Black Hawk Down (1 Viewer)

[Inscrutable]

whats everyone on about, they pakistani people donate alot of money to somalia and therefore they have places in somalia named after pakistan, they didnt help the americans god damn it

 

[mr EaZy]

some people here are really dumb - there i said it!!!


pakistan was part of the UN peace keeping mission- didnt u see the blue UN hats!!

this is a somalian civil war we're talkin' about here!


now about the gruesome scenes people were talking about: they were actually toned down-because the real thing was far worse. when i first saw the film, i was reminded of ranger eye witness accounts of somalis caught in the crossfire:

i specifically remember a ranger talking about how this man was carrying his son in his arms whilst guns were still being fired- he didnt care! he lost his son!


also the marines being lifted up in the crowds, that was also toned down-the real thing was caught on camera and it was scary!

i hate violence- this film was controversial as it was made after S-11. but the film maker (forgot his name) said he just "wanted to tell a story"

Cheerio!

 

[w1ck3d_c10wn]

mr easy took the words out of my mouth, most of you are fucking idiots.

did you not notice all the UN logos etc all over the place?

The film did give a quite gritty, realistic feel to it, and it at least showed the Americans fucking up badly, instead of say Eric Bana cutting a swathe of destruction single handedly, shooting his M16 from the hip and murdering around 234692462346 Somalians.

It was made by Jerry Bruckenheimer's company, now i think he finds it impossible to make a movie without at least a hundred people getting killed, or using less than a truckload of explosives.

 

[katie_tully]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.............

 

[Seraph]

other way round numb nuts

no


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[Newbie]

omg people its an action movie
english advance really fucked you guys over
you dont have to critique everything
not everything has to do with symbolism

 

[Collin]

omg people its an action movie
english advance really fucked you guys over
you dont have to critique everything
not everything has to do with symbolism

It's a non-fiction based action movie. There's every right to critique it.

 

[ghettofabolous]

Did ya watch it last night?

Well I did and all was going well until the part where the pakistanis got the dead american out of the crashed helicopter and were holding him in the air and parading him around celebrating.. i was so disturbed..

iT WAS disturbing but so good

 

[funky_a]

I was trying to watch the DVD last night (which I didn't know I had), and yeah, I am NOT an action, blood, killing, people-getting-blown-up kinda movie-watcher... So I didn't go past the first 20mins

 

[Not-That-Bright]

The main critique is that it didn't present the war from the side of the somalians.

 

[mizosoup]

It's funny when you pause it at the exact moment someone's been blasted and there's just blood and guts spurting out all over your tv screen. Even funnier when its at a Christmas family thing.