Actors that steal the special out of Special Forces...
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Or put the "special" in.
Of late cinema / TV seems to be placing wholly inappropriate actors as Special Forces. After the car crash of Predator, with a mis-cast Boyd Holbrook as a SF sniper (would be out of his depth sniping ladies knickers on Love Island), we seem to have soft as sh*t actors trying to play SF characters.
Ryan Phillippe as Bob the mailer in Netflix version of Shooter is another bug bear of mine. Ok, he's not cast as a Navy SEAL, but he looks like his version of Hell Week was a 4 day Stag Do in Vegas.
WTF has happened? Or do I have to content myself watching reruns of "left" tennent Schaefer offing "krauts" in Where Eagles Dare for the rest of my days?
So whose bad / whose good?
Of late cinema / TV seems to be placing wholly inappropriate actors as Special Forces. After the car crash of Predator, with a mis-cast Boyd Holbrook as a SF sniper (would be out of his depth sniping ladies knickers on Love Island), we seem to have soft as sh*t actors trying to play SF characters.
Ryan Phillippe as Bob the mailer in Netflix version of Shooter is another bug bear of mine. Ok, he's not cast as a Navy SEAL, but he looks like his version of Hell Week was a 4 day Stag Do in Vegas.
WTF has happened? Or do I have to content myself watching reruns of "left" tennent Schaefer offing "krauts" in Where Eagles Dare for the rest of my days?
So whose bad / whose good?
El stovey said:
Annie in commando and predator and whatever else.
BA From the A team. (Were they all special forces)
Rambo.
All classics and convinced special forces.
You've just pitched in anyone with a speech impediment. BA From the A team. (Were they all special forces)
Rambo.
All classics and convinced special forces.
I think Marvel has f
ked up movies for good. Everyone needs a clean uniform and an instigram account or they're a baddie. stongle said:
Or put the "special" in.
Of late cinema / TV seems to be placing wholly inappropriate actors as Special Forces. After the car crash of Predator, with a mis-cast Boyd Holbrook as a SF sniper (would be out of his depth sniping ladies knickers on Love Island), we seem to have soft as sh*t actors trying to play SF characters.
Ryan Phillippe as Bob the mailer in Netflix version of Shooter is another bug bear of mine. Ok, he's not cast as a Navy SEAL, but he looks like his version of Hell Week was a 4 day Stag Do in Vegas.
WTF has happened? Or do I have to content myself watching reruns of "left" tennent Schaefer offing "krauts" in Where Eagles Dare for the rest of my days?
So whose bad / whose good?
I think the key word is 'actors'. It's not real.Of late cinema / TV seems to be placing wholly inappropriate actors as Special Forces. After the car crash of Predator, with a mis-cast Boyd Holbrook as a SF sniper (would be out of his depth sniping ladies knickers on Love Island), we seem to have soft as sh*t actors trying to play SF characters.
Ryan Phillippe as Bob the mailer in Netflix version of Shooter is another bug bear of mine. Ok, he's not cast as a Navy SEAL, but he looks like his version of Hell Week was a 4 day Stag Do in Vegas.
WTF has happened? Or do I have to content myself watching reruns of "left" tennent Schaefer offing "krauts" in Where Eagles Dare for the rest of my days?
So whose bad / whose good?
I don't think special forces is really full of guys like Ah-nold and Steven Segal either.
I don't think I've ever seen any fictional film which accurately portrays SF, in neither their work or the people. I remember one TV film about the Paras in NI that was very realistic - almost fly-on-the-wall; it was probably quite boring to the average viewer, following the 99% boredom / 1% terror ratio as it did.
I think they vary a lot, and I'm by no means an expert, but the US SF people tend to be the man mountain type and the Brits more athletic.
Bradley Cooper in American Sniper was the same height and shoe size (I don't know why that's important but Bradley thought so) as Sniper and fantasist Chris Kyle and bulked up massively to to be as close as possible.
Looking at the pics of the 3 men who died during SAS selection in Brecon a few years ago I don't think Adrien Brody and Boyd Holbrook were all that wide of the mark.
Jesse 'the body' Ventura from the first Predator film was US Navy Underwater Demolition Team (precursor to Navy SEALs) but he wasn't the man mountain he was in the film, all that cam about when he was wrestling I'd guess.
Bradley Cooper in American Sniper was the same height and shoe size (I don't know why that's important but Bradley thought so) as Sniper and fantasist Chris Kyle and bulked up massively to to be as close as possible.
Looking at the pics of the 3 men who died during SAS selection in Brecon a few years ago I don't think Adrien Brody and Boyd Holbrook were all that wide of the mark.
Jesse 'the body' Ventura from the first Predator film was US Navy Underwater Demolition Team (precursor to Navy SEALs) but he wasn't the man mountain he was in the film, all that cam about when he was wrestling I'd guess.
There was a picture of a bunch of SAS/SBS troopers(?) in the epic Falklands thread, and a few people commented on how completely ordinary they all looked. The guy with the receding hairline on the right hand side looks like my old English teacher.
Whats realistic? All the SAS are you mad enought reality tv shows start of with a selection of rambo and arnie's who quickly fail and some speccy git or tiny woman wins the day.
If you only peddle the gym fanatic type image you get all the wrong recruits but tbh in the made up movie world people are
not keen to accept someone like themselves as a hero as it just makes them look a bigger failure for not doing it.
If you only peddle the gym fanatic type image you get all the wrong recruits but tbh in the made up movie world people are
not keen to accept someone like themselves as a hero as it just makes them look a bigger failure for not doing it.
I went through a "special forces" period in my film-watching a while back. I quite enjoyed "Special Forces" (2011) starring Djimon Hounsou, though probably not the most realistic. Some great ghillie-suit action in it.
Act of Valour (2012) starts off with a stealth water-based attack on a camp of kidnappers and its ace. The plot and some of the acting is a bit cheesy but I suppose this film does have characters that look like real SF guys, because the *are* actual Navy Seals...
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1591479/?ref_=vi_md_t...
Act of Valour (2012) starts off with a stealth water-based attack on a camp of kidnappers and its ace. The plot and some of the acting is a bit cheesy but I suppose this film does have characters that look like real SF guys, because the *are* actual Navy Seals...
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1591479/?ref_=vi_md_t...
andy_s said:
I don't think I've ever seen any fictional film which accurately portrays SF, in neither their work or the people. I remember one TV film about the Paras in NI that was very realistic - almost fly-on-the-wall; it was probably quite boring to the average viewer, following the 99% boredom / 1% terror ratio as it did.
What about Act of Valor?
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