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Trailer (http://www.apple.com/trailers/summit/thehurtlocker/hd/)

This looks promising, an action film with substance and apparently the first worthy movie accounting the war in Iraq. It's getting very good reviews.

Anyone heard anything about this?

Bah. Thought this was about Demolition Man. "I'm gonna find him, I'm gonna catch him, and then I'm gonna put him in a hurt locker".

You didn't like "Three Kings"?

Three Kings was a brilliant, Joseph Heller half-hour followed by an bottomless stream of melodrama.

Wrong Iraq War.

So it's finally out nationwide this weekend.  I don't go to movies very often but I must say I'm glad I went out and saw this.  Anybody else see it?

Got it in at my work last week, but haven't gotten a chance to watch it yet.  Probably going in tomorrow to see it.

Really fucking good.

Man, everybody is saying this movie is great, guess I have to go see it.  Premise and trailer looked OK, it's just that the trailer seemed a little shallow.  Man defuses bombs in Iraq (which all happen to look the same..).  Over and over again.  TENSION.  Just seemed like it had a lot of potential to be stereotypical and/or bad.  Went and saw Moon on the advice of a bunch of random people though (which was great), and the trailer for this played in front of it, so I guess I'll throw the dice again.   :awesome_for_real:

Luckily, Berkeley has an Indie movie theater that is really really damn nice.

A big draw with this director is that she understands and portrays male characters in action flicks better than most men do.

Great movie. Seek it out.

It was alright.  It was worth the money to see, but probably not something I'd want to watch over and over again.  It seemed short to me, I think it could have used a bit more story.

We got a hadji copy of it over here a few months ago, ant the general consensus was a giant lulz.

Action movie? Okay.

Accurate? Get the fuck out of here.

Necro!(?)

What a piece of inaccurate, effect-seeking bullshit. There's absolutely no plot. No character development - the guy is as screwed up in the first scene as he is in the last. The "twist", if you can call it that, is obvious if you've ever seen any movie about homecoming soldiers. The entire movie is a series of disconnected, overdramatized, undertechnical bomb defusals.

At multiple points Iraqis behave like they are absolutely retarded. Who in their right mind would approach a group of soldiers who are at full alert, aiming down the sights, to ask them where they're from? Why would anyone bullet through a road block made up by heavily armed soldiers and Humvees, and in particular, why would a single man with a pistol make them stop at that point? Why would a bombmaker sit and wait around for the enemy to evacuate an entire building and bring out the EOD team? Why doesn't a man involuntarily strapped with explosives panic when he's abandoned by those who should be helping him; why doesn't he pursue them? Why would anyone do that to begin with, how is that efficient use of explosives?

The U.S. soldiers aren't any better. The entire EOD team would be court marshalled so fast that those legendary "800"ish defusals wouldn't had time to become 2, for risking eachothers' and others' lives. Mr. Psychopath would be put front of a psychatrist and not be allowed to leave until he had repressed all knowledge of bomb defusal. Three guys running off in the middle of the night to pursue some random dude, unbeknownst to their superiors? Horseshit. An EOD engineer outperforming a bounty hunter with a .50 sniper rifle? MORE horseshit. It's a huge fucking question mark why they stayed around in the first place when they had a big, nice, armoured car not ten yards away.

Everything in this movie is just so convenient and fictional. Gas tanks don't explode when shot at. They just don't. It was completely unnecessary to have it do so. It's a damn war, you don't have to go full retard just to make it more exciting. There's plenty of opportunity to have exciting and authentic scenarios, without fudging every detail and cramming it full of Hollywood nonsense.

A "funny" subtext of the movie is that being friendly to the locals gets them or one of yours killed. If you hesitate blowing a local's head off, your friend is going to blow up. If you are friendly and try to politely inform some local farmers, you get blown up. If you befriend a street kid, he gets cut up. And, potentially, later blown up.

Fuck this and go watch Generation Kill instead.

Maybe they had Jessica Lynch in the back.

I thought this was an awesome movie, accurate or not.

I liked it, but felt it was too drawn out.  Some of the scenes could have used a bit of chopping.  Like most of the whiny fucker.

My thoughts exactly.