Black Hawk Down (2001) Wife's First Time Watching! Movie Reaction!!
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- Black Hawk Down (2001)
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I saw Black Hawk Down at a young age and it always stuck with me! What are some movies that you remember as favorites growing up!?
As always, thank you for all the support and suggestions!
Please please please True Romance, The Last Boyscout, and Wild at Heart
Have you read the book? It’s worth it if you haven’t. Some things were left out of the movie for reasons. To answer your question though the movie was fairly accurate to the events.
Boogie nights for me.
True Romance, The Ref, Midnight Run, The Mist, The Dead Zone, The Outlaw Josey Wales……so many great movies to watch.😎
Me and my friends love going thru this movie and pointing out how many Fantasy , Superhero and Sci Fi Character Actors are in it. We got: The Hulk,, Reed Richards, Obi Wan Kenobi, Venom, Bane, Jean Luc Picard, Legolas, Lucius Malfoy, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Jaime
Lannister
Tom Hardy, Ewan McGregor, Ewan Bremner, Orlando Bloom, Eric Bana, William Fichtner, Jeremy Piven, Josh Hartnett, Nikolai Coster Waldeau, this film is a literal who's who of people who are insanely famous for their acting careers. this movie is now a 20 year old classic!
Mars attack. That cast is insane too
A Tom Hardy when he was not known
Also I didn't notice it the first few times I watched the movie but Ty Burrell the actor that played Phil in Modern Family on TV he was one of the soldiers too.
Let's not forget "Smalls" from the Sandlot, Tom Guiry.
Me: "Saving Private Ryan had a star studded cast."
Black Hawk Down: "Hold my 🍺."
Band of Brothers has a great cast too. Considering how old it is.
The thing about Shughart and Gordon going down to defend the second crash site is that it clearly wasn't just instinct or conditioned reflex in the heat of the moment (as some people try to minimized acts of valor). They had a perfect view of what they were getting into, and they even had orders to stay aloft rather than going down to the deck. Their request to go down was denied twice, so they had plenty of time to think about what they were doing and ample justification to back away without losing face. Instead, they persisted until they were finally allowed to go, and they gave their lives protecting Durant.
26:23 Here's an interesting fun fact about this scene. You noticed that Tom Sizemore seems calm and generally walks rather than running and ducking while under fire. Some people criticized his performance for that in this movie, but that's what the real Colonel McKnight actually did. He believed that if the inexperienced soldiers saw him showing fear, they might panic. That's a philosophy British officers have followed for centuries (RUclipsr Lindybeige even did a video about it called "British Officers Don't Duck!").
26:50 The plan was for the men on foot to use the APCs for cover as they walked out, but the drivers hit the gas and left them behind. At that point, they had no choice but to run for their lives to reach the safe zone. The run became known as "The Mogadishu Mile."
A grisly epilogue: After the battle, the bodies of the Americans killed at crash site 2 were desecrated and dragged through the streets, and photos and videos of the abused corpses horrified the world. One of Randy Shughart's friends who viewed the body when it was recovered told Shugart's wife that she wouldn't have been able to recognize him.
Why is it a "fun fact"?
Great analysis and such a sad story
RE: Not Ducking, the Officer who was played by Anthony Hopkins in Bridge Too Far, kept telling Hopkins NOT to duck; He had to 'show contempt' towards the danger and the Germans.
Terrible thing is Shugart’s wife was a nurse I believe so seeing her husband in that gruesome state would’ve been horrific for her
The soundtrack is almost as incredible as the film itself.
Used to listen to that an awful lot drifting off to sleep. Creates a great atmosphere. Very under-rated soundtrack.
@@dirkbogarde44 all of Hans Zimmer’s sound tracks are great
The soundtrack that inspired the next decade of modern military shooter videogames. They've all sounded JUST like BHD's to this day.
Completely agree and especially the song Gortoz a ran by Denez Prigent which is still one of the most emotional songs i've ever heard
Casualties aren’t just the dead, but the wounded, captured, and otherwise MIA; Blackburn would of been the first casualty
Now I understand that flag 👤
One of the Delta operators died in a mortar attack the day after.
