MMG - Rate This Movie... Black Hawk Down

Scott Rose · **Posted:** Sat Nov 05, 2011 7:09 am

Today's movie is Black Hawk Down. Please vote in the poll and reply to this threads with your thoughts about the movie. What you loved... or hated about it. Thanks.

And I've started to put together the MMG. eventually each movie profile will link back to the appropriate thread on WIX so feel free to discuss the movies to your hearts content.

John Dupre · **Posted:** Sat Nov 05, 2011 2:26 pm

I read the book first and the movie is very true to it. It is a fascinating study of men in battle.

viking73 · **Posted:** Sat Nov 05, 2011 4:39 pm

The movie is very "Hollywood-ish" in parts and is only so/so in my opinion... The book is great and I think the PBS documentary "Frontline: Ambush In Mogadishu" and the History Channel program "The True Story of Black Hawk Down" are much better than the movie. Both are included in the 3-disc DVD special edition.

-Derek

Steve Nelson · **Posted:** Sun Nov 06, 2011 12:24 am

I thought it was an excellent film. but VERY intense. Kind of like the first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan, but for two hours. I saw it in the theater, and about halfway through was wishing for an intermission just to decompress a bit. Definitely not something I'd just pop in on a rainy afternoon for some light entertainment!

I heard a radio interview with a guy who crewed one of the helos (he said his choppper can be heard in the radio chatter in the movie.) He said that it was about dead-on accurate, although a few events had to be compressed and characters combined..nohting unusual for a dramatization.

SN

Ken · **Posted:** Mon Nov 07, 2011 4:58 pm

Steve Nelson wrote:

I thought it was an excellent film. but VERY intense. Kind of like the first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan, but for two hours. I saw it in the theater, and about halfway through was wishing for an intermission just to decompress a bit. Definitely not something I'd just pop in on a rainy afternoon for some light entertainment! He said that it was about dead-on accurate, although a few events had to be compressed and characters combined..nothing unusual for a dramatization.

I had the exact same impression. The attention to detail for the MH-60s, uniforms, the airport hangar, and downtown were remarkable for Hollywood. I too read the book and have often said that I wish every US citizen would see this film and learn the story.

Jarink1 · **Joined:** Mon Feb 22, 2010 10:21 pm **Posts:** 117

Loved it. About as little creative license as can be expected in a non-documentary.

Buzzie · **Posted:** Mon Jun 17, 2013 9:34 am

Too bloody for my liking. When I watch a film I want to enjoy it. I don't enjoy blood.

Nice signature BTW.

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