BLACK HAWK DOWN (2001) | MOVIE REACTION | FIRST TIME WATCHING
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Love your reactions and the channel! So, I am an actor in this movie. I play Clay Othic- the Ranger who picks up the severed hand and puts it in his pocket. Fun Fact: We filmed this in Rabat, Morocco and actually had all those helicopters flying above a real neighborhood. The helicopters were flown by pilots who actually flew during the real Mogadishu incident. Also, if you look closely you'll notice character's names written on the front of each helmet. This was so the film's editor (Pietro Scalia) could tell each actor apart when editing. Otherwise, we all just looked too similar- a bunch of dirt and eyebrows! Really enjoyed your LOTR reactions btw! You are a great reactor and your channel is top notch.
Wow. That must have been a grueling production.
Wow. To be directed by Ridley, now that is one to tell the grand children!
@@kananiokala4423 Indeed right? I was amazingly fortunate enough to be directed by him twice! So yeah-. Lucky for sure!
@@coyotefever105 yeah we were there for 5 or 6 months. Gruelling moreso for the crew. Plus just to be living in Morocco for a while was incredible!
That's really cool!
those two DELTA Snipers received the Medal of Honor.
Had to haul their balls around with a semi trailer. And major influences as far as my enlistment in the Army.
And rightly so! RIP
I’m smoking on ur pack we put him in a pack
Those men deserved it!
@Big Chap True fucking heroes.
Shughart and Gordon should be household names. Medals of Honor for both of them. Absolutely personified the spirit of the American soldier.
When i played Delta Force Black Hawk Down two years later, i used Gary_Gordon as my account name
Gordan's wife ( Carman ) still lives in the Moore county area. Carthage NC. My UPS route has allowed me to meet a lot of good people over the years.
They named the Post Office after Shugart in his hometown. There where army helo crews in Blackhawks there. After the ceremony I asked a soldier " since you fellas protect this little guy ( my then 2 year old grandson) would you do me the honor of taking a picture with him? Man he lit up!! Next thing every soldier there was gettin' in the pic. ...it got lost on an old computer. 😢 but, I hope it brought some joy to those soldiers. I thanked them for keeping all my grandkids free. Then a Sergent said to me " you served didn't ya?" I said, how'd ya know? He said " some things ya just can't hide" and gave me a grin. Told him I was a submariner ...he said " screw that! " I looked at his Blackhawk then at him and said " ditto! " lol. It was a day to honor true heros and a day to thank those who still served. I just wish I had those pictures.
They're in my home.
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.
Never expected to see my comment circulating under every BHD reaction out there 😂
@@deiwi This is common knowledge. That can be found on Wikipedia.
And barely 6 months later all Americans left Somalia and returned home.
We built several RO/RO ships for the pre-positioning fleet at National Steel and Shipbuilding in San Diego and one of them was named for 1st SGT Randy Shughart.
It was really stupid to send them out alone. They had no chance.
This fight ruined my cousin. He graduated West Point and went straight to Dessert Storm with the Army Rangers, after that war he thought he was going home but was sent straight to Somalia. Some of the stories he told are horrifying, especially when it came to seeing children firing at them. He has PTSD so bad that he can't even leave his house but for a few hours a day. Even then he will have panic attacks.
Man that's rough. Somalia was hard
Im sorry to hear that. War is hell. 😔 i hope that he recovers or finds a way to cope prayers to him🙏🙌 ans thank him for his service 🙏
wow..
Tanel Viil please suggest a list of movies of your choice. Thanks.
Id say give the series peaky blinders a go i love this show so much.
I was a black hawk crew chief.. That day changed my life at 20. Now 30 years later it still gives me chills watching this movie. The dudes shooting mini guns from black hawks was what I did. My career was ended on july 11,2007. I broke my back in a Blackhawk crash in bahgdad Iraq.
My daughter is a Crew Chief for the Black Hawk helicopters
@ Ft. Drum. Her Military career is awesome and scary, for me her Mom, but I couldn't be any prouder.
Her twin sister is a Crew Chief with the Air Force, for the F-16.
.... I am just literally holding my breath, watching my daughters work, train, and experience their chosen paths.
God Bless Our Military,
....then and now. 🇺🇸
@@kristitimbrel189 . I loved the job. But, to be honest with you. Not to mention the minor scuff ups. It was a crash that ended my career. I broke my back in a crash in bahgdad, 536 ft AGL. once you get injured like I did, the Army boots you with a BS retirement, to only have the VA screw you around. I have needed surgery since 08 and STILL waiting. Have your daughter re-class to medical equipment repair. Pays better on the outside than aerospace industry. I worked for lockhead Martin building F35's and that pay maxed out at $38/hr thats about average start rate for a BMET. By the time I retired I had multiple MOS's in 2000 I re-classed for 91A medical equipment repair.( the nomenclature has changed) after being a 12B combat engineer. The school was long approx 11 1/2 months, but, you earn an associates degree in science. However, as I was ending the school when 9-11 happened I got out and gpt back in to re-class to 15T to go to war. It eventually ended my career and the ability to have a pain free life and good mobility. The way the Army treat you and then the way the VA has done me, my best advice IS GET OUT NOW!!!
Are you sure???
@@frankholmes4175 yes. DRMF!!! NSDQ!!
@@elessartelcontar9415 justin stanton is a liar. He was using my story to get free hunting trips. I had to turn him in along with about 150 we served with to verify his lie and got him black listed. JUSTIN STANTON was committing stolen valor. I know he lives in florida too. However, if your co-workers name is anthony "tony" mitchell, his story is legit. Hewas with me that night.
Mike Durant, the captured Black Hawk pilot, is actually running for Congress in Alabama right now. His story is incredible
He also gave up sensitive information in his book…not looked on favorably by the spec ops community…
Yeah the story on how he was released was that they sent warships there full of marines and told the warlords if the pilot was not released they would be no city left to rule over
AL? But isn't he from New Hampshire?
Too bad he's a Republican. And an election denier.
I was US Army infantry for 18 years. Some of the most caring and intelligent people I’ve ever know where infantry.
Sir first and foremost thank you so much for your service and sacrifices you made for the most amazing country that I live in. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 I HAVE SO MUCH GRATITUDE AND I JUST WANTED TO TELL YOU THAT YOUR SERVICE WAS FOR NOT. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Lol I sense sarcasm.
@@rc59191its hard to tell haha.. 13B’s are either really smart and great guys or complete idiot dbags…. But I guess that can be said for the military as a whole. I think Generation Kill does a good job with showing the different type of people in the service.
Jarhead, here. We were with 9th for Gothic Serpent and Restore hope. The Govt. bungled the whole effing thing.
Off course all those lives lost for what
What gets me the most about Shughart and Gordon is that they had a perfect view of exactly what they were getting into, they had plenty of time to reconsider, they had plenty of rationale stay aloft and try to cover the crash site from the helicopter, they had three chances to back out, they even had orders from their commanding officer not to go, but they still kept asking for permission to go down until they were finally given the green light, and they went and fought to the death to protect protect the survivors (the movie shows Mike Durant as the only one still alive, but I've read that the crews chiefs were also alive at the time, though gravely injured). Their act of heroism couldn't be dismissed as just a heat of the moment impulse or just "training kicking in."
