[Movie] Restrepo
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Saw the trailer before, looks pretty good. When will it be out?
Armadillo looks pretty cool too.
YouTube - ARMADILLO OFFICIAL MOVIE TRAILER
I wonder if parts of these movies are 'fake' though.
Armadillo looks pretty cool too.
YouTube - ARMADILLO OFFICIAL MOVIE TRAILER
I wonder if parts of these movies are 'fake' though.
AFAIK, Restrepo has been out since June 25.
Also, AFAIK, its 100% real. Doesn't show the dead.
Also, AFAIK, its 100% real. Doesn't show the dead.
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The Sundance film festival is my personal favorite (thanks R Redford).
Restrepro is in the documentary class.
If the jury considered it to be fake/false, it would never have been selected let alone taking first prize.
A little bit of true reality is what the world needs IMHO.
Independent developers FTW.
Restrepro is in the documentary class.
If the jury considered it to be fake/false, it would never have been selected let alone taking first prize.
A little bit of true reality is what the world needs IMHO.
Independent developers FTW.
But it's hard to see these movies because they are not really distributed everywhere or when they are, it's very short moment and if you don't get them then...well that's it.
It is now available and places like amazon.com will also be distributing it soon:
Some comments, having watches the first half:
The opening minutes where the Humvee is hit while the camera is filming inside, is outstanding.
It was interesting to see the range at which engagements take place, and the weapons used, such as grenade launchers, A-10 airstrikes. I found it hard to believe the assault rifles had any accuracy at some of the distances.
The whole outpost scenario reminds of footage of similar U.S. outposts in Vietnam.
Red-dyed beards of the Afghan village elders is something to behold
Sebastian Junger has also written a book documenting the film - called "War".
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This reminds me a bit of a documentary done by James Gandolfini (the main actor from the Sopranos). He did an EXCELLENT documentary on PTSD, covering it from the civil war, to modern times. Here is the link. Here is a link to the trailer. YouTube - HBO Documentary Films: Wartorn 1861 - 2010 Trailer (HBO)
I've seen Armadillo now.
A stunning piece of art, that's all I can say.
100% real footage and story, one engagement actually ended in an enquiry (which is still going) due to possible infractions of the ROE.
A stunning piece of art, that's all I can say.
100% real footage and story, one engagement actually ended in an enquiry (which is still going) due to possible infractions of the ROE.
I've just watched it as well. In fact, I have watched both Restrepo and Armadillo and they are both great. But Armadillo is much, much better. By a huge margin, really. Respect to the Danes, true warriors. The filming and sound is amazing. Very impressive when they showed the guy who got hit in the arm, you can see the fear, confusion and rush of adrenaline in his eyes.
Those MP complaints about ROE violations were BS by the way, in a firefight it makes sense to shoot to kill.
Will definitely watch it a second time.
Yup, seen both as well and I also think that Armadillo is way better.
Also, given the circumstances of only hearing the debriefing makes the "complaints" of the MP not bs, which also was realized by the soldiers themselves. But that's because they were still high on adrenaline and used extreme words to describe an extreme situation.
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The way they described what happened during debriefing would surely raise some questions.
However, when looking at the combat situation as it happened, i didnt get a feeling of 'what, they shouldnt have done that!'
If it was confirmed that there were several enemies inside that ditch, i would surely shoot a clip into them as well, for all you know one of them is still alive and hides under a dead body to shoot a soldier in the back.
You can't be too careful with those people.
However, when looking at the combat situation as it happened, i didnt get a feeling of 'what, they shouldnt have done that!'
If it was confirmed that there were several enemies inside that ditch, i would surely shoot a clip into them as well, for all you know one of them is still alive and hides under a dead body to shoot a soldier in the back.
You can't be too careful with those people.
I watched the scene again and they didn't do anything wrong. Not during the battle and not during the debriefing.
So they yelled "****ing pigs", who cares. And they killed the enemy after wounding them. What does it matter, it's only Taliban. Nothing of value lost. They were just happy of their victory and were still high on adrenaline as you said. I can kinda understand that they'd ask questions but it's silly to blow things out of proportion.
So they yelled "****ing pigs", who cares. And they killed the enemy after wounding them. What does it matter, it's only Taliban. Nothing of value lost. They were just happy of their victory and were still high on adrenaline as you said. I can kinda understand that they'd ask questions but it's silly to blow things out of proportion.
The actions were never questioned by any of us, just the words they used in the debriefing, which obviously led to the MP inquiry.