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This movie however, didn't have either the commercial and critical success of ''Film/TopGun'', nor did it have the impact on recruiting that the navy hoped for. Their effort two decades later, ''Film/ActOfValor'' would have more success. The movie revolves around a squad headed by Lt. James Curran played by Creator/MichaelBiehn, which stumbles onto a large cache of Stinger shoulder fired anti aircraft missiles, while rescuing a captured Navy rescue helicopter crew. Unable to deal with the missiles at that time, the team spends the entire movie [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle trying to find them]]. After seeking out the help of a television correspondent Claire Varrens played by Joanne Whalley Kilmer, the team first renditions a guy who may know the missiles' location. They finally launch a raid deep into the slums of war torn Beirut to neutralize the missiles and the terrorist group planning to deploy them.
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This movie movie, however, didn't have either the commercial and critical success of ''Film/TopGun'', nor did it have the impact on recruiting that the navy hoped for. Their effort two decades later, ''Film/ActOfValor'' would have more success. The movie revolves around a squad headed by Lt. James Curran played by Creator/MichaelBiehn, which stumbles onto a large cache of Stinger shoulder fired anti aircraft missiles, while rescuing a captured Navy rescue helicopter crew. Unable to deal with the missiles at that time, the team spends the entire movie [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle trying to find them]]. After seeking out the help of a television correspondent Claire Varrens played by Joanne Whalley Kilmer, the team first renditions a guy who may know the missiles' location. They finally launch a raid deep into the slums of war torn Beirut to neutralize the missiles and the terrorist group planning to deploy them.
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* HangoverSensitivity: At the beginning of the film, Hawkins awakens on the beach and he's still drunk and hungover from the night before. When former SEAL Andy Stumpf reviewed the film, he remarked that this was the only scene in the film which accurately portrays life in the SEAL teams.
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->'''[[TheLancer Lt. (j.g.) Dale Hawkins]]:''' We go in there, we hit 'em and [[ButForMeItWasTuesday forget 'em]]. That's what we do!\\
'''[[TheLeader Lt. James Curran]]:''' There is more to it than that.
''Navy Seals'' was a 1990 Creator/OrionPictures film starring Creator/CharlieSheen, Creator/MichaelBiehn, Creator/BillPaxton, Creator/RickRossovich and Creator/JoanneWhalley, then wife of Creator/ValKilmer. After the huge success the navy had with recruiting with ''Film/TopGun'', they [[BackedByThePentagon backed this movie too]], hoping it would similarly drive up interest in the UsefulNotes/NavySeals. The screenplay was written by former DEVGRU (SEAL Team Six) platoon commander Chuck Pfarrer, who would go on to have some success as a Hollywood screenwriter, penning the scripts for ''Film/{{Darkman}}'', ''Film/HardTarget'' and a few others.
This movie however, didn't have either the commercial and critical success of ''Film/TopGun'', nor did it have the impact on recruiting that the navy hoped for. Their effort two decades later, ''Film/ActOfValor'' would have more success. The movie revolves around a squad headed by Lt. James Curran played by Creator/MichaelBiehn, which stumbles onto a large cache of Stinger shoulder fired anti aircraft missiles, while rescuing a captured Navy rescue helicopter crew. Unable to deal with the missiles at that time, the team spends the entire movie [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle trying to find them]]. After seeking out the help of a television correspondent Claire Varrens played by Joanne Whalley Kilmer, the team first renditions a guy who may know the missiles' location. They finally launch a raid deep into the slums of war torn Beirut to neutralize the missiles and the terrorist group planning to deploy them.
A secondary plot concerns the personality clash between Curran who takes his job seriously, and his second in command, Lieutenant junior grade Dale Hawkins (played by Creator/CharlieSheen), who is a thrill-seeker that just [[BloodKnight enjoys a good fight]]. The two finally clash after a careless mistake results in a tragedy.
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!!Tropes positively identified in this movie are:
* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: There were many, in spite of being BackedByThePentagon and written by a former SEAL.