TL:DR you are right, I am not funny, and sorry this ended up so long. Also, this got flagged as inappropriate, so it might not be here long anyway lol.
Yeah I agree, and I think the director got it right taking enough time to show exactly what you are talking about. I mean when the pilot radioed in that they still wanted to go and finally got the green light, we could see that the situation had gotten even Worse on the ground, yet they Still wanted to go.
Maybe there was a part of them that hoped they might scare off a lot, or some, of the militia (the less committed to die for their cause) once they dropped in, but knowing reinforcements where unlikely to be coming anytime soon, if at all, they must have known it was a one-way mission but just couldn't bare to do nothing.... just in case they could pull off the impossible.
And They Did. If the movie portrays the mobs actions correctly, if it wasn't for their heroic actions that crowd would have killed Mike Durant before the "official" militia showed up to declare him a live prisoner/hostage.
I think that quick scene where we see one of them tell Durant, "we are it", after he asked them where's the rescue team... I think those words said more than the vision could about how desperate they knew the situation was, at least it did for me, especially once I found out he (Durant) survived and that could possibly be his retelling of the actual event.
And also at the end of the movie when I found out that they posthumously received the Medal of Honor, that really brought tears to my eyes, because that told me that what they did in the movie was REAL... it wasn't just Hollywood dramatization.
ALL those men where heroes, as are all military personnel past and present, but from what I understand (I'm not a merican 😂 so I only know from what I've seen in movies like this about heroes) this medal only goes to the MOST heroic soldiers doing something that makes all the other heroic soldiers, (who are themselves being recognized for acts of heroism beyond what is expected of the "normal" hero that is every soldier), stand back and say, "holy crap those guys are the Real Heroes". In other words... the Best of the best of the best of all the heroes that make up the military 😁 and in other, other words... way Way more heroic and better than Tom Cruise in Top Gun, that was classic Hollywood over acted heroic bs. I'm not trying to make light of any of it btw (except for Top Gun), sometimes my brain goes and tries to be funny when things are getting heavy, unfortunately usually only I find it funny, so I'm definitely not trying to offend anyone.
Anyway, my point was supposed to be that, Shughart and Gordon definitely deserve their medals out of all those heroic men, and I think the movie got it right and portrayed their actions well enough that even an idiot like me understood just what they did.
Oh, and I hope you spelled their names right because I'm copying you.... bloody hell there I go again 😧
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@ It's hard to explain, but an important effect of that is this sort of feeling that, even if you die, a part of you lives on in the service and in your fellow service members, and that can give you a lot of strength and a lot of comfort when you have to deal with things that are difficult or frightening.
Shughart, Gordon, and Bill Cleveland were the soldiers who were dragged through Mogadishu that appeared on CNN later that day. My heart wrenches for them and their families.
@@kevinpatrickcarey3741 Real Warriors. There, fixed it for you.
The US wasn’t acting unilaterally here. This was an ongoing UN peacekeeping mission that involved 28 other countries. That’s why you see Malaysian and Pakistani armed forces when they’re being evacuated.
But on this operation they did. The US government pressed them to act and they plan this alone thinking they would be able to do the job by themselves...
@@Comissar_Carolus true, but I was referring to just their presence in the county in general. She was wondering whether the US should have even been there in the first place. We’re so used to seeing post 9-11 America intervening in foreign conflicts for its own self interest while operating under the guise of altruism, but it’s important to note that there was a time in the 90s when the US did work with the international community during times of crisis.
Malaysian and Pakistani forces were complete SHIT. Tactically they were MAYBE a cut above Aidid's Militia.
@@joeschmoe9154 not so true. You find interviews with the actual men, I believe if I’m not mistaken entirely, actual Rangers in the operation do give credit to the presence of the international peacekeeping force in Somalia.
@@genghisgalahad8465 They were shit. The only thing they had that helped was they had armored vehicles. The US had just pulled out a Marine Unit that had a Company Of Light Armored Vehicles and a Platoon Of Abrams Tanks.
“Where’s the rescue squad?”
“We’re it.”
Absolute respect for Shughart and Gordon.
Yeah i can't even imagine being in Mike Durant's shoes at that point, i'd feel like "Oh jeez, i love you bro". Just imagine two men dying for you without even thinking about it, after realizing they couldn't rescue you. This scene hit me every time i see this movie, and im not even american...
The way the Somali’s desecrated those bodies was disgusting
@@tombruncker7013 - I’ll never forget seeing that on the news. 1993 was a really messed up year.
medal of honor posthume both
@@jpmnky Another example of Clinton leadership and not giving a damn about our troops just like his wife and Benghazi.
Many of the soldiers that survived said the main thing they were upset about was that they weren’t allowed to go back and finish the job that they fought for and their friends died for.
I was at sea with the 24th Marine Expiditionary unit when this went down. I was on board the USS Portland. I was a member of Tango Battery 5th Batallion 10th Marines. We were furious that we didn't go straight in.
We arrived in country 3 months after this happened. I feel that we could have helped if we were given the chance.
That’s Clinton for you
Makes sense.
@@DeltaAssaultGaming Congress defunded the operation, nothing Clinton could do.
"Courage is not living without fear. Courage is being scared to death and doing the right thing anyway.” - Chae Richardson
I think _Webster's_ is the standard.
In the book, when it became obvious that the convoy was getting shredded, and they wouldn't be able to reinforce either crash site, all the other soldiers stood up and prepared to go out to rescue them. The cooks, medics, technicians, supply officers... basically all the logistics people that would never expect to see front-line combat immediately answered the call to go out and rescue their brothers in arms.
We don’t abandon our own. When cases arrive when we do abandon our own, it brings great shame to us.
Well, yes and no. There is no such thing as a Ranger who NEVER expects to see combat.
The Ranger Regiment is unique among Special Operations Forces in that ALL personnel, including support personnel must go through the selection and indoctrination process and must complete Ranger School to remain within the Regiment. Every Ranger, whether they be a cook or intel or signals, is a better trained soldier than a regular Army soldier and is expected to be ready to step up if the situation calls for it.
Often, Ranger support personnel perform their primary functions until their such time that they can be relieved of that duty by other units or contractors and then are attached to the line company/platoon to supplement them.
And medics are attached at the platoon level and go out on mission. Medics do everything everyone else in the platoon does, plus their medical function.
@@ryhk3293 but like Blackburn alot were not even Rangers yet where n a Rangers battalion.
@@chaselittle3923 Blackburn wasn't Ranger-qualified. He was a Ranger by being in a Ranger unit.
I think you might be a little confused. Ranger School graduates are considered "Ranger-qualified." It takes serving in a Ranger unit to be considered an Army Ranger.
The RIs call the students "Ranger" while they're in the course, it doesn't really stay with you after you graduate. You might refer to or address a fellow graduate informally as Ranger, but in the Army, title and job refer to someone who has graduated RIP/ROP or RASP1/2 and is or has served in a Ranger unit.
@@ryhk3293 my point being he is not even been through Ranger school n etc but yet considered to be a Ranger? I want to be a heart surgeon so I guess I can proceed doing open heart surgery.
