Just wanted to let all of the griping babies on here who have consistently been b****ing about the military-related mistakes know that Hollywood is BOUND BY LAW to avoid being 100% accurate when depicting the US military and its strategies. In layman's terms, the film crew for this particular movie were legally NOT ALLOWED to show exactly what the US Army does on a day to day basis, especially in the Middle East.
shareMeh, if I wanted realism I could always watch Bomb Squad Afghanistan or something like that.
Most of the time it's them using the bot to blow it in place.
They aren't bound by law. Who told you that? The last 30 minutes of Zero Dark Thirty were incredibly accurate. So much so that it was identical to the book No Easy Day in it's depiction of the raid in Abbottabad.
shareYou're living in a fantasyland if you think Zero Dark Thirty was anything other than a grotesque piece of untrue propaganda arguing the illegal and immoral tortures in Guantanamo Bay were all.worth it in the end because they assisted in the capture of Osama bin Laden, a complete historical falsification. Just like Argo, Zero Dark Thirty is another propaganda film designed to whitewash the atrocities of the Nazi thugs of the CIA.
shareAs noted, this is complete BS. There is no such law. You can't expose confidential information, or (generally) reveal current troops positions in a war zone and such, but that is not what happened in THL. What happened in THL was a deliberate choice by the filmmakers to completely disregard even the most rudimentary attempt to show "what really happens" with EOD, with the Army, or with the military in general. It's not about being "100% accurate." It's about NOT being hilariously, stupidly, intentionally INaccurate.
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.