I am debating on whether to go see Behind Enemy Lines or not. What I have not seen alot of yall bring up is the fact that this movie is loosely based off the Scott O'Grady story when he was shot down over serb occupied croat or bosnian terriorty and had to be rescued by a Combat Search and Rescue team.
Now if yall want to see a movie that will actually be based on historical fact, then I encourage the members of this board who live in NY or LA to go see Black Hawk Down on the 28th of December when it is in limited release in NY and LA.
Link to movie info:
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0265086
Link to the book:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0451203933/ qid=1007359332/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_7_2/002-4266378-357 7666
THis movie is based off the book of the same title by Mark Bowden. It is the story of the United States failed strategic mission, but successful tactical mission to capture two lieutenants of Somali war lord Mohammed Farah Aidids clan in 1993 in Mogadishu. A total of 100 Army Rangers, Delta Force members, Navy Seals, and Air Force special operations soldiers went in on a raid and killed over 1000 (conservative estimate some ppl claim we killed over 2500) ppl in the next 24 hrs. They lost 18 of their own, and was the last time a medal of honor was given out. Truly a harrowing story about modern warfare, heroism of American sodliers, and the repercussions of a bizarre foreign policy during the Clinton years.
This movie is already being considered for Oscar nods since they moved the realease date up to the 28 to get it in for this year. This movie is a real test for the military and hollywood, after the farce that was Pearl Harbor, with the love story, last year. One good thing abotu this movie is the Military loaned Ridley Scott, the director, a few special operations Black Hawk helicopters as well as Rnager troops this past summer to film it. Also they had advisers to the movie who were at the actual battle, and one of them scored a role in the movie. If this movie is botched up on the editing floor with some sort of love story or something, then we may not see as much cooperation involving the military and a true story in the coming years.
One last thing, the real life battle was the first time America fought members of Al Quaeda and this was over 7 years ago.
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I am debating on whether to go see Behind Enemy Lines or not. What I have not seen alot of yall bring up is the fact that this movie is loosely based off the Scott O'Grady story when he was shot down over serb occupied croat or bosnian terriorty and had to be rescued by a Combat Search and Rescue team. Now if yall want to see a movie that will actually be based on historical fact, then I encourage the members of this board who live in NY or LA to go see Black Hawk Down on the 28th of December when it is in limited release in NY and LA. Link to movie info: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0265086 Link to the book: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0451203933/ qid=1007359332/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_7_2/002-4266378-357 7666
THis movie is based off the book of the same title by Mark Bowden. It is the story of the United States failed strategic mission, but successful tactical mission to capture two lieutenants of Somali war lord Mohammed Farah Aidids clan in 1993 in Mogadishu. A total of 100 Army Rangers, Delta Force members, Navy Seals, and Air Force special operations soldiers went in on a raid and killed over 1000 (conservative estimate some ppl claim we killed over 2500) ppl in the next 24 hrs. They lost 18 of their own, and was the last time a medal of honor was given out. Truly a harrowing story about modern warfare, heroism of American sodliers, and the repercussions of a bizarre foreign policy during the Clinton years.
This movie is already being considered for Oscar nods since they moved the realease date up to the 28 to get it in for this year. This movie is a real test for the military and hollywood, after the farce that was Pearl Harbor, with the love story, last year. One good thing abotu this movie is the Military loaned Ridley Scott, the director, a few special operations Black Hawk helicopters as well as Rnager troops this past summer to film it. Also they had advisers to the movie who were at the actual battle, and one of them scored a role in the movie. If this movie is botched up on the editing floor with some sort of love story or something, then we may not see as much cooperation involving the military and a true story in the coming years.
One last thing, the real life battle was the first time America fought members of Al Quaeda and this was over 7 years ago.