It s crazy how the somalian are not casuality
@@the8series8 The were and are counted as casualties those that died due to starvation and genocide by their own fellow county men should be add to that total as well. That was the Catalyst that set everything in motion for us being over there in the first place.
Mohamed Farrah Aidid is no saint as he used food as a weapons and harmed way more than thr US did.
As a soldier we do not have the option to pick where we go and sometimes what we do. However, those "civilians" did have an option to fight or not fight. Some chose to fight and those were some of the "casualties". That 'country" if you want to call it that is ran on a tribal system and you cannot compare it to western standards.
FYI: Mohammed Farah Aidid went to a military college in Russia and his son was actually in the USMC and was deployed during the relief Aid to Somalia and would tell his fellow tribesmen when and where the food was coming in.
The civilians had the option to fight or not fight, however, a lot chose not to fight and were still killed. Another question is if they were right to fight. The US had a UN resolution behind them, for the people of mogadischu though, their town was invaded. There were reasons why there was a lot of hate towards the UN troops at that time.
On May 23, 1994, this was the date that Shughart and Gordon were posthumously decorated with the Medal of Honor for protecting the crew of Super Six Four. They were the first Medal of Honor recipients since the Vietnam War.
The selfless heroic act of those two men always makes me cry. Pure courage and balls of steel.
Mike Durant is still alive today because of the sacrifice that Gary Gordon and Randy Shughart made. Two of the most elite fighters on planet Earth voluntarily fought until their death to help a helicopter pilot that they weren't sure would survive.
That is pure heroism. Deciding to fight and die for someone that might still die even if you performed above and beyond your call of duty.
They kept pushing command to put them on the ground even though they knew they wouldn’t be walking away. That’s the type of shit that makes me tear up.
True heroes, going into a no win situation just to help their fellow army man.
I saw the first two paragraphs somewhere already 😁
What they did is used as the example for one of the Army's 7 core values, that one being "Selfless Service" or at least it was back in 06 lol
Ya real heroic how American soldiers mow down poor people, Murka! lol
SFC Randy Shughart and MSG Gary Gordon, the two Delta Force guys that volunteered to cover the downed chopper and died doing it both got the Medal Of Honor.
Yeah they knew 100% what it meant to go in and still did true hero’s in every way
Post Humosly
@@wolf99000 reading the book about the battle(its a story put together from interviews on both sides) many of the Delta guys felt that both men were good enough to go in AND get out/hold the line, there were just too many against them
@@Braincleaner irl randy and gordon held our for 30-45 minutes vs 100s of militia , they killed 25 , injured over 70 all with low ammo
Jaimie Lannister won the Medal of Honor? good for him!
I remember watching this with my dad and him commenting on the sound of the RPG’s. My dad was on a patrol in Vietnam and they walked into an ambush in a rubber tree plantation where they were hit with lots and lots of RPG fire and lost a bunch of people. Not long before he died I remember him telling me one morning that he didn’t sleep well because he dreamed he was dodging B40 rockets all night. He had nightmares about RPGs his whole life I guess. Of all the Vietnam movies though, he said We Were Soldiers is probably the most realistic that he’d seen. Y’all should check it out some time.
You want to know another weird fact: there is a shot in BHD right after Pilla is killed and Hoot takes over the "50". One of the Humvees is either hit or has near miss from an RPG round and these 'sparks/particles' spray all over the interior. Later on, I'm watching one of those shows on Nat Geo that feature helmet cam footage of firefights from Afghanistan. One of the vehicles (a heavily armored mine resistant beast of a thing) takes an RPG hit and those same sparks/particles spewed all over the interior of the compartment too. l thought to myself that it looked 'just like' Blackhawk Down'.
@@nickmitsialis “Black Hawk Down looks just like Afghanistan” fixed it for you m8!
@@realburglazofficial2613 Excellent point! I never really thought that perspective, I was only thinking how 'realistic' BHD ended up being.
