"The Hurt Locker" A Great Movie

sakiraa1

The Hurt Locker shows us what it is like to be up close and personal with danger, with an unseen enemy who speaks a foreign tongue. It shows us what it is like to be afraid of dying every day or what it is like to eradicate all fear from your body and face that enemy with the utmost confidence. The Hurt Locker is the story of a group of three Army bomb squad soldiers, young men, who have seen the worst in the Iraq War, yet try to face each day with a strong mind. However, with each day comes new challenges.


The three main characters are actors whom I have not seen before, and if I have, I don't remember them, though with their performances in this movie, I'm sure I will in the future. The movie's star is Jeremy Renner. He plays the central character Staff Sergeant William James - the seasoned, arrogant bomb-tech who joins the squad early on when their team leader dies. He doesn't like to play by the rules and is disliked right away by Sergeant JT Sanborn, played by Anthony Mackie. Sanborn is the soldier who tries to keep the squad on their feet, primed for action. The third soldier is played brilliantly by Brian Geraghty. He is specialist Owen Eldridge - the soldier who is trying to overcome great fears about death. With constant meetings with his doctor, to talk about his fears, he repeats at different times, "Be all that you can be," the Army's slogan. "What if all I can be is dead on the side of an Iraqi road?" he questions.


The Hurt Locker is also a study of human emotion. All three of these soldiers represent different types of soldiers and, perhaps, different emotions evident in just one soldier whilst in the field of battle. James represents confidence and/or arrogance, Sanborn represents strength-under-pressure, and Eldridge - fear.

tvnutz

Did you just copy and paste that from somewhere? Reads that way.

I'd say there are already other threads on this movie as well,but overall I thought it was average at best,not worth the Best Picture Oscar anyway.

TheDoc

I think it winning best picture summed up the quality of movie that came out last year, it was a good film, not near an oscar quality though

DEVEREUX

rubbish film

Catenaccio!

TheDoc wrote: »

I think it winning best picture summed up the quality of movie that came out last year, it was a good film, not near an oscar quality though

Because the Oscars have always been an indication of how good a year was for film?

MagicMarker

meh

IvySlayer

tvnutz wrote: »

Did you just copy and paste that from somewhere? Reads that way.

I'd say there are already other threads on this movie as well,but overall I thought it was average at best,not worth the Best Picture Oscar anyway.

Looks like it!

Googled

Roaster

I thought it was a good movie, but a great movie? An oscar winner? NAH!

A woman directs a war movie and the academy start cumming all over themselves...

kmick

6/10 - lacked a little something for me. Americans love movies about the wars they are in - I would guess this is why it got an Oscar.

Catenaccio!

Roaster wrote: »

I thought it was a good movie, but a great movie? An oscar winner? NAH!

A woman directs a war movie and the academy start cumming all over themselves...

Well tbh it was one of the better ones of the ten nominated. Whether it was the best (how can you even define that) is something that doesn't really bother me. I liked a couple of the movies nominated fwiw.

speedboatchase

District 9 was better

Catenaccio!

Piss take?

The Maverick

I thought it was alright but not as good as it was hyped up to be. The whole lone ranger who plays by his own rules solider plot has been done before.

Corholio

Im glad to see in this thread that i'm not the only one who thought Hurt Locker was very overrated. Could not see the fuss about it myself. Americans love the rogue war soldier type and I think this type of film was the epitome of it.

As someone said earlier District 9 was better and should have got the oscar IMO

Catenaccio!

Stop with this 'better' stuff

Really apples and oranges at times.

Hank_Jones

I'm glad that it won.
The last thing we need is some crappy 3D movie winning best picture.

Would have been a disaster for the film industry if Avatar cleaned up at the Oscars.

3D is the death of cinema.

Hank_Jones

Hank_Jones wrote: »

I'm glad that it won.
The last thing we need is some crappy 3D movie winning best picture.

Would have been a disaster for the film industry if Avatar cleaned up at the Oscars.

3D is the death of cinema.

Up I think showed that it's not.

I don't expect the likes of Scorcese to use 3D so most traditional directors will steer clear of it.

Hank_Jones

Don't get me started on Up...


Differing of opinions I suppose.

Demeyes

I didn't really like the Hurt Locker that much, way over rated IMO.

FortuneChip

Kinda forgot The Hurt Locker, didn't stick with me long after I'd seen it. I certainly preferred it to Avatar.
Personally, I thought Up would have been a worthy winner of best movie. People can say what they want about animated movies having their own category, but in truth, if Avatar can be one of the front runners for the Best Film, why can't an Animated movie?

Back to topic, Hurt Locker was good, but I didn't find it all that different from other modern war based movies

ricero

good movie i thought jeremy remmer was sensational in the movie i expect to see a lot more of him now. im not really into new war films i saw jarhead and it disappointed me but this film has redeemed the genre for me

jaykhunter

tvnutz wrote: »

Did you just copy and paste that from somewhere? Reads that way.

I'd say there are already other threads on this movie as well,but overall I thought it was average at best,not worth the Best Picture Oscar anyway.

IvySlayer wrote: »

Looks like it!

