{"id":914,"date":"2012-02-28T12:51:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T18:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=914"},"modified":"2012-02-28T12:51:47","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T18:51:47","slug":"act-of-valor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=914","title":{"rendered":"Act of Valor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 90 minutes of war porn followed by ten minutes of you and everyone else in the theater crying (you know within about 3 minutes of the movie starting that it ends with a funeral). Chinooks dropping swiftboats into a river? Check. Dead terrorists? Check. Miniguns shooting live ammunition instead of using special effects? Check.<\/p>\n<p>If that&#8217;s not enough to get you there, go read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/military\/news\/how-act-of-valors-directors-filmed-with-real-special-operations-forces?click=pm_news\">this article<\/a> about how some of the scenes were directed. Basically, the director told the SEALs &#8220;This is what your objective is&#8221; and then the guys came up with operational plans. They then filmed based on the actual plan, not what some writer thought would be a good plan.<\/p>\n<p>My only gripe is that they had several first-person shooter views where the shooter had an M4 with an EOTech up top, but the EOTech reticle was never seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 90 minutes of war porn followed by ten minutes of you and everyone else in the theater crying (you know within about 3 minutes of the movie starting that it ends with a funeral). Chinooks dropping swiftboats into a river? Check. Dead terrorists? Check. Miniguns shooting live ammunition instead of using special effects? Check. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}