A. on the set here in Virginia Beach and was helping to load the rounds as they entered the Kill house. It was the scene where Michael Biehn's character takes the reporter to show her around the course. During the loading of the weapons with blanks, my friend noticed a live round! Fortunately, he did notice it in time and of course did not load it into the weapon.

[–] jford-19 17 years ago

If you remember - the car they were in exploded after they got out!
So you think they should have gone back and retrieved a burning corpse from what was left of a fireball of a car??!

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[–] dalegore 17 years ago

2 Things

1.Don't take your military training and tactics from watching movies. This movie has less to do with SEAL's reality than a how-to book teaching fish to ride bicycles.

2.Sheen's character would never qualify SEAL. His psych-state would wash him.

This is extreme escapism at the expense of marginalizing deserving warriors.

[–] bad_addresses 17 years ago

My favorite is the SEAL that wears Chuck Taylors

"But it's got electrolytes..."

[–] squire_fusion 17 years ago

delta wears hockey masks ftw

[–] squire_fusion 17 years ago

i would probably be the ideal candidate for the gsg9/gign/seals/delta/sas/isa/devgru/spetznaz gru/blackwater/707 orGIS - im down for whatever, send me a PM

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[–] speccyboy 16 years ago

The underwater confrontation at the end is the one part of this movie I didn't like - it just seemed too gratuitous. Come on, Curran's wounded, and Hawkins is just going to pull another crazy stunt which might get Ramos and Leary AND Curran killed?!

[–] stuartcork7 11 years ago

There were lots of mistakes but the biggest plot hole I saw in this movie was the fact they tried to make it about a Special forces unit.
I remember the huge emphasis put onto the tag line that the distributors tried to sell this film with, something about being so secret that the government did not acknowledge their existence and that the code of silence between the Seals was absolute. Then, the first chance they get one of them goes blabbing to a girl he meets who just happens to be a reporter!

As a kid I had alsways enjoyed action movies. And when I was a young teenager my parents bought me the video of this as a Christmas present not long after it came out, I didn't ask for it and I didn't want it, but out of respect I watched it with them, and then promptly asked them to send it back!
It was the first and only time I ever rejected a gift. Most films which I have no interest in but end up watching at some point I will actually sit through and end up feeling that it was not as bad as I first feared, Navy Seals was the first film I ever saw and finished up wondering 'what was the point'?

I wont get personal by insulting other posters on here, but I seriously struggle to understand what anyone found plausible or enjoyable about this movie?

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