| 1 | * AlternateAesopInterpretation: "Being a Navy SEAL is badass" is the intended message. Yet with an outcome of [[spoiler:roughly half the team becoming casualties in the film's 1- to 6-week span, including one guy losing his eye, one guy getting shot repeatedly and sustaining major injuries, and one guy dying and leaving behind a widow expecting a child]], another moral that can be gleaned is "Being a Navy SEAL is going to hurt. ''A LOT.''" To reinforce the alternate aesop, the list of [=SEALs=] who "made the ultimate sacrifice" since UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror started at the end of the movie is shockingly long for people who have been elevated as nigh-invincible. |
| 2 | * BrokenBase: This movie was made with the full endorsement and support of Naval Special Warfare Command to boost the number of SEAL recruits. However, according to a thesis at the Naval Postgraduate School, a small but increasingly vocal cabal of active-duty SEAL operators blame this movie for enabling a pattern of self-promotion and self-aggrandizement among many former SEAL operators. They feel that this movie sent a message to rank-and-file SEAL enlisted that it is okay to turn their membership in an elite unit into a ticket for fame, and contribute to a media hype about all things SEAL. This hype, in their minds, erodes away the ethos of quiet professionalism that is essential to allowing [=SEALs=] to operate covertly. |
| 3 | * CriticalDissonance: The film received generally negative reviews from critics (24% on Rotten Tomatoes). However, audiences loved it, as it earned an "A" grade from Cinemascore. Indeed, the film opened at #1, earning $24.5 million during its opening weekend, and it eventually made $81.3 million worldwide ($70 million from the U.S. alone) against a budget of only about $12 million (about how much Relativity paid to buy the film). |
| 4 | * DancingBear: Much of the hype about the film was that it featured active-duty Navy [=SEALs=] in the lead roles. |
| 5 | * JustHereForGodzilla: Many people went to see the movie just to see what real [=SEALs=] looked like in action. |
| 6 | * SoOkayItsAverage: The movie is actually a fairly by-the-numbers action film, with the differentiating factor being that it featured real Navy [=SEALs=] who were on active duty when it was made. And since they are not professional actors, they give so-so performances. |
| 7 | * TearJerker: Rorke's death. Even if you find it obvious he's gonna die, it can still be sad when it actually happens. |
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