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Megalodon (2018)
Very bad movie, even military specs are wayyyy wrong!
Okay, several characters, including Michael Madsen, are sporting haircuts that are not up to miltary specs. But the BIG mistake was in reference to Caroline Harris's character, which is listed as "Commander" Lynch. And all the characters in the movie refer to her as Commander Lynch. But she is wearing 0-3 insignia, which in the US Navy is a Lieutenant, not a Commander. A Commander is an 0-5. So I guess she got a promotion in the field, but did not bother to change her rank, correct???? Wrong, I'm going with this being a bad "B" movie and the miltary consultants did not do their job.
John, A US Army veteran
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Timetable goof
I'm not sure if anyone else picked up on this error, but there is a timetable error in the first 15 minutes of the film.
At the beginning of the movie, Indiana Jones finds himself in a spoof town in the middle of the New Mexico desert, and upon investigation, he hears a message about having one minute before impact of an explosion. With 15 seconds to go, he empties a refrigerator and climbs inside for protection. This is the testing of the world's first nuclear weapon that resulted from the Manhatten Project, in which Einstein and other scientists develop the plans for the world's first nuclear bomb, which yielded 20 kilotons. Today's nuclear bombs are upwards of 50 megatons (or 50,000 kilotons). The test was code named The Trinity Test, which occurred in 1945 prior to the end of World War 2, and was the principle reason Japan surrendered. Anyway, Harrison Ford is being questioned by federal agents and during interrogation, he was asked about a specific incident (the UFO crash at Area 51), and Harrison said, "you mean that fiasco in '47". So here's the question. How can 1947 come before 1945?
I know both incidents play a crucial role in the plot of the story, but regardless, the timetable doesn't work. Other than that, it was a great movie, and I didn't notice the error until I watched the whole movie about 10 times.
Seal Team Eight: Behind Enemy Lines (2014)
Bad, Bad, Bad movie
Okay, this is one of the worst military movies I have seen in a long, long time. And I only watched the first 20 minutes. I couldn't take anymore of it. I am a US Army veteran and I am very familiar with the military quirks and I will give you 3 of them that I discovered in the first 20 minutes.
1. In the opening scene, Tom Sizemore is in the Command Control Center and he is in US Navy BDU's. That is I THINK he is in the US Navy. Seeing as the "US Navy" Velcro label is missing from his uniform (making him seriously out of uniform), I have doubts as to whether he is in the Navy, Army, Marines, or whatever. Rank is also missing from the uniforms in the Control Center.
2. In the Battle that ensues, the head bad guy, General Ntonga appears on the porch, does not take cover, and starts firing his pistols wildly. Does the Seal Team decided to take him, the supreme ranking officer, out? No. Instead they shoot and kill about 10 little peons surrounding him. One of the Navy Seals finds a 50 caliber machine gun and instead of shooting the General, he shoots all the bullets out in a sweeping motion, Rambo style. Everyone is killed except for the General. He escapes. This Navy Seal Team fails in that task miserably.
3. I did not see any communications devices on any of the Seal Team members. It is CRITICAL that the team members communicate with each other, instead of shouting at each other. There is a sniper in the battle mentioned above, but without communications devices, he does not know that the General is out in the open. Also, while being shot at, one the members acts like he is crouching behind a jeep for cover, when his head is actually above the jeep itself, making himself a head shot target.
Oh, by the way. There is no Seal Team 6. It was disbanded in 1987, the year The Navy established the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, also known as DEVGRU, which governs all active duty Navy Seals (about 2,500 members). This organization is now known as Seal Team 6. So when the media refers to Seal Team 6, they are actually referring to all Navy Seals as a whole. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy_SEALs#SEAL_Teams)
Maybe Roel should have thought about hiring an actual former Navy Seal to make sure military protocols are adhered to?
The information contained in this review was all researched and verified. None of these statements were false, they are all factual.