My family knew Randy Shughart, the delta sniper last alive in the movie when he was transferred to Ft Bragg in 1986 where my father was stationed a few years later. This is the first time I've been able to watch this movie in over 20 years, when I first learned that my family knew him, even though I was so young and have no memories of him and what the Somalis did to him, I refused to watch it. Actually I cant finish it..RIP Warrior 🙏
I saw this movie as a kid and it completely traumatized me because I was so invested in the individual characters and wanted to see them all survive... the scene that got me was when the helicopter got raided and the pilot with the picture of his family got mobbed and almost killed
2 Delta snipers that asked to be put in to secure the crash site were awarded medals of honor for their heroic actions
Yeah we got that when they showed it in the credits
Shughart and Gordon
Was it heroic or was it stupid? I guess it depends on your point of view.
@@Timo8.2. uncommon valour. They might have passed, but they literally lead with the mentality that no man gets left behind. God bless you
@@calemcconnell7735 Well soldiers were left behind to be dragged through the streets of Mogadishu. I guess they got them after their bodies were desecrated.
HUA- Heard,Understood, and acknowledged. It’s an Army Thing.
Ohhh! Now I actually got it! And nobody bothered to explain it except to mock it and call it an “ironic” buzzword or something! Buzzword talk without explaining outside of the “in crowd”is tiresome! It would be nice to have people like you did to simply explain! It’s definitely FUBAR! Oh wait.
What if they meant: Huh? Wha..? (HUA)
Always thought it was “hooah”
and every Ranger watching this - "Never say that shit lol"
It means whatever you need it to mean
Those Delta Operatives were amazing. They embody what it means to be part of The Unit. Severe, ice-cold, hardcore badasses with an insane mortality rate. They are the US military's most elite assets.
One of my favorite movies of all time. Black Hawk Down : A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden and In the Company of Heroes by Michael Durant (the kidnapped pilot) are a must read. Randy and Gary will never be forgotten.
And Michael Durrant became Senator Durrant, one of the most anti-Constitution senators in the country.
I got to meet Durant at a speaking engagement once...just an amazingly soft spoken person.
There's a book featuring six different points of view from men who were there, including Matt Eversmann and Air Force Combat Controller Dan Schilling. They have such insane perspectives on the fight. Also, Eversmann talks about being on the "Lost Convoy" after being picked up near the target building.
I grew up with Durant's son, and he gave speeches at our schools a few times...never a dry eye in the house. Truly inspiring and humble man.
I was a ranger (2/75) and have been on 300 plus missions overseas. This movie did a great job of showing how intense the planning is for a special operations mission, and it did a great job showing how chaotic combat is. It’s very surreal to watch war on tv after experiencing so much of it for real.
A co
Thank you for your service. I’m Canadian. I literally have never said that to a stranger. Just don’t know what else to say.
@@jasonm8017 thanks Jason. Right on man, I’ve always wanted to go to Cañada
B co
I been on 400 missions in Call of Duty
"I never heard about this!" is what is the saddest part about this movie. Unfortunately, to this day, most conflicts in africa are not even mentioned in western media. And, as tragic as the loss of those soldiers was, it just shows how little generals and politicians knew and know about the conflicts they send their people into. The civil war was a genocide, a tribal conflict, centuries old hatred. That's why you see a whole city fight. There were no "soldiers" in uniforms, instead husbands and their children. This fight in Mogadishu was a main reason why President Clinton refused to intervene in the Rwandan Genocide a few months later
Mogadishu happened during the Clinton administration,these things tend to get brushed under the rug...
@@wolfmanjack3451 To be clear Bush sent troops to Somalia after he lost re-election and before Clinton was inaugurated. Talk about sticking your successor with a bad hand. That said SECDEF Les Aspin and Clinton both screwed things up by the numbers afterwards. Aspin denied the transport and use of tanks to the theater. A platoon or company of Abrams (or even Bradleys) has a decisive deterrence effect.
For anyone watching BHD, I recommend viewing the Special Edition with the commentary track featuring the commanders and soldiers explaining what is real and what is Hollywood about the movie. Danny McKnight is an acquaintance of mine and he participates in the discussion.
Also I was a 2LT training at the Infantry School at Fort Benning when this happened. We were in the field and our instructors set up a massive sand table to explain what they thought they knew about the events in Somalia. Got us laser-focused. Also ensured I never saw any of the TV coverage until, literally, decades later. Because no one cared at the time, once the initial news cycle ended.
Yeah people don't realize we still got guys in HOA.
In international relations, it's remembered for a few things. First, its role as a potential reason states chose not to classify what happened in Rwanda a genocide like you mentioned. Second, Somalia was a failed state for almost 30 years; it's only just recently probably moved from failed to weak state status, and that might be generous. The piracy that got a lot of coverage in the late 2000s was in part because the government couldn't police its citizens or provide basic services. And finally, the operation in Somalia came at a weird time in American journalism, when CNN's 24 hour news cycle was still novel and news outlets had apparently gotten good advanced notice of military plans and aggressively covered what the US was doing. That led to reporters greeting the Marines landing on the beach in this infamous clip (among a few others): ua-cam.com/video/Xj9Fn3qG-Cw/v-deo.html
Plus a couple of Al Qaeda guys like Saif al-Adel and militias armed to the teeth
I worked with Mike Durant for several years.
He is an amazing man and one of the kindest souls I’ve met.
I met the guy who convinced the scared kid to go back out. He went from SSG Strueker to Chaplain Strueker. And Gary Gordon, and Randy Shughart, the two Delta Force Snipers who voluntarily went in, are the first since Vietnam to be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
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"Gordy's gone man, I'll be outside. Good luck."
"Where's the Rescue Squad?"
That part was real af. Always made me feel like that’s loyalty most will never know
@@aj897 I still tear up every time I see those scenes. Selfless acts of bravery like that never fail to move me deeply.
I remember the theater being silent when the movie ended.
@Tanel Viil Prick
Rip to Gary Gordon, Randy Shughart and all the other warriors that died that day, you are gone but will never be forgotten. Thank you for your service and sacrifice to all service members
Men amongst Men
The army actually dedicated two ships with the names of Gordon and Shughart in their memory
RIP to all the millions of people in all the poor countries being murdered by the American imperial war machine.
@@bobdonaldson2710 that was actually something that the Navy did
When I was a ranger we were honest to our casualties. After the medic lost the artery, ida told the dude that he’s fixing to die. On top of that, ida given him permission. A warrior must embrace what’s coming so he can slip away with ease, and not fight impending doom so much that his last existing moments are choking on blood and struggling frantically... Better his thoughts be love, peace, honor, and whatever else he chooses to ponder so that he crosses over with confidence and warmth, while his brothers caress him gently into the swirling, unknown beauty of the twisted nether.
The shot of the dog waking up and listening to the voice on the answering machine - that gets me every time.
Fantastic acting all around. Tom Sizemore (McKnight) always turns in a terrific performance (he was fantastic in Saving Private Ryan too), such a great actor
RIP Tom Sizemore. Great actor
Shugart and Gordon scene was one of the most heroic things I’ve ever seen in a film
That last stand was so intense
Too bad it didn't happen exactly the way it did in the movie. Real life the rest of the crew was still alive from the crash and also were killed along with the delta snipers. Also if memory serves me correctly a third black hawk was shot down shortly after this
@@clooterus4456 third one made it back to the flight line but crashed/hard landing just inside the fence I believe.
