He was the British SAS man who got captured by the Iraqis during the gulf war and escaped.
They'd asked him to rate all the top war movies for realism and accuracy.
He said Platoon was number one with almost zero holes in credibility.
He pointed to when they first came under attack in the foxholes and how realistic it was.
He said that what happens like that is that everybody thinks they are suffering worse attack than everybody else. As such everybody is calling for backup and communications get jammed and shut down and chaos ensues. He said he'd never seen that shown in a war movie before.
Full Metal Jacket was second and the only problem he had with that was the scene when they are walking into the empty village with their rifles up expecting snipers.
A couple of soldiers cut across the path of the ones behind them and he said that would never happen, you never block the site of the people behind you.
May dad was on the beaches albeit 2-days after actual D Day, but still with fighting going on and he said Saving Private Ryan was very realistic.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
