Black Hawk Down: SE (1 Viewer)

[Brett C]

It sounds like a snippet of his score for Gladiator in that teaser trailer...

 

[John Nelson]

Well, for what it's worth, I had trouble playing the BHD 3-disc special edition on my Toshiba SD-3109 earlier in this thread and it appears my player is now unable to load any discs, so this was not a BHD specific problem.

Having said that, I've been watching these discs on my PC (until I get a new DVD player) and have to say this is an absolutely terrific special edition. Easily well worth the purchase even if you already own the bare bones original release. I really wanted this film, so I'm glad it was worthwhile to hold off on buying until now. The two and a half hour "Making of" feature was one of the best behind the scenes films I've seen, and it's organization into several accessible chapters made it easy to watch in sections. The timeline feature helped to clarify the overall picture of events, and the History Channel and Frontline documentaries are exactly what you want to explore after watching the film. A great, great job on this disc!

 

[Lyle_JP]

Anyone notice the hilarious goof in the Powerpoint presentation the Rangers were using at the actor's "Ranger Orientation"? The real Rangers were giving a lecture on a concept called "Violence of Action". But projected on the screen in the classroom was:

[c]VIOLENCE OF[/c]
[c]OF[/c]
[c]ACTION[/c]

Thankfully, they fight better than they prepare class materials. By the way, this is in the "Crash Course" documentary on disc 2.

Also, on the "Getting it Right" documentary, did anyone notice that Ewan MacGreggor was quite obviously ripping into George Lucas a bit, even though he doesn't mention him by name. Particularly when he talks about how Ridley knows exactly what he wants the film to look like, and is basically editting while he's filming, whereas "other directors I've worked with" will shoot 100 different pieces of coverage for a scene because they "really don't know what they want the final product to look like". Considering the miles and miles of videotape Lucas shot for Episode II, which then took about a year just to edit, it's pretty clear who Ewan is talking about.

-Lyle J.P.

 

[Ken_McAlinden]

Considering the miles and miles of videotape Lucas shot for Episode II, which then took about a year just to edit, it's pretty clear who Ewan is talking about.

Unless, of course, it's Baz Luhrmann.

Regards,

 

[TommyT]

Hmmmmm, I wonder what Ewan would've thought of working with Stanley Kubrick if he'd gotten the chance? I guess some directors have a better sense of economical filmmaking.

Let's hope he doesn't get fired by you-know-who. He's a great Obi-Wan!

 

[Magnus T]

Great set. Also, it was wonderful to have a seamless layer change. Hope Columbia uses this on all their new releases. Adaptation also had one.

 

[Danny_Tam]

Where as the layer change? Was it the scene where one of the Rangers spots his friend's dismembered hand on the ground? It paused slightly but I couldn't tell if it was done in editing or what.

 

[Jeff Adams]

How does the picture quality and audio compare to the first release?

 

[Kevin Leonard]

Where as the layer change? Was it the scene where one of the Rangers spots his friend's dismembered hand on the ground? It paused slightly but I couldn't tell if it was done in editing or what.

No, that was done intentionally--I remember that pause vividly while watching it in the theater.

 

[JoshB]

Yes, that pause showing the dismembered hand was intentional. To answer a previous question, the picture and sound quality are the same as the previous release of BHD.

 

[Declan]

Found a custom cover for the Deluxe Edition (Charlie de Lauzirika, hope i'm not stepping on your toes) at dvdcoverart.com

Heres the BHD custom cover page:

and...

here is a large preview of the cover

 

[Charles de Lauzirika]

You're not stepping on my toes, Declan. I hate the "big head Josh" cover!

I've created several custom DVD covers myself, so it's always fun to see what other people come up with.

 

[Declan]

Cheers Charlie...... it would be great to see some of your own takes of the cover.


Might photoshop one up for myself, always loved the original cover of the disc that was used as the original r1 and the r2 art. Cant stand "Big head" covers either. HMV did a really cool looking special edition cover with white black hawks matted onto a completely black background slipcase when the r2 SpEd came out last September. Really looked the part that one.

 

[Bill J]

I really liked some of the poster concept art on disc 3. Particularly the one showing the shadow of the helicopter against the sand dune. Too bad that (or something like it) wasn't the cover art for the special edition.


I'm almost finished going through the entire set (I just have the writer's commentary track left). One feature I enjoyed that few others have mentioned was the multi-angle insertion sequence. It was pretty interesting since you could see the Rangers throw a dummy soldier out of one of the helicopters. It also made me further appreciate Pietro Scalia's outstanding editing.

 

[Ken_McAlinden]

The layer change occurs between two lines of dialog and it is indeed seamless like a lot of the Superbit titles. Nice touch, Charlie & team.

It occurs in the chapter before the second helicopter goes down right after Sam Shepard (IIRC) asks a question about Strueker's vehicle(s). I don't have it in front of me, so I can't give you the exact time (or line).

Regards,