@@nickmitsialis yeah, as a medic, BHD is one of the more realistic portrayals of modern combat I’ve seen
@@lightup6751 try harder, tovarich.
We're going to need some We Were Soldiers one day.
For Vietnam films I recommend hamburger hill and platoon. But to watch something with a gritty realistic caliber as this and saving pvt ryan is lone survivor with mark Wahlberg.
I agree. I've never seen a reaction to Black Hawk Down (until today) and We Were Soldiers. Underrated movies.
@@DamonCzanik all movies based on real are "underrated" hollyshit try now to make real movies with fake things in ..like this deep water horizin..( hope the name is right)
I think they should watch Dr. Strangelove as their war movie some day.
"We Were Soldiers" is way better than "Platoon."
Gordon and Shughart were Delta forces, snipers. In basic training, we ran an obstacle course name after them, and it was one of the hardest ones I've ever done. I know of these two guys before I joined the military, but I looked more into Delta because of them and decided that I wanted to go that route. It is not that easy to join, but I had a great recruiter to help guide me on the right path. When I finally got recruited by special forces, it was too late. I was injured, and my career was over.
Thank you for your service MARINE
@@tonyyul703 Thank you Tony but I am Army lol.
The Navy named two of their logistical vessels after them.
@@crash406 that is cool of them. Thank u for letting me know.
In Air Force bmt there is an obstacle course named after the pj that got the Air Force cross at this battle.
The scene with Shugart and Gordon makes me so sad yet proud to be an American the fact they knew it was a suicide mission and still went in for their brothers in arms is beautiful.
Something a lot of people don't know is that they completed their mission that day, in spite of everything that went wrong.
Man they never completed their mission
@@thegreatmandera4710 what was their mission?
Like Mike Tyson said: "Everyone's got a plan until he gets punched in the face."
No plan survives first contact with the enemy - von Moltke
Dutch : I got a Plan it’s gonna be a good one
"punched in the mouth"
“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” -Mike Tyson
Also "only the enemy will show you where you are weakest; only the enemy will show you where you are strongest"
It's like a rephrasing of "No plan survives contact with the enemy."
The ridiculous but true story that I love about this movie is that Ridley Scott cast a bunch of amazing stars and actors for all these speaking parts, and when they all showed up on set he couldn't recognize any of them. With their identical costumes , military hair cuts (basically shaved heads) and their camoflage face paint, they all looked identical. So he had the costume department write their character names on their helmets so the audience could tell them apart.
This had a dynasty cast. Tom hardy and Jamie Lannister from game of thrones were here.
And ewan McGregor
@@orangewarm1 no only jaime Lannister i forgot the actor's name.
@@charlesderosas5577 Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
The thing to think about is that if Blackburn hadn't fallen out of the helicopter, the mission would have gone off without a hitch. That was the first domino. Because there was a man down and critically injured, they had to spend precious extra time on the ground tending to him, which gave the militia time to get organised enough that they had RPGs ready to start firing at the helicopters. So then Wolcott's Black Hawk got shoit down, meaning they had to stop everything and scramble to cover the rescue on that. Which meant that they needed additional air cover for far longer, with an enamy who had become fully dug-in and were now well equipped. So then Durant's Black Hawk goes down too, and that was it. They were STUCK. All because one man fell out of the helicopter, it all just snowballed ...
Solid, intense movie with a large cast. I've always enjoyed Sam Shepard as an actor. It's a shame he's no longer with us.
Agreed. I wish some reactors would watch The Right Stuff.
If you guys are enjoying the war movies and TV shows, I'd highly recommend Generation Kill. It's set in the 2003 Iraq War, following a Rolling Stone reporter (who was a real reporter) assigned to a Recon Marines unit and depicts the good and bad of that war. It's relatively short at 7 episodes
One of the marines in the show, Rudy, is played by himself (the actual marine who served). I believe the adaptation was written by some of the people who worked on The Wire - so it's very gritty and great at pulling you into that world, warts and all...swearing and all too
The movie doesn’t mention this both because it was classified at the time and because the characters were already confusing but they had members of the Air Force 24th STS (which was who Ty Burrell played) and DEVGRU aka SEAL team Six was present in Mogadishu on CIA covert operation, however they also participated in the Battle.
