And the DND supported it, which was unusual.
So what was so terrible about it? It seemed to me like an episode of SWAT (guys with baseball hats running around with guns) and the storyline was a bit predictable and Hollywoodized, but name a 2 hour movie that isn‘t.
The movie did deal with manpower shortages (check the guy who was on counselling and probation who was bumped up to acting master corporal because they needed him), the stress (and suicide of one character), a WO near the end of his time in the Army, etc.
I don‘t pretend to have experience over there whatsoever, and I don‘t recall reading any indepth discussion here other than people turning their noses up at it without really saying why they didn‘t like it.
So I‘ll ask again - what‘s the scoop?
There were also other Canadian actors in it - some of them are just famous from being on US TV also. The girl in it was also in Dieppe and had a suitably English accent in that one.
Oh, Slim, as for Blackhawk Down - I want those two hours of my life back. Talk about your horrible movies. It was like watching the A-Team, only with blood and gore thrown in. The movie did nothing to explain the situation in the country at the time, and made references to things in the book (ie kat) without explaining them to the audience. Certainly the two Medal of Honor winners deserve some coverage, but the movie was just, to me, a bunch of pointless shooting. (I did like the closeup of the Minimi crew with blanks loaded in their weapon
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We need a Band of Brothers more than we need a Blackhawk Down.