Originally posted by Mini D
Man... nobody has mentioned "Behind Enemy Lines"? The movie that had an F-18 dogfighting a SAM? The movie that had someone holding a football while the carrier launcher "punted" it into the air? The one that had one guy with a sniper scope first shoot down a plane by personally launching a SAM and then hunt the pilots down as they bailed? The one that had two blackhawks anhialate a light armored division because the entire division were missing them from 100 yards away?
Was great fun to sit there after having just done the first half of SERE the summer before and note how every single thing Owen Wilson did was the complete opposite of what they teach you about surviving. Let's see....eject from plane, touch ground. They almost got that part right.
1: gather up parachute because of all the wonderful uses it has - didn't happen
2: destroy patches/rank/nametag (or at least bury them) - didn't happen
3: Buddy has broken leg, so leave him in the middle of a field to get shot while you go stand on the very top of a mountain to have a look around (making yourself an easy target because you didn't stay on the ridgeline)? It numbs the mind just thinking about it.
4: Wander through burnt out and blown up town that's full of mines? Was this guy suicidal?
5: Asks kid for water. Hey, maybe the gerbil in still making the wheel spin after all. Kid offers Coca Cola instead. He drinks it. Never mind, gerbil is dead.
I could go on, but it was just too hard to pay attention to all the details when we were laughing so hard.