The Most Realistic War Movie Is Full of Sh!t
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Hands up if you want to see more videos of this guy tackle more BS war movies and cultural myths surrounding the armed forces!
Phil Dog yes indeed
What do you mean? I've only seen this one, but are his others bullshit or something?
No, what I mean is I want him to talk about more falsehoods in war movies, and more of the myths surrounding the military. I wasn't saying his other videos are BS, I've never him in any.
Or Generation Kill to contrast it to fakey war movies like that one.
YES. PLEASE.
The most realistic one is obviously Tropic Thunder
Anyone with a brain can see it's actually Rambo 4.
Topic Thunder. The "Blazing Saddles" of war movies.
Guys guys it’s shrek
Wtf are you talking about the most realistic war movie is home alone 2 lost in New York
Nah man "Birdemic: Shock and Terror" is the most realistic depiction of war with its tragedy, heartbreak, and loss.
please tell me about the aerodynamics of Santa's sleigh
He's lying. If the aerodynamics of the sleigh were wrong, how would Santa deliver anything. Obviously he hasn't done his research
Oh come on we all know Santa is an alien... or perhaps X-Men... imortal and flight capable...
And the flight dynamics of that sleigh are... well our tech is not that advanced yet.
My Momma said Santa don't need aerodynamics cuz aerodynamics is the Debbil and Santa is magic just like Jesus.
YOU ARE ALL IDIOTS. SANTA'S SLEIGH IS AERODYNAMIC BECAUSE HE USES THE FORCE TO PUSH ALL THE WIND AROUND THE SLEIGH
aerodynamics is bullshit, here's what I know, santa's sleigh is powered by naughty children's tears and souls and that's all that makes it fly
Black Hawk Down: “They won’t understand that it’s about the man next to you.”
Hurt Locker: “War is a drug and soldiers are war junkies.”
B. War is a drug... Final answer
@@ciprigutierrez9974 that wasn’t a question. It was describing the logic behind a movie with a more realistic background (based on a book) vs. one based on some idealized journalist who doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Even before I looked at this video, I thought that second quote sounded like something a civilian would say.
PTSD is real
Hurt locker was directed by a woman...let that sink in...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Not that I think you guys can't take anything seriously, but thank you for ending the video with sincerity.
It became unexpectedly personal.
Yes, when the music cut out, he got really personal, and that made it very powerful. Very strong ending.
I didn't expect that ending
FlannelLemon Neither did I. It was a powerful ending, too
.....jeez, can't tell if troll, or sad excuse for a human
I didn't come here to feel
There actually was a poster with a Geroge Carlin quote in the high school I went to.
Here is the full quote.
"Human beings will do anything, anything. I am convinced. That's why when all those beheadings started in Iraq, it didn't bother me. A lot of people here were horrified, "Whaaaa, beheadings! Beheadings!" What, are you fucking surprised? Just one more form of extreme human behavior. Besides, who cares about some mercenary civilian contractor from Oklahoma who gets his head cut off? Fuck 'em. Hey Jack, you don't want to get your head cut off? Stay the fuck in Oklahoma. They ain't cuttin' off heads in Oklahoma, far as I know. But I do know this: you strap on a gun and go struttin' around some other man's country, you'd better be ready for some action, Jack. People are touchy about that sort of thing. And let me ask you this... this is a moral question, not rhetorical, I'm looking for the answer: what is the moral difference between cuttin' off one guy's head, or two, or three, or five, or ten - and dropping a big bomb on a hospital and killing a whole bunch of sick kids? Has anybody in authority given you an explanation of the difference? Now, in case you're wondering why I have a certain interest, or fascination let's call it, with torture and beheadings and all of those things I have mentioned, is because each of these items reminds me in life over and over again what beasts we human beings really are. When you get right down to it, human beings are nothing more than ordinary jungle beasts. Savages. No different from the Cro Magnon people who lived twenty five thousand years ago. No different. Our DNA hasn't changed substantially in a hundred thousand years. We're still operating out of the lower brain. The reptilian brain. Fight or flight. Kill or be killed. We like to think we've evolved and advanced because we can build a computer, fly an airplane, travel underwater, we can write a sonnet, paint a painting, compose an opera. But you know something? We're barely out of the jungle on this planet. Barely out of the fucking jungle. What we are, is semi-civilized beasts, with baseball caps and automatic weapons." -George Carlin
This guy is really good, I hope to see him in more solo videos.
GreatgoatonFire but was he AIRBORNE?!
Sniper scene: Doesn't make sense to take up the same position someone was just killed at.
I agree, though it seemed like the only alternative was flat ground with no cover, or running through open space with no cover
@@Farrell461 bht also the same sniper could have been in the same position so dab
Yeah, especially since the dead guy's teammates will see the floating skull where he died.
But it's a confirmed kill. They think they got you there.
Only point is if ya gave up and want to join them in being dead.
god damn that ending. i'm detecting a 97% level of realness
He hit the nail on the head on that one. That was coming from the heart.
You are goddamned right about that!
maybe a bit of his reflection is relevant to the rest of the cracked team... Very different tone and message than everyone else from Cracked. It's good, brings fresh perspective.
i Agree this guy is the only one worth listening to on cracked.
This guy is a keeper. I can take only so much smug from the rest.
Hey, DOB's not smug.
I liked his realness too but he lost me when he tried to mock Chris Hedges at the end, he was a war correspondent for about half of his life, he saw more conflicts than the guy in the video, in Central America, the Balkans (twice) & the Middle East. And he saw the war from a more objective perspective. If he'd bothered to research Hedges and where the quote comes from (other than just wikipedia him and stop at 10 secs), he'd have realized Hedges has the same perspective about war : you go back because you don't fit in at home anymore, it's the same feeling for war correspondents. The quote is a distortion from what he actually said, but it still sorta stands
hand solo - maybe you could share the actual quote so the rest of us can judge for ourselves...?
Originally from one of his books, not sure which one but he talks about the same point (the addiction of warzones) in this lecture : /watch?v=nzNhsNHg7PI. He talks about his experience as foreign correspondent at 33:06
HOLY SHIT BRING THIS GUY BACK PLEASE. I just want to hear him speak more. He is so clearly intelligent, has been through so much, yet has such a beautiful sense of humour about it all. PLEASE give him a regular video series. Call it "Full Mental Jacket" or something.
Saving Private Christian
The ImmiChristian Game?
I love this guy too
I'd like this more if I could.
One glitch: The Hedges quote is about war reporters, not soldiers. And Hedges is a war reporter, a very experienced and award-winning war reporter. I'm not surprised that this commentator didn't know where the original quote was from... but it's another example of inaccuracy by the makers of The Hurt Locker.
His ending monologue is extremely accurate. Sad, but accurate.
Jesus... that shit got deep at the end.
Jeez*
War is deep it makes you disappear and a completely new person appears. This new person doesn't give a shit often.
I'll say Jesus if I want to.
For real man but it sums up the feeling perfectly.
I trully enjoyed a military video without fake patriotism and empty words like: "We're fighting for our loves ones", "We fight for the good against the evil people", ....
This is just a soldier, talking about his regular job. This guy respects the enemy, and understand that they are doing their job too. War is just that, trying to survive and keeping your friends alive. Nothing more. Nothing less.
Bravo That kind of mindless, "Just doing my job." attitude is what keeps our perpetual war machine moving. I wish soldiers would wake up and realize they're being used to preserve a global corporate hegemony.
I'm not saying it's good or bad. It's just reality.
And when a soldier fights after the courtain of an ideology/patriotism is when he is able to perform the most horrible acts. They are comminting horror because of a "good purpose".
