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Black
Hawk Down
(Deluxe
Edition)
(Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment)
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Release Date:
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June
3, 2003
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Length:
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144 mins.
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| Rated:
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R
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| Format:
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Widescreen (2.35:1)
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Audio:
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English (Dolby Digital 5.0), French (Dolby Digital 5.0), Spanish
(Dolby Digital 5.1)
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| Subtitles:
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English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Thai, Closed-Captioned
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| Extras:
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Commentary
by Jerry Bruckheimer and Ridley Scott, Commentary by Mark Bowden
and Ken Nolan, Commentary by U.S. Special Forces Veterans ('93),
Theatrical Trailers, The Essence of Combat: Making Black Hawk
Down, 8 Deleted and Alternate Scenes with Commentary, Production
Design Archive, Storyboards with Commentary, Ridleygrams with
Commentary, Jerry Bruckheimer's Black Hawk Down Photo Album,
Opening Title Explorations, Photo Galleries, The History Channel
Presents: The True Story of Black Hawk Down, PBS Presents:
Frontline: Ambush in Mogadishu, Interactive Mission
Map/Timeline, Target Building Insertion, Multi-Angle Sequence
with Commentary, Q&A Forums, Music Video, Theatrical Poster
Explorations
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With one of the most mesmerizing
trailers I had ever seen, this film amazingly exceeded even my
expectations. A strong visual style served to enhance the end-to-end
military action and a powerful score set up an intensely purposeful
mood. But lacking many conventional storytelling traits, the plot did
tend to feel like a glorified re-enactment. Although one-dimensional
in that regard, this movie nonetheless remained entirely compelling.
And that, is the hallmark of great films.
This three DVD set had an enormous amount of welcomed extras. Disc one
had the movie, cast and crew filmographies and three illuminating
commentaries. The first was mostly with director Ridley Scott, though
producer Jerry Bruckheimer did have a few words as well on the
production of the movie. The second touched on the story itself with
author Mark Bowden and screenwriter Ken Nolan. The third one was from
four veterans of the battle as they recounted their actual
experiences. Each track was a worthwhile listen and were nicely
indexed by topics discussed.
Disc two had production oriented extras including, a lengthy but
terrific in-depth documentary on the making of the film, eight minor
deleted scenes with text descriptions and an optional commentary, a
shorter featurette on the city design, two storyboard comparisons with
optional comments, a huge collection of design and production photos,
several Bruckheimer photos and a look at an alternate opening title
sequence, again with optional commentary.
The third disc held two informative gems, a marvelous History Channel
presentation and a wonderful PBS episode dealing with the real event.
Also on this disc were a clarifying timeline of the mission, a cool
multiple camera look at the insertion scene with optional commentary,
a music video, short video clips from three Q & A forums with
various participants, poster concepts, the theatrical trailer and ten
TV spots.
A more than worthy DVD set to complement this fine film.
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10/10 |
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10/10 |
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| Recommendation: |
One For The Library |
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