Friday, August 2, 2013

"Lone Survivor" Trailer Released

Okay, I'm still not technically proficient enough to figure out how to upload the video myself, but here is the trailer for "Lone Survivor" -- Marcus Luttrell's memoir of a 2005 Navy SEAL capture/kill mission in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, gone badly wrong -- on YouTube.

Forget the various controversies about Luttrell's account of Operation Red Wings.* Forget the fact that for some inexplicable reason Marky Mark plays a SOF guy in just about every movie nowadays and everybody seems okay with this.

Let's just all agree right here and now that based on the trailer, the movie looks very, very bad ass! (Bonus points for casting Eric Bana, a.k.a. Sgt. Hoot** in "Black Hawk Down" as a SEAL commander. If ever there were an actor born to play a special operator . . . ).

* Yeah, yeah, yeah, I linked to a Wikipedia page. But: a) I don't have time to link to the various sources that claim Luttrell exaggerated details of the firefight that killed his teammates, b) this is the rare Wikipedia entry that fairly summarizes the controversy; and c) even if his team did engage a smaller force, it doesn't detract from Lt. Mike Murphy's heroism, nor Luttrell's, so why pile on with multiple links?

** Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know "SGT Hoot" was a composite character, and that the movie version of "Black Hawk Down" took a lot of liberties with the facts of the battle. But his character was still bad ass, as I imagine he will be in this movie as well. Just don't make me watch The Incredible Hulk again, though.

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