The Hurt Locker
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I finally got around to seeing this. Great movie, but not a must-see, in my opinion. The screenwriter was embedded with an explosives unit in Iraq, so he really knows of what he speaks. He made a few movie allowances (e.g., having the soldiers smoke instead of chewing tobacco, which is much more common because smoking isn't allowed while on duty). But he apparently packed in a lot of realistic stuff, from juice packs to the lack of protocol for bomb disarmament when the war started.
The main character is an adrenaline junkie who takes risks that exasperate and endanger his teammates, so you had a nice cross-section of the types of people who are thrown together in war. The movie did a good job of evoking the physical demands of soldiering, even if all you are doing is sitting on a sand dune for two hours scanning the horizon. And it captured the eeriness of showing up to dismantle a bomb and having men appear on a nearby rooftop with a video camera, ready for the bomb to explode and catch it on video to disseminate as propaganda---terrorist porn, so to speak.
All in all, though, I don't think it's a better film than Avatar, and certainly not more groundbreaking or creative. So I hope that Avatar takes the Oscar.
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I finally got around to seeing this. Great movie, but not a must-see, in my opinion. The screenwriter was embedded with an explosives unit in Iraq, so he really knows of what he speaks. He made a few movie allowances (e.g., having the soldiers smoke instead of chewing tobacco, which is much more common because smoking isn't allowed while on duty). But he apparently packed in a lot of realistic stuff, from juice packs to the lack of protocol for bomb disarmament when the war started.
The main character is an adrenaline junkie who takes risks that exasperate and endanger his teammates, so you had a nice cross-section of the types of people who are thrown together in war. The movie did a good job of evoking the physical demands of soldiering, even if all you are doing is sitting on a sand dune for two hours scanning the horizon. And it captured the eeriness of showing up to dismantle a bomb and having men appear on a nearby rooftop with a video camera, ready for the bomb to explode and catch it on video to disseminate as propaganda---terrorist porn, so to speak.
All in all, though, I don't think it's a better film than Avatar, and certainly not more groundbreaking or creative. So I hope that Avatar takes the Oscar.
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