Why did seals in training get sent on a real mission?
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Jumper021 — 11 years ago(January 18, 2015 09:10 AM)
You could say that about almost any question regarding a movie - I was curious if it was a plot hole or if I missed how it was explained in the movie.
I'm guessing you're relatively young or relatively new to IMDB? -
Promontorium — 11 years ago(January 22, 2015 04:29 AM)
As the guy with the Navy SEAL symbol for a profile pic pointed out, they were already experienced for the most part.
It was explained in the movie rather simply, they were conducting training, and some sh!t was going down nearby. There was nobody else who could possibly provide assistance in time, so it was them or nobody. The man in charge told the captain they could do the mission, so the captain let them.
Old school military style. Nowadays you get Benghazi.
As for people saying she was "just an analyst", she was also an officer, and officers aren't supposed to be the ones going balls deep into a mission. It really made no sense, except in the capacity that she was the film's star, that she would end up out there by herself. It should have been a couple bitch Seamen, not a Senator handpicked Lieutenant. But other than that, in the military your job title doesn't preclude you from doing other things. Either you're accepting the premise they were letting the woman go into combat, or not, but plenty of people who were just "analysts" went into Iraq and Afghanistan with M-16s. Some of my friends did. I would too if I hadn't been so damn sick of the Navy after 3 ships. -
Promontorium — 10 years ago(November 30, 2015 03:16 AM)
Well I was trying to give the most nuanced answer. Her being on the beach made sense. That kind of thing happens in real life. Her going out on her own, or with one other person, makes no sense for the film or reality. She was not a scout, so she had no business scouting.
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Promontorium — 10 years ago(March 15, 2016 09:57 PM)
Well yeah, in that regard the answer is every movie ever made that involved people training for something has to find a way to wedge in that training in "real world" way at the end. Some do it better than others.