@@ProfVonW yeah that's what it was. I couldn't remember if it made it back or not.
Sure was both were true hero’s they knew what it meant going in and still went in to help
I knew at an early age that i wanted to be an "army man". I graduated high school in '92, this event happened the next year, and i can still remember the feeling of anger when CNN aired the footage of the militia dragging a dead U.S. soldiers body through the streets of Mogadishu This absolutely solidified my decision to enlist, and although i didn't enlist until 1997, no matter where i went for any sort of training, schools, or certifications, i was always surrounded by soldiers that were part of that horrible day. It was an honor to serve with so many heroes and that honor continued to grow as i also served with so many heroes of future wars in both Afghanistan, Iraq, and pretty much incursions all over the world.
What Hoot said is 100% accurate. Whenever someone asks me today what i miss most about being in the military...the answer is always an easy one. I miss all the amazing brothers i met and trained with and fought with, some that are no longer with us, that will always continue to have an impact on who i am today.
Great selection to react too. I had many chuckles at various points in your reaction, keep up the good work!
Not to discredit your efforts in the military. But as a civilian living in western Europe I have to say, the more you guys are fighting in said countries, the more of them we see over here in the west. And they bring their ways with them.
@@rovhalt6650 Your comment is incapable of producing any useful result other than a momentary guilt trip at best. Complaining to the weapon of war instead of complaining to those who put that weapon on the ground. Military doesn't choose where they go, the President, commander-in-chief does. There will always be more guys to replace those who are fighting. The war on terror, it's really about oil, which is about power and money. This is just an opinionated estimation but maybe 40% of the war on terror is because of actual terrorists. You want someone to blame, blame the oil giants or even the general public who have the demand for the giants to supply.
Hooah, brother.
@@rovhalt6650 I get what you're saying, but you are accepting them. You don't have to accept them, you are choosing too. You can turn them away.
Same here. I was 21 at the time, this made me want to enlist. Sadly I was denied duu to asthma and seizures.
I was stationed with the unit that went in to extract the Delta Force and Rangers shortly after they had come back from Mogadishu. 10th Mountain Division, C co. 2/14 Infantry. I had heard first hand what had gone down and because of this, our leaders trained us from their experience there. My whole platoon from basic training had been assigned there to fill in the spaces that were vacated due to many either being transferred, being discharged or had [aid the ultimate sacrifice. Those that were still with that unit when I had gotten there were a great bunch of guys.
Thank you for your service.
I remember seeing Black Hawk Down in the cinema with my mom and we both walked out the theatre in a daze. This movie is a must see for a number of reasons. Blessings to all!
I forgot how stacked this cast is :D Lots of top tier talent.
One of the best and most accurate movies, minus that Brett Favre vortex grenade throw
@@nihrke3844 I must say this has to be the most factually accurate movie to every little detail - all the positioning, movement and even the hawk chopping corner of building during crash. The only tiny thing I noticed is that when Pilla was shot dead, he should have been in the second humvee, but still was depicted covering left upper side as it actually was in real life (the gunner of first humvee was facing to the right).
Agreed 👍 just watched it a couple days ago for the first time in like 10 yrs. Didn't realize a young Tom hardy was in it as well
This movie and the Band of Brothers Miniseries were a 'breeding ground' for some of today's most popular actors.
@@nickmitsialis and Tom Hardy was in both. lol
I’ve watched this movie several times and I still get emotional when those snipers hit the ground to protect the second crash regardless if anyone survived!
me too
Yep, watched BHD hundreds of times. A heavy war movie that'll make men cry. "Don't go back out there without me" chokes me up everytime 😭
That part and the part where josh hartnetts boy bleeds out and they couldn’t do anything about it
The last time the militia mob got their hands on army personnel they mutilated their bodies and did all sorts of horrific things. Sad thing is that once they killed Shugart and Gordon, they stripped them of their uniform and dragged their bodies along the streets which was shown on news all around the world the next day.
I love how Ms. Popcorn identities several actors from romantic comedies (romcoms), and so forth.
I also love how she is able to track the faces of the men with lesser roles throughout the movie.
Ridley Scott is a master. He’s created so many epic films in so many genres.
This is peak Ridley here.
I still cry about the 2 man rescue squad. It's been 20 damn years and it still gets to me. Every. Single. Time.
They were heroes.
@@coyotefever105 They earned their place in Valhalla, that's for damn sure.
It's been nearly thirty years bro
@@lioncelica5170 30 years since the actual incident but the movie came out in 2001
The Mogadishu Mile. The Rangers run it every year in rememberance.
One of the worst thing i experience in military, is I'm not allowed to shoot my enemy without letting him fire at me first
Is that what u want us to belive. American act like they are angel's do u really think USA came there to help Somalis. USA is lieing about this in so many way. Why don't u just stay in ur country and we ours.
@@hakeemulajuwan the hell you talking about
It can be frustrating but it makes sense in most scenarios in an urban environment, also to avoid friendly fire whenever possible.
@@hakeemulajuwan The U.S wasn't there to help Somalia, but to capture Aidid and pull security for the Red Cross and U.N humanitarians that were actually there to help Somalia.
Most of the aircraft flown for filming this movie was flown by actual members of the 160th SOAR. Including several who were there for the actual battle.
Only the utmost respect for Shugart and Gordon, they must have had literal balls of steel doing what they did. :'(
That would have been hard to function and in that heat.
Weight if their balls was the reason why there was only two of them aboard that Blackhawk.
@@deiwi you didn’t finish your sentence or question? It’s wait* not weight. Oh wait, you meant weight of*
@@phj223 he might’ve been killed if he wasn’t moved to that corner. They attacked whoever was in the helicopter whereas in the corner, he was clearly unarmed and injured so that might have influenced their keeping him alive and the timing is everything it seems. It’s not like Aidid’s men were at the very front of this attack. It was a mob. From the looks of it in the movie.
@@phj223 A Somali witness said that the crowd dragged an American from the helicopter, waving his arms and shouting at the crowd, and beat him to death. Gordon was already dead, so it was either Shughart or one of the crew chiefs (Bill Cleveland and Tommy Field - at least one account said they were alive but too badly injured in the crash to be moved). Either way, when the crowd took the crash site, it was killing Americans who were no longer able to fight back, and Durant is certain that they would have killed him too if Aidid's men hadn't reached him when they did. Even during his captivity, Durant's "jailer," Abdullahi Hassan, had to protect Durant from other Somalis who wanted to kill him.
A few of my buddies fought the Battle of Mogadishu. They were however portrayed as consolidated characters. And the last commander I served under was Lt. Col. Steele, Captain Steele in the film, portrayed by Jason Isaacs.
Interesting, Jeff Struecker was my chaplain in 3/504.
Thank you for your service brotha.
Thank you for your service.
Pretty funny, hooah? Yes, it was nice for them to get it right.
@@tanelviil9149 that's why I suggested Danger Close. Nobody else is reacting to it. Fantastic film, an Aussie film
This was my brother’s Ranger battalion. My brother completed his service before they deployed for this. He was very upset having to watch his friends on the news while he was not able to help.
