The Hurt Locker (movie)
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District 9 or Zombieland should have won!
I know a lot of you guys like District 9, but I'm sorry, I walked out of that movie saying WTF. It had its moments, I won't deny. And I was entertained. But I was also filled with a sense of "this is just too much" way too often. It went from the sublime to the ridiculous quickly IMO.
There weren't a hell of a lot of "incredible" movies in 09, let's face it... which explains why this years Oscars was a yawnfest.
I'm a combat vet but I haven't seen Hurt Locker yet, I should get it via netflix this week. From what I've been told by other guys, it is a good movie.
however.... EOD is not that badass lol
District 9 or Zombieland should have won!
Agreed, Zombieland was good, and District 9 was awesome.
District 9 was the biggest disappointment of 2009. We all expected it to be good, but even my 12 year old son said that movie was gay. It looked like a SciFi channel reject. How anybody thought that was a great movie amazes me.
Hurt Locker was good, not great.
Avatar would have won with a decent script.
But fuck the statue - I'd take the $2 billion profit that Avatar made.
Hurt Locker was good, not great.
Avatar would have won with a decent script.
But fuck the statue - I'd take the $2 billion profit that Avatar made.
Personally, I felt that The Hurt Locker deserved every award it got. It was the only time I ever watched the Academy Awards. This movie isn't about an EOD team. It's not about the War in Iraq. Not about bombs. It delves into that physiological aspect and addicting nature that war can possess. It's about a man who isn't comfortable anywhere else but straddling a bomb. That enitre movie is summed up when he is standing in the cereal isle. He's lost in our world, the world we know. Where everything is layed out perfectly. Where there are no tough decisions. The exchange between Anthony and Jeremy after the clip sums up the entire movie. Anthony's character is pouring his heart out, how he want's a son, doesn't want to die, etc. And you can see the look on Jeremy's face and how he responds, he doesn't know how to relate to him. For him war is his true love. There's nowhere he would rather be.
Just my opinion, I thought it was one of the best war films ever made.
Just my opinion, I thought it was one of the best war films ever made.
OH FUCK YES! I knew they were making it but I had no idea it was done. Thanks for the heads up.
The Hurt Locker is a great film and deserving of the Oscar...big ups to Kathryn Bigelow for beating her ex-husband (James Cameron) for best director!
People you do realize "The Hurt Locker" did only $10 million in profit, while "Avatar" made over $230 million? One is a failure compared to the other.
Avatar should of won, just based on the above numbers.
Avatar should of won, just based on the above numbers.
---That movie fucked with my head for 3 days. I couldn't sleep right and started fighting/grappling with everybody. It was great. Second to Black Hawk Down.
They were pretty on point with the intensity and rushes of the emotions/situations playing out.
Makes me want to shoot somebody in the face and hear the lamentations of their women like Conan.
They were pretty on point with the intensity and rushes of the emotions/situations playing out.
Makes me want to shoot somebody in the face and hear the lamentations of their women like Conan.
The only thing I didn't care for in the movie was what an arrogant fool the lead character was. None of the guys I met working OD were like that, quite the opposite. They were all about staying safe and not unecessarily endangering anyone including themselves. Ordnance guys were the most cautious and calm guys I ever met in uniform, hands down.
It wasn't an award for most popular film. Would you consider a Britney Spears album better than say an unknown yet massively more talented band just because she sold more albums? Avatar was a tired plot. Oppressive powerful invaders take over the land/resources/town/ of a quiet peaceful civilization/native people/city for their own monetary gain. Unlikely hero becomes native peoples only hope. For a moment, all seems lost. Natives mount a seemingly futile attempt at resistance, and win. Unlikely hero falls in love with native woman who happens to the daughter of someone important. The Hurt Locker was art, Avatar - just entertainment. That's why it won.
It's been done so many times before. Nothing original about it. It was an entertaining movie. I had fun with it. But it was by no means worthy of best anything. Hell, I wish The Hurt Locker got the award for best cinematography too. The shots in that movie were way more powerful and well done than anything in Avatar. I honestly think the only reason Avatar won anything was people were too afraid to give Locker a clean sweep.
Good thing it wasn't a documentary. It wasn't meant to show the lives of EOD, that just happened to be the unit the screenwriter was embedded with. The story could have been told with any number of different units, but I think EOD was a wise choice. This isn't some "based on a true story" type movie. It's taking you inside the head of those who's true love is war itself. Most people look at the first two hours of the movie as being what the core of the movie was about. But it's not. The entire movie is building up the the last 15 minutes. When he's not in Iraq, but stateside. That was what the movie was about. Showing a man who doesn't feel comfortable outside of a war zone. Yes, he doesn't resemble typical OD soldiers, he's not supposed to.
Actually, there's many military members who were initially working with the film's producers, but severed ties because they felt she wasn't being accurate to true life.
Virtually every person who's actually done that kind of work says she portrayed them in an untrue light, as some type of cowboys looking for an adrenaline rush, to the point where they talk about openly laughing at her depictions of them.
There's a reason the military stopped working with her, just like there's a reason she won those awards; the whole thing's political. She's a typical Hollywood monkey, and she danced just like they wanted her to so she could take her shiny bananas home and reaffirm her deluded preconceptions to herself.
It's political? Have you seen it? If anything, it's the only movie based on the recent wars that leaves politics completely out of it. So you say that she is a "typical Hollywood monkey" eh? A person who "danced just like they wanted her to?" Who is they? Who made her dance? How and why? What about the movie was so political and manipulative? I really look forward to you trying to explain that. Please cite specific scenes and/or interview of the cast and crew. Not some article about butt hurt soldiers who can't comprehend what the movie was really about.
Besides, If that were the case, why did she have so much trouble finding financing (p.s. the guy who financed the bulk of the movie, is a nobody in Hollywood)? Why was it shelved for a year? Why did they have trouble finding a distributor? If she was just another Hollywood Monkey, don't you think those feeding her bananas would have been a tad more helpful? Everything is a conspiracy apparently.
I'm not denying that the portrayal of OD soldiers is innacurate. BECAUSE THE MOVIE IS NOT ABOUT EOD SOLDIERS! IT'S NOT ABOUT EOD OPERATIONS IN IRAQ! Fucking A! Uhh Ohh, Hollywood made a movie that takes place during the Iraq War, it has to be some liberal hit piece right? Fuck me. This movie was never meant to be an accurate portrayal of those who really do the job. It is a fictional story of a fictional individual. Fiction. FUCKING FICTION. Why is that so difficult to understand? I mean fuck, at the top of this thread you have a member who was there, saying it was accurate, the rush and adrenalin of war that is. God damn man.