** No navy ship calls itself the ''USN'' whatever. All of them are called ''USS'' ship name.
** A team that is celebrating the nuptials of its platoon chief will be stood down. There was absolutely no need to page and activate all of them, since at that time, there were multiple SEAL teams, just on the East Coast. Some other team would have been active and ready to deploy.
** For what Hawkins did on the Beirut snatch and grab mission, he should have been CourtMartialed, or at the very least, been expelled from the SEAL teams.
** The east coast SEAL teams are based in Little Creek, Virginia, not Norfolk.
** A typical SEAL platoon has 12 people, 16 with EOD personnel attached. Curran's platoon only has 8 in the beginning. Also, there are two hierarchical levels -- a troop commander (O-4) and a SEAL team commander (O-5) between a platoon commander and a captain (O-6) who commands a Special Warfare Group. So, there was no reason for that captain to be dealing directly with Curran.
** The Secretary of Defense, CIA higher ups and the Chief of Naval Operations don't come all the way to Norfolk to talk to a SEAL platoon commander and chew him out. That discussion would have taken place in the Pentagon.
* AutobotsRockOut: Since this movie was a clone of ''Film/TopGun'', it even got a hard rock soundtrack, with songs contributed by Music/MrBig (not [[Series/SexAndTheCity that one]]) and [[Music/BonJovi Jon Bon Jovi]] (yes, that one). The track that plays while the surviving [=SEALs=] run to the beach in the end, sounds a lot like Music/DeepPurple's song "Space Trucking".
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler:Chief Graham.]]
* BloodKnight: Hawkins, very much so. In fact it was his Hot-Shot attitude that got Chief Graham killed later in the movie.
-->'''Curran:''' Don't you take any responsibility? I told you ''not'' to leave that doorway! You lookin' for a fight? You lookin' for a rush, a little rush? Well, I hope you got it. Because you toasted a man you put in the grave!
* BloodlessCarnage: [[spoiler:At the end of the final fight, Hawkins [[SlashedThroat slices Shaheed's throat]] but there is oddly no blood shown when he dies.]]
* FriendlySniper: Dane, played by Creator/BillPaxton.
* HeroStoleMyBike: The [=SEALs=] steal a Mercedes. And a ''green'' one at that! In Beirut.
* ItsRainingMen: Mid way through the movie, the entire team executes a HALO jump into the sea near the coast of Beirut.
* KarmaHoudini: For his recklessness and disobedience of Curran’s order, Hawkins should have been [[CourtMartial court-martialed]] and shipped off to Leavenworth.
* MutualKill: [[spoiler:The team sniper Dane and a random terrorist.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Hawkins, disobeying Curran's orders and engages in a firefight with some terrorists during a mission. This ends up getting Graham killed.
* NobleMaleRoguishMale: Curran and Hawkins. Curran takes his job seriously, while Hawkins is a womanizing thrill seeking BloodKnight party boy.
* RunawayGroom: Billy has to abandon his bride at the altar because the entire platoon, all of who are attending the wedding too, are called in on a mission. That said, he does come back to his fiancée and is planning on rescheduling the wedding.
* StuffBlowingUp: When the team sets charges to blow up the Stinger missile cache, they bring down the entire building. And on the way out, they blow up an APC and a boat.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The submarine that is supposed to extract the [=SEALs=] starts to leave the area when day breaks, so they don’t get discovered and attacked.[[note]]A submarine is particularly vulnerable at periscope depth in the extremely shallow waters near a beach.[[/note]]
* ShootTheHostageTaker: A terrorist tries using a civilian woman as a captive while taunting Hawkins and Leary. Unfortunately, said terrorist just ''had'' to pull a YourMom on the [=SEALs=], leading to Hawkins shooting the terrorist on the spot.
* SuicidalOverconfidence: Some redneck in a bar tries to pick a fight with Leary the CombatMedic, when the squad is there commiserating [[spoiler: Chief Graham's death]]. He does this, while Dane is still in uniform and displaying his SEAL trident. Going toe to toe with a naval commando who has received advanced unarmed combat training is a ''very'' bad idea. This guy still does it. Of course, this movie was made in a time when [=SEALs=] were still secret and obscure, and therefore didn't get the [[HeroWorshipper hero worship that they routinely get these days]].
