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May 06, 2005
Movie Reviewers suck
So I'm looking up reviews about this new swords and sand movie, Kingdom of Heaven, fearing it's a jihadi's wet dream, and I come across a movie review in the Washington Times that drones on about this and that, and kisses Sir Ridley Scott's bum ad nauseum, and then I read this scrumptious little tidbit of moronic dribble:
Fair enough, but the movie's imbalance extends beyond the schoolyard-scuffle question of who started it. (I say this as a fan of Mr. Scott, who conveyed obvious admiration for American Marines in "Black Hawk Down" and, during our talk, expressed sympathy for the Bush administration's quandary about how best to respond to September 11.)Huh? Marines? In Black Hawk Down, the film? In reality? Why not just say "Those big mean guys with guns". There were no Marines in the "Battle of Mogadishu". There were US Army Rangers and Delta Force. Task Force Ranger was ARMY, Mr. Scott Galupo. Even if you know nothing about what went on in Somalia, if you saw the movie, you'd know they were Army. And as a movie reviewer, you'd think the guy would have at least remembered the difference between Army and Marines in a movie he's reviewed.
If Mr. Galupo is interested, he should learn more about what really happended:
FRONTLINE'S "Ambush in Mogadishu"
Somalia/Operation GOTHIC SERPENT - nightstalkers.com
Blackhawk Down Series - Philadelphia Inquirer
Operation Restore Hope - GlobalSecurity.org
US Army 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment (Airborne)
DELTA - GlobalSecurity.org
US Army 75th Ranger Regiment - GlobalSecurity.org
160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) - GlobalSecurity.org
10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry)- GlobalSecurity.org
Posted by cystdog at May 6, 2005 07:00 AM
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