I have to say I just ADORE how cute you two are when watching. Especially with the hand holding. True love! :)
My dad's childhood friend that he joined the military with was Sgt. Pilla and there is a memorial for him in Vineland, New Jersey. Never knew till I was joining the Marines and he told me stories of them together and my dad said that when this all went down his commander called him to his office and said that Dom (pilla) was KIA. Made me serve almost 11 years and makes me hope no one forgets the ones we lost along the way
I would encourage you guys to watch the first medal of honor recipient ever recorded March 4, 2002. His name was John A. Chapman (SGT; United States Air Force). That 10min clip is better than any war movie you will ever see but also one of the saddest. It defines heroism, sacrifice and courage.
This is a great demo disc if you have a really good home theater. It sounds like there's bullets flying by your head, the sound design is incredible
The thing I always think about is Gary and Randy went in there knowing the chances of coming out alive but did it anyway to help the guys in the crash
Also recommended: Lone Survivor and 13 Hours, both based on real events from a few years ago and very similar to Black Hawk Down, in Lone Survivor also a failed mission, where 4 American soldiers are surrounded and fighting against a hundred Taliban guerrillas in the mountains of Afghanistan, and in 13 Hours, the terrorist attack on the American embassy in Bengazhi, and the struggle for survival of the embassy workers and the soldiers who guarded it, in a kind of battle of "The Alamo", fighting during a whole night, against the terrorists and trying to flee from the embassy and from that country.
13 hours the secret soldiers of Benghazi is great
If you want know about what really happened, you should read the book, "Blackhawk Down" by Mark Bowden. The movie is based on the book. I read the book back when it first came out. I highly recommend it. The author worked hard to get the details right, including the dialog. He personally interviewed many of the actual men depicted in the movie, and recorded each conversation from both of the people in them.
I think the movie if fairly faithful to the book, but I haven't done a careful analysis of them, so I don't really know.
Yea the book is really good too.. especially when he describes the parts of what is was like riding in the Humvees. Like a horror story. Packed in like sardines with guys literally trying to hold thier own guts from spilling out of thier bodies while getting shot point blank from both sides of the streets. Also the part where one of the Humvees breaks down and has to litrealy be pushed the entire waay back by the big cargo truck behind it. Being in those Humvees was worse than being in the buildings.
" He personally interviewed many of the actual men depicted in the movie"
Just guessing: with "many of the actual men" you are just talking about the US-soldiers. None of the hundreds or thousands relatives of the civilians which died.
@@rastar6569 It's been a *long* while since I read it, but I am positive that Bowden did interview at least one Somali survivor from the battle, and in pretty significant detail. That, along with pretty much anything that served to humanize the Somalis, was cut out of the movie...Hollywood's gotta Hollywood, and they were trying to make a rah rah, shoot-em-up, MURICA! movie. Most of the primary (American) characters in the movie were also conglomerations of multiple real veterans of the battle; again, Hollywood being Hollywood but also done in the interest of time and to reduce the number of people the audience needs to "meet".
@@rastar6569 You'd be surprised. Bowden give a lot more context about the tribal nature of the event and the motivations of the citizens of Mogadishu. It's not perfect but a damn sight better than the movie does.
I remember the first time I was stationed in the Horn of Africa, I never got used to seeing 10 or 11 year olds walking down the street with AK's
Child soldiers....damn man hopefully ya never saw them get in gunfights hopefully. Saw a vid from the middle east of a 7-9 year old kid who had at least 2nd to i'm almost 100% positive 3rd degree burns and they were cleaning his wounds with something that hurt the kid like hell. It may have been instagram but damn that kids screams still get me.
There were some significant changes from real events and certain people were combined together, one was erased almost entirely because of the horrible things they did IRL after this. The film is historical fiction but there are books about what really happened that you can find through Hoopla or in a library.
