Good SF movies?

[aegisnavy]

I would have to say that Gary Sinise is the only actor who might be able to portray a QP in a movie role. My 2 cents FWIW.

[animalmenace]

Originally Posted by Airbornelawyer

The one time in recent memory I can think of the Army trying to get the kind of propagandistic recruiting poster movie the Navy loves was Fire Birds, a forgettable movie about Apache pilots that was a knock-off of Top Gun.

An interesting (I think so, at least) aside, when Armageddon was made, NASA was convinced by how good a recruiting tool Top Gun, both films produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, was that they agreed to help in the production, giving acccess to facilties and equipment. NASA now shows the movie in training and asks trainees to identify how many errors there are. According to IMDB, they are up to 168.

Originally Posted by PSM

What story should be made into an SF movie?

Pat

Obviously not about Army SF, but a story that has always fascinated me is about the 16th centuriy conquistadors under Cortes. At one point, the conquistadors were so dangerously low on gunpowder, Cortes ordered five conquistadors to make a trek to the nearest volcano to scrounge up sulfur to make more. One of them, Francisco de Montano, had to rappel several hundred feet down into the volcano to scrape sulfur off the rocks. It kinda makes me think of Lord of the Rings, only real.

[Flagg]

Originally Posted by PSM

What story should be made into an SF movie?

Pat

Alamo Scouts?

Little in open source, and even less well known.

A story that deserves to be told.

Maybe done like a Band of Brothers episodic format.

[greenberetTFS]

I was looking at John Wayne's full bird rank in The Green Berets and was rememinded when that was the highest rank one could achieve in SF?....... It was known as the officer career killer and you couldn't get above COL?........ Am I right or not?.......

Big Teddy

[greenberetTFS]

Not a bad flick about the Australian SAS in RVN........

I love their beer choice,"Fosters",drinking beer out of an oil can........

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079652/

Big Teddy

[greenberetTFS]

An less-well-known Vietnam War picture with an interesting point of view formed while memories of the war were still fresh. Lancaster plays a tough U.S. military advisor in 1964 assigned to the abandoned French outpost of Muc Wa, where he must assemble a platoon out of inexperienced American soldiers and hardened Vietnamese mercenaries. As he reviews the conditions at first hand, his doubts about the U.S. involvement grow........

Big Teddy

[tst43]

Originally Posted by Abel1st

? A Force of One, staring Chuck Norris and Bill "Superfoot" Wallace, in the movie they [Chuck Norris & Others] mention themselves as being SF ?

Great movie. I attended a seminar back in the 80's taught by Bill Wallace. He told the funniest story about how Elvis, who was a student of Ed Parker (a good friend of Superfoot's) kicked a blind-folded Bill Wallace in the nads. The purpose of the meeting at Parker's dojo was to celebrate Wallace winning the middle weight full-contact karate championship of the world. Somehow they talked Wallace and a few other students there that evening into putting on a blindfold. Superfoot said that if he could have gotten back to his feet before they whisked Elvis out of there, the big E would have received a king-sized ass-whoopin'. It was a truly hilarious story.

[Destrier]

Finally remembered the name of the movie in 2005 I watched in the wee hours on AFN before going to Iraq. 'The Brass Target' with Sophia Loren and John Casevettes.

Not a great movie, but I really like the quiet OSS agent type role played.

[animalmenace]

Originally Posted by PSM

What story should be made into an SF movie?

Pat

There is no way to fit it into one movie, but a serialization of Billy Waugh's career would be great if there were any actor able to pull it off.

[Dusty]

There should be a move about Bad Bob. If the Nam had been a popular war, he would have been heralded more than any other warrior in the history of the Country, IMO.

He was Gurkha when he was in the shit.

[greenberetTFS]

Originally Posted by Dusty

There should be a move about Bad Bob. If the Nam had been a popular war, he would have been heralded more than any other warrior in the history of the Country, IMO.

He was Gurkha when he was in the shit.

Totally agree,but who to play him?...........

Big Teddy

[Richard]

There's been an on-going movement for years to get a movie made of the Son Tay Raid; I'd like to see Ridley Scott do it.

As far as a "good" SF movie goes - let me know when they make one.

However, YMMV - and so it goes...

Richard

[animalmenace]

Originally Posted by Dusty

There should be a move about Bad Bob. If the Nam had been a popular war, he would have been heralded more than any other warrior in the history of the Country, IMO.

He was Gurkha when he was in the shit.

Something that surprised me when he passed, NBC actually had a segment commemorating him and his service where they did herald him as one of our great warriors. If the crazed liberals at NBC can get past their politics to honor him, then maybe one day his name will be one taught in schools and venerated as it deserves, and a good film would go a long way toward that.

[Badger52]

Originally Posted by Flagg

Alamo Scouts?
Little in open source, and even less well known.
A story that deserves to be told.
Maybe done like a Band of Brothers episodic format.

http://professionalsoldiers.com/foru...8&postcount=44

It's an excellent work; google it, order it, read it.

Originally Posted by Dusty

There should be a move about Bad Bob. If the Nam had been a popular war, he would have been heralded more than any other warrior in the history of the Country, IMO.

He was Gurkha when he was in the shit.

Yeah, there it is.

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by greenberetTFS

Totally agree,but who to play him?...........

Big Teddy

Sinise.