Reportedly, Ridely Scott used about 4 to 6 cameras to shoot every scene and had completed filming earlier than expected. It's easy to tell, too, that these multiple angles were spliced together in the editing room with no coherence; like Hannibal, the ends never meet and numerous beautiful shots are thrown in with a handful misplaced shots.

If you're interested, which I was not, in watching an American only perspective on their crushing defeat in Somolia than this is the film for you. Only briefly are we subjected to the suffereing of the Somolian people before being thrust back into GI-JOE meets Ridely Scott. Personally, I think he should have been banned from making films after making GI-phucking JANE. Black Hawk Down tries to be a "be in the moment" war film, but ends up coming out as propaganda with a silly epilogue and super-titles with a feeling like: "19 Americans were killed....and ummmm oh yeah, 1000 Somolians were also killed." Bad cinema, folks!

Reportedly, Ridely Scott used about 4 to 6 cameras to shoot every scene and had completed filming earlier than expected. It's easy to tell, too, that these multiple angles were spliced together in the editing room with no coherence; like Hannibal, the ends never meet and numerous beautiful shots are thrown in with a handful misplaced shots.

If you're interested, which I was not, in watching an American only perspective on their crushing defeat in Somolia than this is the film for you. Only briefly are we subjected to the suffereing of the Somolian people before being thrust back into GI-JOE meets Ridely Scott. Personally, I think he should have been banned from making films after making GI-phucking JANE. Black Hawk Down tries to be a "be in the moment" war film, but ends up coming out as propaganda with a silly epilogue and super-titles with a feeling like: "19 Americans were killed....and ummmm oh yeah, 1000 Somolians were also killed." Bad cinema, folks!

Reportedly, Ridely Scott used about 4 to 6 cameras to shoot every scene and had completed filming earlier than expected. It's easy to tell, too, that these multiple angles were spliced together in the editing room with no coherence; like Hannibal, the ends never meet and numerous beautiful shots are thrown in with a handful misplaced shots.

If you're interested, which I was not, in watching an American only perspective on their crushing defeat in Somolia than this is the film for you. Only briefly are we subjected to the suffereing of the Somolian people before being thrust back into GI-JOE meets Ridely Scott. Personally, I think he should have been banned from making films after making GI-Jane. Black Hawk Down tries to be a "be in the moment" war film, but ends up coming out as propaganda with a silly epilogue and super-titles with a feeling like: "19 Americans were killed....and ummmm oh yeah, 1000 Somolians were also killed." Bad cinema, folks!

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Originally posted by skiletic:
Richard, I'm just curious if, amidst your philanthropical call for a movie about the Somalis, that movie would interest you.

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Well, quite possibly. I've no particular interest in war, but I do have a huge interest in movies of almost all genres (except romantic comedies). But this was my point, really. That movie probably isn't going to be made, almost certainly not be Americans and absolutely not by Jerry Bruckheimer. If a Somali point of view does get put on film, it'll probably be in documentary form, for television.

I actually quite like it. Some tracks are a bit hard to get into (especially track 2) but some others have instant appeal. "leave no man behind" is great.

When people start to figure out that most movies are made to entertain first, and possibly give moral messages or information second the internet will cease to be a huge spawning ground for complainers.

This was a movie about a incident that spirals out of control, into a hellish nightmare....kinda like most posts here

dave

NP : Lord of the Rings: FOTR

PS - I saw the movie and loved it.

It runs two hours and it's really a well-produced documentary that recounts what took place and the historical context that the whole BHD occurrence was placed in. Most of the politics remained glossed over, as there was no visible sanction from the military or the U.S. government for the production of this documentary aside from appearances of retired military and U.N. personnel and old CNN footage of the incident. I assumed politics was probably avoided to make it understandable (or justifiable from a propagandistic POV) and this documentary actually packed an subjectively emotional punch, at least from the eyes of this reviewer--not that it was a bad thing.

Composer Jimmy Rip's music incidentally mirrored that of the movie, particularly the indigenious instruments that provided an authentic atmosphere of Somalia. Oddly enough, the documentary makes no mention of the movie whatsoever. But enough credible witnesses and participants of the operation showed up during the interviews including BHD author Mark Bowden, who was featured prominently.

euh, you'd have prefered the Somalis to win and kill 700 US troops? sorry for the 300K somalis dead, not our fault. they kill themselves pretty easily. civilisation has NOT entered that country.

eom

I did get the score the other day and like it a lot, which is something I've not been able to say about a Zimmer score in a fair while, even if I did fime some cues a little 3 Kings-esque. Pretty solid in all.

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Originally posted by Bladeisback:
Richard

euh, you'd have prefered the Somalis to win and kill 700 US troops? sorry for the 300K somalis dead, not our fault.

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I'm not sure where you inferred that from. I was talking about the film, not the event. The film is fundamentally about nineteen Americans, but there isn't a film about the hundreds, thousands of Somalis who are just as dead. And, at least from Jerry Bruckheimer, there probably won't be.

NP: THE SPECIALIST (John Barry)

I mean, would you want to focus on how, prior to the BLACK HAWK DOWN incident, they slaughtered and mutilated the bodies of Pakistani UN peacekeepers? How fun!

Dan