Ewan McGregor's character was renamed "Grimes" due to the actual Ranger, John Stebbins, being convicted of child abuse and sentenced to 30 years in jail.
Hacksaw Ridge! ❤❤
That bull that was shot multiple times and still is kicking reminds me of the late combat controller John Chapman.
I usually give the Air Force in general a hard time (they get paid a kind of hardship bonus when they stay in Army barracks & have fairly short deployments...6 months), but he's very much THE exception; the events around his Medal of Honor were recorded by a CIA drone.
Some missable actors in this movie and their famous role(s):
-Ewan McGregor: Kenobi (Star Wars prequels)
-Tom Sizemore: Cherrito (Heat), Horvath (Saving Private Ryan)
-Wiliam Fichtner: Sandman (MW3)
-Glenn Morshower: Overlord (CoD4, MW2), Morshower (Michael Bay's Transformers)
-Ewen Bremner: Charlie (Wonder Woman)
-Tom Hardy: Bane (The Dark Knight Rises), Eddie Brock and Venom (Venom)
-Orlando Bloom: Legolas (The Lord of the Rings), Will Turner (Pirates of the Carribean)
-Jason Isaacs: Lucius Malfoy (Harry Potter), Capt. Hook (Peter Pan 2003)
-Nikolaj Coster-Waldau: Jamie Lannister (Game of Thrones)
-Ron Eldard: John Reilly (Sleepers), Louis Dainard (Super 8)
-Ioan Gruffud: Reed (Fantastic Four)
-Jeremy Piven: Ari Gould (Entourage)
iirc Fichtner was also Sully in The Perfect Storm. and Sizemore was also famous (arguably more so) for his role in Saving Pvt. Ryan, but good eye.
Gabriel Casseus (the soldier who was trying not to shoot the woman who picked up the ak) - played god/Eliot's cellmate in Bedazzled
Don't forget Fichtner also played Alex Mahone from Prison Break
The soldiers that ran out at the end call their run the Mogadishu Mile.
You guys really have a wicked way to analize movies. I recommend Memento, Intacto, Abre los ojos (the original version of Vanilla Sky), Requiem for a dream, and an Argentinian movie called Nine Queens.
Hey they misrepresented the Air Force as we were a part of that action. The army medic is actually a Air Force Para-rescuemen(PJ). There were 2 attach to their unit and won the Air Force Cross the only medal behind the Medal of Honor. He is the medic that keeps running across the street to help people. His name was Tim Wilkerson. The medic at around 15:45 is the PJ the link explains the Air Force part in this
www.airforcemag.com/article/0694heroes/
This movie is in my Top10 i absolutely love it. The sniper scene always stuck with me. Knowing they probably didn't have a chance with back up for a while is so badass. Balls of Steel!
The town in the training area of JRTC (Joint Readiness Training Center) MOUT Complex is named "Shughart Gordon" in their honor. It is specifically used for training Urban Warfare and is the second most used training area for the Army only behind NTC (National Training Center) which is focused on desert and vehicle warfare training.
I heard they held that spot down for a couple hours
For an historicaly correct report on that event, read Mark Bowdens "Black Hawk Down", the movie has some changes to the historical events and roles of the characters. The pilot that put in the Delta Snipers, provided and guided air support for them until his helicopter was hit multiple times and had to crash land at a safe place out of the combat zone.
Irene!
Fuckin Irene!
I used to work with Desert Storm vet, he said this movie is the best depiction of the chaos of real combat.
Oooh, I'm early, I'll wait patiently with my drink and popcorn for everyone to get here and get settled.
The force consisted of:
B Company, 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment
C Squadron, 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (1st SFOD-D)
A deployment package of 16 helicopters and personnel from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (160th SOAR), which included MH-60 Black Hawks and AH/MH-6 Little Birds.
Navy SEALs from the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU)
Air Force Pararescuemen and Combat Controllers from the 24th Special Tactics Squadron.
This is one of those movies that gets so much right about serving in the military.
This is my favorite movie of all time. I literally, and I mean literally, have watched this movie close to 200 times.
