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Post by Marv on Jul 25, 2017 18:43:47 GMT
Mel Gibson WWII movie released last year. Basically a biopic of Desmond Doss, a conscientious cooperator, who joined the army as a medic but refused to even carry a rifle let alone fire it at the enemy due to his being a seventh day Adventist, or summat.
Very very good flick. Garfield does solid here, Vaughn is probably the best supporting character as his Sgt. The rest of the characters are fine but kind of background noise. The first half is all personal life and boot camp for Doss...the second half is almost nonstop war! I found it to be very enjoyable in both a brutal way and a spiritual one.
Definitely recommend for any fan of war flicks.
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Post by gadreel on Jul 25, 2017 20:19:54 GMT
Mel Gibson WWII movie released last year. Basically a biopic of Desmond Doss, a conscientious cooperator, who joined the army as a medic but refused to even carry a rifle let alone fire it at the enemy due to his being a seventh day Adventist, or summat. Very very good flick. Garfield does solid here, Vaughn is probably the best supporting character as his Sgt. The rest of the characters are fine but kind of background noise. The first half is all personal life and boot camp for Doss...the second half is almost nonstop war! I found it to be very enjoyable in both a brutal way and a spiritual one. Definitely recommend for any fan of war flicks. It's pretty good, but the premise about him refusing to carry a rifle is misleading, Medics are not required to carry weapons, it's just he got put in a rifle company when he wanted to be a medic.
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Post by Moviefan on Jul 25, 2017 23:50:58 GMT
I really enjoyed it. 9/10.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Jul 26, 2017 8:06:07 GMT
Mel Gibson WWII movie released last year. Basically a biopic of Desmond Doss, a conscientious cooperator, who joined the army as a medic but refused to even carry a rifle let alone fire it at the enemy due to his being a seventh day Adventist, or summat. Very very good flick. Garfield does solid here, Vaughn is probably the best supporting character as his Sgt. The rest of the characters are fine but kind of background noise. The first half is all personal life and boot camp for Doss...the second half is almost nonstop war! I found it to be very enjoyable in both a brutal way and a spiritual one. Definitely recommend for any fan of war flicks. It's pretty good, but the premise about him refusing to carry a rifle is misleading, Medics are not required to carry weapons, it's just he got put in a rifle company when he wanted to be a medic. In WWII and previous wars they did not typically carry weapons. I heard that in Vietnam they carried pistols. A classmate of mine was a medic in the Gulf War and he told me that a medic carried an M-16, bayonet, a full load of ammo, and hand grenades like the other soldiers in addition to the medical stuff. Times change.
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Post by gadreel on Jul 26, 2017 18:18:26 GMT
It's pretty good, but the premise about him refusing to carry a rifle is misleading, Medics are not required to carry weapons, it's just he got put in a rifle company when he wanted to be a medic. In WWII and previous wars they did not typically carry weapons. I heard that in Vietnam they carried pistols. A classmate of mine was a medic in the Gulf War and he told me that a medic carried an M-16, bayonet, a full load of ammo, and hand grenades like the other soldiers in addition to the medical stuff. Times change. Required. Medics are not REQUIRED to carry weapons. They may if they so choose, but of course that makes them a valid target. EDIT: also it was quite obvious that the context was WWII.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Jul 26, 2017 18:43:48 GMT
In WWII and previous wars they did not typically carry weapons. I heard that in Vietnam they carried pistols. A classmate of mine was a medic in the Gulf War and he told me that a medic carried an M-16, bayonet, a full load of ammo, and hand grenades like the other soldiers in addition to the medical stuff. Times change. Required. Medics are not REQUIRED to carry weapons. They may if they so choose, but of course that makes them a valid target. EDIT: also it was quite obvious that the context was WWII. Are. Present tense. Were. Past tense. Do you require an apology now?
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Post by Marv on Jul 26, 2017 18:47:25 GMT
Mel Gibson WWII movie released last year. Basically a biopic of Desmond Doss, a conscientious cooperator, who joined the army as a medic but refused to even carry a rifle let alone fire it at the enemy due to his being a seventh day Adventist, or summat. Very very good flick. Garfield does solid here, Vaughn is probably the best supporting character as his Sgt. The rest of the characters are fine but kind of background noise. The first half is all personal life and boot camp for Doss...the second half is almost nonstop war! I found it to be very enjoyable in both a brutal way and a spiritual one. Definitely recommend for any fan of war flicks. It's pretty good, but the premise about him refusing to carry a rifle is misleading, Medics are not required to carry weapons, it's just he got put in a rifle company when he wanted to be a medic. Right. Before he could even enter medic training he had to pass their basic training, I assume, and in that training he was ordered to handle a firearm, which he refused and wound up almost getting court marshaled for insubordination.
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Post by gadreel on Jul 26, 2017 18:48:24 GMT
Required. Medics are not REQUIRED to carry weapons. They may if they so choose, but of course that makes them a valid target. EDIT: also it was quite obvious that the context was WWII. Are. Present tense. Were. Past tense. Do you require an apology now? nice little dig erjen. The reason I asked your 'girlfriend' for an apology is that she falsely accused me of something and then lied about me. Honestly the apology is not important any more I just love seeing her make all sorts of excuses to avoid what she did. But the real key word that had importance was 'required', medics ARE not REQUIRED to carry weapons. (this includes the present day, I merely mentioned WWII as that was the context of the conversation).
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