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Better than anything Hollywood has done in the last decade or so


With the exception of Lone Survivor (2013) I haven't seen anything this good. Hopefully the people who made Ghost Recon Alpha are involved in the making of the Michael Bay Ghost Recon film.

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They have a few best selling games so thats how they make money. It takes a lot more money to make a movie and seeing how the ad works they might have a good money maker.. But its always iffy.. Like some of the other books they have made into movies. None of them were as popular as the books or the games. I thought hunt for red October was really good but it didn't do very well.

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Hey its your opinion and I respect that but I do NOT agree with them.

1st off this is NOT a Hollywood made short Ubisoft is a French company and this was a French Canadian production. So you are wrong Hollywood does and still does makes trash. No offense but you sound like you view of the military is of the movie , video game and media types. My brother is in the German Army and has served in Afghanistan. Also my husbands brother and other family are in the military, Front line not rear area types. His brother is a F-15E pilot and he has 2 cousins in the Marines one is a Sniper and one is a Tank commander. Anyway you sound like those types I mentioned earlier probably young and have never served right?

My family and my hubby's family laugh at these so called realistic military type films. I could careless what movies you love but Lone Survivor, Hurt Locker and the tons of other recent Combat films. All are a joke to active or former military fighting vets. In fact these films are 99% unrealistic to the vets I know personally.

I and my husband may be just MD's but my husband is a serious gun collector and I a have a degree in military history. Anyway I German born and raised where I mentioned my brother was in the military (mech inf) but I also had a cousin in our SF's KSK. This also goes one of the trivia entries the one about Special forces operators NOT wearing their national flags. That is flat out wrong the only time or ones who do that are those in intelligence units like the CIA who are called the OGA or ODA's (search google for what I mean)but again only those who go undercover who also don't wear dogtags or carry western weapons.

But ordinary SF's troops do wear their country's flag on their gear. Again so many (what vet call) mall ninja's or fakes, showoffs and shameful posers.

Oh yeah I mentioned my husbands family and their big interest in guns even tho most of our fellow MD colleagues hate guns. I love them and have shot since I was 6. My husbands family is very much into LE, Military and gun industry types. They own or work in the gun industry and many are collectors.

Without showing off our collection (I or we have dual citizenship) is in the 3 digit range. We have antiques,rare, classic, modern types like the AR, AK, SCAR, TAVOR and ACR etc etc. We even or my hubby loves to buy pretty pricey class 3 items like pre-banned (EG pre 1986) full auto or select fire guns like 2 our MP5's an A2 and a SD. We also own a G3, FAL, MP40 and other similar rifles and SMG's we also own ** suppressors and short barreled rifles aka SBR's. In fact all our home defense guns are suppressed and SBR's like the LWRC IC PDW which we just got 2 (we always if we like it buy 2 of each one to shoot one to keep in storage) anyway its in the infamous NFA 6mon to a year wait you also have to pay a $200 tax stamp for each item be it a SBR, can or select fire.

Pardon the rant I have a cold and bored as heck. I usually am too busy to go surfing online.

But my point was these movies are fun and entertaining but they are in NO way realistic and the bad things these film cause is people get their knowledge of guns this way which is how most of the anti-gun people get theirs. This is very bad and very dangerous. If you want to shoot you cannot learn thru videos or games take a real safety course and then a shooting course then and only then you should buy a firearm and remember to practice a lot and take as much courses as you can afford.

With all this BS aside I really don't think a part 2 will ever come about and the GR film that's supposed to come out? I bet it will either never come out or it will be just another Tom Cruise ADD fake action type film like the Rock. Check out foreign films instead like those from Jpn, Korea and HK in fact Hong Kong seem to make the best action type films with their SDU or SAS trained SF's way more realistic and way more original films than anything Hollywood could do. Hollywood is just a lemming, Plastic, Ken and Barbie world with remake after remake, comic book and video game adaptions. Pure junk that my hubby and I hardly ever watch HW films past the early 90's. We mainly watch foreign or independent films or documentary's.

That's it for my book LOL. Gonna waste my time on Facebook now. LOL seems only time I go online is when I'm sick or injured etc ;)

Dr.Nichole MD. Oh and Nicky was here. :D

I never revisit posts. Too busy and way above arguing.

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