Re: Best post WWII Military Films
My idea of 'Good' tends to be reasonably accurate in a military sense, since anything else just annoys the hell out of me.
The problem with 'The Hurt Locker' is that (leaving aside some stuff that seemed a bit unlikely, to say the least, from a 'bomb disposal' bloke) these, very brave men, are high value assets and they get protection and cover in everything they do from infantry and other soldiers. Engaging the enemy with small arms is not their job and they would not do it except in extreme exceptional emergency.
The best, and most realistic, scene in the film, in my view, is the bit in the supermarket back in the US.
A okay film/mini series is 'Bravo Two Zero' (1999) based on the fouled up first Gulf War SAS Op.
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