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Black Hawk Down...um, what?
patrickl:
As far as the poor plot goes, I think the trouble is that they are trying to make a "victory" movie out what was basically a horrible defeat. In the end it just doesn't work and it kills the plot. But then if they just show the true story then no one is going to watch the movie either.
I thought the movie does a good job of showing the horrors of war. In most action/war movies the heroes just walk through a hail of bullets and never gets shot. Here they show the reality that these guys often take several hits.
The audio is good too. Not just the audio effects, but the music really fits with the scenes.
massive88:
I saw it in the theaters, and I remember not liking it very much.
When my buddy who sat next to me said he liked it, I simply asked, "What was the main characters name?"
He didn't know, neither did I, and we just left the movie. To me it just failed at telling a story, nice special effects though.
AtomSmasher:
I thought it was quite good. Not the best war movie ever, but very entertaining.
8/10
orion:
I saw it and I own it. I remember when this whole thing happened, and I thought it was a shame.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on March 03, 2009, 01:21:42 pm ---Not the best war movie ever . . .
--- End quote ---
Hah! That's one way to put it.
Off the top of my head . . . Das Boot, Full Metal Jacket, Schindler's List, Slaughter House 5, Life Is Beautiful, Platoon, Braveheart, The Pianist, Apocalypse Now, Catch-22, 30 Seconds Over Tokyo, Saving Private Ryan, Forest Gump (in a manner of speaking), Lawrence of Arabia, The Great Escape, Ran, Hotel Rwanda, Letters from Iwo Jima . . .
So, another way to put it is that it's not even remotely close to being in a list of best war movies ever. Still another way to put it is that it sucks. :cheers:
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