PLEASE TELL YOUR BROTHER THAT I SAID THANK YOU FOR HIS SERVICE AND SACRIFICES. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
@@Elev8minh thank you
bugs me how ridley scott still doesn't have an oscar, the guy has contributed to cinema like a workhorse
So true, The Gladiator, Alien Franchise, Black Hawk Down, and other war films
If you’re a reader, you should read “In The Company of Heroes” by Michael Durant, the Blackhawk pilot who was shot down and taken hostage. Great read.
I’m currently reading that book
"The Things They Carried." Wonderful depiction of Vietnam; good read.
Excellent book. Durant signed my copy.
@@jamUSA24 that’s awesome
There’s also the black hawk down book that was also written by one of the rangers or dboys that were there that does a good job of explain why things went so bad. Like then using green tip ammo and the fact most of the city was on a local drug
This movie is like the first 15 minutes of Saving Private Ryan stretches out of a couple hours. Nothing but stress the entire time.
It's a great film but it's simply too intense to watch often. Even though I have the DVD I don't think I've watched it in over five years.
It's just too realistic. So hardcore
In case someone hadn’t explained it yet, “HUA” is an acronym for “Heard, Understood, Acknowledged”
My high school principal was in Mogadishu when this happened. He said this was the most intense fighting he ever experienced and the closest to dying he's ever been. He was part of the last few that ran to the stadium. Only in the movie they just ran but he said they were in a fight the whole way up until a block from the stadium. Only teacher I ever had respect for.
This movie had a Hell of a cast. Tom Sizemore, Orlando Bloom, Ewan McGregor, Eric Bana, Sam Shepard, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Tom Hardy, Jason Isaacs... just a Hell of a cast!
And Jeremy Pivens
Ewen Bremmer.
The real Danny McKnight, played by Tom Sizemore, is a little less than pleased or sad about Tom's frequent brushes with the law and addiction.
you forgot Tom Guiry (YUREK), played Smalls in "THE SAND LOT"......awesome movie...
Let's not forget the "Lead" of the cast Josh Hartnett
“HUA”
Heard, understood, and acknowledged.
It’s Hooah but whatever.
Way over used in this movie though
Not accurate, that's only one meaning and not what it started with. Hooah means anything but no...
Yeah, you might be right. Never explained to me that way. ‘Hooah!’ Also doesn’t make sense the way Al Pacino used it in ‘Scent of a Woman’
Just an expression of motivation
She says "This is chaos" @ 23:09.
Been there, survived that. OIF 05-06, 09-10. God bless everyone who has ever fallen and survived in war. It used to be an adrenaline rush. Today it's just a waste of humanity. May God have mercy on our souls.
"This is chaos". Literally the whole movie and operation. On point. Total madness and chaos.
I've always been amazed by how brutally realistic this movie looks. They did an absolutely amazing job in creating it, from the acting, directing, sound design, locations, sets, everything
Agreed. Too bad that is lost. Everything now is sound stage. Green stage. And cgi.
@@tonyb7615 Cgi? Hardly. Hacksaw Ridge has a lot of CGI but other than that.... Saving Private Ryan ? Not CGI. Most war films aren't. Braveheart, etc.
@@stonecold5373 so they really cut into ppl? Dude. It's all cgi. It's just done very well.
@@stonecold5373 so ppl got sqibs shot out and didn't have a backdrop? The pinnacle. The church tower. That background was all legit? Yeah... no
Yeah definitely!
I think one of the most moving scenes because it’s so realistic is the one at the end when some soldiers just tumble cause they can not even move their feet anymore.
Then you realize: They have been up the entire night fighting and even though they are heavily trained they all pushed way beyond their limits… 😮
They destroyed the choppers to keep the Somalis from salvaging any usable weapons/ammo/tech/equipment. There's no way that the military would have tried to remove them as they were in the middle of hostile territory and totally destroyed.
Thermite is a beautiful thing.
It’s good to see your appreciation for the sacrifices our guys made in Somalia. There’s a few books written by the troops that served during this op.
From IMBb: The sequence of events near the end of the film, where some of the US Rangers were forced to run unprotected behind the rescue convoy, did indeed happen. This unfortunate turn of events was named by the soldiers after the battle as "The Mogadishu Mile".
The Rangers were generally very young - late teens and early twenties. The average Delta operator would be mid-thirties or older, with a lot more experience and a lot more specialized training. Getting selected for Delta and then making it through their training is incredibly hard. Most of those given tryouts are already Rangers or Green Berets and 95% of THOSE guys don't make it.
I read the book. It was clear that the Rangers and Delta moved differently and the groups separated as a result.
To a European it looks insane. Most special forces here won't even consider you ntil you;ve done a full tour of duty. I know younger men are phsycially stronger, but there is a steadiness that comes with age that can be more important.
@@ajvanmarle Part of it is that Rangers aren't really special operations in the sense of being a commando unit like the SAS, Delta or SEALs - they're more like very proficient light infantry. Their job is generally to provide perimeter defense and support for other special operations units, and other similar large scale operations.
If you want a European analog, I'd say that they're far closer to, for instance, the British Paras than to the SAS.
@@ajvanmarle Really? The UK's Royal Marines are considered a tier 2 special operations unit, as are the US Rangers. The minimum age for applying to the Royal Marines is 16. Like I said the average age for Delta is much higher and they uniformly have years of prior experience. SEALs have a cutoff age of even applying of 28. I assume these different limits have been studied and evaluated pretty rigorously, but, yeah, some of these guys do seem so very young for what they're asked to do.
Ranger school and RIP (Ranger indoctrination program) is a pass/fail situation. Special and Delta Forces each have their own SELECTION process. It’s not a matter of just passing. You then have to be selected. So if say you excelled in the training but didn’t mesh well, you’re out. That’s oversimplified but you get the idea.
Some of the pilots that flew the little birds in that operation back in 93' actually flew the little birds in this movie
That makes so much sense though like those guys were bad asses doing it back then why not have them do instead of random stunt pilots.
@@charlestonw801st Also the insurance companies refused to cover stunt pilots and stunt men fast roping from UH-60's.
@@rsrt6910 wow so was it like actual soldiers who had done it before then? Cuz lord knows josh harnetts goofy lookin ass ain’t doing that 😆
@@charlestonw801st Correct. I think it was actual Rangers who did the fast roping scenes, possibly regular Air Assault troops. 160th SOAR did the helicopter work.
@@Halo4Lyf you are correct. A platoon of Rangers from B-3/75 did the fast-roping scenes, appearing as extras. Army Ranger John Collette, a Ranger Specialist during the battle, served as a stunt performer.
“All Black Hawks and Little Birds used during the filming were from the 160th SOAR (Special Operations Aviation Regiment) and most of the pilots were involved in the actual battle on 3-4 October 1993. A lot of the Army Rangers in the film were actual Rangers, serving with the 3/75 Ranger Regiment.”
Your reactions are literally my favorite of the reaction channels that I watch. I started watching your reactions two days ago and watched 5-6 reactions so far and have gotten emotional during all of them.
To answer a few of the questions you asked during the video.
1. "Hooah" is the Army's "battle cry" so to speak, it's meant to show motivation, understanding, agreement, or response. Much like how Marines say "Oorah" and "Hoo yeah" for the Navy.
