The Hurt Locker
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- Khurram
Oh my god.
Finally someone has something new to say about the experience of modern warfare.
Exceptional film.
- goygoygoy0
true + that scene with the snippers in the desert is epic!
- +1Masterramos
- snippers?luckyorphan
- they did a bit of weeding while they waited.ribit
- iheartfun0
People thought it was good here to....
http://www.qbn.com/topics/619496…- :)iheartfun
- or here
http://www.qbn.com/t…iheartfun - saw those. Decided this thread needed to start with "Go watch this film!" rather than "shall i watch this film?"Khurram
- you thought WRONGmonospaced
- El_Montr00
^
Almost every scene :)
- rascuache0
The sniper scene is fucking annoying. Nice that they made the English soldiers are so woefully inept, and the stereotypical "I say old boy" nature of it all was almost laughable.
Very nearly spoiled an otherwise intelligent film.
- inept?? are you shitting me??? They were higly professional and took charge of the situ immediatelyKhurram
- as for the "i say old boy" - wtf you talkin about? Maybe your phased to here a UK accent in a US filmKhurram
- Are you shitting me? They all get shot straight away, and the survivors are seen hiding in a ditch drinking all the water!rascuache
- while the heroic Americans save the day, business as usual.rascuache
- Well no shit bat man. They ARE the heroes of the seen. But the UK take CHARGE and shout ordersKhurram
- and their bravery puts them in the frontline when they still don't kow who or what is shooting at them.Khurram
- I understand you may carry some by jove jingoism that you would like to see the Brits save the dayKhurram
- but it is an american film with american soldiers as protagonoists ftw.Khurram
- Not jingoism in the slightest, it just annoyed me that it went to the EXACT same place that every other US war film...rascuache
- ...goes with UK characters, when otherwise it was much more intelligent than the bulk of US shootemup moviesrascuache
- Oh, and I think most people would call is stupidity rather than bravery that got them killed, but meh...rascuache
- Well there you go. We have differences of opinion. They did take CHARGE of the situation tho, gotta give em thatKhurram
- Yeah for sure, unfortunate that it didn't last very long for them :Drascuache
- mapsillustrated0
Was it a War film? or a film about being completely focused on ones job beyond anything else? maybe more people here need to do that :-)
- well, that depends on what your definition of "is" is.Khurram
- did i use the word 'is'?mapsillustrated
- Khurram0
I loved the ending when he's holding his baby he hasn't seen in a year when he's back off-rotation in small town Ameicana and he's talking to the child is all like "there's only one thing i love in this world" And then it cuts to him back in Baghdad slow motion walking in his bomb disposal suit and your left wondering:
"wait...is that one thing he loves his baby boy or disposing of bombs the mad cunt???"
it makes you fink.
- mapsillustrated0
I Like the piece in the supermarket when he can't decide on a breakfast cereal but he's been able to dispose of 836+ bombs. No guessing what he prefers there.
- babaganush0
Great film. But came away feeling it was SERIOUSLY over-hyped
- Khurram0
I like the bit where after he made friends with that little boy DVD seller, and then finds the carcass of the little boy with a bomb inside his body and then later on another little boy comes up to him to sell DVDs and he walks past with this emotion thing written on his face like "I'm not going to make friends with another little boy just to find him dead with a bomb nside him!" Because despite his stoicism (apparent) he is taking emotional damage bit by bit daily being out there and it shows that human relations change in times of war.
What other bits did people like?
- I HATE YOU!!GeorgesII
- bwahaha.. :PKhurram
- The spaceship bit was awesome. That one alien looked REALLY humanoid-like, y'know?Luda
- No, that was the SAME kid. What you get from that is a sense of the confusion inherent in war.duckofrubber
- wow i think u need to rewatch some parts khurram.persona_non_grata
- It was the same kid - the kid greets him the same way.SoulFly
- ha, yeah, to be honest, i watched this very late at night on my laptop hooked up to my TV and was doing shit on the webKhurram
- web while watching it. And fell aslepp an hour before the end. And rewatched that hour the next day.Khurram
- so i might have missed a trick or two! Show you how cool it was that it STILL affected me like that.Khurram
- Stugoo0
A female director too. This is a big thing for my friends in film.
Brilliant film... beautifully shot, with some highly tense scenes.Nearly forgot about the sniper scene, I was of the impression the soldiers were mercenaries.
- I think it's a big thing that has helped propell it at festivals/awards ceremonies toobabaganush
- Pretty sure the soldiers are meant to be mercanaries...babaganush
- that was re: comment aboveStugoo
- it was a female director, but she was married to a male director, probably learned a lot that waySoulFly
- broxybluenose0
I Loved the fact she picked up best director at the baftas, while Cameron was sitting there stuck to his seat!
- brandelec0
i like the part when the director wasn't sure about making the film and her ex husband told her to do ti. so she did. and now they're both killing it with oscar nominations
- oiishi0
great film! HL 10 AVATAR 0!
- Projectile0
a WOMAN directed it?? Dang ah thought it was pretty cool, now I'll have to burn the DVD I pirated!! Next thing y'all gonna tell me it was a Muslim woman what directed it!
sheeyit!!
- Khurram0
You know why i like Katherine Bigelow?
Cos she's not some conventional chick film maker making "pretty" films about cakes and fairies and flowers an oooh its so pretty with the dresses! like that annoying little cunt face with the big nose Sofia Coppola.
She makes movies with balls cos she got balls. Other than that, i can take or leave her cannon of work.. except Near Dark, that's well good that is.
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- To sum, i'm into chicks with balls. Nothing wrong with that. Each his own.Khurram
- wtf?
blue steel was brilliant - as was point break. even strange days had it's momentshans_glib - blue steels oright. NOT a fan of point break. haven't seen the other one.Khurram
- Not a fan of Point Break? For shame...dMullins
- I still think Point Break is greatbabaganush
- Like guys who make action films?juhls
- mg330
I was all ready to receive it as my next movie in Netflix, but my fiance went and screwed the list all up with some roller derby movie and some other shit with Drew Barrymore in it.
- guttedStugoo
- for better or worse :)tymeframe
- Whip It was pretty entertaining.dMullins
- HAHAHAduckofrubber
- BonSeff0
i loved that movie
- BonSeff0
she was interviewed on rache maddow's show a while back
- juhls0
Only thing is most soldiers would not work with a guy like that in real life. He constantly risks everyone's lives and/or gives them more emotional damage than they already have.
Good film but there are a bunch of inaccuracies in it (search Google).
- its easy to say that until you are the person diffusing bombs. it takes a crazy fucker to pull that offBonSeff
- if you were to ask those soldiers if they would rather but on the bomb suit, they'd say fuck thatBonSeff
- 'put on'BonSeff
- http://www.guardian.…
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Don't mean to be a hater... I still think it deserves awards.juhls - I love the character development and study. There were just some strange scenes in the film.juhls
- As for diffusing bombs, every soldier doesn't have to be exactly like the main character to do their job.juhls
- Yes, this movie was very unrealistic. Like there's no way that d00d would have survived in real life.Khurram
- It's like the filmmakers are trying to take the piss with unrealistic characters.Khurram
- yeah, what were they thinking making a film instead of a documentaty? what a bunch of jerks.instrmntl
- YEAHjuhls