Accepting that it is just his job, results in a more human behaviour. That is what happened in the 1WW when soldiers stop hating the enemy and the cry for peace was loudest.
Yeah. The banks, politicians, rich fuckers playing us like pawns... all true... but guess what. The war is going to happen wether you support it or not. So you can either bitch and moan about how "above it" you are and everyone else just isn't as "woke" as you. OR since its happening ANYWAY, you can join in with the guys you went to school with, grew up in the same neighborhood as, played video games online with.
Bravo because of that. there is no point for a war. everyone just wanted to survive.
That whole view of yours is typical of someone who doesn't understand what its like to serve in the military. Looking at the big picture conspiracy while failing to see the individual experience. So your deployed to some shit hole and your job is to basically bring stability to a certain town or area in Iraqistan or whatever. Your not sitting there going "oh muh global corporate hegemony." Your going, how do I stop these assholes from putting bombs on the road of this town we are trying to protect. How do we keep them from terrorizing the people, cutting the village leaders head off, or burning down the school we just built for them because they don't want women to be educated. Try looking at it from another perspective rather then just assuming your "above it" to even try.
I'm convinced that "The Hurt Locker", and "American Sniper" for that matter, wouldn't have been nearly as successful as it was had it been made at any other point in time. Its release coincided with the return of thousands of veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan and drew entirely from the misplaced belief of the American public owed it to those service members to applaud any media that glorified that service.
Basically, people got it into their heads that they were obligated to praise it, lest they be seen as "unpatriotic" or "unAmerican" regardless of how the film stood on its own merits.
Nastrael Rowe it's odd that you chose that very valid point. It also possible that those returning vets imagined the Hurt Locker as truth themselves. As the host stated, EOD techs are a support element. As is 90% of the military. My numbers may be exaggerated, but on my trips I heard a statistic that for every 1 service member that conducts patrols off the base, there are 4 that never do. Because like this guy, I've always had the same argument about the movie.
Well, part of the success of American Sniper may have been due to those timing instances you mention. However, I think it's more likely because American Sniper didn't take a stance on war itself but just allowed the exploration of how it affects people. A.S. wasn't trying to push a "support war or you're not a patriot" message, nor was it pushing a "all war is evil and those who engage in it lose their soul" message. Instead, it was constrained just to show us the story of one man who went to war and how it affected him. It was a human story with war as a backdrop. Honestly, most of the war movies that people actually remember are like that. People still watch Full Metal Jacket even though the Vietnam War is long since over. I'm not saying that American Sniper is going to be the next FMJ, I just think it may deserve a little more credit than you're giving it.
Nastrael Rowe honestly I have never seen American Sniper. I was in Baghdad at the time Chris Kyle's team was over there. I'm not a SEAL, nor have I ever worked with him. I know his story from literature, and feel I don't need to watch that. With that said, I am not talking bad about his movie either.
Has Clint Eastwood directed a bad film? I even love Gran Torino.
That 4th Dirty Harry Film was only so-so.
Das Boot's 98% is well deserved. It captures a unique feeling extremely well.
Yea, I've watched the nearly 5 hour version.
Fuck me. 5 hours!
Das Boot was a masterpiece
Native Engine. I once watched the near 5 hour version three times in a row! The film is THAT good!
Das boot was incredible
Yes it is a very good movie, but Americans get the name wrong all the time, it is German for boat, so Das Boot is The Boat, and is pronounced "Das Boat".
I liked this guy. I want to watch him more often from now on.
Maurício Rodrigues agreed
Yeah, that part at the end was powerful and real, while understated and not over-dramatic. One of the more profound cracked videos IMO.
kinda just wanted to give him a hug in the end
I couldn't agree more. Very well spoken and his commentary at the end spoke volumes about how little people understand what our soldiers are going through.
agreed
"It's like, no, most of us have a lot of regard for our own life' Best. Quote. Ever.
Wow. The last minute and a half. Powerful. One of the MANY reasons I miss Cracked the way it was before it became just another list site
Literally loved how real that ending was
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You're not using the word liter... oh...wait...
Carry on...
Holy shit the last part gave me goosebumps...
Jacob Koseda Andersen same dude
😈😈😈
Jacob Koseda Andersen the truth should always give you Goosebumps
6:45 thanks for admitting that it was not a liberation war but an occupation. because no politician would say that.
...that ending! Very well made video Cracked, War...War never changes.
Well...you know it does kind of change...
Jason Hayes That always confused me. The opening to Fall out: War... war never changes.
The opening to Metal Gear Solid: War... has changed.
If War never changes, and yet it has done, what am I supposed to believe anymore!!?
Depends on how you look at it i guess
Jason Hayes Jesus christ shut the fuck up
Demon Emperor Void Swag I think the difference between the two is in metal gear it's more about the technology being used during war so in that perspective war has changed but in fallout it's more about what happens during war which is just people killing each other so with that point of view war hasn't changed and will never change.
The sniper scene, where they see an enemy eating lunch 50 yards to the right of the guys they are shooting at. They take a shot at him, and miss, so the enemy gets worried and starts running for the bunker, so far, OK. Then they take another shot of the guy running, AND HIT HIM! WHAT BULLSHIT! DOING THAT IS NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE! I have shot a great number of targets, and participated in shoots at moving things, it is far more difficult. At 800 yards, it is virtually impossible.
Another thing! If Hollywood wants to use cannon fodder, they should use their own, not squaddies from another nation acting stupid enough to get themselves 'scripted' killed.
But you weren't in a movie where the script says you hit the guy running at 800 yards either.
Haha for real. Hollywood is crazy. It certainly would be cool to have that level of skill if it is even achievable though
@@sarahsayshello9726 i guess you need luck and good weather conditions
@@paulbantick8266 congratulations, you missed the point of the movie.
It pisses me off when people make war seem like some game where you're a total badass and it's the most fun thing ever and killing your enemies is like an even more exciting version of Grand Theft Auto. War is Hell, the worst kind of Hell. You have to go away from you central air and Walmarts to God knows where, you have to follow orders instead of doing whatever the hell you want, you have people trying to kill you and your buddies, and you have to kill capture them. People might think that killing people is fun and invigorating like a real life video game, but then they see their buddy they been hanging out with the past few weeks with a bullet through his head or his limbs scattered here and there behind some ruined building or in a ditch somewhere. They might have to their enemies or innocent civilians in a similar state. They might see kids used by the enemy to smuggle weapons or again, dead somewhere. But no, killing is FUN and war is just an escape from your boring old reality to become a certified badass and is an EXTREME version of everything you see in video games and movies. Except you know, bullets hurt, injuries are devastating, PTSD is a thing, there's no pausing or playing something else for a while when it's not fun anymore, and you don't respawn when you die. Yep, a barrel of fun.
Why do you think we humans find war cool in games and movies? Obviously there's gotta be a disconnect somewhere. Even the people you mention who don't really consider what war actually is in reality, would probably never enjoy being in a real war. I think it's really interesting and somewhat "shocking" that we are able to compartmentalize fictional violence from real vilence, in that sense.
