Topic: this is for the inevitable blockbuster movie about the soldier who killed osama (Read 11552 times)

sean · « **on:** 01 May 2011, 22:43 »

n/t (yet)

Tom · « **Reply #1 on:** 01 May 2011, 22:48 »

If Rubicon taught us anything, it's that ordering/confirming remote attacks are both super boring and depressing.

sean · « **Reply #2 on:** 01 May 2011, 22:55 »

i mean, i dont think hollywood would take issue with using dramatic license to show some epic fire-fight with some rambo type shit.

sean · « **Reply #3 on:** 01 May 2011, 22:55 »

there have been fucking 9/11 movies, this has to go full circle

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #4 on:** 02 May 2011, 11:32 »

or Call of Duty

Also they had a game a long time ago that involved you hunting and killing his top generals and then him, all after fist fights. It was terrible.

Dimmukane · « **Reply #5 on:** 02 May 2011, 16:40 »

Katheryn Bigelow was already working on a movie about a failed assassination attempt on his life...so there's that, I guess.

satsugaikaze · « **Reply #6 on:** 02 May 2011, 20:39 »

Delta Force: Black Hawk down had a bonus level where some dude solos into a Somali lair to assassinate Farah Aidid.

I think that's really the only comparable thing I can think of

JD · « **Reply #7 on:** 02 May 2011, 20:41 »

Adrien Brody for the role of Osama Bin Laden

JD · « **Reply #8 on:** 02 May 2011, 20:41 »

Chris Tucker for Obama

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #9 on:** 02 May 2011, 20:46 »

Anytime I think of Chris Tucker all I can see is his role in Fifth Element.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #10 on:** 02 May 2011, 20:46 »

If I remember rightly, before that level in the Delta Force game there's a voice-over cut-scene where a dude rants about how the democrats in congress just wouldn't let them win, damn it!

Like basically the whole point of the Delta Force games is that you are a fucking killing machine who chews through mostly brown dudes by the score, and you can take a bunch of poorly aimed shots from an AK-47 and live but you can snipe the enemy through the calf from over a kilometre away and they die instantly and so on and so on but that stood out as particularly egregious. Though I seem to remember another level in the same game where I think you're actually protecting a convoy from the air but how it mostly played was you ride around in an (invincible) Black Hawk helicopter with a minigun with unlimted ammunition and just murder like 200 somali militia over about a quarter of an hour.

satsugaikaze · « **Reply #11 on:** 02 May 2011, 21:07 »

Yeah the game was basically How to Slaughter Somali Militia (And Occasionally Somali Alligators) and Fuck Up Their Life

A game about the hunt for Osama would probably do the same thing except for Pakistanis

JD · « **Reply #12 on:** 02 May 2011, 21:15 »

Quote from: Blue Kitty on 02 May 2011, 20:46

Anytime I think of Chris Tucker all I can see is his role in Fifth Element.

Sassy Obama

satsugaikaze · « **Reply #13 on:** 06 May 2011, 05:18 »

so, topic is "Media that portray assassinating real-life people" then

Not that I don't think that's interesting

Kugai · « **Reply #14 on:** 06 May 2011, 15:01 »

They'll probably get Arnie to play the soldier.

Boro_Bandito · « **Reply #15 on:** 08 May 2011, 08:22 »

Quote from: Ptommydski on 03 May 2011, 01:21

I think the last generation of video games suggests that they're ready to go in this direction though. Specifically because they had a mission in Black Ops where you were supposedly assassinating Fidel Castro (who is alive and ostensibly still in charge of a country!) and the much maligned Medal of Honor reboot was legitimately based on a real operation in Afghanistan. Considering the fact that in that game you play as a Navy SEALS DEVGRU unit, who just took out Bin Laden incidentally, it seems like the obvious conclusion to the series. Probably too late to put it in the second game but my guess is it'll be in the third and final instalment. I'll bump this thread if it happens!

To be fair in Black Ops you kill a double, and the real Fidel gloats over you when you're captured.

Johnny C · « **Reply #16 on:** 08 May 2011, 13:20 »

i don't think there's going to be a movie now that it's come out that he was unarmed

Johnny C · « **Reply #17 on:** 08 May 2011, 13:21 »

malevolent dude or not, america probably isn't ready to eat popcorn while watching the violent murder of an unarmed guy

pwhodges · « **Reply #18 on:** 08 May 2011, 13:26 »

Why would that stop them having him armed in the film?

schimmy · « **Reply #19 on:** 08 May 2011, 13:48 »

You've actually just succeeded in actually making this film sound like a good idea. Well done!

sean · « **Reply #20 on:** 08 May 2011, 16:01 »

Quote from: Ptommydski on 08 May 2011, 13:44

I'm expecting a Tony Montana ending instead.

actually when i made this thread, this is exactly how i envisioned the film ending.