2. The battle of Mogadishu was meant to capture Aidid's allies or Aidid himself and fight off his forces to allow for food, medical, and other supplies to be distributed to the population. Aidid fought against US forces to withhold food from the population while keeping it for himself and his forces to starve out the rest of the population that supported enemy warlords and opposing politics. This battle took place on October 3-4 1993 and ultimately resulted in the militia forcing the US and UN soldiers to withdraw, however the Army Rangers were able to capture the two high ranking Aidid officials that they were assigned to capture, but did so after taking casualties. The US and UN later withdrew from Somalia completely in March of 1994. The result of victory on either side was ruled as inconclusive.
3. "Blackhawk down" is referring to the shooting down of two UH-60 helicopters, known as Blackhawks. One of the helicopter pilots does get captured but is later released and retrieved by the US. Therefore, "Blackhawk down" is nowhere near a WW1 or WW2 reference, since Blackhawk helicopters weren't used until 1974 and didn't enter military service officially until 1979 & were used in Somalia between 1991 & 1994.
this is actually very accurate - it is based on the book - that was based on actual interviews on BOTH sides of the conflict [yeah he actually talked to the folks in the city]
The movie is accurate until the part where they retreated, because they weren’t saved by their own people, India and Malaysia rescued them and their interviews about the movie makes them really irritated by the fact this movie decided to portray them as apc drivers only, especially Malaysians who broke through while India provided cover right into the hotspot and suffered only 1 casualty. I know they are using cheap Russian apc and they literally showed like they were a class above US, but god damn it, they saved you, can’t even show a little sign of respect, naaaah, they are apc Uber drivers.
@@USCFlash Dude, this movie isn’t really that realistic, it’s more close to video games realistic, The Somalians used Guerrilla war tactics, no they did not do over 60% which resulted in their casualties portrayed in this movie. No, that city wasnt at war so their soldiers are not there, there were less than 300, the rest were Militias. You could say how US were proud to beat the Brits by farmers with pitchforks, yeah that’s what happened in this movie. No where near an urban warfare with a giant would look like. This movie portrayed how much lives US lost from incompetence and how much disrespect US can actually be to their saviours. This operation didn’t even effect the civil war as the movie made it out to be, it still went on over a decade. You do the figuring it out why.. it’s pretty obvious why just from who is the target.
@@ajstyles5704 chalk 4 was actually inserted into the wrong location a block away and had to move under fire to the target building.
@@USCFlash The usage of infrared strobes in the movie was off the charts inaccurate.
@@USCFlash Well something did tick you off about something to reply that long, well, 70+ casualties with 200+ wounded against second hand AK and RPG that can be described as local thugs and dare to even defend it to say “EXERCISE”.
I was active duty Army when this happened. When they dragged the US soldier through the streets we all wanted to go and extract some revenge. We were so pissed - we all tried to volunteer to go and our commanders wouldn't let us.
I was at Fort Hood in the First Cav when this happened. Our reaction was the same. To a man every one of us wanted to go over there and raze the country to the ground.
@@mjkdmain Active duty Big Red 1 same time…same desires.
@@mjkdmain Our love for our brothers and sisters runs deep.
The number of actors in this film that were nobody's at the time and now stars is crazy. It's almost the same as Band of Brothers. Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Hardy, Orlando Bloom, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Plus recognizable names of Tom Sizemore, Eric Bana, William Fichtner, Jason Isaac, Ty Burrell, Sam Shepard, Kim Coates, Ioan Gruffudd, Glenn Morshower, and Brian Van Holt. It's crazy who you can recognize when you want it back.
I have two books signed by the pilot that was captured. It is amazing to hear what these people went through and what that pilot went through in captivity
What’s a skinny? I love this wonderful woman’s innocence. This is who you want to come home to someone who knows nothing of that horror.
Really...but she is Canadian. So if Canada wasn't involved why would she know?
If she was a fat, ugly man, would you feel the same or would you *WAY* less sympathetic ? 😂😂😂
It says United States as her location at the top
@@MeanLaQueefa she's from Canada. She lives in the US now.
@@stevenjones916 I'm a fat ugly man who doesn't know what a skinny is... people think I'm innocent and adorable
The Soldiers running at the end to the stadium is known as "The Mogadishu Mile".
Did the UN really leave them behind?
@@tonyweaver2353 yes
@@tonyweaver2353 There wasn't enough room in the vehicles, it was bad planing.
@@tonyweaver2353 something that you have to remember is, the raid was supposed to last 30 minutes. That’s why it says Gen Garrison took full responsibility for it. It was a “mess” up in planning of all proportions. They did not fully appreciate what they were going into, they had to get what ever they could to extract the grab teams. Some guys just didn’t have room for a ride.
@@JS-mp7fy i can understand that, but an armored vehicle not providing cover? Come on man.
Fichtner's laugh when McGregor says "I can hear bells ringng!" is on point
Whoever said that this movie is NOT historically accurate doesn't know shit. I was a 'NIGHT STALKER' assigned to the 160th SOAR (Special Operations Airborne Regiment) as my last active duty assignment as an Aircraft Electrician. The qualification course to get into the 160th was intense and involved some of the things that Navy Seals go through. (Watch G.I.Jane with Demi Moore for a taste of that). I got to Ft. Campbell, Kentucky in late 1993 to begin qualification that lasted a painful 2 months. Though I was not in Somalia, the rest of the unit was and I was one of the few people in the building. When I finally met my room mate, I found out that he, a Black Hawk Crew Chief lost his best friend over there, among others. Things were still hush, hush, and I found out more piece by piece and met pilot Michael Durant six months after his release from captivity in Somalia. It was his book that tells the tale. Now, the 160th SOAR are the elite of the Army's aviators, preferring the trouble making, 'Maverick' type over the by-the-book type of pilot. They are the taxi drivers for the cool kids like NAVY SEALS, DELTA FORCE, CIA, RANGERS, etc. Because of their special training and modified aircraft, Hollywood has used them in a few movies like Tom Clancy's CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER.
Producer/director Ridley Scott (The Martian, Blade Runner, Gladiator, G.I.Jane, Alien, Robin Hood, etc.) is known for epic story telling and has a deep respect for accuracy when telling a true story. He asked the 160th to be involved in the retelling of events in which they participated and they said they would but only if they had editorial say over events that involved their pilots and crew. (Imagine being a pilot or crewman and being asked to re-enact events in which your friends and coworkers died. Besides, at the time there were NO civilian UH-60 Black Hawks and you can't make a movie called BLACKHAWK DOWN with old Huey's. The 'Little Birds' (black Hughes 500 series) are unique to the 160th. The aircraft and weapons systems you see in the movie ARE THE REAL THING flown by the real crews. The actors, as the previous commenter stated, were mixed in with the real soldiers and air crews.
The only people who had a problem with the movie were the Army Rangers, who despite their bravery, often looked foolish in the film. They were the majority of the casualties and it was their guy who fell out of the helicopter that started the down ward spiral. The 'NIGHT STALKERS' as the 160th are called prefer the cover of darkness, so going in on short notice, in daylight to get the bad guys was not ideal. Plus, with the multi-national force on that air base, security leaks were a problem. A single AC-130 gun ship on stand by could have saved the day, but intel on the ground was so poor that a simple snatch and grab operation turned into a disaster.
ACTORS TO LOOK FOR: Ioan Gruffudd (Beales) is Mr. Fantastic in The Fantastic Four, Eric Bana (Hoot) The Incredible Hulk.
