7 Days in Entebbe

[Det-Sog]

Now I'm not so sure I want to spend the money:

https://www.themaven.net/theresurgen...oUaUtkbx8FYPpA

Saw it last night. One word review: SUCKS.

Just read the review Sam posted. I have nothing to add.

[Pilot1]

I saw "Raid on Entebbe" with Bronson when it first came out. Yeah, I'm that old. I haven't seen it since, but I remember it being well done, and YES the terrorists were the bad guys! I will forever think of Yaphet Kotto as Idi Amin.

[yoni]

I am so pissed off!

When or how can we stop the liberal scum from rewriting history.

At the rate the world is going. I think the day will come that every vet of elite units in the IDF or maybe all who served in the IDF will be war criminals.

[soulezoo]

After that review, I won't be watching.

[Sam]

I will forever think of Yaphet Kotto as Idi Amin.

Field Marshall Idi Amin Dada - president for life to you buddy

Yeah I saw that movie too, when it finally came on TV.

[SteyrAUG]

Thankfully I have Operation Thunderbolt, Raid on Entebbe and Victory at Entebbe in my film library so no need to watch this revisionist version. Sometimes the best film was still made back in the 70s as is the case with Tora, Tora, Tora.

It saddens me that they chose to butcher this story, between this one and the SAS operation at Princess Gate these are the two exceptions to the rule regarding hostage rescue success cases. Entebbe was truly a case of "so that others may live" with no guarantee of a successful operation.

For a real life story, that is rare.

But following Munich, Israel and their defense forces were willing to risk it all to prevent another massacre. Even knowing how badly the last one went, accepting that they might take heavy losses only to see all of those they wished to rescue murdered at the last minute, they had no shortage of men who still wanted to do it.

And not only did they actually go do it, they won. That almost never happens. I'd say I wish somebody would make a movie about that, but thankfully they have made three of them. And while it is true Yonatan Netanyahu was lost in the effort, for every person who ever wished they could have saved somebody from the death camps or a similar fate, Yonatan hopefully died knowing he had achieved exactly that and that he willingly exchanged his life for the lives of innocents being held by fanatical extremists.

They only thing I feel bad about other than that is nobody managed to zip Idi Amin. But maybe nobody on the Mossad team felt he was worth the exchange for the lives of any of their members.

[Moose-Knuckle]

Great "feel good about the good guys" story. Hope this new version doesn't try to rewrite history. Operation Thunderbolt occured over our Bi-Centenial, when Israel went to extraordinary lengths to rescue their own when no one else would help.

While a few hostages were killed, I believe the only Israeli commando killed was the leader of the rescue mission, who just happened to be the brother of the now current Israeli PM.

The book on this mission makes for a facinating and compelling read.

It's been awhile since I read up on it, but IIRC the only hostage that was killed was a teenage boy who stood up suddenly after lying prone as the IDF commandos were exchanging gunfire with enemy personnel.

Now I'm not so sure I want to spend the money:

https://www.themaven.net/theresurgen...oUaUtkbx8FYPpA

Thanks for posting this, just saved me some time and money.

[yoni]

Idi Amin after he was thrown from power first lived in Libya and later Saudi Arabia.

He wasn't worth the resources it would have taken to kill him.

Besides if we killed him one day in the future they would probably make a movie showing us the bad guy colonialist racist that killed a great leader of his people.

Of course nobody would bring up the 500,000 people murdered by his rule or the fact he liked man meat. I don't mean that the way Yasser Arafat liked man meat. Amin was a cannibal.

[SteyrAUG]

Idi Amin after he was thrown from power first lived in Libya and later Saudi Arabia.

He wasn't worth the resources it would have taken to kill him.

Besides if we killed him one day in the future they would probably make a movie showing us the bad guy colonialist racist that killed a great leader of his people.

Of course nobody would bring up the 500,000 people murdered by his rule or the fact he liked man meat. I don't mean that the way Yasser Arafat liked man meat. Amin was a cannibal.

I meant more along the lines of it's a shame he wasn't nearby to get smoked when everything went down. He hosted the entire event which means he was neck deep in what everyone assumed would be a hostage bloodletting like Munich. I understand not wasting the resources on somebody who was otherwise just a worthless POS tin pot dictator.

[Honu]

while back I a posted hollywood is lost on entertainment
they just remake everything and are doing a poor job

a few are OK that get through but often based on something else marvel studios as example which the only reason its doing well is the fan base is not just a movie

but movies based on new stories not remakes redo etc.. in the last ten years are pretty much non existent and its showing big time

the massive political idiocy in them today etc..

I will not go support any movie at the box office for that reason alone why support them when I know it will be out for free soon enough if I choose to see it

reckon one more proof this is happening