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THe Hurt Locker: best film oft he year if the only other film you've seen was Sherlock Holmes...(spoilers)

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.. and even then it's a close thing.
This cardboard cutout of a film could have easily been a Rambo movie for all the macho swagger of one American making a difference by not going by the book and running straight at trouble.
Hmmm.
Eventually he gets one of his team shot and suffers at least 10 seconds remorse.
These are men whose idea of recreation is drinking a bottle of bourbon and hitting each other in the stomach. They're MEN!!!
It's pathetic posturing.
Iraqis die and at one point he imagines a kid he knew was dead... or is it just that they all look alike?
The lack of success the men have had with women is not surprising.
Only one scene halfway cuts it and that is when a man has had a bomb strapped to him and after telling him it would be easier to shoot him, he blows up.
It's trash.
The idea f the Berserker, the guy who doesn't play by the rules, in this case a disposal guy who just walks up to bombs and pulls them around while the others all cower ruins this film.
It looks like the film is sped up when he has his suit on making him look a little like a military tele-tubby.

Edits: 02/17/10 02/17/10

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It presented a reasonable facsimile of the tension and strain the real guy encounter. * - mr grits 20:41:58 02/18/10 (5)
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Share a bowl of grits with someone you love tonight.
- you must have seena different film, this one was as authentic as Rambo - dave c 21:32:44 02/18/10 (4)
  It really is a terrible film.
  - "reasonable facsimile of the tension and strain" doesn't merit a "terrible film" comment . . . - mr grits 18:09:47 02/19/10 (2)
    Most people I talked to think it's tremendous which goes to show it makes a dent in the average person's psyche. Mission accomplished for a war film whether it was technically perfect or accurate.
    
    I still laud Apocalypse Now as THE film that conveys the ambiance and reality of VN without being the least bit accurate or true to history. Hurt Locker works in the same way.
    
    Share a bowl of grits with someone you love tonight.
    - Agreed ... - reelsmith. 09:43:36 02/20/10 (1)
      These were the first negative comments I'd seen on it. I thought the film worked.
      
      Dean.
      
      reelsmith's axiom : Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
      - eacxh to their own - dave c 13:43:29 02/20/10 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Agreed ... posted by reelsmith. on February 20, 2010 at 09:43:36
        
        I just thought it totally unconvincing.
        It can be read as reasonably racist (!!??) which may indeed be realistic, but the main character is nonsense and simply another "maverick" who does things HIS way and to hell with everyone else.
        Miraculously things don't blow up when he drags bombs around despite them blowing up whenever anyone else breathes on them.
        The treatment of the psychologist as a liberal wimp was predictable and if a single person couldn't predict to the second when he was going to die... well I doubt it.
  - Agreed - Craiger56 17:35:14 02/19/10 (0)
    In addition to all the points you made, the shaken camera scenes were a constant reminder that a weak video was playing.

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