Saw it about 4 hours ago and I haven't de-sphinctered yet. By far the most intense movie I have seen about the Iraq War - with an outstanding performance by Jeremy Renner as an EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) Specialist who truly loves his job.


http://thehurtlocker-movie.com/



http://www.bfca.org/images/movie_posters/2009/the_hurt_locker.jpg

Best Picture
Best Director
Best Original Screenplay
Best Film Editing
Best Sound Mixing


Not bad .......

I thought there'd be a backlash against it after the news last week about the e-mail campaign by one of the producers. Apparently not. Have to check it out sometime.

Best Director
First woman director to win an Oscar, IIRC.

Saw it about 4 hours ago and I haven't de-sphinctered yet. By far the most intense movie I have seen about the Iraq War - with an outstanding performance by Jeremy Renner as an EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) Specialist who truly loves his job.


http://thehurtlocker-movie.com/



http://www.bfca.org/images/movie_posters/2009/the_hurt_locker.jpg

You told us so...

First woman director to win an Oscar, IIRC.

It's true.

I need to get out and see more movies. I still haven't seen Avatar. I guess since we have netflix, don't really see the need.

It was pretty funny. James Cameron sitting behind his ex-wife, Kathryn Bigelow. He was sitting with his current wife/skeleton.

I don't watch based on real life movies, I live in the real world. I watch movies TO ESCAPE the real world from time to time.

I must admit, with all the Oscar accolades, I'm a bit curious. I just haven't been able to see a war related film since Blackhawk Down. Just a bit TOO real for my taste. I think that there are some images that people shouldn't have to see, or live with. Yes, it's a film, but those kind of graphic images can be rather indelible, even with the passage of time.

Even so, I'm pleased that the film won those awards as I'm sure that they are well deserved.

Bryan

I don't watch based on real life movies, I live in the real world. I watch movies TO ESCAPE the real world from time to time.

If, for the period of time I am watching a movie, I am truly engaged by what is transpiring on screen - then that movie is doing exactly what it's supposed to do IMHO. Doesn't much matter to me what the subject matter is.

A few of my favorite movies this year were ...

The Hurt Locker
Avatar
Precious
Inglorious Basterds
District 9
Crazy Heart
Up

All good movies and pretty much all over the map.

I think my only criticism of The Hurt Locker was that the characters all stayed within their stereotypical molds - The danger-monger, the guy who just wants to go home, the good soldier, etc.
I marvelled at how the uncertainty of life from moment to moment was depicted, and thought that the sequence waiting out the sniper was excruciatingly brilliant. It brought home the sheer torture of waiting....and waiting...and waiting.

did they ever settle the lawsuit from a member of the US Military that was sueing them saying they modeled the movie after him and didn't ask his premission or something like that?

did they ever settle the lawsuit from a member of the US Military that was sueing them saying they modeled the movie after him and didn't ask his premission or something like that?

Considering the guy just made the claim last week, I doubt it.

they lose the suit its going to look bad on those awards they won.

Would have swore I posted in this thread.

I never saw it because the title sounds like some college sports movie. Nice that Camerons hyper-movie lost to his ex-wife.
And Cameron looked old and run down.

I don't watch based on real life movies, I live in the real world. I watch movies TO ESCAPE the real world from time to time.

YOU are so right my friend! :thumbsup: That is what entertainment was for from the very beginning to help escape from the day to day troubles of life.

I have enough fracking DRAMA in my own life thank you. I just want to be taken away for a while.

they lose the suit its going to look bad on those awards they won.

The screenplay was written by a journalist who was embedded with EODs in Iraq in 2004. As in many fictional screenplays based on "real life" situations, the characters are composites of some of the actual people the journalist worked with. This is quite common. For instance, none of the characters in Saving Private Ryan were real people although the movie was based on an actual true story about the four Niland brothers who served in WW II. These kinds of legal suits happen frequently. Everybody wants a piece of the pie. If this movie had sunk without a trace would there be a lawsuit? I doubt it. Even if the guy does win a settlement - that in no way makes the movie less deserving of the awards it has won.

As they say in Iraq, don't go all hurt locker on me.
Hollywood hulk hogan, what you gonna do, when hurt locker mania runs wild over you...hollywood is hollywood, its not real.

I was glad to see Kathryn Bigelow win, even though I thought The Hurt Locker was a little formulaic and predictable. There's a nice balance there, since Strange Days and Near Dark, both fine films imho, were ignored on their release. Not to mention she's the hottest director since Ida Lupino. Unlike a lot of media talking heads, I don't think she's hot for a 58 year-old woman, I think she's just smokin' hot period!

http://www.contactmusic.com/pics/lc/the_hurt_locker_060609/kathryn_bigelow_2445917.jpg

Unlike a lot of media talking heads, I don't think she's hot for a 58 year-old woman, I think she's just smokin' hot period!



Agreed wholeheartedly. I think Cameron was having second thoughts the whole evening.

Agreed wholeheartedly. I think Cameron was having second thoughts the whole evening.

Yeah, the redhead from Titanic hasn't aged nearly as well. Meanwhile, Bigelow's looking like Liz Phair's smarter slightly older sister.

Yeah, the redhead from Titanic hasn't aged nearly as well. Meanwhile, Bigelow's looking like Liz Phair's smarter slightly older sister.

Liz Phair's smarter slightly older much taller sister.

Here, Cameron expresses his affection.

http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m4/mar2010/8/3/image-5-for-oscars-2010-kathryn-bigelow-and-james-cameron-gallery-35979971.jpg

Yet another film that awash in accolades that after
viewing I thought, "Yeah. So. That's it?"

Good movie, but really overrated and over hyped. Typical war movie with characters and a story I've seen a dozen times. New commander, freaked out short timer...nothing new here. And all those oscars? What the...? I mean it was good, but the sound oscars...I hear that stuff when I play Modern Warfare on the Ps3. Explosions and gunfire. How hard is that? At least with Avatar, or the new StarTrek, they had to invent sounds from scratch. I just don't get it. Oh well.

Like I said, good movie, but nothing I saw, story-wise or in the technical production of the film made it stand out as best film of the year. Not by a longshot.

I'll have to sit down at watch it. I was over at a friend's place and he was telling me how many great reviews it had etc..., and he had just watched it himself. He was hyping it up pretty good, which usually puts in a mood to find fault ;). We watched the first bit, and I got a little bored because I wanted to watch something a little less dramatic and drawn out (we ended up watching ex drummer I think - holy crap - don't know what to say about that one!), and I'll admit I didn't give it a fair shake at the time. It did seem like just another "realistic" Iraq war film, but I'm willing to watch it.

I just watched it. I thought it was OK. Certainly nothing great. I liked the few episodes that I saw of Generation Kill better. Probably won't give it another look.