Black Hawk Down [Blu-ray]
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Movie Reviews of Black Hawk Down [Blu-ray]
Movie Review: Very good
Summary: 5 Stars
Great film. The image has too much grain in my opinion, however it's the movie language not a defect.Movie Review: Incredible Graphics Incredible Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
Guess this is a movie for die hard fans!
Great quality and sound!
Plays well in my ps3
Movie Review: Good Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this movie over 8 times. This is a very good movie.Movie Review: Excellent Picture Quality - Excellent Sound - Excellent Movie!
Summary: 4 Stars
Forget the previous review bashing this disc for using Mpeg2. It was written by an obvious HD DVD zealot who knows not of which he speaks. Just about every professional reviewer that has seen this disc has given it high marks for picture quality, and I concur. There is no DVD player or upscaler in the world that will match this Blu-ray disc in picture quality, and that doesn't even take into account the excellent, uncompressed Linear PCM soundtrack! Superb! Forget about VC-1. Why does everybody want to squeeze everything down into the smallest space possible and throw information away? Because that is what the VC-1 codec does. Can it look good? Sure it can, but so can Mpeg2 - and this Mpeg2, mind you, is not the same 'old' Mpeg2, this is a new version of Mpeg2 with new extensions for authoring HD content.
On a 50GB dual-layered Blu-ray disc such as this (HD DVD maxes out at 30GB, by the way), high bitrate Mpeg2 transfers can be and often are excellent, and quite transparent. This transfer looks completely natural. There are no compression artifacts apparent, film grain is true, and real, colours are natural, the blacks are deep and shadow detail is superb.
So forget about what video codec is being used (Blu-ray can use Mpeg2, H.264/AVC or VC-1), don't let anyone try to convince you of the 'inferiority of Blu-ray and Mpeg2 ', and enjoy this excellent film on this superior high definition disc format.
One other note, Amazon incorrectly lists Vin Diesel and Samuel L. Jackson as starring in this film. They are not in this film. I think they may have mixed up the credits with the film Pitch Black.
Movie Review: Where Are the Dead Somalis?
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a well made film with compelling visuals shot in Africa, very good sound effects that depict the deadly noises of combat and a tight storyline.
The film, like the book, fails to depict the numbers of Somalis killed in the fighting. Large numbers of Somali civilians died in the US v. Aidid militia combat. Aidid's militia wore no uniforms and mingled amidst civilians, but massive US firepower did kill many innocents.
The gruesome dragging of dead US servicemen received and continues to receive attention but the dead Somalis are basically invisible. Ridley Scott does present a few scenes of Somali suffering, such as the opening shot where starving villagers are shot up by a Technical .50 Cal, a young boy accidentally zaps his gun wielding father and a Somali man cradling a dead child walks by a retreating US HummVee.
A famous war cameraman, whose name I can't remember, stated in interviews that huge numbers of Somali elders and children perished under US air strikes and that led to the murder of an American cameraman.