We humans are so fascinated by war because fighting to survive is a deep rooted instinct and a natural part of life that we've had the good fortune to not have to worry about in our comfy lives. Fighting and killing and trying not to get killed is something we all know how to do, like fucking or breathing. Just like every animal out there, since its programmed into our primitive lizard brains. Its just that in our society where we're relatively safe from danger, the thought of violence and death is so outside of our realm of experiences that it's become novel almost. Companies dress it up and make it fun and exciting and give it to us spoiled, sheltered, ignorant retards like "Hey, have you heard of this thing called war? Apparently some people in less evolved parts of the world far from anywhere your lazy ass might go fight and kill each over power or money or some shit like that. But you won't care why because look how exciting and flashy and epic I'm making it look for you. Wouldn't you like to experience that kind of excitement for yourself, but in the safety of your own home and without the constant threat of death? Hell, we'll even make death trivial by letting you revive as many times as you want, because that's all death is, a minor inconvenience that might set you back a few minutes until you blow that guy's head off. Oh, did I mention you can blow people's heads off? That's right, you can do that and any sick, twisted, and evil thing your mind can come up with to other people. It's ok though, even though they look just like people they are just random bits of data and images programmed to run around and be walking targets for all of our sick fantasies. And while in real life doing such things would quickly land you in jail, in games there aren't any consequences to doing any of this stuff, and if there are then you can just reset so ha. No one will care if you go out on a killing spree and kill every man woman or child you come across, and truthfully, we encourage that kind of behavior. If we didn't, then we wouldn't have programmed the game that way, though officially it's for 'realism'. No, we just want you to become so desensitized to blood and violence that we just keep shoving these murder simulators out to you month after month and year after year. Because war and violence is a novelty that we sell to you safely to make a quick buck by appealing to your deeply ingrained fight or flight survival instincts. But you don't care about that, since you're too busy checking out how bloody and realistic I'm making these new headshots look. So go out and buy my latest version of Murder Simulator, or maybe check out my new film War is Awesome. Because as far as you fat entitled idiots are concerned, it is. I'm Roger by the way."
I'm sorry, I blacked out there for a moment...
Oddly enough, I was actually watching a movie last night with Ethan Hawke, called Good Kill. I'm not going to say that it was super accurate as having been in the military, there were some things that were off, but he's a drone pilot that used to fly F16s and dying to get back to it. Then, the toll of that, on top of what he sees every day on his screen and what he has to do, in addition to how it's corroding his marriage because he won't talk to his wife and ends up distancing himself from her more and more because he doesn't want to throw the weight of his burden upon her. So... he turns to the bottle.
Admittedly, I don't know enough about the program in which to say if these scenarios are worst case for the sensationalism of the movie... or if it's actually worse. Kind of like that movie The Caller with Halle Berry, in which she spent three days in a 911 center and said that so many of the calls were way worse than what was in the movie script. Like there's one point where the Lieutenant Colonel was talking about how one of their guys popped on coke so they were getting a new person. Citing that he was 22 and burned out, so he did a bunch of coke to pop intentionally... finishing with "22 and he 'burned out.' Hell, when I was 22, I was just getting started." Though said in a way he wsn't really surprised, like they may have a high tunrover rate for their job or something, due to these "burnouts." Sure, perhaps it's over dramatizing it, but can you imagine?
Kathryn Woolfenden What about people who become mercenaries? Like the people from Executive Outcomes and Sandline.
Saeed Vazirian as if a soldier gets to decide if their country invades another, right. You're an idiot.
Wow, that ending hits hard.
Wow, that got really heavy at the end there.
It's hard to explain.
Maybe, but he did a pretty good job.
Shawn Ravenfire I just postes this exact comment. Then scrolled down and saw yours
Shawn Ravenfire - it should be pretty heavy. if you want to make a movie about war and your intent is to tell a compelling story or make a political/moral statement that's fine. create a fantasy land with a fantasy war and go nuts. but don't try to shoehorn some fantasy or agenda based garbage in something that really happened. it would be like me making a movie and calling it your autobiography only I make it "Shawn ravenfire is Jack the ripper", "based on a true story!". I mean... "some" of it is true right? so technically that's a legit statement...
idiot number3 I AM Jack the Ripper! Mwahahahaha!
You were on fire at the end. Best minute I’ve ever seen on RUclips. 🔥 🤚 🎤
sadly this cracked does´t exist anymore
You're a fucking idiot then. Congrats.
@@nunliski easy does it, laddie.
@@ElGranSanto Soldiers are evil, stupid slaves. "Sense of purpose" my fucking ass. That's no more meaningful than saying you play a video game to find a sense of purpose, except you're actually killing other human beings.
@NonLegit Nation My dad was a soldier who committed suicide. I know he also would have been disgusted by the sentiment expressed in the video.
Chris Hedges based his experience from the tragedy he witnessed in Yugoslavia and the 15 years he spent as a war correspondent for the NY Times. Many of the soldiers did agree and support the idea of war being a drug. You don't have to think about life, you just have to fight to live or die.
Thank you for seeing clearly
True.
I think the idea of "you weren't a soldier so you can't ever comment" is precisely the kind of in-group mentality the army can breed, and it's a rather dangerous one.
This.
BURN1NG CHR0ME It's not that civilians can't have an opinion, it's that they can never fully understand those who serve. The camaraderie, the support, the sense of purpose, among other things are why many Vets feel lost after they retire. Honestly, the amount of bullshit that we have to deal with on a daily bases is enough to make somebody's head explode, yet we continue to do it.
As a former infantry soldier I can tell you that journalists usually don't understand whats going on over there. I'm sure that a few of them are different and I don't know enough about what Chris Hedges actually did over there but I can tell you that a lot of the information that other reporters put out is blatantly wrong and they usually interview those that are either cracking or bullshit artists. Why you ask? Because they're far more quotable and sell the story everyone wants to hear.
As for Chris Hedges himself, the man describes himself as a socialist, nothing in the wikipedia page or a (admittedly brief) search showed him actually going to the front lines during his reporting, and he discussed the massive "human cost" to the war before it had even started. He also described himself and other reporters as "hostages to the military" during the war. I'm not saying he was wrong about the war, but none of that background says that he understands soldiers nor has he really been with the infantry when they were getting shot at.
Examples of reporters getting the story wrong:
During the initial invasion I saw a reporter talking about how close he was to the front lines while a line of Paladins passed him. Paladins look like tanks but they're actually artillery units, if they're in the front lines someone seriously screwed up.
When my team was transferred to gate guard duty they had me setup behind my 240 and pretend to scan the horizon with it. Unless we had a certifiable threat or we were cleaning it we never even touched the thing and we'd never scan the horizon with it unless we were getting ready to shoot someone with it.
A huge stink was made about a soldier shooting an "unarmed prisoner." What wasn't reported about the soldier in question was that his team wasn't the team that initially cleared that room and he'd lost a good buddy the day before due to a suicide bomber that had played possum in a situation very similar to that one. Judging by the reporting it sounded like a soldier just started shooting a prisoner for shits and grins when in reality he panicked when the prisoner moved. Not saying he was right for doing that, but I can understand how it could happen in the heat of the moment. If you can't, then I know for a fact that you've never been in a situation like that.
Would love to see you ripe into American Sniper. Want to see besides the "Drama added" inaccurate, to see the military/reality inaccurate.
Ralph DuBreuil He should do Zero Dark Thirty next. Finish up with Kathryn Bigelow.
Ralph DuBreuil As a guy who works in the tech field I could spend hours talking about how shows misrepresent programmers, network engineer, IT security etc.... but I choice not to because that Hollywood for ya
More of this guy
Agreed, more of this guy, with more war related items. He's the best thing I've seen on cracked in a long time, would love some war story segments also.
Yes agree. There are far more tears than there are jokes and smiles from grown men in combat. You will change after that.
Aaron B I disagreewith the laugh tear thing we just laugh at darker shit that makes others look at us and say wtf is wrong with them
I was a 91a when I was in, I think it is a 68w now. I have never seen a "realistic" war film. If there was such a thing I would have no desire to see it.