One of Ridley Scott's best film. Great directing. Scott should be won Oscar for Black Hawk Down. What a great cast. Action scenes is amazing. The music by Hans Zimmer is outstanding.
The soldier who died from the RPG missile was named Richard Wayne Kowalewski Jr., his friends called him "Alphabet" .. at the time of his death he was 20 years old.
Wow, if you guys haven't seen Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott that is a must watch.
The Army Rangers and Delta Force every year Still show respect to the evacuation from Mogadishu every year by running what is called the "Mogadishu Mile."
If you get a chance, read the book. Along with a ton of extra background, it's actually even more riveting. This is pretty excellent, though. Great acting & filmmaking all around.
Man, who is talking to Maj. Garrison (Sam Shepherd) is the son of late former President of United States, Gerald R. Ford. His name is Steven Ford. His dad, Gerald Ford served in the Navy. Speaking of US Navy, they are building next generation of Supercarriers named Gerald R Ford Class to replace older Nimitz Class Carriers with 1st named USS Gerald R Ford or "Ford" "Ford" went in active service in March of this year. Steven's character in this movie is Cribbs. His final role was in 2007's Transformers.
We were soldiers-!
After seeing her reaction to this i recommend you watch Hotel Rwanda (2004) It shows what happens when people become so divided that they do not see the others as even human.
I think you'll like "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi", you should give it a watch
The technical advisor for both of those movies was a former SEAL named Harry Humphreys.
And he wasn't just a SEAL; he was one of the founding members of Seal Team 6.
That's the difference, some think they are elite and others (Delta) are elite. I think the rangers knew full well that they needed the Delta to get out of this hell. Even before the mission, you could tell what the rangers thought of Delta. It was downright awe.
If only this Captain Steele was half as incompetent as shown
I would have gotten rid of him as a Ranger or Delta. How did he say something to a Delta, "I won't let a sergeant tell me anything?" Any sensible, good and clever officer would have taken advantage of the Delta's skills and experience.
Why does he give away this knowledge? Just because of his arrogance as an officer? Because he was worried or afraid of embarrassing himself again? Because he knew the service regulations better by heart (but that's probably it).
He makes an absolute idiot of himself to the Deltas at the barbecue evening (Delta: "that's my backup") and immediately his rangers find out or are experiencing this lost confrontation.
These two “experts” in the helicopter who guided the convoy all over the city, or rather caused them to wander.
Another difference between assumed and real elite, who leaves protective material (of the bulletproof), water or night vision equipment behind in the accommodation? What kind of idiots recommend this to their young comrades? It seemed to me as if there was only one way to do it. Quickly in and out again, that's how we always did it.
However, this use was not “always”. It seems to me that there was no Plan B but only piecemeal. Simply nothing up your sleeve. Without the Malaysian units the disaster would have been complete and there would have been many more American graves. Never let anything like that happen to you again.
They are too valuable as people.
In that poll you got Flags of our fathers, switch that to 'Letters from Iwo Jima', highly recommended WW2 movie!
Absolutely agree. Letters is one of the best war movies ever made.
I could hear those bells ringing.
This is literally one of my favorite movies💙
I recommend We Were Soldiers
Michael Durant - pilot of Super 64 - wrote a book, "In the Company of Heroes: The Personal Story Behind Black Hawk Down." Besides going into his time in captivity in Somalia (which includes but not limited to the homemade cast that was put on his broken leg and what he was actually whacked in the face with), Durant also goes over more light-hearted moments, such as flying on the edge of the 38th Parallel just to annoy North Koreans and how "Elvis" Wolcott - pilot of Super 62 - turned the UH-60 Blackhawk into in a gunship comparable to the AH-64 Apache. I highly recommend his book.
I also recommend 13 Hours, Act of Valor and Lone Survivor
My dad showed me this movie when I was a little kid. Was and still is my favorite war movie👌🏾
thank you for reviewing this guys. you are great ppl, i appreciate it!
What many people don't know or didn't know at that time was that Al-Qaeda aided and trained the Somali militiamen, especially to take down the black hawk.
