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Offline newguy

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« on: January 19, 2002, 09:36:08 AM »
Go and see this movie. I am at a loss for words to describe at the moment.

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Offline Kronos

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« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2002, 11:15:17 AM »
based on the true story, even the documentary on the actual event is intense.  Really shows true courage under fire.

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« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2002, 06:01:01 PM »
A very intense movie.  Some of the guys in the battle say on another board that the volume of enemy fire back in 1993 was even higher than what is shown in the movie, which is hard to imagine.  

The helicopter scenes are very cool too.

Some of the Somolia vets post at:

http://www.cinemayhem.com/blackhawkdown/index.htm
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« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2002, 09:12:10 PM »
Went and saw it today - A very, very well done movie.  It has been on my mind for several hours after leaving the theatre...
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« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2002, 12:35:38 AM »
Yeap, awesome movie.
Saw it today, and its very true to the book, except for the part when the Deltas take the big rocket launcher, that didnt happen.


Go see this movie.
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« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2002, 11:28:41 AM »
I saw it friday night with my roommate.  Very kick bellybutton movie and was laid out pretty much like the book.  Was weird hearing the names from the book.  Only thing I didn't like was the guy they had from Pearl Harbor that studdered, he doesn't studder but he's the "comedic relief" this movie didn't need that.

 One thing that tripped me out was mine and the audience's reaction.  EVERYBODY was into this movie, the women even more so than the men.  We were actually clapping when they'd off "skinny" (LOL)  One part a guy has to decide wether or not to kill a little kid w/ an AK.  I couldn't believe my ears at all the women I heard whispering "kill him"    All the cheers kind of tripped me out a bit, people were honestly enjoying seeing them die.  Never saw that before 9/11.
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« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2002, 11:55:30 AM »
If people really talked and cheered that much in the movie theatre, I'd get in a fight every time I went...

Anyhoo...

Here is an interesting interview with Mark Bowden (who wrote the book), dealing with, among other things, the accuracy of the movie.

Courage Under Fire
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« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2002, 12:13:59 PM »
Gee Udie, Texan women must be alot differant than where I live (MN). Nobody was cheering to kill here, it was rather silent as people absorbed the horror of it.

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« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2002, 07:03:13 AM »
I really liked the movie!

I was one of the people in the theater that was yelling "Kill the little bastard!".
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« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2002, 10:34:44 AM »
I picked up the book after seeing the movie Saturday, and I'm about 300 pages into it... It seems that they have taken the actions of several characters and condensed them into Matt Eversmann and Chalk 4 in the movie... I suppose this keeps things from being too confusing, but I was a little dissappointed that so many events were attributed to one group when some of the major parts of that (e.g. them hoofing it to the crash site) didn't even happen (It was Chalk 2 and Chalk 3 that moved to the crash site on foot - Chalk 4 was on the trucks).  Still, I think that from a less specific view, the movie captured the chaos and the major events pretty well, and is one of the best war films I've seen.
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« Reply #10 on: January 23, 2002, 10:43:33 AM »
Went to see this last night.It was very good action but it was the same old "Ami kills 50 bad guys to every good guy that gets killed"..Very well done though and just when I was about to get up and leave when I read the after scenario text where it stated 1000 Somalians were killed to only 19 Americans...It was only then that the true impact of the movie hit me and that 50-1 ratio was actually what transpired!..I am going to see it again!!
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« Reply #11 on: January 23, 2002, 11:13:24 AM »
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Originally posted by SirLoin
Went to see this last night.It was very good action but it was the same old "Ami kills 50 bad guys to every good guy that gets killed"..Very well done though and just when I was about to get up and leave when I read the after scenario text where it stated 1000 Somalians were killed to only 19 Americans...It was only then that the true impact of the movie hit me and that 50-1 ratio was actually what transpired!..I am going to see it again!!


 The History Channel did a 2 hour show on the battle Monday night.  They had the author of the book as well as many of the soldiers.  They talked about what happened in great detail.  They got to the body count and said they will never know for sure how many Somalis died that day.  They put the estimate somewhere between 1,000 and 10,000!!!!  Personaly I think 10k is probobly very unrealistic.  But one of the drivers said that at one particular intersection the road was blocked by at least 1000 Somali's with AK's.   The driver told the .50 cal gunner to "clear me a path" so the guy opened up on the crowd.  I'd be willing to bet that 1 .50 coming out of the barrel at close range could go through about 10 people before it stopped.  

sad sad day in history :(
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« Reply #13 on: January 24, 2002, 08:57:15 AM »
... and the animals cheered :mad:

Somalis cheer at 'Black Hawk Down' screening

http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/africa/01/23/blackhawk.screen/index.html
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« Reply #14 on: January 24, 2002, 09:10:12 AM »
I saw the coverage on CNN eagler. Some dude was coming out of the theater and said "If the Americans come back again, we will defeat them again". I kinda chuckled. They don't teach these guys much math huh? Lesee, 500 of us dead, 18 Americans dead, Somali Victory! Yep, we pulled out, which was another defeat for them. Now they get to peck for crumbs again. But they defeated the US!

Poor ignorant people.
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