Author Topic: Most realistic fire-fight in a movie (Read 1468 times)

fdiron · « **on:** August 23, 2002, 10:45:59 AM »

I've seen quite a few 'war' movies, and I've always wondered which movie portrayed an actual fire-fight the best. Now I've read that no two combat engagements are ever the same, but I seriously doubt that the John Wayne World War II movies showed combat as it usually is.

My vote goes to the Vietnam era fire-fight in "Forrest Gump". Gump's platoon is marching through a rice paddy, with a tree line a few hundred yards ahead of them. Suddenly fifteen or twenty 'twinkling' muzzle flashes can be seen in the jungle and green tracers start zooming by. You can't see any actual VC or NVA, just the muzzle flashes. Somehow the VC or NVA manage to fire a mortar from the jungle and it starts bracketing the platoon (which are hiding behind a rice paddy dike).

However, after this point in the movie, things get a little bit 'creative'. But, I think this first half of the fight is realistic.

From the first person accounts I have read, this seems to be the most 'probable' form of a fire-fight that could be depicted in a movie.

midnight Target · « **Reply #1 on:** August 23, 2002, 10:58:43 AM »

Pearl Harbor

Kieran · « **Reply #2 on:** August 23, 2002, 11:06:09 AM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
Pearl Harbor

LOL!

"Instead of using our machine guns in our planes, let's play chicken like we used to when we were boys back home, forcing the silly Zeros to collide when we pull up!"

Saving Private Ryan.

midnight Target · « **Reply #3 on:** August 23, 2002, 11:09:55 AM »

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Originally posted by Kieran

LOL!

"Instead of using our machine guns in our planes, let's play chicken like we used to when we were boys back home, forcing the silly Zeros to collide when we pull up!"

Saving Private Ryan.

I was refering to that realistic scene where we pull that nasty zero right past the tower so we can kill it with a shotgun.... now that's good cinema!

I agree with SPR, best 20 minutes of film ever IMHO at the beginning. And the attack on the machine gun nest seemed very realistic to me.

Masherbrum · « **Reply #4 on:** August 23, 2002, 11:13:06 AM »

Saving Private Ryan or Black Hawk Down.

Karaya2

Daff · « **Reply #5 on:** August 23, 2002, 11:39:50 AM »

Thin Red Line.

Animal · « **Reply #6 on:** August 23, 2002, 12:02:53 PM »

XNachoX · « **Reply #7 on:** August 23, 2002, 12:11:48 PM »

My vote goes for Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinkin' Your Juice in the Hood.

mauser · « **Reply #8 on:** August 23, 2002, 12:21:11 PM »

A similar thread occured in full-auto.com. The post bank robbery scene in Heat is one of the best I've seen. They all appear to change mags, some noted not as frequently as necessary but still at least they do it.

mauser

Elfenwolf · « **Reply #9 on:** August 23, 2002, 12:23:59 PM »

funkedup · « **Reply #10 on:** August 23, 2002, 12:38:43 PM »

Band of Brothers, every episode.

Sandman · « **Reply #11 on:** August 23, 2002, 12:39:52 PM »

True Romance...

gofaster · « **Reply #12 on:** August 23, 2002, 12:46:26 PM »

"The A Team"

I ain't gettin' on no plane, Hannibal!

H. Godwineson · « **Reply #13 on:** August 23, 2002, 01:04:54 PM »

Some of the World War II films shot while the war was in progress showed some pretty realistic fire-fights. Or shall we say they were as realistic as the censors would allow back then. They ought to be placed in a different category from more modern films. Each decade since the war produced films that were grittier than those that had gone before.

Private Ryan gets my vote for most realistic "modern" film.

Which films would be the best or most realistic of the "older" genre?

Regards, Shuckins

Gunthr · « **Reply #14 on:** August 23, 2002, 01:16:54 PM »

The rocket/small arms attack on the riverboat in Apocolypse Now always struck me as incredibally realistic.

Also, several Vietnam firefights portrayed in CHARLEY MOPIC seemed to have a lot of realism.

These are just two off the top of my head...