I saw 'Lone Survivor' this afternoon. At first I thought I made a bad decision in seeing the film, I'm lost interest in recent years in watching war movies and the first 45 minutes seem to drag. That one scene that stood out was a rookie soldier had to perform the Napolean Dynamite dance with music and all, and he did it perfectly, I know because I've seen that film at least 20 times. The hazing reminded me of another war movie 'Jarhead' which I've seen a few times and liked as well. However, with all the hype I was expecting the first half of 'Full Metal Jacket' and we got the first half of 'Zero Dark Thirty' instead, but the setup was necessary just like in that film.
After the first 45 minutes the film really kicked into gear and the tempo really changed, it became a full blown action movie. Better than most because what happened here was true for the most part. A long continuous fire fight with the Americas picking off Taliban one by one and the Army guys would get nicked but didn't go down, and were extremely outnumbered.
After the last scene of the movie the fellow in the row in front of me bolted from his seat, and unfortunately for him he missed a big part of the film. The song 'Heroes' by David Bowie is my all time favorite song, you can ask my wife. Well, Peter Gabriel sings an emotionally filled version of 'Heroes' at an extremely slow pace while photos of the actual 19 or about, soldiers are shown on the screen. This goes on for about 4 or 5 minutes and no one else left the theater.
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