Children of Men reminded me constantly of my deployment. Especially the end. Desperate chaos saturated in helplessness. people grabbing at you and begging as parts of the dangle on loose threads of flesh.
I cried so bad when I watched that movie. Amidst the anger, hate, and chaos all sides agreed on one thing. That child was the only hope for humanity. The scene where the chaos stopped to let them pass was incredibly powerful
William Galaini Children of Men, while great, is meant as social commentary, not an attempt to be faux documentary as "War movies" are. Good try though, and anyone who sees this post should consider watching Children of Men over Hurt Locker any day.
Michael Pede
True. I mention it only because I don't watch war movies very often.
I thought it was obvious that Jeremy Renner's character was meant to be a total toolbag and the movie showed very realistic consequences to very action movie -style a acts. When I did my tour, my comrades and I watched the movie. We loved it. Really. But there were so many things we just shook our heads at, or rather, laughed about (we were having fun, don't judge us) while other things were really great because they were quite realistic.
The sniper scene never gave us the distance that the ambushers were away, so they needn't be actual snipers if it were only 200-300 meters and they shot many times to hit far fewer enemies until they had gotten them all. They were capable of assisting each other because they were familiar with the general concepts. Only when they hit the very last one that ran away, was I taken out of the experience, cause hitting moving targets with such a slow firing weapon is very difficult. Also, given how the sunlight angle had changed, I assumed our gang of idiot heroes had waited for hours for fear there might be more trying to wait it out and get the jump on them once the heroes try to move away. The idiot squad really had the sun-battered and exhausted look at the end of it. Also, the british guys were mercenaries, not SAS. (they might have been former SAS, but that is a different point and up for debate)
At the very beginning, I also found it very strange that there was not at least half a battalion worth of people securing the area, so the EOD could work safely. Same thing in that place with the bomb in the corpse of the kid, though there I will admit it was clear to show the very real tension of clearing a house with characters we were already invested in.
When Renner's character went out on his without telling anyone to find out more about the dead kid (very movie- style thing to do), everything he did basically backfired. The whorehouse thing mainly served to keep the movie going, because it would be really unsatisfying to end the movie there.
I assumed the adrenaline thing was talking about Renner's character specifically as the every other soldier shown is shown to be quite different in their behaviour and motivations.
To summarize and conclude, to me, the movie was basically a parody without being funny (a deconstruction, is that the term?) of your usual fare in action movies and video games. A very, very good movie to be sure (I watched it many times and will probably do so again^^)
On a final note, to the presenter and writer of this episode.
1) great work showing those glaring flaws
2) thanks for taking time out of your personal life to make an effort to actually educate the general population, I really liked what you did here and I respect you for it
Small note: If the target was 200-300m, they would not need to be assisted to be able to hit. 300m targets are part of the marksmanship qualifications. I went through AIT at the same school as IED (Redstone Arsenal, AL), and we had basic marksmanship training. In my entire time of service, I never learned even the basic concepts of sniping or assisting with sniping.
Yeah he wouldn't NEED to be assisted, but it wouldn't hurt either. I qualified marksmen in the AF (its only AF small arms training but it's still annual but only 63 rounds are actually scored against your qualification I hit 62 the last time I did M4. The rest are practice or familiarization, for instance the gasmask portion isn't scored.) I would say the basic concepts of assisting are self evident, you missed, shot landed a few inches to the right ect. Even if the targets were 500m out you wouldn't need to be some sniper god to hit them, after all its possible to hit that with iron sights if you take your time.
I don't want to discount your experience as you are apparently an ammo guy (Redstone was part one of our training and the most minuscule part. Also, we continue to train after we graduate....) but we are all trained on the Barrett as it is part of our tools. I can't say for everyone but my company all qualified on it (assisting and all). Also, man redstone was a weird steam punk nightmare right?
Hi Andy, I didn't know that you were trained on the Barrett. That's cool. I honestly never even saw one in person my entire time in. Yeah, Redstone was such a weird little base, haha.
thank you guys for serving
This is the best video Cracked has ever made. Give me less of the smug hipster assholes that are usually in these videos and give me more of this guy.
Yep... they lost me a long time ago... I was surprised this video showed up in the recommendation
dey aint lost you, you still watching.
I gave up on the Cracked website awhile ago, and usually avoid most of their videos. I clicked on this one before I knew it was Cracked, and watched it through despite its brand.
CallumAnthony93
Like I said... This showed on my watch list... Didn't even know it was them...
Same here. Gave up on Cracked a while back, but I was pulled in by the fact that I always thought Hurt locker was overrated. lol
This is first time I was actually glad Cracked's click-bate worked on me.
The terms “war movies” and “realism” don’t really go hand in hand...
You know, as much as people bitch and moan about Cracked making "political" videos, I really enjoy these human perspective videos that you folks do. The ones about politics, human rights, history, and all the other things that asshats think "aren't funny".
Thank you for making these.
I'd say it's not funny as it's not intended to be funny. This is a serious piece.
Years ago I saw "Full Metal Jacket" in a theater when it first came out. I'm not saying it was the best war movie. But a couple Vietnam war vets who were sitting behind me said that during a couple of scenes of being on patrol, that movie came the closest they had seen to capturing the feeling of dread that they had… not seeing the enemy, but knowing that they were being observed and might come under fire any second. For what that is worth.
Platoon?
No, they were talking about Full Metal Jacket.
Fair enough. It's been a while since I saw that film, but didn't remember there being that many (one?) nerve-racking patrols. Much of the movie Platoon features walking through jungle, being unsure if the 'enemy' was watching and if they were going to pounce out.
This guy is good. Please do Black Hawk Down next.
Hell yeah. And maybe Full Metal Jacket (just the boot camp parts of the movie; we all know everything else is BS).
That one is actually touted as being based on reality.
well it is only because the incident did happen on the specific operation and they did get a good amount right they did leave out a lot of other things and focused on the American forces a bit to much because it was not the US or UN that saved them it was if I remember this correctly a Pakistani force that was stationed in the area or some trained forces in the area. also just a personal thing they hardly used the little birds while in the book and with what actually happened they were used constantly.
No joke I actually met the commander from black hawk down, and I mean the real commander not the actor. He was a cool guy
Scottyplo BHD was based off of actual events. That's like saying "Do American sniper next"
I was swedish military, deployed to Afghanistan and recently Mali. Last part was exactly what I felt like made me go back. This video makes me very happy someone talked about this.
HAHA, I have to agree, I am an Iraq vet, and I have never seen a movie that reflects the military accurately . In fact often the comedies come closer.
Nick Usalis Knight Stripes was always a favorite
Gerry Buckets no they can still be a movie and accurately reflect life. Wow, your not to sharp
Look at Generation Kill, it's a series, it's very accurate and you will enjoy it :))
Nick Usalis Knight If movies do that then less people will join. Army needs bodies!
Very Good Point!
Brilliant. I always thought te character and situations felt unrealistic. Making him a bit of an addict and an ass dehumanizes actual military service members and makes it "okay" to send them to unnecessary wars.
Hurt locker is often misunderstood, although unrealistic, you have to remember he didn't care or fear, for his life, he took extra risks
This is definitely the best video Cracked has put out in a while and THANK GOD I don't have to dislike it because this one doesn't have the stupid "Monogamy" credit speech.
NobodyInParticular did you watch the Cracked goes there with Robert Evans? that one was rad.
I honestly don't know
NobodyInParticular you should find it. It's fantastic. It's like, real journalism and no hacky jokes. (They keep swaim out of it.)
