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    Quote Originally Posted by Buff View Post
    Deliverance is an accurate representation of southern culture.
    "Dueling Banjos" often plays in my head when I turn down a poorly maintained road in rural Oklahoma to inspect a home out in the boonies.

    My mom let us rent that movie when I was like 12. . . I didn't really understand what the heck was going on. I was very confused.

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    wow... well.... There are certainly some remarkable inaccuracies posted in this thread
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    Platoon is an accurate representation of colorado high schools and movie theaters.

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    Red Dawn was pretty accurate.
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    I would say that Toy Story is accurate, but then, I think the director made up a lot of the story line to promote prejudice against certain toy types.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NightTrainLayne View Post
    "Dueling Banjos" often plays in my head when I turn down a poorly maintained road in rural Oklahoma to inspect a home out in the boonies.

    My mom let us rent that movie when I was like 12. . . I didn't really understand what the heck was going on. I was very confused.
    I try to stay away from Eastern Oklahoma (aka Arkansas-lite) out of fear for Deliverance-type situations. I had to stay in a hotel in Grove once. Terrifying.

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    Since Henry V the play is widely counted as a very accurate account of the events at the start of the Hundred year war, the movie is as well.
    Braveheart is not historically accurate. Some of the major plot points are totally made up. It always killed me that they took the bridge out of the battle of Stirling bridge.

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    So, I've watched Thirteen Days and Gettysburg (the 1993 movie that's over 3 hours). I really liked them both. I plan on watching A Bridge Too Far pretty soon. I've started watching Manhunt by HBO. It's a documentary about looking for Bin Laden. Supposedly, it tells some of the truth that Zero Dark Thirty left out or changed for entertainment reasons.

    If you want a good show that represents the south, I'm not sure Deliverance is the best. I'd suggest Squidbillies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Skinny View Post
    I didn't know that.

    I've been too Benning a couple of times to do demos (help and cook up some free food samples for companies) at the commissary there so i've only seen a little of it. I'd love to take of tour of that base, it looks huge and has a lot of history from what i'ver heard. I'm a war buff, though i don't know a lot of the facts, just fascinated with the history of it. There's a Revolutionary War Museum here that i could spend hours in. It also has a lot of other things from past wars like WWI, WWII, Korean, Etc... in it as well.

    Sorry to get of course....
    Ft Benning itself is a giant old shithole of a post, but there is a LOT of history there. I didn't know anything about that We Were Soldiers stuff either until one of the old guys bringing me a maintenance stand asked me if I knew it, then he took me through all of it. Pretty neat stuff.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buff View Post
    Deliverance is an accurate representation of southern culture.
    There's a little town right outside of Waxahachie, TX that everyone in that area calls Deliverance. It's a sketchy looking little town.

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    Quote Originally Posted by aberdien View Post
    I try to stay away from Eastern Oklahoma (aka Arkansas-lite) out of fear for Deliverance-type situations. I had to stay in a hotel in Grove once. Terrifying.
    I once drove on I-40 from Little Rock to Flagstaff. The part I hated was the whole part between Arkansas and New Mexico. The Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma are one in the same IMO.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SeeingRed View Post
    Ft Benning itself is a giant old shithole of a post, but there is a LOT of history there. I didn't know anything about that We Were Soldiers stuff either until one of the old guys bringing me a maintenance stand asked me if I knew it, then he took me through all of it. Pretty neat stuff.
    I did Basic and AIT at Fort Benning, then 5 months of Infantry Officer's Basic Course a few years later. I learned about fire ants and chiggers at Fort Benning, and they have this awful glutinous otherworldly red clay that won't wash out of anything.
    “What fresh hell is this?”

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadnought View Post
    I did Basic and AIT at Fort Benning, then 5 months of Infantry Officer's Basic Course a few years later. I learned about fire ants and chiggers at Fort Benning, and they have this awful glutinous otherworldly red clay that won't wash out of anything.
    I didn't get to experience any of that stuff. Thankfully. I did always end up doing more work than I wanted to when I'd go there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadnought View Post
    I did Basic and AIT at Fort Benning, then 5 months of Infantry Officer's Basic Course a few years later. I learned about fire ants and chiggers at Fort Benning, and they have this awful glutinous otherworldly red clay that won't wash out of anything.
    always makes me chuckle when I hear that people don't know about chiggers. I guess when you grow up with things like that, you just assume they are a national lil pain in the ass.
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