The Hurt Locker (movie)

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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT3D2PJ0igc]YouTube - man forced to wear suicide bomb vest[/ame]

^ I almost shed a tear. :sadcrying4:
 


If you haven't seen the movie don't watch the clip.

Movie is awesome and worth seeing in full, and you have to see that scene in the original context.
 
I'm a vet and I loved the movie...

I'm a little nit picky about some of the details, like the fact they reference Youtube yet mention Camp Liberty had recently had its name changed to Camp Victory, which happened before I got there in '04... And a lot of other nit picky shit that people who weren't there wouldn't give a shit about.

But overall it's my favorite movie about OIF. It's a fairly realistic, and does an awesome job of portraying the "rush" and the adrenaline addiction people experience in combat.

I will never go back over there. But you'll never feel as alive as you do when mortar shrapnel misses you by a few feet.

I agree, skip that clip if you haven't seen it. It surprised me, I'm pretty cynical about war movies about Iraq, but they did a good job with Hurt Locker.

One last note, for those of you who've seen it, a lot of that shit just wouldn't happen in real life. But it's fiction, not a documentary, and as a fictional portrayal it's pretty good.

-Scott
 
I heard mixed reviews, some say its too long with too much chatter and not enough action. That the trailer has all the action scenes in it.
I found 4-5 scenes on youtube - defusing bombs and sniper duel, I guess that pretty much sums it up.
 
One of the biggest disappointments ever. I don't really get why there's so much love over this movie.

The pace is terrible and so is the story, I mean really a whole lot of not much happens.
 
James_Clarke said:
I heard mixed reviews, some say its too long with too much chatter and not enough action. That the trailer has all the action scenes in it.
I found 4-5 scenes on youtube - defusing bombs and sniper duel, I guess that pretty much sums it up.
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It's not about action scenes. For that, check out Black Hawk Down.
 
Did you guy see it in the theater? It is a different movie with theater's sound effect (just like avatar, it is so much worse watching it on TV). Best action movie since Die Hard 3.
 
Fatbat said:
I've never served, but from what I can gather from friend's accounts, a lot of being in the military is like that. "hurry up and do nothing" interspersed occasionally with intense moments.
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Doesn't mean it makes for good cinema.
 
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