For me, it was when they were clueless as to what a Flank is.
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FourDeuce — 13 years ago(November 13, 2012 08:56 AM)
"Why send valuable, English-speaking resources down to the local gunshop just to find out which guys have shotguns and sporting rifles?"
First, because shotguns and sporting rifles can be used to kill people just as well as "military" weapons.
Second, because not ALL weapons registered by civilians are shotguns and sporting rifles. BTW, another name for one type of "sporting rifle" is SNIPER RIFLE. -
the_bamboo_spear — 11 years ago(October 06, 2014 07:04 PM)
Yes, a deer-hunting .30-06 with a scope is, in effect, a sniper rifle in capable hands. But my point is that, in the United States, for every rifle, shotgun or handgun registered down at Academy or the local sporting goods store, there are at least 10 more floating around, either handed down from dad or inherited from an uncle, or bought at a pawnshop, or bought at a gunshow, or swapped for another gun, or just stolen.
In that scene, the Soviets and Cubans are taking fire from an American helicopter. They obviously have their hands full. It's a war. They don't even have a solid foothold yet. And they're going to send valuable resources down to Oshman's to rummage through a file cabinet to see who has a shotgun, when the United States Army is straffing them with rockets and M-60's?
Maybe if the scene happened a few months after the invasion, and they were casually confiscating guns, it would be more believable. But 24 hours into the invasion? Doubtful. -
MercurialAquarian — 14 years ago(March 08, 2012 09:41 AM)
The scene where the sort of famous, but not really famous famous, young movie stars overact and make dramatic aspects corny. The scene, of course, being the entire movie. A lot of the corniness, not all of it, can be chalked-up to the propaganda and overly-patriotic sentiment of the author, as well as the political smoke & mirrors and flag-waving hyperbole of the era itself. With all of the acting in the White House taking place at that time, the bar for acting in the movie could be set kind of low.
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Xeokym — 13 years ago(April 03, 2012 10:21 PM)
I always giggle when Swayze yells at them all to stop crying after seeing the people shot firing squad style (and yes, the part where they start singing is funny as well). He says something like, "STOP CRYING! TURN IT INTO SOMETHING ELSE!
TURN IT INTO SOMETHING ELSE!
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cbowers115 — 13 years ago(June 01, 2012 07:37 PM)
I saw this at Fort Sill, Oklahoma in October 1984. (I had just completed basic training for the National Guard) Everyone in the theatre laughed when the guys fire an anti-tank weapon and the guy gets fried by the backblast. That's when I realized Uncle Sam had warped me more than I had thought.
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savagesteve13 — 13 years ago(July 06, 2012 12:29 AM)
When he was telling his underlings to gather up the gun licenses in the gun stores. Very hilarious, nobody in the military would even care, but they did it to underscore how evil the Russians were, takin our guns away!
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Sam_Hain — 13 years ago(November 24, 2012 09:33 AM)
When he was telling his underlings to gather up the gun licenses in the gun stores. Very hilarious, nobody in the military would even care, but they did it to underscore how evil the Russians were, takin our guns away!
The reason Bella said that is because he used to fight on the side of the insurgents. So he wanted to cut down the chance of people starting up a group of insurgents here.