To Veterans, you have my utmost respect.
As an armchair warrior pussi, please tell me the most realistic depiction of combat you've seen. I liked 12 Strong, but found the combat here cartoon-like and resembling paintball skirmesses.
Can you please comment what you thought about the fighting depicted here. What war films depict fighting best?
I am an Army Desert Storm veteran and the movie which closely resembles what I experienced in Saudi Arabia is Jarhead.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418763/
Thank you so much for your service and response!
Do you laugh at the gunplay or is it depicted somewhat realistically?
You made it possible for a bum like me to just sit in his parents basement and wonder :)
Not a veteran, but I hear that Saving Private Ryan's combat scenes, Black Hawk Down's, and Generation Kill's overall feel are the closest to realistic. This from two vets, one of whom served in Gothic Serpent (BHD) as a Ranger with the 75th. He was actually cast in the film and said it did a decent job overall of getting their story out there, but didn't even come close to accurately depicting the amount of incoming fire they received throughout!
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