Ewan McGregor is the young Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars. Tom Sizemore (McKnight) was Tom Hanks' 2nd in command in Saving Private Ryan, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Delta op Gorden) played Jaime Lannister in Game Of Thrones, and Blackburn the newbie who fell from the Blackwawk in the beginning was non other than the usually agile elf Legolas (Orlando Bloom).
Sorry for being so long winded. I was proud to serve with them, even if I only ran the battery shop for a year.
NSDQ = NIGHT STALKERS DON'T QUIT
Interesting fact, CWO Walcott was well liked and earned an excellent reputation during the Gulf War. After the investigation of the incident, it is believed that Walcott intentionally pointed the helicopter nose down just before impact so that the force would be directed at the cockpit in order to try and save those in the center.
Dang I thought he was a officer not a chief warrant officer
@@theshedlife6796 warrant officers are normally helicopter pilots probably more warrant officer pilots than officers
@@theshedlife6796 but then again warrant officers are officers
@@ARC--ms1se a warrant officer is in between of an enlisted and a officer
You should definitely watch “we were soldiers” my grandfather was in that battle portrayed in the movie and it’s the only movie that made me cry I highly recommend
my High school political science/economics teacher served under Col. Hal Moore in Vietnam
Your grandfather is a badass and a definite hero. 🇺🇸
I highly recommand nit watching it. Apart from the fact that it was not the very good in a cinamatic sense all you see is a bunch of patriotic, heroism bullshit. It gives no fuck about the actual important people of this war which is a vietnamese.
i cried too, at the end. i cried of how disrespectful the people were of our veterans who returned home after a traumatizing experience. they deserved more and better.
@@Marshmallox43 You clearly didn't watch the movie. It paid massive respect to the soldiers of the NVA.
MAN EVERY TIME I WATCH THIS MOVIE MY APPRECIATION TO ALL THAT HAVE SERVED CONTINUOUSLY GROWS. THIS MOVIES SHOWS THAT WE AS AMERICANS STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS AND WE THINK THAT WE ARE FLYING. THANK YOU ALL FOR ALL THAT YOU HAVE DONE AND TO THE FALLEN YOU WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Both of those Delta snipers got the Medal of honor!!!!!
I was trained (basic training, Ft Benning) by one of the Rangers who was part of this operation.
Also, imo I think you nailed the point of this movie pretty clearly towards the end. "Nobody wins"
What an intense, relentless fire fight from every direction. It gives you the realism of an urban fire fight without any of the romanticism. There are no time outs or tap outs. You have to will yourself to go even when you think you have no more to give. Bravery on full display, with the sole intend of protecting your brothers-in-arms.
28:56 Even Cassie was under attack in this reaction. Funny moment.
The “inaccurate war move” with Josh Hartnett you’re thinking of is Pearl Harbor. It’s a historical dumpster fire.
Horrible movie.
@@catherinelw9365 Tora! Tora! Tora! for the win
@@catherinelw9365 so so true
James Cameron makes a compelling love triangle in Titanic work.
Micheal Bay turns WW2s love triangle into Young And The Restless.
@@gogousa6661 That’s because James Cameron, with one major exception, for which he paid for dearly, didn’t fabricate history. He created two fictional characters to interact independently of historical events and have them live through it.
Michael Bay took his fictional characters and had them do the heroic actions of two real pilots, Lt. Taylor and Lt. Walsh. Not a good play.
Shugart/Gordon. MOH badasses. Also, BHD has so many recognizable faces, you'll think it was Band of Brothers.
Yeah, BHD and BOB are two great ensemble pieces.
For the best War movie with the largest cast of amazing actors like Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, John Travolta, John C Reilly, Woody Harrelson, John Cusack, Jared Leto, Elias Koteas, Jim Caviezel, Adrien Brody, and more you must see The Thin Red Line directed by Terrence Malick. It was nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture, Golden Bear, Academy Award for Best Music, and Academy Award for Best Directing.
I saw that movie in theaters. It did not compare to Saving Private Ryan. Also the story line is hard to follow.
Not really the same types of films so hard to compare. Kinda like Apocalypse Now vs Platoon, though both set in Vietnam, one is more about the very heart of our nature, while Platoon is about the Vietnam war. Both are great. Thin Red Line is a set as a war film, but is more about our violent nature and whether that is just nature itself, whereas Saving Private Ryan is about the soldiers who fought in WWII. The first 45 minutes of SPR is incredible but I found that the film really dragged in the middle and was too jingoistic to be a great film. The best thing about it, is it led Spielberg and Hanks to produce Band of Brothers which is what I would consider the best war story ever put to film even though it was an anthology TV series.
Thin Red Line takes multiple viewings to really appreciate and is more emotionally intelligent than SPR and I would argue more pure cinema. Film directors like Martin Scorsese feel it was one of the most important films of the 90’s in terms of its narrative being visually told (which can be challenging to traditional audiences who expect films to follow a strict three act drama). It is too long and Mallick can get a little preoccupied with sequences that are tangential to the whole exercise, but it is to many, a far greater and more important film than SPR. SPR is a good film but not great, likely has more general fans and is more popular, but TRL is likely the more respected film within the industry (in terms of whole films it is nowhere near Spielberg’s best work mainly due to a terrible 2nd act which killed all the momentum, got way too sentimental but as mentioned the technical genius of the first 45 minutes cannot be denied). Malick like Kubrick were just way ahead of their time.
One thing about this film is that so many of the pilots from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Refinement, or SOAR, aka the Night Stalkers, flew during the real battle and a few of the Ranger extras were there in 1993. The Little Bird pilot who lands next to the first crash site, Chief Warrant Officer Keith Jones, recreated his extraction of Delta sniper Dan Busch. I also love how many people became stars after this, like Jason Isaacs, Orlando Bloom, and Tom Hardy. This film was chalk full of up and coming actors. The term "Skinny/Skinnies" came from the book "Starship Troopers" which was extremely popular amongst the men of Task Force Ranger. There was an alien species that were called Skinnies in the book.
Yeah, this movie is like if the opening scene from Saving Private Ryan just kept going on and on nonstop.
That's what how I have described it as well; once you get past the character development first act, it's like Saving Private Ryan's beach scene but the whole rest of the movie is that way.
That run at the end was called “The Mogadishu Mile”
Josh Hartnett, Tom Sizemore, Ewen Bremner, William Fichtner, and Kim Coates appeared in Pearl Harbor (2001).
I was in 9th Battalion Aviation (a helicopter unit) of the 101st Airborne Division during this incident. I was still back in the States, but 2 of our Blackhawk companies were down there. A few weeks prior to this incident, one of our Blackhawks was shotdown by an RPG, and my friend Matthew Anderson (who was the door gunner), and the crew chief were killed. The co-pilot carried the wounded pilot out of the helicopter firing his pistol at the locals trying to kill him. He ran to safety with the pilot over his shoulder.
Like Mike Tyson said: "Everyone's got a plan until he gets punched in the mouth."
I think it is more a matter of being wiser about what you get into.
I believe Sun Tzu is the classier version of that, "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake".
@@tonyweaver2353 I think that is a somewhat different scenario than what Tyson was describing. But I don't doubt that Sun Tzu had a saying which covered exactly what Tyson had in mind.
And then you bite the guy's ear off.
