Tigerland isn't real

Rating: 2/10 (27 July 2005)

The movie Tigerland is a work of pure movie fiction. Nothing about it rings true: not the actor's accents, not the way the actors wore their uniforms, not the dialog and certainly not the training scenes. The most obvious fiction is showing the soldiers thinking and analyzing and philosophizing so much. In fact the soldiers in Tigerland were always too busy and or too tired to do much thinking , analyzing and philosophizing. When they did talk it was mostly about their lives before the Army and plans for their lives after. Mostly when they had free time they slept. I should know. I went through basic training and Tigerland at Fort Polk, Louisiana in 1967.