Black Hawk Down

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante

Originally posted by: zinfamous

Originally posted by: destrekor

Originally posted by: Arkaign
Book > Movie. Sorry to say it, it's a great film, but there's simply waaaaaaay too much detail to fit into a 2-hour film.

Only perfect way to do it would be a la Band of Brothers, ten 1-hour episodes to tell the story in greater detail.

and I know people who say it still isn't better than the book. Suffice it to say, I don't think there exists a movie that anyone has deemed better than the book its based on. Just the nature of the mediums I think, and the ability to craft your own characters in your mind, versus a film telling you what you see and hear.
Regardless, I still need to get around to reading quite a few war books that I haven't read. Band of Brothers, We Were Soldiers Once... and Young, and Black Hawk Down, among a few others.

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the LoTR films are >>>>>>better than the books.

perhaps it's b/c I read the books when I was older, and not at the adolescent age that they are written for, but the characters as depicted in the books are flat and worthless. the language is somewhat trite.

The films depict the characters with actual motivation, and internal complications.

O RLY? I liked the movies, but there was a lot of cool stuff they left out of the movies. There was no Mouth of Sauron for one thing (IMO one of the coolest characters ever).

uh...watch the EE of Return of the King. "The mouth" is certainly there.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

I like this film quite a bit. I owned it on DVD, rebought it when it was released on Blu-ray. I haven't been able to watch it since my friend returned from Iraq late last year; he told me how he's unable to watch any war movies now because they remind him of combat (especially modern films like BHD). Great film though, I'll have to give it another viewing sometime.