“The biggest attraction [to war] is purpose, when you’re in a combat zone things become simple. You survive, and you do everything you can to make sure your friends do too. When you’re there, all the nonsense falls away, and you gain a huge amount of perspective for what really matters.”
-Christian
Personally I feel like Jarhead was the closest to my experience. I was deployed to Kuwait in 2003 at age 21 all pumped up and ready to spread American freedom. Qualified on the M2(.50 machine gun) Spent the entire time building base camps all over the country and didn't fire my weapon once.
I've never been in the military or watchted this moive, but each point you brought up I instantly knew that they got the stuff wrong the second you said it.
I am a Marine vet with 3 deployments... 2 Iraq and 1 Afghanistan. I love your perspective and truth to this subject. One of my favorite movies is Full Metal Jacket. In which I feel the most realistic thing about it was the first seen.
My thoughts on his views:"
Yeh sure I don't doubt your authenticity at all.
But FFS when are we gonna expect the same standard of judgement of soldiers that we do of politicians?
Iraq was a BS war. Afghanistan became a BS war by the time the Iraq War began.
We wouldn't have empathy for Vets if THEY had taken responsibility for the horrors of war by NOT joining/re-enlisting into BS wars. In one day in 2003 there were 5- MILLION PEOPLE PLUS Protests held around the world. We all knew Iraq was BS war.
Politicians will always fight these wars if they're allowed to take our taxes and young people agree to fight.
I don't have sympathy for USA soldiers, they either know they are fighting BS wars or they don't and I strongly oppose them and until I see evidence that changes my mind, I sympathise with civilians who had nothing to do with this, who are dying, unprotected in their homes. Not the troops in MRAPS, body armour and drones looking out for them.
Don't confuse the senders with the sendees---The soldiers do not pick the war--politicians who have never served or have not served in many decades pick the war. A Serviceperson's job is to go where sent , complete the mission and survive with unit intact--that is all. You don't disobey, you don't question, and you don't do what you want--that is why Sgt. Bergdahl is on trial.
+Ced Cole. No. I fundamentally disagree. Firstly do you think the same of the German soldiers forcing Jews to force Jewish children into furnaces?
Maybe 2 generations ago, the politicians could effectively control the information about the conflict that the soldiers did not know the real facts about the conflict.
That isn't the case now, it hasn't been since Vietnam. We all knew Iraq was an illegal invasion. On one day 5 million + people protested in 5 cities against the war. Soldiers who signed up later than 2002 had easy access to information about the conflicts they were joining up to fight in. Worse for those who joined up after no WMDs were found.
If they joined prior to a conflict, hoping to only serve in defense of their country and then..later are sent to a conflict..sure they can't be expected go AWOL on principle.
That isn't the case of USA Military. USA has been at war for 98% of it's existence and except for an hr in December 1941, they haven't ever fought in DEFENSE of USA.
Since 2002 has been a rolling global campaign that pays disregards all laws on war and the US Constitution on declaring war.
Every person joining the US military since then have access to information to understand that and they still join.
They join in the knowledge the US military are fighting illegal, unconstitutional wars. That is their choice, it is their responsibility.
If enough Americans refuse to join when politicians declare illegal wars, then the politicians won't be able to start illegal wars.
All US troops fighting today are equally as responsible for these illegal wars and the suffering that results,as the politicians.
Don't be misled into thinking too few volunteers will stop wars. They'll just start pulling draft numbers and calling people in against their will. Or call up more National Guard units. Or both.
Full metal jacket is amazing
Dude. I'm a Veteran Navy Seabee - 1 tour to Centcom. I worked with Army Task Force and EOD.
On to the relevant stuff: When i saw this film, I was like "Hurt Locker is a good film, but none of that s*** would happen... Especially when he just strolled off base and came back..." you're covering that part as I'm typing this.
Thank you for finally calling this puff war film out.
but who would argue against that? Who in their right mind thinks that the military allows it's government property to do whatever the fuck it wants?
Yeah, me too. The moment that a$$hole abandoned his post, I was pissed at the movie.
A good deal of the public, Englithened, that's who. Popularising BS like that in films which get hyped as realistic, doesn't exactly help to dispell such myths.
I love the speech that you gave at the end bro about the war and what really matters when you're there
No real vet worth a shit thinks Hurt Locker is realistic, only fobbits. EOD weren't kicking in doors to find bomb-makers, they sat on some fob playing xbox and took 3 hours to spin up while some convoy waited on them. The most realistic war movie is Battle:LA, and that had fucking aliens in it.
So you're telling me that aliens are real.
That's crazy bro... but I had a feeling.
Roman Fox haha lol
If that's what you got out of that statement then more power to you. #RaiseMinimumWage and all that.
If you like sci-fi war movies, you should definitely check out Ghost Recon Alpha. It's a 23 minute short film that you can watch on youtube. Here's a link ruclips.net/video/7-wAzlqzXH0/видео.html If you liked Battle:LA you'll definitely geek out on Ghost recon Alpha. As for fairly realistic war cinema based on true stories, HBO's 'Band of Brothers', 'The Pacific' and 'Generation Kill' are beyond superb.
Roman Fox Hey, that's pretty good.
Santa isn't what?!?!?
Elemer San Miguel don’t worry
Don't worry he's just kidding
It was just a joke ok, he didn't mean it
Oh dear.
Elemer San Miguel the profile picture makes this comment for me
Thankyou! 👏👏👏 ! 13 Delta fire direction specialist 2 months after a.i.t. boom training to go in country ...15 months in the sand box broke up into 7.5 month intervals again trained to be artillery didnt do it 1 day (cleared building, went on patrol, set up post, help to deliver materials in some cases) Look im from Detroit and thought i had seen everything but mentally theres no preparing yourself you theres alot of evil in the world...I wont sit here and tell u every day was just mess because we enjoyed our self any way we could in are down time...But missing your family and then u get home and have to realize and try to get back to being the person you were something that your love ones recognize because u dont see the change in yourself because everyone your around prior to being state side is in the shit with you and share a similar mentality.....And everyone deals with it differently coming home having to try to blend ...long story short yeah thia movie shit
one soldier to a prior, great video. I can also completely and utterly agree with him on the reason why we deploy repeatedly, which is also why I've re-enlisted over and over again. Deployments make life simple, military life makes sense. I wake up every morning knowing exactly what's going to happen, whose always in charge, and everyone is in the same shit, so no one really bitches cause, why?
keep up the good work and thank you for leading the way, hooah.
ball park franks thank you for your service
You could just read the bible and have a career where you surround yourself with people who are devoted to serving God by serving others and that job doesn't involve murder.
+Jeff II War isn't murder. In fact the Bible is full of war and draws a distinction. It is unpleasant, but also very much a part of the human condition. Cain killing his brother out of pride = murder. David killing Goliath as he fought for the Philistines = war. One is praised as the work of God, the other is reviled as a heinous act.
LupineShadowOmega I get where you're coming from. However you are wrong. War unsanctioned by The Almighty results in murder. Mind you, I am not speaking of war done in his name, but military conflict actually commissioned by HIM against specific enemies/people with a clear directive. That has NOT happened in more that 2,600 years, longer if we're specifically speaking of ancient Israel taking up arms defensively. Longer still, if they were on the offensive. Every other action resulting in the willful loss of human life is unrighteous and thus is murder. God does not support any man made war and that includes all that are going on today and have gone on for centuries. Every man, woman and child that has lost their lives as a result unholy conflict, since 607 B.C.E., has been murdered.
Just in case you or anyone else is wondering what allows God to make the decision between righteous judgement resulting in death or murder/manslaughter? It's the fact that he's the creator. Without his authority, life does not exist. That alone is enough, but he can also read hearts making him uniquely capable of deciding who is worthy of life and who is not.