Fun Fact: the guy who played Smalls in the Sandlot is actually the guy who got his finger shot off.
You should check out ‘Lord of War’ with Nicolas Cage.
The guy played by Eric Bana (Hoot) later became a doctor (MD)
Another strong war movie that is based on true events is '13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi'
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_Hours:_The_Secret_Soldiers_of_Benghazi
I can barely watch this movie. No other movie so perfectly captures the frustration and helplessness of Rules of Engagement, trying to communicate and coordinate with higher ups in the middle of nonstop combat, and the casualness of having the worst day of your life and simply preparing for tomorrow, which will also be the worst day of your life. The little things of war.
I definitely had a few missions that were supposed to be 4 hour patrols and 12 hours later we were running low on ammo and fighting what felt like the entire city.
This is one of the best war films ever made!
The book Black Hawk Down is amazing and gut wrenching. Michael Durant the helicopter pilot also wrote a book In the Company of Heroes.
The executive officer to the General is played by Presidenr Fords son.
The two Warriors who inserted to protect the second downed Black Hawk, that is courage few people have and few understand.
Thats why they were awarded Medal of Honor.
You guys didn't recognize Jason Isaacs??? That's Lucius Malfoy, Draco Malfoy's dad!
Plays a great villain in The Patriot although the movie has a lot of inaccuracies in it.
The first Blackhawk to go down was operated by Clifton Wolcott. His was one of the bodies that the Somalis drug through the streets. His wife found out he had died by recognizing the underwear he had on, since it's downright rare for anyone to wear genuine military issue underwear.
This was shown on CNN, and I'm pretty sure they got a lot of heat from the Army for doing that.
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the 2 snipers were awarded the medal of honor.
Great movie. Eric Bana's first big role too I think.
Read in the company of heroes, was written by Michael Durand, the pilot that was captured. About this battle and his captivity
The movie that finally got me to go put my hand up and join the Army, over a decade later and still rolling.
And the blood type thing is smart… got very common in GWOT.
You’re talking about how calm the Delta Operators and Nightstalkers are, they are literally as seasoned as folks in the Army can be. Adverse situations for some aren’t so adverse to them.
And as for Captain Steele, he ended up being a real piece of shit during the war in Iraq, was the brigade commander of 3/101 and ended up getting relieved for his us… terrible leadership style.
Warriors are a different breed. We abhor violence, but are grateful we have warriors when the time has come.
You should react to Hotel Rwanda if you haven't seen it.
...based on true events... very good movie...
Thanks guys, I remember being a kid an watching footage of this on CNN, I remember this movie came out just after 9/11 . And it was a huge moral boost I'm told
This happened exactly 1 year to the day I became a Ranger and joined this unit. The 75th/3rd Rangers. This was still fresh on all the veteran Ranger's minds as we trained and for awhile they beat training into us. A lot was both lost AND earned from this incident. Most of the problems actually came from all the red tape surrounding this mission. Not allowing heavy air support being one of them which turned into a major issue. This movie isn't 100 percent accurate but gives a decent overview of what really happened according to the friends I have who were there in Somalia during this mission. I still get upset watching this in its entirety and when my mom watched it, she begged me to get out of the military. I told her it doesn't work like that, lol. But seriously, it was a bad time to say the least. Everything that could have went wrong, did go wrong that day.
I saw it at the cinema, I left wondering how so many of them got out alive with all the bullets flying
Fun fact: this was the same director as alien, gladiator and blade runner.
Alien
Gladiator
Blade Runner
Black Hawk Down
American Gangster
Thelma and Louise
Hannibal
Body of Lies
Prometheus
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Blade Runner 2049
A little context for those that don't know. These guys had gone on a handful of missions before this and always mixed it up, sometimes arriving on vehicles and leaving in choppers. They also never had any casualties before this and their prior missions never took place within the Bakara Market, making this one extremely dangerous. Essentially, alot of these guys said they felt like superman since they hadn't had any hiccups in their missions. Also, everyone on the second crash actually initially survived, making it even more tragic that the pilot was the only survivor.
