Did the movie "Lone Survivor" inspire you to consider a gun?

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I saw the movie out of respect for Marcus Luttrell and the rest of his team as well as the rest of his brothers who went to help them and died trying.

Good movie, excellent book, damn good men.

I've always respected the guys in SEAL Team, and as far as guns go the only gun I bought that was inspired by anything military was because of the SEAL Team guys themselves and not any movie which was my Sig P226 NSW Commemorative.

And as far as movies portraying guys in the Teams, I see them because of the men they represent, rather than the actor who has portrayed them.

"Act of Valor" is still my preferred movie about the guys in the Teams because the guys in it were the real deal.

There was one gun that I had made by a friend of mine named Mike Woodbury because of a movie which was a replica of the "Last of the Mohicans" rifle used by Daniel-Day-Lewis.
It's a .50 caliber flintlock with a 50 inch barrel.

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And as far as movies portraying guys in the Teams, I see them because of the men they represent, rather than the actor who has portrayed them.
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Yep. If one doesn't go see movies because of the political leanings of the actors, well, that sorta means that you probably take this mode of entertainment way too seriously -- isn't it supposed to be about the portrayal of a character rather than about the person who's portraying a character?

Anyway, um, I now recall ... I did once, way back when, actually buy a gun because of a movie (movies, actually) -- a Walther PPK -- I'm pretty sure most here remember which movies made this piece somewhat desired.
 
We saw it yesterday. The movie inspired me to keep our military in our thoughts and prayers.
 
Is Wahlberg an anti ? I see a lot of remarks about him. I know he has his hands in everything.Ahh ok he is, I looked it up. He and Stallone and Arnold have some nerve considering they have killed more people on the big screen with guns than most small countries. Bullitt to the head and Sylvester is an anti. Just shows you how much crap there is in the world. Do as I say not as I do.
 
In the film, why did only two of the team members have suppressors on their rifles? That bugged me in the film. It seems that it would make more sense for all or non of the rifles to have suppressors?
 
I still want Nic Cage's gold 1911s from Face Off.

I was already in the process of building an AR, so I can't say Lone Survivor changed that.
 
Every Combat soldier should refuse to fight without a suppressor on his rifle. They should have every possible advantage. Cheapskate government wouldn't even give them body armor for years after Iraq invasion!
 
It's a movie loosely based on an actual event, I think they just embellished too much. Much has been made of the accuracy of Lone Survivor, which has been widely praised for its realism and even named “one of the most realistic war movies of all time.” To provide much of its authenticity, writer-director Peter Berg worked closely with Marcus Luttrell, the Navy SEAL played by Mark Wahlberg in the film, and the author of the memoir of the same name. However, while the movie recreates many of the realities of war in painstaking detail, it also diverges significantly from the real-life Operation Red Wings.
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It was a good movie but the story has been glamorized for Hollywood, same thing with the book. It wasn't actually written by Luttrell but a British civilian and got Luttrells approval. In the origional military after action report Luttrell stated there were estimated to be 20-40 Taliban which military intel and othe assets thought was high. The Kunar Provence of Afghanistan is very remote and has few recourses it doesn't make sense for 400 fighters to be living on this mountain. 2 videos released of the attack show no more than 8 fighters. Not trying to diminish their sacrifice but it just annoys me when the facts get thrown to the sidelines for the purpose of selling a book or movie.
 
Not for me but I am fairly sure the Dirty Harry movies sold A LOT of S&W revolvers.
 
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It was a good movie but the story has been glamorized for Hollywood, same thing with the book. It wasn't actually written by Luttrell but a British civilian and got Luttrells approval. In the origional military after action report Luttrell stated there were estimated to be 20-40 Taliban which military intel and othe assets thought was high. The Kunar Provence of Afghanistan is very remote and has few recourses it doesn't make sense for 400 fighters to be living on this mountain. 2 videos released of the attack show no more than 8 fighters. Not trying to diminish their sacrifice but it just annoys me when the facts get thrown to the sidelines for the purpose of selling a book or movie.
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It's Hollywood, what else is new? Same for the physical punishment they sustained in the movie. Lots of people die banging their heads in skiing accidents, with helmets. The movie had these guys falling ridiculous heights onto rocks, rolling down near vertical slopes into rocks, trees, etc., but they all manage to get up and keep fighting.

I'm sure these were tough hombres, but they got well past depicting human endurance in the movie.
 
I watched the movie twice tonight. Overall it was a great movie. Making these SEALs looking like "superhuman heroes" is WONDERFUL me. Why is it bad to glorify SEALs, or any SPECOPS? Sure they fell 20 feet on to boulders and rocks and kept fighting....twice. Had broken legs and continued to move. To me that's better than a man flying around in an Iron Man suit or The Hulk smashing giant robot aliens to save the world. At least these HEROES were REAL. They REALLY fought. And they REALLY died. I'm appalled by members on here complaining about how unrealistically the SEALS were portrayed just because it's Hollywood. I think it's high time we glorify real heroes. I would much rather have my children have a poster of a SEAL Team on their wall, than a poster of The Avengers.

As far as buying a gun because of this movie? I'm undecided. I need to do some more research. I appreciate the capabilities and versatility of the AR platform. And there are few firearms that look as impressive to me as a decked out AR. But it will come down to realistic deployment of the weapon system. And I'm not sure that it is a weapon that I will actually deploy in the field.
 
I'm sure these were tough hombres, but they got well past depicting human endurance in the movie.
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I've not seen the movie, though by all accounts it did not depict reality and/or the story told in the book.

But what really happened (as told in the book, by the guy who was there) was, INDEED, beyond human endurance.

As interesting as all that would be to explore, THR isn't the place for it. We've wandered far away from a guns topic, so closed.
 
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