The nail gun scene was great and actually pretty realistic. If I want to watch a shoot-em-up, I will pull up a Denzel movie, like the Equalizer series. I do not get any pleasure out of watching those kinds of movies as I see things from years ago that are not in any movie that I have ever seen, and there is something about the dreams that come back. I have been given DVDs of several other war movies but they are unwatched. Blackhawk down took me almost 3 days to watch. Blackhawk Down and We Were Soldiers were realistic enough that I could not watch them in one sitting or even on the same day. That being said, I have seldom found movies to portray being under fire realistically. So I have not bothered to see any of the subsequent Rambo movies, nor will I see the last one in the future. I have been shot at, and I have seen too many men die in some of the worst ways imaginable. I cannot/will not argue with that point.īut what do I know? I only spent almost 4 years of my life doing things like Recon and SAR for real. A friend of mine who is also a vet told me years ago that Rambo as portrayed would not have lasted 15 minutes in any of the firefights he was in. I found none of it to be remotely realistic, just Hollywood crap. It takes a bit more than the small amount of explosive contained in that charge to blow up a tank. Firing an explosive shaped charge at a tank with a compound bow…? Give me freakin’ break. I got talked into watching the movie where he went back to Vietnam and was I disgusted by the rank lack of knowledge by the writers of what weapons could and could not do. It was an ok read, but I was disappointed in the movie overall. I read the book that Rambo: First Blood was based on. I knew guys on those teams but I was never out in the field with them. I was glad that I was not on a mortar team. I think it was actually about 40 pounds, and a bunch of guys told me that it always felt heavier than that after they walked any distance. The mortar plate felt like it weight about 200 lbs after you carried it for a few minutes. For those of you who are not familiar with a mortar team, it was a 3 man team to carry all three components. I learned pretty quickly once I got in the Army and saw a Ma Deuce shooting for real.Īt least they didn’t have him (Stallone) as a one man mortar team. I watched that show because I didn’t know any better. Firing a 60 standing up is almost as ridiculous as having a Ma Deuce mounted on a 1/4 ton jeep like in the TV series Rat Patrol back in the 60’s. Some units had them on tripods but the guys I was with only had the bipod. And now that you mention it, I cannot think of a time when ANYONE fired it from a position other than on the ground, with the bipod in place. I did not ever carry an M-60 as I was a medic carrying 2 M3 Medic bags, but I have seen them in action. That is a good point about firing it while standing up.
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