The Hurt Locker

[brentsg]

Just watched the flick and I enjoyed it a lot.

Looking forward to making the wife watch it with me next time.

[PC Engine Fan X!]

Director Bigelow said at the Oscars, that The Hurt Locker was not pre-screened for the press to review nor was it shown to test audiences either (which is the norm for big budget films...two different endings are shown in their entirety and the test audience discusses which one should be selected + plus their reasoning of doing so). Plus it really wasn't distributed in wide numbers for U.S. movie theaters anyways.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[Skykid]

i wish you wouldnt always jump to the old 'your opinion differs from mine so you are wrong' thing in these threads....its counterproductive

Sorry dude, there's meant to be a light hearted theme going here, not always well illustrated by the ol' written word. Your opinions are just as valid as anyone else's of course. In fact, it's quite fun for me that we're often at such polar extremes.

You know what else is a good movie? "Richard III" from 1995 starring Sir Ian McKellen,

That's kind of OT, but true. Preferred the 1955 version tho.

[GaijinPunch]

I haven't seen this yet, but a friend was telling me he thought it had some dodgy political tendencies (that it ignored the illegality and the war crimes entirely and basically portrayed the US Army as paragons of virtue, etc). Should I ignore this and see it anyway? Er, bearing in mind stuff like that would piss on my chips a bit.

The movie isn't about the war... it is set in the war, and the main character has an affliction that the war enables.

[DEL]

Hmm...good point

[brentsg]

I haven't seen this yet, but a friend was telling me he thought it had some dodgy political tendencies (that it ignored the illegality and the war crimes entirely and basically portrayed the US Army as paragons of virtue, etc). Should I ignore this and see it anyway? Er, bearing in mind stuff like that would piss on my chips a bit.

The movie isn't about the war... it is set in the war, and the main character has an affliction that the war enables.

Also, it's interesting to see the effect that the main character's affliction has on his teammates around him.

Even if the movie were about the war and you didn't agree with the political undertones, are we all so close minded and polarized nowadays that we only want to intake things with which we know we'll agree? I think a lot of people are that way and it's pretty weak to filter the information we take in.