Black Hawk Down (2001) Full Length Reaction
Added 2024-05-06 02:04:38 +0000 UTCThis was so intense. It gripped me right from the start and never let go. I think this is the only more modern war movie I've watched, what others should we check out?
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The greatest Robert Duvall movie where he is the star from beginning to end is a movie called The Apostle 1997 or 1998. Also in it is Billy Bob Thornton and Farah Fawcett. If you like Rober Duvall, this is a must see :)
Lana Gorgeous
2025-04-29 04:44:46 +0000 UTCIf you get the bluray, there is a commentary track that has the real Colonel McKnight, Captain Steele, Sergeant Eversman, and I believe the delta force commander talking about the movie and where it's good and where it's not so good. Also another commentary track with the author Mark Bowden and Riddley Scott. As I recall Mark Bowden helped write the screenplay as well. The book is a really good nonfiction history of it. There's an account in it of a Somali boy who spent the battle by the crash site beneath a car watching it all and he described the US soldiers as robots from the future, IE the terminator because of how they moved. Note that General Garison retired the day after Adid was killed. Supposedly, that was US special forces or intelligence that killed him in retaliation. Even wierder. Adid's son was a US marine during this battle and he was one of hte marines set to invade Mogadishu if Durant wasn't returned alive. After his father was killed, he returned to Somalia and took his dad's place as the new warlord.
Reed James
2024-05-14 22:26:10 +0000 UTC'Apocalypse Now'
JPDotCom23
2024-05-11 16:40:02 +0000 UTCThis movie is based off a book of the same name by Mark Bowden, and definitely worth reading if you want a very detailed account of the battle (the movie is pretty faithful though they do mash a few characters together & move some people around, but nothing major). Alternatively, a YouTube channel called The Operations Room has an extremely accurate animated version of the battle (maps and all). They do really high quality visualizations of historical battles/events and have a two-parter for The Battle of Mogadishu. Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ApfDyeP7Zk Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH2rnvGWDuU We Were Soldiers with Mel Gibson is another very good war movie, this one about the first "real" battle between US & Vietnamese forces. Oliver Stone's Platoon from 1986 is another extremely intense Vietnam era movie - a lot of it based on Stone's personal experiences in Vietnam.
Alexis
2024-05-07 05:32:09 +0000 UTCGreat war movies? (1) "The Beast", about a Russian tank in the 80's lost in Afghanistan. (2) "The Bridge at Remagen", gritty WW2 movie about pushing to the ragged edge. (3) "Heartbreak Ridge", Clint Eastwood as a marine sergeant training his unit, ending with the invasion of Grenada. (4) "Kelly's Heroes", Clint Eastwood war-comedy-HEIST movie.
Jane Harker
2024-05-07 01:24:02 +0000 UTC
