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marines or what?

posted 18 years ago by bobzxz
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i was watching this movie on scifi and i heard them being referred to as marines. if they were marines then why would they be wearing ACUs? marines wear marpat not the army combat uniform. they would also have to be recon marines if they were special forces soldiers. i didnt watch hardly any of it because it was so horrible so i didnt know what the hell was going on, just saw that it was a zombie movie.

also, females are currently not allowed to enlist in any combat related jobs, so this movie is seriously flawed.

[–] evolution_500_2 18 years ago

Actually, the uniforms were MARPAT, but they were SPECIAL FORCES. I thought the same thing, but I saw a picture of an ARMY captain wearing a MARPAT uniform in TIME MAGAZINE. I even saw the letters US ARMY scrawled along the guy's left chest.

[–] Ace2021 18 years ago

Whoever they were, they were stupid as heck. If you know a zombie could infect you with a bite, would you SERIOUSLY get it in a guillotine headlock?

You know, guns don't kill people, stupid fothermuckers with guns kill people.

[–] diabolusluciferosphoenix 18 years ago

would you give it a chance to even exist near you would be an easier question.
however your spot on they were totally disorganised.
straight out they have a fatality and what do they do? they carry on in the same half assed fashion.
the other thing is that they didnt seem to have positions usually on an attack team, medic, sniper etc

[–] SpeedRacer2K 18 years ago

...dude. The movie is House of the Dead 2. Honestly, did you expect them to get this kind of stuff right?

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[–] tbirdman-1 17 years ago

Plus there would be no women of any rank in a U.S. Special Forces
unit for any armed service! Army, Marine Recon, Navy Seals,
Air Force special ops. etc, this just was so unrealistic for
the movie. The ladies were in the script to add eye candy.

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[–] anthonynorris-783-181359 13 years ago

The Reason that there are women in the Unit is because there were females in the Colonial Infantry in Aliens. Now every military unit has to have females.
/It was Colonial Infantry in Aliens wasn't it.

[–] Blackout2122 16 years ago

Its a Uwe Ball movie. Its mindless like most of his films. Also hollywood has a reputation for getting military inacurracies from small to huge. Mostly huge.

[–] evolution_500_2 16 years ago

Uwe Boll had nothing to do with this.

[–] eric-glowacki 16 years ago

I'm a Medic in the 82nd, I was in the Surge

And I think this movie is being overthought here. Sometimes Hollywood is just Hollywood.

[–] storm25storm25 16 years ago

I've seen a LOAD of movies that have featured special forces units weather it be an action flick, a horror movie or what....and more often or not those special forces units feature a female in their ranks and yes, a few of those movies were big Hollywood blockbuster type flicks.

Because a low grade horror movie has it in, it gets shot down by "critics" who if a movie isn't mainstream they don't wanna know.

This was an enjoyable little movie, it had it's flaws but what movies don't? The best films in the world have flaws in them, no wonder low budget films never seem to do well when so many narrow minded people consider themselves critics and rip them to shreds.

It is a total shame.

I only axed ya for a smoke - Jack Frost

[–] Jimwhitley6 15 years ago

Okay, first of all, "Special Forces", when referring to the US Military, refers to one group, the US Army Special Forces, aka Green Berets. Every body else is referred to as Special Operations. Problems in this movie:

No females in the Special Forces.
No Sergeant Majors would comprise members of an A-team (sergeant major is an administrator's rank0), and even if they did, no way in hell would they give orders to a captain.
No more than one commissioned officer, a captain, would be a member of the team; one Warrant Officer would act as executive officer.
The lowest ranking member of the team would be a sergeant.
Every member of the team would have a job; ie, commo, medical, weapons, engineering and demo, etc.
Overweight people would never make it through the selection program.

All these problems could have been corrected in literally fifteen minutes of browsing on the internet - unprofessionalism, plain and simple.

[–] YEMXBrotherhood 14 years ago

They are Army Special Forces, but they are wearing Marine MARPAT desert camouflage.

This was a cheaply made zombie movie with no military advisor. Someone on the costume team probably just used all that was available or whatever they thought looked cool.