Saving Jessica Lynch Tonight

[Seraphim]

9/8pm EST

I can already taste the cheese.

http://www.nbc.com/nbc/Saving_Jessica_Lynch/

[to free the oppressed]

It Dosn't look like a good movie, But I'll just watch it to see the Special Forces.

[Uncle Sam]

STOP IT !!!!! JUST STOP THE MADNESS !!!!!!!!!

[StarvingStudent47]

http://flem.keenspace.com/comics/20031106.jpg

Borrowed from Flem Comics (http://flem.keenspace.com/).

[usa320]

Watched about 10 minutes of it...got sick of listening to the girl screetch at the top of her lungs and i flipped the channel and watched Alias instead...now theres a good TV show.

[Dalleer]

I hope that movie never makes it's way here. Honestly.

"Too much is just too much"

[jdbjdb]

It was no "Saving Private Ryan" but it was a good movie.

[GLax]

didnt like it, just reinforced the fact that Lynch got into a car accident...

[96B]

I actually enjoyed it as well but like I said before my favorite part would be the raid. Now did anybody else notice the SEAL commander back at HQ was a real SEAL and he was also featured on Combat Missions?

[Vance]

I thought the ambush itself was pretty good. All the drama was 'meh'....

[jdbjdb]

it being a "movie", they should have called in air support and level the town. woot

[Seraphim]

Yeah I didnt watch any of it either, just watched Alias...I'll catch the rerun next time its on. So was the raid good?

[Ratamacue]

It actually wasn't a bad movie if you ignore how much the media has been playing the whole situation. However, it didn't really focus on any heroids on PFC Lynch's part but rather emphasized the heroim on the part of the Iraqi lawyer. The ambush scene was relatively well done though I can't really comment on the accuracy and the rescue was probably true-to-life.

Overall, I think it was far better than I thought it would be. It made for an entertaining movie that seemed to mostly follow how things went.

[bishop1]

I thought it was ok, but i thought the acting was pretty piss poor, and alot of it was cheesy. But i thought the SEALs looked cool, but where were the Rangers, they just forgot about them appearently, i would have liked to see the begening but missed it. Overall that situation makes me sick. I want to see a movie dedicated to the guys who will never walk again, or cant see anymore, or are paralyzed, their the ones who should be getting people to know theyre story, not some backwoods girl who was made famous because her convoy leader cant read a GPS or a map.

[USMarine3521]

damn i missed it!! does anyone know if they are going to show it again?

[jizzmonkey]

Jessica Lynch shouldnt have gotten a silver star, she should have been cout-martialed for cowardess!

[bishop1]

im with ****boy over there

[Ratamacue]

She didn't get a Silver Star, she got a Bronze Star.

[jizzmonkey]

I got a brigade briefing the other day that gave us the real scoop on the 507th and its lack of competence.

[NcDeuce]

PFC Lynch - Silver Star

rofl rofl rofl

When pigs fly...

[11F5S]

Jessica Lynch shouldnt have gotten a silver star, she should have been cout-martialed for cowardess!


im with ****boy over there

Dumb and Dumber


I got a brigade briefing the other day that gave us the real scoop on the 507th and its lack of competence.

You can lead a jackass to water, but you can't make him drink

[JTFazz]

I taped it and watched it late last night... the ambush scene and lots of other stuff was probably highly dramatized given Lynch's traumatic amnesia and that there is little other knowledge of what happened.

I also watched a documentary (A&E I think) that indicated the Hummer she was in was actually hit by the RPG and crashed into the truck at a different point... between cab and trailer instead of the rear.

As for getting hurt in a car crash... war is filled with combat related casualties and fatalities not directly caused by enemy projectiles. Its not like they were driving to the PX and ran a red light. There have been a lot of aircraft crashes where occupants were never injured until gravity caught up with them.

I think Lynch's heroics were overblown by the media and the Army to some point, but I wouldn't wish her experience on anyone. The tragedy and sacrifice of the others in that Hummer that died as a result of the "crash" is certainly not lessened by the fact they were in a car crash.

The raid scene I thought was fairly well done. I am not certain as to the accuracy of the elements of the military used in the rescue since it is all based on informed speculation. The SFOD-D is perhaps the best trained unit for this type of rescue/extraction, but if consulted probably declined the raid. They have a real penchant for doing their own mission planning since the failed Desert One operation. At least that is my strong impression from reading Eric Haney's fine book. It probably was a SEAL unit that did the actual building assault, but the dramatization of their technique looked sloppy to me.

Overall, the movie was okay. It was obviously thrown together very fast and the actors were cast more for their likeness to the real subjects rather than their acting ability IMO.

[JMooch]

"I also watched a documentary (A&E I think) that indicated the Hummer she was in was actually hit by the RPG and crashed into the truck at a different point... between cab and trailer instead of the rear."

WRONG!

The Hummer impacted the rear of a flatbed 5-ton. I saw the vehicles.

S/F
Mooch

[hood]

the ambush scene and lots of other stuff was probably highly dramatized given Lynch's traumatic amnesia and that there is little other knowledge of what happened.

well, remember that she wasn't the only one that survived the ordeal, there were all those other POW's that could tell their stories.