Hollywood movies to inspire or teach
Posted: 2025-10-14 06:36
So obviously before any study of tactics like "Grazing fire", all I had to go on was the movies, which is just men shooting guns in scripted scenes, not all realistic but certain aspects can be taken and used.
Most of it is basic "I see them, they see me, bang bang bang" so it doesn't always teach suppression, camouflage or other point of view things that like real combat footage can teach. The more realistic the movie the better.
These movies can serve as inspiration for hilarious tactical antics or instruction.
Typically though due to camera angles of getting characters on the screen, they are not tactically spread. You can learn from things done tactically right and tactically wrong in this sense.
Even if you find nothing useful, take a look at everything dumb or wrong, take in the Hollywood intensity into your fighting, throw some mags of suppression out as an insurgent into view distance just because enemy could be out that direction, somewhere 360 degrees around on the ground.
-"Saving Private Ryan"
-Tears of the Sun
-The 800
-Act of Valor
-All Rambo films, any hit and run tactics, booby traps, the mind set
This right here is all Rambo, shooting style, I put the Dshk behind a tree so enemy can't see, but I can still shoot everywhere through the tree where I don't hit branches, the enemy can't see if they hit me or not. I make a lot of noise, distract, suppress. Its camouflaged, they shoot twice as much making themselves an exposed target while I am hidden. They can't just target the gunner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fqa4iYlV7k&t=53s
-Blackhawk Down, you can learn to shoot randomly like insurgent. Also the trash roadblocks
-Band Of Brothers series
-Generation War series
-The Pacific series
-Predator (1987), the scene where they are shooting the jungle up is big inspiration for me
-The Battle for Marjah documentary
Most of it is basic "I see them, they see me, bang bang bang" so it doesn't always teach suppression, camouflage or other point of view things that like real combat footage can teach. The more realistic the movie the better.
These movies can serve as inspiration for hilarious tactical antics or instruction.
Typically though due to camera angles of getting characters on the screen, they are not tactically spread. You can learn from things done tactically right and tactically wrong in this sense.
Even if you find nothing useful, take a look at everything dumb or wrong, take in the Hollywood intensity into your fighting, throw some mags of suppression out as an insurgent into view distance just because enemy could be out that direction, somewhere 360 degrees around on the ground.
-"Saving Private Ryan"
-Tears of the Sun
-The 800
-Act of Valor
-All Rambo films, any hit and run tactics, booby traps, the mind set
This right here is all Rambo, shooting style, I put the Dshk behind a tree so enemy can't see, but I can still shoot everywhere through the tree where I don't hit branches, the enemy can't see if they hit me or not. I make a lot of noise, distract, suppress. Its camouflaged, they shoot twice as much making themselves an exposed target while I am hidden. They can't just target the gunner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fqa4iYlV7k&t=53s
-Blackhawk Down, you can learn to shoot randomly like insurgent. Also the trash roadblocks
-Band Of Brothers series
-Generation War series
-The Pacific series
-Predator (1987), the scene where they are shooting the jungle up is big inspiration for me
-The Battle for Marjah documentary