Posted: 6/21/2016 11:20:45 AM EDT
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Sat down and watched it this weekend with a bunch of friends. Mostly former .mil types.
Great movie, initially kind of concerned about Jim from The Office and the brother from Malcolm as the 2 leads but I think they nailed it! M4 pron! The gun-handling looked realistic and well done, a good job! And they did sneak in one reference to the "spontaneous" demonstration lie from Susan Rice but mostly stayed away from political commentary. For that film, I think it was a good choice to focus on the "truth on the ground" instead of the spin. |
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Can anyone point me in the direction of more of the specifics about the event and location?
I'm specifically curious about the area they called zombieland. They said it was a slaughter house, but in the movie, it looked like old gutter connect greenhouses that had been abandoned. The plastic draped on them wasn't right. That looked more like dry cleaning plastic instead of the thicker 4 mil poly you'd find on greenhouses like that. It is possible that they'd be covered with a shade type material, maybe like cheesecloth, in a hot environment, but again, that wasn't what was on there on the movie. So again, were they simply dressing up the existing site to make it look like a slaughter house, or were there actually old greenhouses next door? Minor details, I know, but I'm a greenhouse guy, I'd like to know. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._mission_and_annex_map_for_2012_Benghazi_attack.jpg This gives you a basic map, and if you google Fourth Ring Road and find where it crosses Al Andalus, you can find the embassy with apparently is right next to a restaurant, but the features of the map are kind of clouded over, so you really can't see shit. My best guess is 32*3'26"N and 20*5'15"E . |
reaction to the lack of security there.