Is anyone going to see the movie Entebbe?

[Bear Paw Jack]

This takes places in what was previously called Uganda, with Idi Amin (a psychopathic killer) running the country. The people that did this were apparently Palestinians, that released everyone that wasn't Jewish. Apparently Israel set a plan to get their people back and were largely successful with something like 4 deaths of people who were being held. They had to come up with a plan and pull it off in fairly short order.
Just some back round info above, if you don't know any of the story. Sounds like it has a lot of potential, but looking forward to some reports.

 

[Paul B]

Years back there was a movie called IIRC, Operation Thunderbolt. Same story and very well done. Apparently historically correct. I'd probably see the new version and hope Hollyweird doesn't screw it up.
Paul B.

 

[Fox Mike]

Saw the movie made a long time ago about it. I see no need to see another one.

 

[Ka6otm]

Raid On Entebbe, 1976

Good Flic IIRC
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076594/

 

[Bear Paw Jack]

Operation Thunderbolt, Entebbe documentary... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3LTfZ1CZ1g
The above is a documentary. There is always the original Raid on Entebbe with Charles Bronson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Kh4S_6z0ss

 

[Jeepnik]

Why do I suspect that the hijackers will be portrayed as the hero's in this version. And Amin as just a poor misunderstood leader of a country victimized by the west.

 

[Bear Paw Jack]

By the time I watch the documentary and the original movie, I may have no need to give hollyweird any of my money. :mrgreen:

 

[GunnyGene]

Saw the first one. More than once. Don't really care much for remakes of any movie. :roll:

 

[loaded round]

I would like to see it.

 

[Tenbore]

It seems like 99% of all new movies these days are just rehashes of older ones. Can't they come up with something original?

 

[Bear Paw Jack]

I think they have. I don't go to many movies, but 12 Strong was an amazing movie as well as The Darkest Hour, about Winston Churchill. Just a brilliant movie. Can't say much about others as I haven't seen many.

 

[pisgah]

I remember when the raid happened. I've seen the old movie version, but I'd watch a well-made remake. Helluva operation. Benjamin Netanyahu's brother was killed in the raid, and after Operation Entebbe was over it was renamed Operation Yonatan in his honor.

 

[Daveboone]

I well remember it when it happened. It inspired J. Carter when he was president to launch a similar raid into Iran, which was a total disaster. As I recall, Raid On Entebbe was a TV movie, but very well done.
Side note: As Bear Paw Jack mentioned, The Darkest Hour is a fantastic movie. Despite knowing how all ends up, to see Churchills position at the time, decisions and actions is amazing. Without a doubt, the one man who is responsible for the path of the war changing.

 

[Daveboone]

Side bar:
Another great movie about Amin and Uganda, is The Last King of Scotland (think I got the title right), from the viewpoint of a Scottish physician who gets trapped within Amins circle.

 

[vito]

I hope to see the movie, and like others here, I have seen the earlier version and liked it. Back then the Israelies were pragmatic and brave, and knew nothing good would come out of this event if they failed to act. They knew they could not release Palestinian terrorists to the Palestinians who hijacked the jet, and they knew that the Jews who were being held hostage would face torture and/or death if not rescued. Israel was pretty confident in its abilities, having recently beat the combined Arab armies in the Yom Kippur War in 1973, and had a realistic view of their place in the world. Unfortunately today there is a sizable portion of the Israelie population that is just so tired of the endless conflict with the Arabs that they have deluded themselves into thinking that if just one more time they give in to Arab demands that maybe this time it will bring peace. Fortunately they have a leader who is a realist and at least for now the government is not knuckling under to the peace fantasy followers.

I wonder if this new movie will pick up on the "we must have peace no matter what" feeling and portray this past event as if both sides were morally equivalent. This is sort of what the Steven Speilberg movie "Munich" did, showing the Mossad agents getting revenge against terrorists for the murder of Israelie athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic games as not much different from those they were killing. That ruined the movie for me and I hope the same is not done in this new film about Entebbe.

 

[ProfessorWes]

Why do I suspect that the hijackers will be portrayed as the hero's in this version. And Amin as just a poor misunderstood leader of a country victimized by the west.

According to this post by Kathy Shaidle, that's pretty much how the new Entebbe movie plays out.

https://www.fivefeetoffury.com/2018/03/17/so-its-not-just-me-seven-days-in-entebbe-and-the-nostalgia-for-1970s-terrorism/

I miss the days when no one but their fellow (terrorist) freaks "understood their motivations, if not their methods" — a well-rehearsed rhetorical gambit that was practically one very long word, as familiar to my ears back then as the jingles for Coke and McDonald's.

The days when we blew the terrorists away, in a Los Angeles "safe house" or on the tarmac in Africa.

The days when we all (not just some of us, like today) hated the "Arabs" and cheered for Israel, for the Jews, and their, to us, seemingly new-found determination to be macho ass-kickers.

Meh. I'll stick with Charles Bronson's original "Raid on Entebbe" instead. Less feelings, more determined macho ass-kicking delivered without apologies.

 

[Jeepnik]

July of 1976 I was stationed at Torejon AB outside of Madrid. Pretty much every US military base around the Med went on alert. I suspect every AFB in USAFE did as well.

It was a nervous time. What the Israelis pulled off was quite stunning. And frankly, after they left Entebbe most of our pilots were wanting to turn Libya into one large hole in the ground. A scant ten years later they finally got the chance.

 

[Bear Paw Jack]

Thanks for the input.