So you are a child with a gun is what you're saying.
Iraq vet here, Blackhawk Down is the most realistic war movie I have seen.
If you take the idealism away of the actors about how they're noble people, then yes. The infantry is full of killers, not knights that protect society.
They did the whole "Americans are heroes and saviors of all mankind" bullshit but other than that it was pretty good.
13 hours
SrgGoofy Not necessarily. I’d have to say Full Metal Jacket is at least fairly accurate in its portrayal of 1960s-1970s Boot Camp. Definitely more accurate than the soldiers removing their CIF gear before a combat op in BHD.
Fucking LOVE that movie
This guy is a win for the channel.
A BIG win!
hmmmm nah.... his head is too rectangular.
auhauhauha
"All Quiet on the Western Front" 1930
This guy should have a series on war movies or something. He's pretty good.
Oh hell yes!
Illier1 Pretty good
I asked an E.O.D. friend that returned from Iraq if the Hurt Locker was realistic at all. He replied, "Yes.", "Just like how Top Gun is a realistic portrayal of the Airforce." Best movie review i've ever heard.
StratoScopes Uhh what?
Except top gun is Navy lmao
Nicholas Vickers I didn't want to call bs but he had me confused too lol.
But wouldn't the Navy's air fleet still be considered "an Air Force", still confusing.
L V Why the capitalization?
I couldn't serve like many of my relatives due to type 1 diabetes but i was able to serve on another way by being a contractor out in Kwajalein Atoll. I drank and shared a lot of time with servicemen and women who let me into their realm. I heard and saw things, was privileged to be let in and not just party all night but listen. Many shared things that it felt like they never shared before. So your final remarks are very much a representation of the feelings i got from those men and women. Some of them told me they didn't do what they had to. They did what they chose to. Take that how you want but for me, it was that they chose not to stay home but to possibly give up everything for that purpose and yes, it was beyond the stupid BS we complain about back home.
Ramirez wtf small world Man! Haven't seen you in like 9 years. Good job on the video.
why is it once i joined i see people that i served with in the most unexpected places and times. Even when they leave the service.
He is way more insightful than any grunt I ever met.
This is a quote from the movie Aliens, right?
Gumz? Hey, it's good to hear from you! Thanks for the support!
Khashon Haselrig XD
I am prior Air Force myself and a friend of mine who was EOD explained to me much of the same thing about this movie, but he told me that most likely the producers got some reports about the dumbest things EOD techs did in the field, because those were the actions that got reported and they made a movie about it.
Also my favorite line in this was "Cloud of a person".
Hi! Marksmen shooter here!
1. That distance has a whole ton of calculations that need to be done for that shot. Like, I dunno, windage, heat, distance, the correct formula for adjusting the scope, what type of scope it is, load data, etc...
2. They have no idea what the Brit was shooting for ammo. For all they knew it couldve been slower rounds to compensate for the heat or faster burning for the wind.
3. It takes SEVERAL shots not knowing the distance the scope was set at (In other fancy terms, sighted in). (Typically they are set a base of 100 yards yet, that's marines not brits.)
4. He didn't touch his turrets (At least from the clip) you NEED to especially with the heat compensation formula.
Post Note - The rotation of the earth doesn't come into account till 1,000 yards. Along with, unless they both suddenly remembered both MOA and MIL formulas there is no way in hell they would've made it in one shot.
Calculating for wind and heat seems tough.
Like, wind isn't a constant, is it?
And you factor in the atmospheric and gun temp by feel alone?
I'm guessing they use either a thermometer or local weather data. I doubt that they guess the temperature based solely on feel, especially considering how the amount of humidity can make it seem far hotter or far cooler than it truely is.
I guess I got confused by "He didn't touch his turrets."
You probably meant to type "tourrettes".
It's ok.
Happens to me all the time.
Roman Fox "Tourettes" is a cognitive disorder, "turrets" refers to the adjustment dials on the top and sides of the optic for elevation and windage.
Nikolai, ah FUCK it all makes sense.
SHIT!
Sorry.
My tourettes.
Thank you so very very much from the bottom of my heart. I am saying this because my brother has been to Afghanistan multiple times , and my mom is so worried that he is addicted to the rush of war. I have tried so many times to explain but just couldn't get it right, or maybe because it's my mom and i can't tell her much because it would break her heart. i think sometimes people forget not just the soldier who makes a sacrifice,, but their family sacrifices their peace and much more. My mom she suffers enough with her two sons always going off again to another country. this video when i shown it to her helped that light bulb go on and she gets it now... So again Thank you and Thank you also for your service and sacrifice that your family also have made.
When I was deployed IEDs were mostly found by, infantry patrols, route clearance (combat engineers, MPs) or convoys. I was a M2 gunner on a convoy escort team (gun trucks) in a MRAP. EOD was called out usually with an escort of their own. When they went to work they had their escort, and our gun trucks securing the site. EOD also uses robots a lot more than that movie showed. Explosions in war movies would have killed almost every main character in every movie if they were that close. In movies the explosion itself is exaggerated while the shockwave, which is what kills you along with shrapnel, is almost non existent.
I was in the Infantry. We found a lot of IED's in Iraq. We lost 3 MRAPS to them. A buddy of mine who was the driver of a Bradley got his back burned when an EFP hit the side of the Brad and burned through the hall. EOD never left the wire without us. No one left the wire without us. Someone else's mission was our mission.
So much information I’m getting from peeps that I’m gonna use in my comic book.
Are the shockwaves like a wave of wind and various sizes of rocks, glass, metal, and wood that come at you?
sudden air pressure change. even when you're relatively "far" - makes your internals wobble and damage.
For all it got wrong, it absolutely nailed the environment of an Iraqi street. The garbage everywhere, the paranoia of walking that street with people who could end up killing you. Just the utter fear and breakdown of the psyche of going through it daily was well shown. But ironically life was so much simpler over there. Here it feels like we have no purpose. No direction. I dreaded every deployment, even hated it while there. But with hindsight you realize the guys you were with are closer friends than you could ever hope to find here. We laughed, fought, and cried together and I wouldn't trade those moments for anything.
It was virtually the same in Yugo. Just less sandy.
Yeah no shit its garbage everywhere. Is it maybe because there is a fucking war in there? Also im interested why would they want to kill a foreign soldier in their homeland.
I appreciate the hell outta this video.
Vets are very diverse in their backgrounds and their beliefs. It's great to see his intelligent point of view (which I agree with), but don't just listen to how one veteran feels about things. Ask a bunch. Figure out why it's so hard for us to adjust to civilian life after getting out. Ask how we feel about patriotism being attached to war. Ask us how we feel serving as a soldier under a president that we didn't vote for (pretty much every soldier has experienced this). I'm sure you'll get plenty of diverse answers. Veterans of war go through some things that are hard to understand unless you ask them.
DeeDubb So how do you feel about patriotism related to war?
OR like ignore the vet who CHOSE to fight a war that MILLIONS of people campaigned to stop. The Vets can live with their choice.
Thinks about the VICTIMS the civilians who had not armour, air cover or escape. Who's home got turned into a warzone through no fault of their own.
The Vets knew the deal. These chose wars. Walk on by.
Ashley Thomas the people who were the "bad guys" chose their home turf for said war dude, they used that as a tactical advantage, basically using confusion and rules of engagement to take veteran lives. What you say sounds nice and all, but, you're clearly ignorant as fuck or are so young and idealistic you don't understand how the real world isn't so white and black.