Googled

Copypasta'd "articles" that masquerade around as personal work should be outlawed, I'd personally consider it a temporary bannable offense. Although it's somewhat flattering to have my work stolen, it's also really rude.

I don't like war films and some parts were really more a storyline than reality (how wreckless he is, going off on his own missions etc) but I thought it was very good. Not 5 oscars good, but definitely worth a watch good.

missingtime

The Hurt Locker is the very definition of an over-rated movie.

Le King

4/10 for me.

Hank_Jones

jaykhunter wrote: »

Copypasta'd "articles" that masquerade around as personal work should be outlawed, I'd personally consider it a temporary bannable offense. Although it's somewhat flattering to have my work stolen, it's also really rude.

I don't like war films and some parts were really more a storyline than reality (how wreckless he is, going off on his own missions etc) but I thought it was very good. Not 5 oscars good, but definitely worth a watch good.

Sure what type of person would copy and paste something that they didn't write and then try to pass it off as their own.

By the way...here's a poem I wrote after watching The Hurt Locker.

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.


I think the film really influenced my writing.

Edit: I call the poem Icy Fire. I think it's fitting.

youcrazyjesus!

Dreadful film. I learned nothing from it, except Ammmmerrikuuuuuuhhhh.

It out does Black Hawk Down in the propaganda stakes. The portrayal of the Iraqi people is shameful. Even aside from this the film was very uninteresting.

seraphimvc

back in last year i was gonna watch it but the quick research before hand totally turned me off: the poster,the synopsis and the trailer look so boring to me bare in mind i dont mind black hawk down or Enemy at the gates that kinda war film but The hurt locker gives me the similar feeling like Jarhead which didnt interest me enough to bother them at all.maybe because of the heavy smell of politic correction.

CandleLight

missingtime wrote: »

The Hurt Locker is the very definition of an over-rated movie.

I agree was very disappointed with it. The main character James is far too maverick gung ho and 'do as i like' pain in the butt. None of the characters has any depth and it certainly is not the best action film ever as described

Richard Dower

^ also agree with the two posters above, i also thought it was rather overrated, Jeremy Renner is good but it didn't do alot for me, it's not a bad movie at all....just maybe not my taste, and i love Iraq based movies.

Phony Scott

It was just ok. Not memorable at all. There are dozens of war films far better than this.

JerryHandbag

Saw this last week, nothing special....war movie blah blah, seen it all before. Not to mention many war experts saying most of the scenes were totally unrealistic of what actually happened in Iraq. Slumdog Millionaire, now there was a movie that lived up to the hype.

EL_Loco

glad I saw it before it won the award tbh. Thought it was good at the time alright, but if I was to watch it with the "this will be award winning" in mind, I don't think I'd have been as impressed.

Mr Freeze

speedboatchase wrote: »

District 9 was better

This.

I did like The Hurt Locker too though.

CandleLight

EL_Loco wrote: »

glad I saw it before it won the award tbh. Thought it was good at the time alright, but if I was to watch it with the "this will be award winning" in mind, I don't think I'd have been as impressed.

I cannot belive it won 6 oscars inc best picture as it says on my copy. i saw nothing in it deserving of an oscar least of sall the James character

CandleLight

speedboatchase wrote: »

District 9 was better

That was good and the lead actor was good but the aliens were disgusting:D

megadodge

I'm very obviously in the minority here, but I thought it was an excellent film.

I don't go to a film thinking of the politics behind a film or whether this is exactly what does or doesn't happen in Iraq, I go for escapism and entertainment and in that respect it entertained me no end.

I was surprised it won best picture, but it wasn't exactly up against anything outstanding. I liked District 9 but of the two I preferred HL.

Anyway, it was a major step up from it's immediate predecessor - how Slumdog Millionaire was even nominated and was so critically acclaimed still astounds me.

newballsplease

Dunno what people see in this film, or why it won those awards.


It BORED the crap outta me.

Goldstein

Hurt Locker was "ok", no more.

If any movie deserves the clichéd "overrated" tag (Besides Slumdog) it's this one.

District 9 is several orders of magnitude above it.

Dempsey

The only thing this film did was make me realise how ****ty being a soldier over there is. You complete a tour, then have about a month off before going back over for another year or something. Ugh!!

Action sequences are well done but the story is slow and on the boring side

Decent film but best picture? It brings down the worth of the award

ziedth

Dempsey wrote: »

Decent film but best picture? It brings down the worth of the award

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138097/?mode=desktop

ahem

Dempsey

ziedth wrote: »

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138097/?mode=desktop

ahem

I'll retract that part of my statement!

My GOD!! :rolleyes:

SVG

I liked it a lot but I can understand why it isn't everyone's cup of tea.

The performances are fantastic and there's a few great set-pieces. It's not a big war epic like Saving Private Ryan (and I don't mean to insult either film with this comparison)- it's more low key and small scale. There's not much of a story but it does evoke a mood an an atmosphere like very few action/war films I've seen.

The Hurt Locker is to war films what Lost in Translation is to romantic comedies.;)

CandleLight

Goldstein wrote: »

District 9 is several orders of magnitude above it.

+1