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Topic: Black Hawk Down

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Favorite actor(s):Russell Crowe,  Ewan McGregor,  Mel Gibson
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John Fielding,
CEO

Black Hawk Down was released at the end of last year and has gone on to be a financial and critical success, having garnered 4 Academy Award nominations, including one for its director, Ridley Scott.
Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator

Now, in Black Hawk Down , Ridley tries to one-up everyone, attempting to outdo Top Gun in patriotism and Aliens for breathtaking scenes showing endless waves of attackers.
Pete Trengle,
Bass Player

Black Hawk Down , directed by Ridley Scott, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Ridley Scott, 144 minutes, distributed by Sony Pictures Ridley Scott's film version of Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down is a good war movie.
Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran

It can be a difficult task to faithfully recreate a war experience without translating realism into gratuitous cinematography for the audience, and Ridley Scott fell into that hole when he stuck together Black Hawk Down’s savage portrayal of the USA peace enforcing conflict in Somalia in 1993.
The loss of 18 soldiers turned American opinion against further involvement in Somalia, but Black Hawk Down makes it clear that the men involved were undeniably heroic.
Black Hawk Down follows a similar storyline, focusing on American soldiers trying to help a foreign country that does not allow itself to be helped.
Josh Hogan,
Commander

Black Hawk Down A non-fiction and accurate account on a modern war - how Rangers and the elite Delta Force troop embarked on a mission to capture a pair of high-ranking deputies to warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid.
Delta Force: Black Hawk Down - In late 1992, Operation Restore Hope was launched as a United Nations humanitarian mission to feed the impoverished nation of Somalia.
The Black Hawk Down website has compelling and emotional images of American soldiers fighting in Somalia.
Jordan Jones,
Rapper

Ridley Scott , Black Hawk Down Who Should Win: Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Peter Jackson should have won for Heavenly Creatures , still my favorite movie of all time after eight years, but he wasn't even nominated for it.
It is also the film Ridley Scott shoulda directed without bothering at all with Gladiator , since Black Hawk Down would be far more deserving of a Best Picture Oscar than Gladiator.
Black Hawk Down is now Zimmer's fifth score for a Ridley Scott film and it seems that he is just the man for the job.
 
 
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