In the Army we say "no plan survives first contact with the enemy". That's why its important that all leaders understand the intent of the mission and have the ability to make decisions on the fly and adapt.
What did Aidid and his goons want? Same thing all warlords and dictators want: Power.
It never ends
What all the Somali militia people fighting there want?
Same as everybody else: leave them alone to live in peace.
@@foolsgold9993 um, no. They were committing genocide before the UN came. Fighting for warlords isn't for peace or to be left alone. That's propaganda they sell to the west to justify themselves. They fight because it let's them take what they want or they are brainwashed from childhood.
@@foolsgold9993 If by "live in peace" you mean "starve ANOTHER 300,000 Somali's to death" then sure... they wanted to "live in peace".
The warlords wanted power, but all his goons wanted was food. Im serious, I mean money is one thing and power they probably dont care for. Food though? Yea. Imagine being able to recruit an army of soldiers in exchange for one of the most basic needs for human survival. Heck, I bet he had clean water too.
Our son was a gunner on the one of the Blackhawks in this action. I recorded the movie 4 times, but could never watch it (I had served in Navy for 9 years). I apologized to my son because I couldn't watch the movie. His response was "that's OK, Dad. It was worse than the movie."
The quote by Plato; "Only the dead have seen the end of war" is so true.
They had some of the veterans as advisers and they said it's 90% accurate
1st crash site was in an alley, not a giant intersecting street with giant buildings; 2nd crash site was in a shanty town; and Somalis are skinny africans, they dont look like West Africans in this movie. Check out the book Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden.
@@DavidWi0207 I have it's a great Book as is In the Company of Heroes by Michael Durant
Regarding fame, Hartnett has said, "I know what it's like to be in that whole world. I was up there for a couple of years, and it was uncomfortable. I think trying to stay at the top is a shortcut to unhappiness." Hartnett took a break from acting, saying "I spent a bit of time really thinking about whether this was the right thing for me."
I know this video’s a few months old so this question was probably already answered, but “skinnies” is referring to the enemy. It’s the name given to the creatures/monsters/aliens in the novel Starship Troopers.
I love how the colonel has seen so much combat he just calmly walks around through combat. If he gets hit he gets hit. Like old officers in WW1. Stoic.
That moth attack reaction was adorable and hilarious.
"attack"
I grew up with Sergeant Dominick Pilla. He was the joker in the beginning that got called out by his commanding officer. Dominick was killed in the scene when they were driving through the streets. Dominick was always a joker and a great guy. He just had a local school named after him two years ago. The dedication ceremony was amazing. The surviving rangers from that mission flew in for the dedication. Many spoke at the ceremony. When they all stood up and recited the Ranger creed there wasn’t a dry eye in the place.
I enjoyed your reaction. It’s terrifying, heartbreaking, hilarious, bravery, and about anything else you can think of. I love my brothers and sisters.
I know one of the medics from this battle. It was pretty horrific.
Little known fact, the Somalis use of RPGs as anti-aircraft weapons was actually really creative. The RPG is not an anti-aircraft weapon. It's an anti-tank weapon. Pointed upward it only has a max range of 300 meters, and it leaves a smoke trail that can be easily tracked back to the person who fired it. Using an RPG to shoot down helicopters actually requires a high degree of skill and courage.
This movie came out when I was in basic training at Fort Knox, when I got to my unit it was definitely required viewing for everybody while hanging out in the barracks, call to prayer over the loudspeakers in this movie is eerily accurate to how it sounds in Iraq
I went Fort Knox for Basic too. :)
Right on! This was released on video when I was in basic training at Ft. Leonard Wood.
I was invited by a Green Beret buddy to a special screening in Santa Monica. Rangers at the time were still sporting the “Ranger cut” and you can tell who they were in a room full of Army SOF Warfighters, and Veterans. It was a memorable experience.
At the time people accused this movie of being pro-war. I disagree. I think it's an anti-war movie that is deeply PRO-soldier. To me, it strikes a nearly perfect balance in that regard. The only issue I think it suffers from is a more nuanced exploration of the Somalians themselves. But, no movie is truly perfect. Especially historical movies (except maybe Master and Commander).
I agree. It's like many American war movies in that regard. It doesn't really explore why the UN and the US are there except to paint Aidid as a bad guy. He was, but in tribal conflicts like this nobody is good. A lot of comments here talk about how Clinton didn't get involved in Rwanda because of the Somali experience- true, but at some point when an external force involves itself in these tribal fights you're literally just picking sides. The US has done this over and over, but its intentions are to protect its own interests, whether that be the group that will trade more with us, or the group that is anti-communist, whatever. It's never totally just about humanitarian missions. It can't be, because as soon as you prop up the underdog, they start slaughtering the people who were oppressing them before. There is almost never an innocent good side.
And note- when I say 'tribal', I'm not trying to pick on people from particular regions of the world. The same thing happened in Yugoslavia. The same thing is happening now in Ukraine, Armenia, Papua New Guinea, and Myanmar. We (the US) arguably kick-started new rounds of these tribal fights in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan through our war on terror. It has happened in Europe throughout history. Tribalism is endemic to humanity.
I dident think of it so much as having a message but more as a documentary of a war film. Not good or bad it just is...
@@happyjohn354 but, it's not a documentary. It's a portrayal based on a true story. Even documentaries have messages/narratives they are trying to tell.
@@happyjohn354 I thought is great showing how chaotic and scary war is.
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The Mogadishu war had a HUGE impact on the US foreign policy for the next decade.
The mission, which was supposed to be an hour at most turned into a nightmare for the soldiers, and resulted in the loss of 19 American lives. And the sight of American soldiers being
literally dragged in the streets of Mogadishu caused a tremendous uproar back home.
President Clinton himself was appalled, and for the rest of his presidency was literally afraid to use ground troops in an engagement, preferring to instead use surgical air strikes to eliminate specific targets.
This hesitancy was especially apparent in 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War, where Rwanda's Hutu militias slaughtered over a million of their ethnic rivals, the Tutsi. America, fearing a repeat of Somalia, did not involve itself militarily.
fun fact: In that cast are (almost) more non US actors than US.
australien: Eric Bana
danish: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
candian: Kim Coats (also US)
scottish: Ewan McGregor(the coffee guy), Ewan Bremner (the deaf guy)
english: Hugh Dancy (the medic), Jason Isaacs (Captain Steele), Tom Hardy (Twombly), Matthew Marsden (born in UK)
english: Orlando Bloom, George Harris (the somali weapon dealer), Razaaq Adoti (the somali antagonist), Trava Etienne(somali)
welsh: Ioan Gruffudd (The epileptic lieutenant), Ian Virgo (born in US, grown up in Wales - dual citizienship)
Costa Rica: Giannina Facio (the wife of Ridley Scott) she played Stepanie Shughart, the wife/widow of SFC Randy Shughart
A handful of war movies are incredibly important. Saving Private Ryan, Dunkirk, Enemy at the Gates, Schindler's List, this movie, and some others including the Band of Brothers series. We can't forget the heroism, horror, brotherhood, and realities of these conflicts.
I first saw this movie at a special screening in Santa Monica. I was invited by a Green Beret buddy, and I believe I was the only Marine in a room full of Army SOF Warfighters, and Veterans. It was a memorable experience.