Warfare

You know, you watch and you go like, oh, nobody would have their vest like that, or nobody would do this.

But you have, you know, like Ray Mendoza, who directed Warfare, was one of our directors in morocco and he just it's like he just brings uh a tactical realism to it because he's been there he's done it um but he's also a really good director You know, and the same with Jared.

It's like Jared, you know, is a fantastic producer, fantastic writer and fantastic actor.

It's like these guys just they bring it.

Peter Rice, after he was fired from Disney, he went on to produce films for that five-year, four-year period.

And the movies that he produced were 28 Years Later, Saturday Night, Warfare, Misty Green, and the forthcoming Elden Ring adaptation for A24.

Whether you like those movies or not, I think gives you a little bit of perspective on the kinds of projects he likes to be involved in.

In theory...

Um, and the, um, the last thing, and I did start picking this up, um, you know, working on Terminal List, and also, you know, a huge shout-out to, uh, Ray Mendoza.

You know, he, through A24, um, you know, just directed his first movie, Warfare.

Uh, and one of the things he said that he wanted to do is just show what it's actually like, right? Um, that operators aren't perfect.

We make mistakes, bad things happen, um, but what makes us exceptional as a community is how we respond to that.

Um, and you know, Warfare is to me the most realistic of, uh, combat in the GWOT era I've ever seen.

Um, and it shows that, like, people aren't superheroes, right? Like, getting shot, getting blown up, it sucks.

It's, it's tough, right? We all wanna think we're like John Wick who never feels pain, but I was like, you know, we just listened to, uh, Jason Redman talk at, uh, uh, you know, BKVF's, uh, Cultivate and Courage Gala.

Things went wrong real quick.

Fuck you.

And then I finally watched Warfare.

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my god dude there's so many throwaway shots dude I feel like JR watched that movie dude they're not throwaway shots but there are so many shots that are just like they inventive they have weight to them yes

absolutely and it's just a it is just a fucking dire like emotionally gut-wrenching fucking movie, dude.

I won't watch that, much like Warfare.

Like, I don't need to see it.

I would love to do Pulp Fiction on an airplane, 'cause as soon as you get off the plane, it's like, all right, let's, let's go do something.

My recent airplane movie, when we were going to Mexico, I watched Warfare.

Insane airplane movie.

What? What?

I've just never seen it, and when I...

I only have time to watch movies at night, and my wife doesn't like to watch action movies before bed.

So I knew that was my only time to watch Warfare would be on the plane, and it's short, so I was like, "Sweet, this...

I can finish it before the flight ends."

I guess that makes sense.

It was pretty cool because I watched Warfare on the way back and didn't get to finish it.

I was like 10 minutes short.

And I saw it was streaming on HBO, so I was able to finish it when I got home.