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Thunder Run: The movie

Gazi

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Imagine being part of the most badass armored strike on Baghdad during OIF. Despite it being the biggest day of your military career it was also the one you'd love to forget as a human being.

And just when you're all cozy at home, drinking a beer and rolling a fattie you stumble upon this piece of news.

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni17297816/

Freedom Films CEO Brian Presley announced today that macho men Gerard Butler, Avatar star Sam Worthington and Matthew McConaughey signed on to play the lead soldiers in his state-of-the-art adaptation of David Zucchino’s Iraq War novel Thunder Run – The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad. Variety reported that Expendables 2 director Simon West already signed on to helm the movie using the latest 3-D technology as well as motion capture effects in order to show the capture of Baghdad in 2003.

3D. Are you fuging kidding me?! You know you want to see it but you might just start going apeshit at those teenagers around you once that 3D action hits and you relive that poo again.

Plus, everyone will now associate that event with those douchebags Butler and McConaughey. For life.

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Finally, I read that book when it first came out and loved it. It looks like their going to screw it up though and turn it into a blockbuster action flick aimed at highschool teens. IMO it's very disrespectful to both the American and Iraqi dead to do this film in any other fashion than gritty & realistic.

Want to be blown away? Go read the book, then find the video of the thunder run that someone recorded with a camera mounted on their M1. Scary to see what you read about occurring in real time.

Now they just need to make a Moon is a Harsh Mistress movie.

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