This looks promising.
I kind of agree with this in that they didn’t go for the Channing Tatum or another hot name currently out but that being said this cast is… solid. I like that it seems they cast the movie in an effort to put genuine & believable people in the roles rather than names that would sell more tickets at the box office. I like the ‘feel’ of this cast from the preview and look forward to seeing the entire movie to see how they build the characters (since they are real people) and bring the audience into a story that needs to be told.
There is NOTHING fringe about the truth.
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
I’ll be interested to see how the 2 Delta Operators are portrayed that led the rescue force to the annex. Both received the 2nd highest award for bravery the U.S. military has ( DSC and Navy Cross - one is a Marine ) and by my sources they should have both gotten the Medal of Honor. We shall see…
I’m interested to see it as well. Who knows how off it will be especially with Michael Bay directing it. With him directing you know there will be a lot of unnessessary explosions.
It looks like it will be a well made movie, but just watching the trailer made me sad.
Not sure I could watch the whole movie.
The book was factual, non-emotional, and apolitical. It was a good book. If the movie stays along these lines it will be a good movie.
As LAV mentioned the book references a couple Delta guys, but does not go into great detail about their roles. I would be curious to see it played out and/or understand more of how they contributed.
Yep
…because it’s not a political story, no matter how much a certain faction wants it to be.
Personally I can’t wait till January 2016.
As long as Michael Bay does not deviate too far from the trailer that they have released it should be a good movie.
While I am not a big fan of most of his movies because of all the extra glitter and extra shabangs he does have the proper tools to come out with a good movie.
It’s interesting that many of the movies that have come out in recent years, not very many held up to their original fanfare and have actually deviated from the trailers.
What is the name of the book? I will pick it up this weekend.
Now I feel dumb, thank you!
Interest finally piqued enough for me, I just bought “13 Hours” on Amazon. I’d like to know what all of this was really about.
I thought France and the UK were part of the Eurozone. And the UK still uses the Pound. And they were, as I recall, the ones leading the charge against GAD.
I also seem to recall the US being dragged kicking and screaming into the fight - and many persons with near identical views to those who frequent this website criticizing the President for not getting involved.
Have you seen Pain & Gain?
Michael Bay film. Based on a true story. I found it to be excellent and very frustrating. Frustrating because it shows that Michael Bay is capable of making good movies (that don’t involve explosions or even the US military or ex-US military) and many of the actors in the film are frequently locked into playing stock characters but were proved to be very capable in their acting in the movie. It’s also pretty funny - it knows that it’s a story in which the truth is stranger than fiction and gleefully points out how stupid the people involved in it were and how far they got and for how long, even with LE from local to federal snooping around.
Obviously, I expect 13 Hours to take a much less ironic take on its own story.
The right didn’t make it political. BHO and his circus did that by telling everyone one version of lies after another. BHO’s handlers couldn’t have it that late in the campaign that the War on Terror was not over or as simple as Barry had told everyone. Rice going on all the Sunday shows and cooking up lies- that everyone knew were lies and deceptions.
Don’t blame people on the right for calling a spade a spade and then being called liars for not falling in with BHO’s spin machine.
It is simple as BHO not being able to say that there were still bad guys out there. That’s all he had to do- instead he tried to shift blame to a youtube video. The inability to even start with a credible accounting of the attack leads to all kinds of theories about what else could be at play.
It wasn’t a political story until it ran into Valerie Jarrett’s inability to deal with anything that could cast a negative light on Barry.
It is as simple as that.
To me, there are two Benghazi’s: one is what actually happened there and the other is the cover-up and obfuscation that keeps on slow rolling out of State and the Administration.
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I said it was a contributing factor, not the-reason. All fiat currencies are threatened by sound money.
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I don’t recall us being dragged kicking and screaming… at all. Additionally, we joined on the wrong side.
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There’s always going to be a contingent of society in favor of going kinetic on everything. Very seldom do they really understand the root cause of the conflict, current situation, or the second and third order effects of intervention. If they have any service to their name, it’s worth a spirited discussion. If they don’t, it’s just basic chicken hawkery.
Except when they delightfully bathed themselves in the blood of the fallen, and tried to spin another tragic chapter of the GWOT into some kind of attack on the Secretary of State/ likely Presidential candidate.
You’re going to be very disappointed when you don’t see a bunch of Americans saying, “Yeah, we just won’t help our people in contact with the enemy… let’s go watch a movie!”
Ridiculous.
Some operations are Classified.
It’s not a “Cover Up.”
Sorry about that.
An Ambassador was dead, I think the the cat was out of the bag. As if some OPSPEC could have hidden the death of an Arch-Duke and prevented WWI.
…and that is known.
Interesting that none of these patriotic Congressional servants were anywhere near half as interested in understanding the “HOW?” behind COP Keating, but when there is political capital to be gained… now it’s a “Scandal.”
The politicization is absolutely shameful.
No what’s shameful is the Left (politicians and the public) NOT demanding answers on what happened. Every time a Republican asks for answers to SIMPLE questions it’s for political gain, right? Their constituents demand answers. WE DEMAND ANSWERS. :sarcastic:
(Evidently nobody got the sarcasm)
We’ve never gotten answers while Obama and his staff have been far from truthful so cavalier about each and every controversy. Let’s go golfing while our PR department puts a spin on this. Time and time again they have put this ridiculous, transparent spin on any and every controversy they’ve been at the heart of.
It
gets
old.
And so does the trolling.