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Marcus Luttrell and his team set out on a mission to capture or kill notorious Taliban leader Ahmad Shah, in late June 2005. Marcus and his team are left to fight for their lives in one of the most valiant efforts of modern warfare.
160 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis.
Former United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments, and threatening to destroy humanity itself.
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
Director:
Paul Greengrass
Stars:
Tom Hanks,
Barkhad Abdi,
Barkhad Abdirahman
A tale of war and romance mixed in with history. The story follows two lifelong friends and a beautiful nurse who are caught up in the horror of an infamous Sunday morning in 1941.
Director:
Michael Bay
Stars:
Ben Affleck,
Kate Beckinsale,
Josh Hartnett
Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to assemble a baseball team on a lean budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players.
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1945, in World War II Germany, the tough Sergeant Don 'Wardaddy' Collier commands a tank and survives a German attack with his veteran crew composed of Boyd 'Bible' Swan, Trini 'Gordo' Garcia and Grady 'Coon-Ass' Travis. He receives a rookie soldier Norman Ellison as the substitute for his deceased gunner and he tries to harden the youth along the way. Written by
Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The producers used security guards with Rottweilers to dissuade members of the public from taking photographs from public footpaths during shoots. See more »
Goofs
In one scene inside the tank, Boyd 'Bible' Swan smokes a Natural American Spirit cigarette. The brand was created in 1982. See more »
Quotes
Grady 'Coon-Ass' Travis:
[Wardaddy kicks Coon-Ass in the back while Coon-Ass is working on the tank's electrics]
Aah fuck! What the fuck you do that for? I'm tryin' ta fix it!
Wardaddy:
You know why.
Grady 'Coon-Ass' Travis:
You wanna fuggin' whoop me? It ain't gonna fuggin' help anything!
Wardaddy:
[radio check]
Probate Fox Six.
Grady 'Coon-Ass' Travis:
I said, why you always whoopin' on me?
Wardaddy:
Because you're an animal, a dog. All you understand is the fist and boot.
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Crazy Credits
The opening title is indirectly shown by the painting on the tank. See more »
Let me start by saying this is a complete Hollywood farce of a true conflict which cost America and its allies thousands upon thousands of lives.
Here is my list of errors:
No way would tank crews be that old (seemingly 35-45 in this movie); the average age of WWII soldiers was between 20-26
By the time the US entered Germany in 1945 the tables had turned considerably with Germany getting pounded in the East by the Russians and the US having reinforced a HUGE front before entering Germany. In other words, no way would a tank, let alone only 4, enter hostile areas as depicted here.
A clerk typist thrown into a tank in the last months of the war? Highly unlikely. It took several intense months of training to work as part of a tank crew.
US Soldiers behaving like that in front of their C.O. (esp in the apartment scene, which dragged far too long btw) , also very unlikely.
The last stand scene? Um, no. One broken tank against a column of Germans, this late in the war just does not make any sense. It's not as if the US had its back against the wall, there were thousands of soldiers, armor, airpower MASSED against Germany. Why take this risk?
The acting was way over the top. This movie, as a whole, really dis-honors WWII vets. The action though, was good, which will make this movie lots of money. Why didn't David Ayer choose one of the MILLIONS of REAL WWII stories to depict instead of this poorly researched effort is beyond me.
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Let me start by saying this is a complete Hollywood farce of a true conflict which cost America and its allies thousands upon thousands of lives.
Here is my list of errors:
The acting was way over the top. This movie, as a whole, really dis-honors WWII vets. The action though, was good, which will make this movie lots of money. Why didn't David Ayer choose one of the MILLIONS of REAL WWII stories to depict instead of this poorly researched effort is beyond me.