* {{Taps}}[=/=]TwentyOneGunSalute : Chief Graham is buried with full military honors in which Taps is played and three sailors fire 21 volleys.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Shaheed busts open his own face, removes his shirt and lies face down behind a locked door when the SEAL team storms his base. When Ramos finds him, he screams that he is just an Egyptian sailor. Ramos thinks the bad guys [[MistakenForSpies mistook him for a spy]] and beat the shit out of him. The [=SEALs=] let him go. It is only later that they are informed of his true identity.
* YourMom: During a standoff scene between Hawkins, Leary and a terrorist holding a woman as a hostage, the terrorist tries taunting the [=SEALs=] in some foreign language.
-->'''Hawkins:''' What's he saying?\\
'''Leary:''' Something about your mother.\\
''[cue Hawkins executing said terrorist with a BoomHeadshot]''\\
'''Hawkins:''' ''Never''. Talk about mom.
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->'''[[TheLancer Lt. (j.g.) Dale Hawkins]]:''' We go in there, we hit 'em and [[ButForMeItWasTuesday forget 'em]]. That's what we do!\\
'''[[TheLeader Lt. James Curran]]:''' There is more to it than that.
''Navy Seals'' was a 1990 Creator/OrionPictures film starring Creator/CharlieSheen, Creator/MichaelBiehn, Creator/BillPaxton, Creator/RickRossovich and Creator/JoanneWhalley, then wife of Creator/ValKilmer. After the huge success the navy had with recruiting with ''Film/TopGun'', they [[BackedByThePentagon backed this movie too]], hoping it would similarly drive up interest in the UsefulNotes/NavySeals. The screenplay was written by former DEVGRU (SEAL Team Six) platoon commander Chuck Pfarrer, who would go on to have some success as a Hollywood screenwriter, penning the scripts for ''Film/{{Darkman}}'', ''Film/HardTarget'' and a few others.
This movie however, didn't have either the commercial and critical success of ''Film/TopGun'', nor did it have the impact on recruiting that the navy hoped for. Their effort two decades later, ''Film/ActOfValor'' would have more success. The movie revolves around a squad headed by Lt. James Curran played by Creator/MichaelBiehn, which stumbles onto a large cache of Stinger shoulder fired anti aircraft missiles, while rescuing a captured Navy rescue helicopter crew. Unable to deal with the missiles at that time, the team spends the entire movie [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle trying to find them]]. After seeking out the help of a television correspondent Claire Varrens played by Joanne Whalley Kilmer, the team first renditions a guy who may know the missiles' location. They finally launch a raid deep into the slums of war torn Beirut to neutralize the missiles and the terrorist group planning to deploy them.
A secondary plot concerns the personality clash between Curran who takes his job seriously, and his second in command, Lieutenant junior grade Dale Hawkins (played by Creator/CharlieSheen), who is a thrill-seeker that just [[BloodKnight enjoys a good fight]]. The two finally clash after a careless mistake results in a tragedy.
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!!Tropes positively identified in this movie are:
* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: There were many, in spite of being BackedByThePentagon and written by a former SEAL.
** No navy ship calls itself the ''USN'' whatever. All of them are called ''USS'' ship name.
** A team that is celebrating the nuptials of its platoon chief will be stood down. There was absolutely no need to page and activate all of them, since at that time, there were multiple SEAL teams, just on the East Coast. Some other team would have been active and ready to deploy.
** For what Hawkins did on the Beirut snatch and grab mission, he should have been CourtMartialed, or at the very least, been expelled from the SEAL teams.
** The east coast SEAL teams are based in Little Creek, Virginia, not Norfolk.
** A typical SEAL platoon has 12 people, 16 with EOD personnel attached. Curran's platoon only has 8 in the beginning. Also, there are two hierarchical levels -- a troop commander (O-4) and a SEAL team commander (O-5) between a platoon commander and a captain (O-6) who commands a Special Warfare Group. So, there was no reason for that captain to be dealing directly with Curran.
** The Secretary of Defense, CIA higher ups and the Chief of Naval Operations don't come all the way to Norfolk to talk to a SEAL platoon commander and chew him out. That discussion would have taken place in the Pentagon.
