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Black Hawk Down

Posted by RickySilk on Jan 19, 2002 at 06:37 PM

What really get's you is the fact that it's all real. The guy that just got shot in the head was a real person and he died for real too.

This movie is the story of an actual Delta Force/Ranger operation in Mogadishu, Somalia. It was to be a simple snatch of some of Somali warlord General Aidid's top lieutenants from building where they were meeting. Delta Force soldiers were to do the snatching while the Rangers provided security around the building. As you can guess things did not go as planned and this movie is the story of what happened.

I remember when the book came out I snatched it up and read it in about 3 days. It was hard to put down. The movie is the same way. Early in the movie you'll find yourself sitting up and sliding to the front of your seat. This is one of the most intense movies I've ever seen. I looked around at one point and the looks on people's faces confirmed that everyone else was feeling the same spectrum of emotions I was. I went from excitement to anger to sadness and everywhere in between.

It really happened. That's what's so freaky about it. You see military type action movies all the time but in the back of your mind you know it's just a movie. The thing about Black Hawk Down that really cold cocks you in the jaw is that it all happened. All those people really died. The movie is real and unlike so many other movies that are "based on a true story", this one is as about as true to the book and the 1st person accounts of the operation that a major motion picture can get.

So go see it! What are you waiting for. It's a great movie with a great soundtrack and unlike so many movies these days you'll leave feeling like you got your money's worth.

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Anonymous Coward spoke on Jan 21, 2002 at 12:48 PM

You're exactly right. I read the book a few months ago and relished every page. When I heard the movie was to be released soon, I was practically pacing until the day it opened. My worst fear was that the movie would do as typical book-to-movie movies do, which is to ignore the book and make up their own story. Or at the very least, the movie would be an emotionally cheap and explosion rich money pit.

I've been married for about four years, and my wife and I have been together for almost nine. In all that time, through the fights and hard times, I've never honestly cried. Please don't think I'm a cold hearted person, or a bad husband. I simply prefer to bottle all of that up.

After reading the book, I was truly touched by what these soldiers went through. And throughout the movie, all of that was poured over me scene after scene. When Cpl. Jamie Smith died, I just lost it and balled my eyes out in front of a hundred strangers and my wife.

She was a little upset that I've never cried until I saw this movie. But I guess it just hit me like a ton of bricks that these guys were dying while doing their job for some people they didn't know. We told them to go, to help the Somalians. We told them to go without the tools they needed to succeed. We told them to go and the Somalians didn't want our help when our boys showed up anyway. And they went, and they died. You can't build a house without a hammer and nails, and the people getting the house didn't want it to begin with.

It's not some stupid movie, or some stupid book. This is real life. What held these men to this was their sense duty, and their compassion for their brothers. They held all of this above their own lives and personal safety.

For this, they have earned my eternal respect.

Please, go see the movie. Keep in mind that even though this is a Bruckheimer film, this is real. We send guys just like these to foreign lands and usually they don't get the respect and the compassion that they deserve from us, and yet they die for us anyway.

Greg

grgcombs spoke on Jan 21, 2002 at 12:52 PM

By the way, sorry to post that comment anonymously, I forgot to log in ... to correct that, this is me.

Greg

RickySilk spoke on Jan 23, 2002 at 03:05 PM

Sounds like we had similar experiences greg. Be sure to check out the site, it has actual radio transmissions and some video.

Anonymous Coward spoke on Jan 25, 2002 at 11:15 AM

check out the link for a little bit more..... [link]

RickySilk spoke on Mar 05, 2002 at 08:07 AM

Apparently an actor from the movie, Brendan Sexton III, didn't think it was a very good movie and wrote about it [link]

Anonymous Coward spoke on Mar 08, 2002 at 10:41 AM

I have been overwhelmed by the amount of courage and sacrifice these brave young soldiers did for this kind of a mission. Frankly, I am a World WAr II Fan but after seeing this movie and getting a chance to see some vidoe clips of a documentary about the Somalian Operation, I was compelled to do research on this. I surfed the web, visited local libraries, toured major bookstores. The thing I really wanted to know was "Who were the people behind this operation?" "What their normal lives were before this?" "Where they came from?" "What training they did?" etc. To think that these US Rangers were composed of young men, 18 to 19 years old on the average. Some even recruited fresh from High School.

I salute them for their courage. To the families of the soldeirs both US Rangers and Delta Force who died, I share my deepest respect. They did not die in vain.

Anonymous Coward spoke on Oct 12, 2002 at 07:24 PM

I saw the movie on DVD, and the effects were awesome. Since it was a true story, also, it was so realistic. And it wasn't a problem to cry over it, because those people really did die for us. But not Orlando Bloom! He was amazing, along with Josh Hartnett, and Ewan McGregor.

Anonymous Coward spoke on Feb 23, 2003 at 12:34 AM

I think Brendan Sexton III is soooooo hott :love: Ive seen about half of his movies and I am completely in love with him LOL :D He is a very good actor as well. He has been in Empire Records, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Boom, Arresting Gena, A, B, C... Manhattan, Spark, Pecker, Myth America, Hurricane Streets, Desert Blue, Boys Don't Cry, Muse 6, Session 9 and Black hawk Down. To find out more about the TOTAL HOTTIE BRENDAN SEXTON go to [link] Maddie 8)!!

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