Act of Valor

[SynixMan]

"Ooooh, Navy SEALs!" Not to rip off the famous Clerks line, but this actually looks like a good movie about the SEALs.

Sanctioned by NSW, with real equipment and operators used for filming. I spotted some HS love in the trailer to boot. Here's hoping it's good.

 

[KBayDog]

"Ooooh, Navy SEALs!"

You quoted one of my all-time favorite movies. You called down the thunder...well now you got it!

 

[lowflier03]

A little bit of HS love in the HVBSS scene. The original title of this was "I am that man" Though I think they made some changes since the storyline is a bit different and its a year and a half late coming out. At least they used the real thing for the characters.

 

[phrogdriver]

By real NSW "in the movie," do we mean they're doing the action shots or that they're actually doing dramatic ACTING?

That could be bad.

 

[yak52driver]

That looks really good.

 

[Gatordev]

I literally just saw a link to this on another website. I was wondering if it was HS love or HCS love. Hopefully it's more Black Hawk Down and less Navy SEALs.

EDIT: Nevermind, I see it's a Fox.

 

[beaverslayer]

This could be really good... hopefully they don't screw it up.

 

[yak52driver]

By real NSW "in the movie," do we mean they're doing the action shots or that they're actually doing dramatic ACTING?

That could be bad.

http://www.actofvalor.com/

According to the movie's web site looks like the SEALs are doing at least some of the acting: "...stars a group of active duty Navy SEALs...".

 

[jt71582]

What? No Romeo love?

 

[sickboy]

I predict a huge influx of BMs within a year of release.

 

[BusyBee604]

I predict a huge influx of BMs within a year of release.

Diarrhea? I've had good luck with Pepto-Bismol!
BzB

 

[Uncle Fester]

Eh. This looks to tread that fine line between cheesy-awesome and cheesy-lame.

Black Hawk Down showed you can make a realistic war movie that doesn't totally lose a civilian audience or leave a military audience rolling their eyes. But apparently it's really damn hard, because it doesn't get done often. Other than the last 20 minutes of Children of Men, I'm having trouble thinking of another one.

 

[fattestfoot]

It looked overly dramatic to me. I will hold judgement until I see it though.

 

[statesman]

Eh. This looks to tread that fine line between cheesy-awesome and cheesy-lame.

Black Hawk Down showed you can make a realistic war movie that doesn't totally lose a civilian audience or leave a military audience rolling their eyes. But apparently it's really damn hard, because it doesn't get done often. Other than the last 20 minutes of Children of Men, I'm having trouble thinking of another one.

Saving Private Ryan?

 

[Rocketman]

It looked overly dramatic to me. I will hold judgement until I see it though.

It's a small thing unless you are/were a grunt but I get distracted when I see a grenade or RPG explosion look like a small nuke going off. A bright flash and puff of grey smoke will do please. Saving Private Ryan is about the only movie I've seen that gets that level of detail correct.