* AutobotsRockOut: Since this movie was a clone of ''Film/TopGun'', it even got a hard rock soundtrack, with songs contributed by Music/MrBig (not [[Series/SexAndTheCity that one]]) and [[Music/BonJovi Jon Bon Jovi]] (yes, that one). The track that plays while the surviving [=SEALs=] run to the beach in the end, sounds a lot like Music/DeepPurple's song "Space Trucking".
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler:Chief Graham.]]
* BloodKnight: Hawkins, very much so. In fact it was his Hot-Shot attitude that got Chief Graham killed later in the movie.
-->'''Curran:''' Don't you take any responsibility? I told you ''not'' to leave that doorway! You lookin' for a fight? You lookin' for a rush, a little rush? Well, I hope you got it. Because you toasted a man you put in the grave!
* BloodlessCarnage: [[spoiler:At the end of the final fight, Hawkins [[SlashedThroat slices Shaheed's throat]] but there is oddly no blood shown when he dies.]]
* FriendlySniper: Dane, played by Creator/BillPaxton.
* HeroStoleMyBike: The [=SEALs=] steal a Mercedes. And a ''green'' one at that! In Beirut.
* ItsRainingMen: Mid way through the movie, the entire team executes a HALO jump into the sea near the coast of Beirut.
* KarmaHoudini: For his recklessness and disobedience of Curran’s order, Hawkins should have been [[CourtMartial court-martialed]] and shipped off to Leavenworth.
* MutualKill: [[spoiler:The team sniper Dane and a random terrorist.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Hawkins, disobeying Curran's orders and engages in a firefight with some terrorists during a mission. This ends up getting Graham killed.
* NobleMaleRoguishMale: Curran and Hawkins. Curran takes his job seriously, while Hawkins is a womanizing thrill seeking BloodKnight party boy.
* RunawayGroom: Billy has to abandon his bride at the altar because the entire platoon, all of who are attending the wedding too, are called in on a mission. That said, he does come back to his fiancée and is planning on rescheduling the wedding.
* StuffBlowingUp: When the team sets charges to blow up the Stinger missile cache, they bring down the entire building. And on the way out, they blow up an APC and a boat.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The submarine that is supposed to extract the [=SEALs=] starts to leave the area when day breaks, so they don’t get discovered and attacked.[[note]]A submarine is particularly vulnerable at periscope depth in the extremely shallow waters near a beach.[[/note]]
* ShootTheHostageTaker: A terrorist tries using a civilian woman as a captive while taunting Hawkins and Leary. Unfortunately, said terrorist just ''had'' to pull a YourMom on the [=SEALs=], leading to Hawkins shooting the terrorist on the spot.
* SuicidalOverconfidence: Some redneck in a bar tries to pick a fight with Leary the CombatMedic, when the squad is there commiserating [[spoiler: Chief Graham's death]]. He does this, while Dane is still in uniform and displaying his SEAL trident. Going toe to toe with a naval commando who has received advanced unarmed combat training is a ''very'' bad idea. This guy still does it. Of course, this movie was made in a time when [=SEALs=] were still secret and obscure, and therefore didn't get the [[HeroWorshipper hero worship that they routinely get these days]].
* {{Taps}}[=/=]TwentyOneGunSalute : Chief Graham is buried with full military honors in which Taps is played and three sailors fire 21 volleys.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Shaheed busts open his own face, removes his shirt and lies face down behind a locked door when the SEAL team storms his base. When Ramos finds him, he screams that he is just an Egyptian sailor. Ramos thinks the bad guys [[MistakenForSpies mistook him for a spy]] and beat the shit out of him. The [=SEALs=] let him go. It is only later that they are informed of his true identity.
* YourMom: During a standoff scene between Hawkins, Leary and a terrorist holding a woman as a hostage, the terrorist tries taunting the [=SEALs=] in some foreign language.
-->'''Hawkins:''' What's he saying?\\
'''Leary:''' Something about your mother.\\
''[cue Hawkins executing said terrorist with a BoomHeadshot]''\\
'''Hawkins:''' ''Never''. Talk about mom.
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