Re: Best Military Sniper Movie.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Beers78n9</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 308Panther</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
Shooter started out good...right up to the 2200yrd cold bore shot with a used bullet...then it got as hokey as Hitlary's/Obama's campaign speeches...
308Panther
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In Shooter, they did not kill the Archbishop with a used bullet.
They took the bullet he used to shoot the can of stew in the
beginning and planted it as evidence. And I don't think anything
can compete with Hilary/Obama's speeches as far as hokiness
goes. They take the cake.
As for my pick, there obviously aren't enough movies about
Snipers. I like all the ones so far with Shooter probably being
my favorite. However there was a pretty cool sniper scene with
Brad Pitt as a Marine Scout Sniper in Vietnam in the movie Spy
Games with Robert Redford. </div></div>
As I love arguing improbable circumstances, the nasty crippled Russian dude did use a paper patched bullet extracted from the Dinty Moore Stew can (man, I'd love to have a scope like he used; able to see a Dinty Moore can at 2200 yards. I could use that to shoot paintballs at 1000 yards - I'll bet it was a Counter Sniper). Remember the scene with the weird nearsighted old dude showing them the book on paper patching? ("Things aren't always as they seem, are they, Gunny?). Swagger's CheyTac and <span style="font-style: italic">spent brass </span>were planted at the false firing point where Danny Chavez...shit, Glover and the other lame scripted black bag government baddies-used-to-demonstrate-our-evil-country used Swagger as a pigeon. I love how the guy sets the CT on the table, racks the bolt and conveniently ejects a spent piece of brass that just happened to be in the rifle after Swagger had "shortened the firing pin", then touches is with his fingers. Guess nobody dusts for prints. Plus the muzzle was supposed to be sticking out the window. It's no wonder these guys fucked the whole thing up. I'm more competent, and that's not saying much.
Plus, it's obvious the FBI agents in the movie never read the book, otherwise they would have checked the firing pin in the rifle while they had it in their chain of custody.
And for the love of God, man, never, <span style="font-style: italic">ever</span> use the phrase "Marine Scout Sniper", the name "Brad Pitt", and the word "cool" in the same lifetime again. Ever. For the sake of decent real Marines out there.
Last, for your own sake, judging by the nose of some of the regulars here for mall ninjas or whatever, I'd learn the difference between "brass" and "bullet".
Just sayin', Pork.