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Originally Posted by Ace Pace
All his war movies are spot on, mixing realisim with hollywood cool stuff...
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Black Hawk Down was awful. He completely missed the point of the book, and cut out all references to the NATO (mostly Canadian) abuses that led up to the situation in Somalia. Apparently he got the movie made by collaborating with the US military, and it shows. What he made was a watered-down and context-free military-approved whitewash of the whole affair. It was sickening.
Don't get me wrong. I used to revere Ridley Scott as a moviemaking genius. The Duellists and Alien were incredibly good, and Blade Runner was great although flawed by some very poor post-production work. But recently, with pulp commercial tripe like Gladiator and Black Hawk Down, I fear he's sold out. I think the appalling White Squall sent him off the rails.