KvP · « **Reply #21 on:** 08 May 2011, 16:43 »

Quote from: Johnny C on 08 May 2011, 13:21

malevolent dude or not, america probably isn't ready to eat popcorn while watching the violent murder of an unarmed guy

Why? Inglorious Basterds had an unarmed Hitler's face being pasted off by a machine gun and nobody really minded ('cepting the usual worryworts who think violent revenge fantasies are all "bad"). Rob Zombie got a cult action hit featuring a kidnapped woman being raped with a gun. All they need to do is insert a (probably doomed) soulful brown ally ala The Kingdom to balance out the "they shot an unarmed brown dude!" factor. I mean I think film violence is prevalent and celebrated enough now that it's a little ridiculous to wring your hands over whether or not the actor getting fake-shot onscreen is problematic because the real guy got real-shot offscreen. How is it any different than any other instance of dramatized murder? Did people get in a tizzy about Zodiac?

Elysiana · « **Reply #22 on:** 14 May 2011, 16:01 »

Disney's already got a head start.

Johnny C · « **Reply #23 on:** 15 May 2011, 14:00 »

Quote from: KvP on 08 May 2011, 16:43

Did people get in a tizzy about Zodiac?

series of good points except that they didn't exactly suggest that the zodiac killer was the sympathetic protagonist of that movie

Bumble78 · « **Reply #24 on:** 15 May 2011, 17:52 »

Did you guys see the part where they blew up the Helicopter? That was a bad ass scene.

satsugaikaze · « **Reply #25 on:** 17 May 2011, 23:22 »

Quote from: Elysiana on 14 May 2011, 16:01

Disney's already got a head start.

If I may slip into the vernacular, what the shit is this fuck.

ALoveSupreme · « **Reply #26 on:** 18 May 2011, 09:24 »

I mostly hope the screenwriter for this inevitable film stumbles across some of our script from the inevitable bad dudes film and steals it

valley_parade · « **Reply #27 on:** 18 May 2011, 10:42 »

Quote from: pwhodges on 08 May 2011, 13:26

Why would that stop them having him armed in the film?

Yeah, I mean Hitler committed suicide, but Inglorious Basterds exists.

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #28 on:** 25 May 2011, 08:51 »

Took them long enough

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/49772

JD · « **Reply #29 on:** 25 May 2011, 22:04 »

I heard Disney actually rescinded the patent or whatever out of respect to the navy. So there is that.

valley_parade · « **Reply #30 on:** 26 May 2011, 06:10 »

This got discussed at work yesterday, mostly about casting.

We feel that the two best bets to play bin Laden are either Sean Connery, or George Clooney.

Elysiana · « **Reply #31 on:** 26 May 2011, 07:02 »

Mel Gibson. He's psychotic and has the same beard sometimes.

Metope · « **Reply #32 on:** 26 May 2011, 07:10 »

What about having a Middle Eastern actor play a Middle Eastern character? Or is that completely out of the picture?

Elysiana · « **Reply #33 on:** 26 May 2011, 07:31 »

Please, we can't cast a TERRORIST, they'd blow up the set.

[/sarcasm]

Inlander · « **Reply #34 on:** 26 May 2011, 08:06 »

Quote from: Metope on 26 May 2011, 07:10

What about having a Middle Eastern actor play a Middle Eastern character? Or is that completely out of the picture?

Really, Kris? You're expecting this from the industry that hired an Anglo-Indian actor to play an Iraqi?

Elysiana · « **Reply #35 on:** 26 May 2011, 08:20 »

How about this kid!

Poor kid. It's not his fault the casting director picked him. It IS his fault, however, that he can't act his way out of a box.

valley_parade · « **Reply #36 on:** 26 May 2011, 09:11 »

Quote from: Metope on 26 May 2011, 07:10

What about having a Middle Eastern actor play a Middle Eastern character? Or is that completely out of the picture?

Clooney would make him oddly likable!

(in my world, it's a satirical comedy)

satsugaikaze · « **Reply #37 on:** 27 May 2011, 02:17 »

Quote from: valley_parade on 26 May 2011, 06:10

This got discussed at work yesterday, mostly about casting.

We feel that the two best bets to play bin Laden are either Sean Connery, or George Clooney.

Something that just came up in my mind was how Mark Strong played an Israeli at some point

and it was actually really convincing in a creepy way

Inlander · « **Reply #38 on:** 27 May 2011, 02:38 »

There are plenty of Israelis who weren't born anywhere near Israel and don't look in any way Middle Eastern.

I mean welcoming Jews from all over the world was kind of the whole point of the creation of the country.

satsugaikaze · « **Reply #39 on:** 27 May 2011, 04:03 »

Well I think it was the fact that he seemed 'ethnic' even though he was probably as Aryan as a white dude got

Method of Madness · « **Reply #40 on:** 27 May 2011, 23:37 »

Quote from: Ptommydski on 08 May 2011, 13:44

I'm expecting a Tony Montana ending instead.

Quote from: Michael Bolton

THIS IS THE TALE...OF OSAMA BIN LADEN! SHOT IN THE NIGHT...IN HIS PAKISTAN HOME. HIS SEVERAL WIVES...PORN ON HIS COMPUTERS. SEAL TEAM SIX WENT AND ENDED HIS LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFE!

Dazed · « **Reply #41 on:** 27 May 2011, 23:39 »

The Mark Strong thing was him playing a Jordanian in Body of Lies.

satsugaikaze · « **Reply #42 on:** 28 May 2011, 18:41 »

Yeah that! I saw it on TV and I had to wiki his face.

Man he was awesome in that movie. Friggin' Ridley Scott.

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