these later replies have really clued me in to why this is popular.
it's an 'intellectual' movie for complete morons.
The sniping section was pretty dumb. A non-sniper just grabs a Barret and hits a moving target half a mile a way. And the insurgent sniper apparently can't make the exact same shot he made a minute ago that killed the British guy who was in the exact same spot.
Exactly. And then the movie shows the world we live in (the grocery scene) which is the exact opposite. The main character has nerves of steel to the point that nothing can give him the rush he needs to feel alive besides disarming an IED in Iraq. Wasnt the main point of the movie to show that he is an adrenaline junky constantly in search of his next rush? Not only that but it also showed that wide range of characters in the military - not everyone is a crazy adrenaline junky.
except for the fact that SOLDIERS DON'T DISARM BOMBS IN IRAQ.
they might as well make a movie about a mobile brain surgery unit, where they poke around in people's skulls while they get shot at.
if you want something with no grounding in reality, go watch cartoons.
lol, yes, i said EOD doesn't exist.
go watch your puerile cinematic slop, simpleton.
lol, yes, i said EOD doesn't exist.
go watch your puerile cinematic slop, simpleton.
ooh, i'm 'talking smack' to the mods by saying the exact same things they've said to me. he can go ban himself, if he wants to make a big deal about it.
my 'hard-on for this movie' (whatever sense that statement makes) is due to the fact that cinema in this country has becomes a joke, a two hour bit of escapism where morons can turn their pea-sized brains off.
also, please, since you're an EOD expert, go ask some EOD guys how many blasting caps they've dug out of bombs while praying someone didn't blow them up. no. grounding. in. reality. sorry, but that's a requirement for anything that's not a superhero movie (and to be fair, movies like spiderman and batman made more effort to coherent an logical than this pile of trash).
you couldn't buy a clue, dude.
ooh, i'm 'talking smack' to the mods by saying the exact same things they've said to me. he can go ban himself, if he wants to make a big deal about it.
my 'hard-on for this movie' (whatever sense that statement makes) is due to the fact that cinema in this country has becomes a joke, a two hour bit of escapism where morons can turn their pea-sized brains off.
also, please, since you're an EOD expert, go ask some EOD guys how many blasting caps they've dug out of bombs while praying someone didn't blow them up. no. grounding. in. reality. sorry, but that's a requirement for anything that's not a superhero movie (and to be fair, movies like spiderman and batman made more effort to be coherent and logical than this pile of trash).
by saying this movie is good, you're rewarding the rampant retardation of everyone associated with its making. quit it.
except for the fact that SOLDIERS DON'T DISARM BOMBS IN IRAQ.
they might as well make a movie about a mobile brain surgery unit, where they poke around in people's skulls while they get shot at.
if you want something with no grounding in reality, go watch cartoons.
He should know: in 2004, he cut his way through a forest of red tape to be accepted as an embedded journalist with the EOD the crack bomb disposal unit in Baghdad, where he spent two weeks. It was eye-opening to see the tidal wave of bombs erupting all over the city and the everyday courage and professionalism of the people trying to deal with it, Boal, 36, says with dry understatement. The EODs had become the central tactic of the insurgency and were thrust into a role that they had never played before in any other war. It was an incredibly lethal, unpredictable environment, between the bombs and the gunfire. Not to mention the kidnappings and executions. Journalists were a high-value target for propaganda reasons, like Danny Pearl [murdered in Pakistan in 2002, as dramatised in Michael Winterbottoms A Mighty Heart] and Michael Kelly [killed in Iraq in 2003]. It was difficult to quantify the threat when you dont speak the language and the enemy is not wearing a uniform or engaging in traditional warfare but using hit-and-run ambush tactics. I tried to capture all this in The Hurt Locker.
I don't know, I was talking to my cousin at Christmas and he has done two tours (maybe three?) in Iraq and I think at least one in Afganhistan and he said the film felt pretty realistic overall. He said he could easily pick it apart, but for a Hollywood war movie it was well done and was the best fictional Iraq film he had seen to date.
I have to say I would go with his opinion over anyone else's here.
KT
ooh, i'm 'talking smack' to the mods by saying the exact same things they've said to me. he can go ban himself, if he wants to make a big deal about it.
my 'hard-on for this movie' (whatever sense that statement makes) is due to the fact that cinema in this country has becomes a joke, a two hour bit of escapism where morons can turn their pea-sized brains off.
ooh, i'm 'talking smack' to the mods by saying the exact same things they've said to me. he can go ban himself, if he wants to make a big deal about it.
my 'hard-on for this movie' (whatever sense that statement makes) is due to the fact that cinema in this country has becomes a joke, a two hour bit of escapism where morons can turn their pea-sized brains off.
You can talk to mods the same way you'd talk to anyone else as long as you're talking to them as a member and not a mod (that is, if you don't reference their moderator status then they're like anyone else).
Personal insults are not allowed in any forum, but that rule usually isn't enforced.
I think you've spent too much time alone with your thoughts in the Fart Locker.
I thought it was a great movie. I thought it was intellectually deeper than you give it credit for. Like a previous poster referred to the scene where he is in the grocery cereal aisle. The scene where they are getting drunk and beating the piss out of each other shows the wildness and built up aggression the troops are most definitely going through. Then when the guy goes to sleep he asks the other soldier if he thinks he has what it takes to put the suit on. At that moment I thought about it and that question made me think of what kind of nerves of steel it takes to really do something like that. The hurt locker is the first realistic portrayal of the horror that goes on out there and for that alone deserves the praise it's getting.
I thought it was great. I can see not liking the film, but calling it "stupid" or "terribad" is silly. It is very well put together, shot well, and has some interesting, well written scenes, if nothing else.
KT
Fwiw :
(1)- We don't know the background of the 'non-sniper', but anyone who's spent a lot of quality time with a rifle and a good many weekends at the range is capable of some pretty decent shots.
(2)- When you're shooting at the very edge of you and your weapon's range, it's pretty hard to put the same shot into the same spot over and over. You have a spread.