I arrived in Mog about 10 days after this happened. There are little details the film gets right and some they get wrong. The 'bad guys' in this film don't look like Somalis. Like a lot of East African people, they tend to be slight and lean rather than muscular, hence why they were called skinnys. This film is shot in Morocco, which has a colonial French history, whereas Somalia had been Italian colony, so the buildings look slightly different.
The bit they get right is the scenes at the airport, where the Rangers were camped. Littered all over the place was the destroyed Somali air force. There were wrecked MIG 17s & 21s laying all around the place. The airport was right on the beach and a couple of people were attacked by sharks. Not surprisingly after this, the helos tended not to fly over the city and would up and down the beach to fly the long way around to avoid RPGs.
9:53 In this scene when the little birds land to drop the Delta, Ridley Scott said that the lttle birds kicked so much sand that they can't film anything because everything was obscured by the sand so they had to spray water on that road before they re-shot the scene.
I was a helicopter door gunner in Vietnam. I experienced a lot of action, but this scares the hell out of me.
The 2 snipers in real life knew they were gonna die for certain, yet they went down anyway.
Its what we were trained to do....no thinking it over. Just do it!🙌🇺🇸
The Clinton admin wouldn't approve some of the equipment the military had requested eg infantry fighting vehicles, spectre gunships. In the movie, when Durant was hit with the butt of a rifle prior to capture - he was actually hit with the dismembered arm of one of the dead Delta guys.
If you get a chance, watch the actual video that got shot that day. The area they were in wasn't even close to being as wide open as they show in the film. Two of the guys in my old National Guard unit were there for the battle. One was a young Ranger and the other was in the relief column.
I find it kinda fun that Tom Sizemore was in my top 3 Favorite Epic War Movies Saving Private Ryan 1998,Pearl Harbor 2001,Black Hawk Down 2001
Dude oozes devil-may-care.
Did you just call "Pearl Harbor" one of your favorite epic horror movies? Don't think I've ever heard we're seeing anyone without opinion before. Whatever works for you
@@ronmaximilian6953It could have been a lot better without the love triangle plot.
So much truth in one movie. Ridley Scott is a genious.
Checkout The Outpost. It's about an outpost in Afghanistan that comes under attack. Realistic, well acted, accurate and really unbelievable. It is great.
Mike Durant (the pilot who was captured) is running for Congress this year I believe.
Way back 01 i was working on a security team outside of D.C. and we had a few Rangers from chalk #4 working with us and 1 of them put up a picture of the chalk right before they went into this battle, well a female client came in to our CP got butt hurt by the picture as she was offended so he took it down and came back a few days later with a poster size pic and we hung it back in the CP and when she came in we all smiled at her. they told many stories about this battle the never made the book or movie and were pissed about both and didn't want their names used in the movie.
Shuggart and Gordon - absolute paragon examples of the best that a human being can be.
Eric Bana, an Australian.. started out doing comedy! Can you believe that?!
A few interesting facts about this film: many of the pilots actually participated in the raid. Chief Warrent Officer Keith Jones recreated his actual rescue of Delta Sergeant Dan Busch from the 61 crash site. All the extras were members of 3/75 Ranger Battalion, the group depicted in the battle. Some of the military advisors were actual Rangers during the event. Real footage of the battle is playing on the screens General Garrison is watching. A lot of the radio chatter is taken from real radio calls. The Ranger shot with the RPG actually survived for several hours and died at the base. All of the crew initially survived the 64 crash and Shughart and Gordon put them in the cracked tail boom, but the Somalis killed them when they overran the crash site.
This is a very emotional movie on how it shows that these men fight for there brothers in arms. It also shows how crazy countries like Somalia are that have no law it’s just gangs fighting for power and money.
"that have no law"...of course there is no law if a bunch of US-soldiers are allowed to come there and kill everyone they see without caring about civilians. To portray this as "crazy" is just cynical and tells me that you are an american who gives a fuck about the people in Somalia dying.
Cudos to Tom Hardy in his role as Twombly :)