Special Ops Sniper Rates 11 More Sniper Scenes In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider
Nicholas Irving, a former special-operations sniper and an author, rates 11 more sniper scenes in movies and television shows for realism. Irving breaks down the plausibility of shooting moving targets in "Better Call Saul" S5E8 (2020); "Extraction" (2020), with Chris Hemsworth; "Skyfall" (2012), featuring Daniel Craig; and "28 Weeks Later" (2007), with Jeremy Renner. He discusses countersniper operations and different types of rifles in "The Last of Us" S1E5 (2023), starring Pedro Pascal; the desert-warfare scene in "The Wall" (2017), with Aaron Taylor-Johnson and John Cena; and "Hacksaw Ridge" (2016), with Andrew Garfield. He also looks at other sniper tactics — such as concealment, target detection, and the mathematics behind a long-distance shot — in "Sniper" (1993) and "Battle for Sevastopol" (2015); the spotting scope from "Operation Red Sea" (2018); and the firearms used in "Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation" (2015), starring Tom Cruise. Irving was a special-operations sniper i
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Sci-Fi Short Film "Control" | DUST | Throwback Thursday
After the death of her companion, a scientist is trapped by herself on an outpost near Jupiter begins to imagine, or realize, that she is not alone after all. "Control" written and directed by Carroll Brown More About "Control": Mission Specialist Elizabeth Henstridge thought she knew the risks when she was selected as part of a two-person crew on an exploratory mission to Jupiter's moon Callisto. What she didn't expect, what nobody expected, was that her companion would die, leaving her alone 600 million miles from home for almost three months until the relief crew would arrive. Grief, isolation...is that all it is when she is suddenly awoken by a knock on the station door? And Mission "Control" back home isn't helping, not when they are complaining about how she handled the body of her companion, and definitely not when they start responding in real time despite the two-hour signal delay between Jupiter and Earth. When "Control" reveals that it may not be who she thinks it is, Elizabeth begins to question her sanity, and her safety. A message from the filmmaker: The core idea for Control came from a story I had read about a woman scientist at an Antarctica station that had to perform a biopsy on herself after falling ill in the middle of the Antarctic winter when no help could be flown in. I tried to imagine the fear, the sense of isolation, the panic. I wanted to ramp all of that up to an exponential degree, and decided to set the events on an outpost so remote that even just talking to home was a delayed experience; these are the harsh realities of space and physics. Playing with the idea, I had the idle thought "what if suddenly they responded in real time?" and I was off to the races. Subscribe to the DUST and ALTER newsletter: http://eepurl.com/dChYXb Subscribe to DUST on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2aqc5vh #DUST #scifi #shortfilm About DUST: DUST is a thriving community of storytellers, working together to present thought-provoking science fiction stories. Beyond our longstanding presence on YouTube, DUST also operates ALIEN NATION, a free streaming tv channel available on The Roku Channel, Samsung TV Plus, Sling TV Freestream, LG Channels, Tubi, Freevee, Vizio Watchfree+, Xumo, and Redbox. Learn how to Watch ALIEN NATION on TV: https://linktr.ee/futureawaits Connect with DUST Website: http://www.watchdust.com Sign-up for DUST newsletter: http://eepurl.com/b_SKAz Watch DUST on your TV: Available on Roku, Samsung TV, Apple TV, Android TV...and more Watch more on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2amTSen Follow Us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/2aqYgtZ Follow Us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/2amAhRt Listen to the DUST podcast: Apple: http://bit.ly/DUST-Audio Spotify: http://bit.ly/DUST-Spotify Stitcher: http://bit.ly/DUST-Stitcher Castbox: http://bit.ly/DUST-Castbox iHeart: http://bit.ly/DUST-iHeart About Gunpowder + Sky: Creating content that resonates and impacts pop culture conversation, by empowering creators to take risks and experiment relentlessly in the pursuit of novel stories and formats. https://www.youtube.com/watchdust Subscribe to the DUST and ALTER newsletter: http://eepurl.com/dChYXb
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