Ashley Thomas to say they chose to kill civilians is laughable - imagine how you'd feel if every time you left your home one of your neighbors was going to shoot at you, and you KNEW that it was coming. How would you behave after about a day or two? Panic? Anxiety? Reactive? Probably.... would u maybe shoot someone 97 days in thinking it was a possible threat and realize they were just taking out their cell phone?
As a former 11b, OIF vet I cant even come close to explaining how much I enjoyed this video or how perfect it is. Thank you and well said brother.
Right?! Movie didn't even cover the importance of eyepro! Where's the clearing barrel are the ECP?
I'm highly confident that Chris Hedges was talking about how the rush of battle is an addiction for the military-industrial-congressional complex, since this is exactly the kind of thing he would say.
he's a journalist and a clergyman. His job is always to lie to people and hope enough agree with him that he gets paid.
@@ratholin Did the writer of Generation Kill intentionally lie in order to be paid big bucks? No.
It could be that he has different experiences from the other Journalist who was in a similar war, and most articles are written with either objective or subjective facts. One could have been there to showcase the horrors of war, and another to showcase how the veterans are handling their situations; may it be for the better or worse.
Subjective Facts is what separates a good and bad journalist, that's for sure.
The most disappointing thing about enlisting when youre a kid and full of enthusiasm and patriotism is thinking you will leave your training school for your particular enlisted job and thinking youre going straight to play with the latest government technology, vehicles, gear, hardware, etc. And do all the exciting shit you see in tv or movies. And instead being endlessly assigned to shit details, cleaning or kitchen duty, etc. And not because you got in trouble or as part of njp but basically just because youre the FNG (fucking new guy), and your squadron/unit etc. just has a revolving door of fng's doing shit jobs until some e4 or e5 decides he likes you enough to decide you can now actually perform the job that the Government has invested 100s of thousands of dollars in to educate and train you. Talk about a cold hard dose of reality.
isnt like that for any job?
Watch the movie "Private Benjamin".
Accurate. Or join the infantry so you can do everything you didn't sign up for.
This is one of the reasons I'm glad I went Air Force. Even though it usually isn't action-packed or anything someone will make a video game about, I am doing the job I was trained to do every single day that I go to work.
Ivan bang on the money matey , I played PlayStation and got super fit over 5 years , swept the world and dusted the same 20m room for 5 years too
Glad you made it home brother. I have a lot of EOD battles that didn't. Stay safe.
This man needs his own channel!
8:32
Finally someone set it right. I’ve been more comfortable sleeping in a hole in the ground than in an memory foam mattress in a house .
Christian Bro Thanks For This Great Explanation, Few People Recognize The Realities Of War & Your Closing Statement Gave So Much Clarity On The Mindstate Of A Soldier/Vet. i Appreciate It
I like how the christian capitalised the first letter of every word for no reason, then the atheist responded by refusing to acknowledge capital letters at all. I wonder if that means anything...
99lum lol I'm Not Very Religious Bruh But I Definitely Notice The Major Contrast Here.
99lum probably not
mad kobra
He was saying that the original post Has All Of Its Words Capitalized Like This, while yours doesn't capitalize anything at all.
"In the civilian world you have to listen to people bitch and complain about every little thing..." Like how realistic a Hollywood movie is.
Or people going to a video called "The Most Realistic War Movie Is Full of Sh!t" and complaining that he was criticizing the realism of the movie.
But not when how they completely flip reality. Sorry, imprecision is alright. Inaccuracy? Fuck that.
The U.S. never 'suffered' by going to these wars. That's just propaganda. Want to know who suffered? Those who planted those bombs, the insurgents who fired. Their families.
So yes, fuck Hollywood.
Maybe you should be less butthurt on the internet, lest you feed the #obvioustrollisobvious
You are not very smart , are you ?
He's not just talking about how unrealistic the movie was. He's also bringing up how a movie like this changes people's perceptions of a what a soldier actually goes through. He talks about how people signed up after watching the movie because they thought it was at least a somewhat accurate representation of the lives of a Explosive Ordnance Disposal team, and used it to talk about some of the other real world consequences that might have.It's one thing to complain about bad editing and lighting design (although I also think it's fine to complain about all that stuff, and I'm pretty sure he strongly implied that it's fine to bitch about that stuff too, he's just feels disconnected from it). But I think the issues he brings up have wider implications than what you think.
Thanks for sharing with us, and thank you most of all for your service. I look forward to more videos by you.
Rambo, Commando and Chuck Norris movies are superhero movies lol that made my day😂
My favorite war movie is Star Wars
King Doggard Which of all
War is in the title, so that works for me.
Star Ship Troopers :)
Star Ship Troopers is probably my favorite too.
Well, nothing is going to live up to the expectations of your own personal imagination.
Chill bruh.
You know there was an anime that came out before the live action movie?
Finally, someone that actually says what war is all about
Chris Hedges, pulitzer-winning journalist, with 15 years experience as a foreign correspondent, much of that either in war zones or covering global conflict. Wrote a top-selling book on the experience of war that included interviews with soldiers. (Also criticised The Hurt Locker for being misleading war propaganda.)
Might have a clue about war.
Byron Smith
War is a force that gives us meaning is a great book. This video was also excellent, funny however that the narrator critiques Chris Hedges quote by basically making the exact same arguments that Hedges book, the source of the quote, puts forward. Obviously he has not read the book, just Googled the author. Hedges has also been extremely critical of the movie and it's director, Katherine Bigelow.
Wow, I was not expecting this when I clicked on the video. Cracked is usually heavy on snark and sarcasm which I love. This was not any of those. This was powerful and I applaud the team member who created and started in this for sharing his perspective with us. Thank you.
When I came back from overseas I found I'd lost all patience for the petty whining from people's day to day life. That having been said, having lived through what I have gave me a unique perspective on life. "How am I doing? Well no one's shot at me today, so I'm doing great."
Auros2525 Exactly. Nobody's trying to kill me or mine at the moment. At work today, nobody was gonna die if I or one of my idiot co-workers made even the slightest error. I can see my family more or less whenever I please.
So I'm doing *relatively* well, compared to past experiences. No matter what kind of bullshit went down around me today, I've been through worse and made it out alive. It's all about perspective, and it seems to me that some of the fucknuts in this comment section could use a healthy dose themselves.
Indeed, had to get out of the habit of replying to "How are you?" with "Well, no one's dead and nothing's on fire..."
So is that all life is about? Not dying, not being in active danger of death/injury, and not currently going through the worst thing ever?
Yeah there is certainly trivial bullshit (ex: "Starbucks was out of my favorite coffee flavor today"). But knowing that your "idiot co-workers" aren't going to do anything that will lead to your death isn't exactly reassuring. Nor is witnessing a half dozen separate terrible automobile drivers in a single day, any one of which conceivably could kill you or someone else.
Life reduced to mere survival sounds utterly depressing. I could survive a nuclear war, but I'd rather not.
I guess I'm just soft because nobody has ever shot at me.
I understand that having your boss yell at you seems trivial when compared with... I dunno, watching someone die?
But it doesn't mean that civilian problems actually ARE trivial. Don't get me wrong "I spilled my coffee" or "I got cut off in traffic" is small time. But I feel like the "civilian problems are bullshit" sentiment is a little demeaning. It's like a parent telling their child that their problems are bullshit because the adult has bills. That child hasn't had those experiences. right now that kid's skinned knee is the worst thing they've ever experienced.
It really is about perspective and there are alot of different perspectives.
Anyway, if any of you actually served - Thank you for your sacrifices.
also, I know no one here actually used the word "bullshit".
Next time, don't invade a nation.
They didn't deserve this, yet you made the Iraqis' lives miserable.
