100 things you learned from Windtalkers

11. Sitting in the cinema lobby is more fun than watching this movie.
(I walked out and had to wait for my mates to finish watching it).

Sorry, lost the numbering, but:-

- Dozens of marauding highly-trained, heavily-armed Jap soldiers can STILL be taken out at 50 yards by Nic Cage wielding a Colt .45.
- An anti-tank gun shell exploding right next to you causes no superficial damage if you're Nic Cage.
- Jap soldiers will completely ignore you if you're Nic Cage, even if you're pumping one of their comrades hiding in a fox-hole full of lead.
- Hand-grenades going off next to you will have no effect if you're Nic Cage.
- Being shot in the legs and arms will still not prevent you carrying a wounded comrade while more bullets and grenades go off around your legs - if you're Nic Cage.
- Being Nic Cage, you can do all that, and more, UNTIL you lie down on the ground in a shell hole and look down to see a hole as big as your fist in your chest. Only minutes later will you begin to cough-up blood - if you're Nic Cage.

If you are shot and wounded immediately stand up so the enemy can finsh you off (this only works if you are a sympathetic character)

My War movie rules

Never let an action director do a war movie, (Pearl Harbor, and this POS, because it doesn't take much to disrespect history)

Never cast an action star in a war movie,

For the sake of accurately showing the true grizzly, non-romantic, inhumane essences that have existed in every war. Never, EVER have an "emotional" score playing during a battle scene. If done right, every battle being told on screen has enough emotion in itself by just letting the inherent visual and audible horror of the story play out, music just reminds the audience that it's a movie.

Never include the line of dialogue "So what do you have waiting for you back home..." between your protagonist soldiers. It's so cliche it just puts a bad taste in your mouth.

(I lost count and in theory this thread could go over 100 soooo....)

101. Military ordinance in John Woo's mind detonates only with big fiery explosions and not with actual shrapnel.
102. Said ordinance also will project the enemy through their air in a choreographed, almost pretty, like a dance, way, defying all physics
103. All guns and military in fact have unlimited ammo, it's just like the setting in video games like MoH, CoD, BF franchise
104. And just like video games you can change the setting to god-like but only apparently if you choose Nicholas Cages character
105. The enemy will run at you screaming in the open
106. If you're not the enemy you don't need to actual take cover, you can shoot, standing up, easy to spot, but never will a bullet hit you
107. If you're not the enemy and/or Nic Cage your mind controls bullets, again laws of physics be damned, you can actually shoot just in the general direction, where your barrel is aimed doesn't need to be where the enemy is, like that cool gun in Aliens (movie or video game)
108. Somehow Nicholas Cage has a career in spite of himself
109. Christian Slater dies in most movies he's in now
110. The makers of this movie had no intention on making a comedy, but that's what they did, this movie is so incredibly laughably bad, it's LOL-inducing many times over
111. If you went to this movie and paid money, hopefully you'll learn in the future to avoid these types of movies, a fool and his money etc. etc.

If you actually want to watch a movie that invokes the raw and violent combat of the pacific war you will watch Letters from Iwo Jima or its brother Flags of Our Fathers (not quite as good but up there).

113. A dead private can be useful to jump over a barbwire.

- When a soldier has his hand chopped off, he will scream out "my hand!"
- When a soldier has his leg blown off, he will scream out "my leg!"
- When a soldier has a limb severed, the stump will not bleed.
- Military math: One Japanese grenade will not kill an American. Two American grenades will destroy a Japanese tank.
- Japanese soldiers will run out from their fortified bunkers to get shot out in the open.
- Japanese soldiers will use long range rifles at extremely close range.
- If the scene calls for it, Japanese soldiers will not fire their weapons and simply charge at American soldiers to be shot at close range.
- Japanese bunkers can be easily flanked and approached from behind if you are a Navajo wearing a Japanese uniform holding an American at gunpoint.
- After a single bomb drops from an American airplane, all Japanese resistance will cease without the need for mop up.
- If Nicolas Cage dies, you can take his dog tag home with you.