Liberal Movie Critics Decry Pro-Military, Pro-American ‘Act of Valor’

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Others, like particularly dimwitted hacks like Michael Schenker, will be downright insulting about it, using their review soapbox to accomplish little more than a halfway decent command of the English language and an utter inability to do much of anything than spew bilious anti-military invective stored up from his latest self-congratulatory circle-jerk in the back room with Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews.

Now, let’s be clear. There are some awkward parts. These are seasoned operators, not actors and occasionally that comes though in the dialogue. Some parts are more awkward than others (like one scene that looks like it could be filmed in Danny’s—which if you’re curious DOES have the best burgers anywhere) but it’s not enough to detract from the rest of the movie. It’s also not as noticeable when they’re not focused in on the talking (if that makes sense). Once they’re moving (and operational) that slight hitch in their stride goes away. You can definitely tell they were more comfortable in the action sequences than just waiting around waiting on close-ups.

The special effects are magnificent, largely because they’re mostly not special effects. When you watch the gatlings chew up a technical, it’s because those SWCC boys are really chewing up a technical. You see, the production of this movie didn’t involve any special deployments or training exercise to accommodate the plot. In fact, quite the contrary. The writers were forced to remain semper gumby and issue constant FRAGOs so they could incorporate jumps, SDVs and whatever as they became available during training iterations, predeployment evolutions, actually deployment cycles, etc. No taxpayer money was spent to make this movie. It took over two years to shoot because of that, and because almost everyone in the movie did at least one combat tour in Afghanistan during filming. All the events, everything that happens to the boys on the ground, are based on real events. All of them.

We’re going to see it tomorrow with a small group.
Some are veterans, some have a grown son in the service now.
We are all looking forward to this movie.

I read somewhere that Brad Thor’s latest book was being filmed. That ought to get the lefties panties in a wad. 😉

@Jim S: Depends on who the director is? Hopefully he/she won’t start with their “panties in a wad”.