Who the fuck cares about the invader?
Only idiots downvoted this guy. Thank you for your service.
Starship Troopers: most realistic war movie played up in satire.
100%! my Dad was a US Army sniper for 20 years...someone finally gets it
yeah, and with army sniper, you mean work in a cubicle, and with cubicle you mean unemployed
7haiverson, about you... You are the unemployed scumbag sitting at your computer potentially giving a huge slap in the face to someone who respects someone for courage. You, you are the opposite of courage. You are a coward. Go shit talk someone else, tell you what go have a go at your grandma, as you usually do.
My dad was patrolling certain parts of Germany in 1980s
7haiverson Internet warrior having no sense of humanity in him strikes again
yup yup my dad as well it was crazy the kind of math he could do in his head, human calculater, but he got back and was happy being a mechanic sooooo yea
Not gonna lie, the ending brought a tear to my eye.
Chris Hedges spent much of his journalism career in Kosovo. Central America, Africa and the Middle East during the wars that were being waged in the regions. I think he has the experience and wherewithal to make that statement.
Bro, it is a privilege to listen to a soldier that knows the Honor that is to serve nexts to his peers that most of us will never get to experience that type of bond and trust, I am a filmmaker, I have never done a war film nor movie, but every project I am involved in I do research extensively to get it right, THANK YOU BRO for YOUR SERVICE & SACRIFICE , MAY GOD BLESS YOU & YOURS.
I've been wanting to do a movie about Iraq that truly and honestly, in all the bloody and boring details, shows what Iraq was like. The endless hours of boredom. The countless shit details in the heat. Not being able to sleep because it's too hot. Not eating because chow that day taste like shit. Coming off a mission and going straight into guard duty. Coming off guard duty and going straight to the burn barrel duty. (burning human shit with JP8). Or the days on end without a hot shower, only using baby wipes and bottled water to clean and brush your teeth. Washing your clothes in MRE boxes filled with a trash bag and water. Putting on dirty uniforms covered in sweat, salt lines, and grime. Having to go back out on mission after someone just tried to blow you up. Worse when they blew your buddy up and you have to go out there knowing the trigger man isn't dead or captured. A true movie about what it was like. Maybe even a small mini-series that follows a unit on its 15 month deployment during the surge. 15 months, 15 episodes.
NinjaSushi Bro, sorry for the late response, I rarely look for messaging or texts...but, I was glad to see your reply... I would really like to shoot that film dude... I believe in truth most of all...remember in the early superman comics the tag line was "Truth, Justice & the American way", I know it kind of old school right...like "Merry Christmas" and so many things that we took for granted and now it seems that we are losing all those privileges, I wish you a Merry Christmas Bro, for you and your family, wish you the best wishes and may you and your family be out harms way...Bro, let me re-activate one or a couple of my social media accounts so we can talk bit more, Bro MAY GOD BLESS YOU & YOURS.
And that, boys and girls, is why they're called movies, not documentaries.
...he did point out how it was viewed as a Documentary in terms of Realism in the Video though.
Dumb people thinking a fictional movie is realistic doesn't make it so. Anyone with half a brain should have realized it wasn't realistic about the time that the 4th person around him got injured/killed. If every soldier we sent to war had 4 people around them die we'd have no army left in a month.
Just because some random turd called it like a documentary on IMDB doesn't mean it is.
Yes, but it does explain why it is being covered here. Any other obvious, unnecessary statements?
Since you asked Alec: "Don't make videos catering to morons." It's obvious and unnecessary, yet they made the video anyway, so I guess it did need to be said in this case.
Jarhead. Do it.
deathskilledreaper you beat me to it!
thinking the same thing.
I'm an afghan vet and yea, it is purpose that I miss. The brothers I made over there. A miltary bond with my two buddies is for life. We went 5 years without seeing each other and then got together for a wedding and it was like no time had passed at all. When you're over there, you feel good about yourself that you are doing your part to help your country. I had a close call July 4th, 2014 and I thought about people at home shooting off fireworks. I wanted people to enjoy a regular life and not have to do what I was doing.
I clicked play expecting to almost immediately crush that dislike button. I was wrong. This guy nails it. Great video. The ending = truth!
Chuck Calfee yeah same here.
I was expecting them to take a shit on the military.
that ending you regard as truth (doesn't matter if it correct or not) sounded fake to me. i respect soldiers for their choices but i think war for the reasons they give us at the moment is retarded.
If that is the truth than it's a very depressing truth. Thinking about the meaning of life of the origins of the universe is one of, if not the, most beautiful thing there is. Yet you Americans are too blind to see. If only you opened your eyes you'd see the beauty of life and existentialism. If you try to sit down and think about the meaning of life, you will see how beautiful life is and it's immense value. If you think you are addicted to war because of the reasons mentioned in the video, you should REALLY seek psychological consultation
The movie itself is a bit of an insult to the military
Oof that ending
9:23
"your purpose is to do exactly what humans have been doing since the begining
kill each other"
Jeremy Renners Character would never have made it out of EOD school. NAVSCOLEOD exists in part to screen out people I like him. I know because I was one of them. I had a casual "fuck the rules" attitude which lead to me committing a huge range violation, and not only did it lead to me getting kicked out of school, ending what would have been an amazing and fulfilling career, but it damn near led to me being discharged from the Navy for reckless behaviour.
Been to Iraq, and this guy is 100% right. Life is simpler over there. Not necessity better.
Josh P same here, and I agree.
Plus u come home with a bunch of cash in your account lol.
One of my favorites is the German film "Stalingrad." The "Enemy at the Gates" is good too.
Daniel Green people don't want to see that because they want to pretend all Germans were Nazi zombies and not people
Jacob Staten Your statement is true. Most people don't know that every German who entered the German army during and after 1943 was actually conscripted, and that a decent portion before this had been drafted as well. The Waffen SS provided a bit of a more complex issue (usually not explored) because while the initial units were ideological volunteers, they also started conscripting Germans and establishing foreign volunteer units mainly French, Dutch, and Scandinavian in origin. The result was that some of the most ideologically die hard Nazis weren't actually German. I'd like to see the Charlemagne unit brought up in WW2 movies personally.
'Stalingrad' is excellent. 'Enemy at the Gates' is so full of crap that it's amazing the movie screen isn't oozing brown. I seriously recommend reading the book 'Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad' upon which the movie is 'based'. The real Vasily Zaytsev, hero of the film, is far more interesting than the cartoon the movie replaces him with.
Enemy at the Gates has two things going for it. It's a big budget Hollywood movie portraying a Soviet Russian conflict so it's a different setting with great production values, and it kind of half-succeeds at its premise of portraying a propaganda puppet. It kind of fails at that last part because it becomes the propaganda piece that it's supposed to be critiquing but at least it was something.
That's funny... Sergio Leone was supposed to _do_ a movie called "Stalingrad" that sounded to me like "Enemy at the Gates" that would have been a phenomenal movie... probably, I mean, I didn't like some of his last few.
“If a film maker get obvious details about a job that YOU’VE had, it can take you completely out of it”
“I was in the infantry”
I'd love to see this guy roast the hell out of the whole Call of Duty franchise
this is is gonna a be a hell of a documentary
Why just call of duty? Battlefield is full of bullshit too, medal of honor... Spec ops the line etc etc
Weridos, that's a game.. one that nearly everyone in the military plays and enjoys.
It's funny because, in the second G.I. Joe movie of all places, they actually touch on the disconnect between skills at that game and actually being in the military.
Your comment applies to when he said that that would be kind of like comparing this to Santa Claus's sleigh and how that is just not something that would make any sense
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