Answering the question at hand: no. You are not the only one. I didn’t like it! =)
I didn’t like it either. It was an ok film and I respect what it was about however it didn’t entertain me in the same way as district 9 or inglorious basterds. Oh well.
Even a brain dead numb nuts with no military experience should have wondered why the terrorist trigger man didn’t just blow up the damn bomb instead of letting someone defuse it. Every single time that idiot walked up to a live IED I wondered why the guy holding the remote detonator didn’t pull the trigger!?!
More holyweird liberal anti-war propaganda – trying to show how stupid we are for being at war in the first place. Hey libs – remember when you tried to make us lose the war in Iraq by resisting the surge? Too bad for you the surge actually worked – we’re winning and you hate it don’t you. More bad news; remember when your loser parents made us lose in Vietnam? Well the vietnamese people we promised to help were left defenseless – and by making us surrender/lose that war – you helped murder 2,500,000 innocent vietnamese citizens.
This movie makes our military seem like idiots and adrenaline junkies with a death wish. Come one people: good war or not; we must win. Stop buying this bs propaganda.
So now we have people in one thread who dislike the film because is pro-war and people here who dislike it because it’s anti-war?
Yeah I kind of got off topic there towards the end. The reason I didn’t like it was because the movie had the bad guys just sit there and allow their big bombs to be deactivated. Kind of stupid don’t you think?
Yeah I kind of got off topic there towards the end. The reason I didn’t like it was because the movie had the bad guys just sit there and allow their big bombs to be deactivated. Kind of stupid don’t you think?
Not all IEDs are built to be remotely detonated like the one that kills Thompson. They can be “victim-activated” (booby-traps) or can be on timers.
. . . and sometimes they just don’t detonate.
What a joke… The only reason these so called top critics boast about this film is because it has meaning to current events. The pure fact that this film depicts events that military go through almost every day does not make it the best film. The lack of resolution to prove that real war and suffering has no end is a cheap cover-up for lack of vision in the storyline.
Is this film best director worthy? Yes.
Is it Best Picture worthy? Possibly.
Is it Best Original Screenplay worthy? If reading your local news paper, copying it into script format and changing the names makes you Oscar material, then yes.
What a joke… The only reason these so called top critics boast about this film is because it has meaning to current events. The pure fact that this film depicts events that military go through almost every day does not make it the best film. The lack of resolution to prove that real war and suffering has no end is a cheap cover-up for lack of vision in the storyline.
Is this film best director worthy? Yes.
Is it Best Picture worthy? Possibly.
Is it Best Original Screenplay worthy? If reading your local news paper, copying it into script format and changing the names makes you Oscar material, then yes.
What a joke… The only reason these so called top critics boast about this film is because it has meaning to current events. The pure fact that this film depicts events that military go through almost every day does not make it the best film. The lack of resolution to prove that real war and suffering has no end is a cheap cover-up for lack of vision in the storyline.
Is this film best director worthy? Yes.
Is it Best Picture worthy? Possibly.
Is it Best Original Screenplay worthy? If reading your local news paper, copying it into script format and changing the names makes you Oscar material, then yes.
What a joke… The only reason these so called top critics boast about this film is because it has meaning to current events. The pure fact that this film depicts events that military go through almost every day does not make it the best film. The lack of resolution to prove that real war and suffering has no end is a cheap cover-up for lack of vision in the storyline.
Is this film best director worthy? Yes.
Is it Best Picture worthy? Possibly.
Is it Best Original Screenplay worthy? If reading your local news paper, copying it into script format and changing the names makes you Oscar material, then yes.
I did not hate it by any means, but I felt that it was severely over rated, and didn’t deserve the oscar for best picture as much as some of the alternatives.
I did not hate it by any means, but I felt that it was severely over rated, and didn’t deserve the oscar for best picture as much as some of the alternatives.
I did not hate it by any means, but I felt that it was severely over rated, and didn’t deserve the oscar for best picture as much as some of the alternatives.
The whole point is that IT IS NOT LIKE THE MOVIE IN IRAQ! I know how enlisted men behave, especially when they’ve been thrust into an unwinnable war like Iraq. Nobody gets to behave like Rambo and risk his fellows’ lives. The hero of the movie would’ve been killed when his agenda was known to be other than THE MISSION. At least he would’ve been given a serious talking-to……….and THEN he would’ve been killed. No solider likes to die for nothing and every soldier in Iraq has been doing just what the mission specified for years, with no extra effort because they know it’s all BS. When we leave, Iraq will become the great hotbed of terrorist discontent and it will have been all our fault. Everyone is trying to avoid being the LAST guy to die in Iraq. The fact that the movie-going public identifies with it is because they have no idea what duty and sacrifice is and, basically, don’t deserve to be free.
The Hurt Locker isn’t a realistic depiction of events in Iraq. How could it be? But Dan I think you raise a good point about how it actually works, that soldiers don’t get to be the loose cannons in the army in a war. Imagine though all those war films without a soldiers act of transgression against the army and how boring they would be. What really bothers me about The Hurt Locker is that so many people believe that the film is a realistic depiction of bomb disposal teams daily life, that the film has been sold to us like that and continues to be. I feel like we are being a bit duped by the films incredible technique and marketing strategy and losing sight of what it says about the nature of being bomb disposal expert in Iraq, of being a soldier. And isn’t it a bit dubious? Surely it’s saying, they do it for the adrenalin rush and perhaps, if you want an adrenalin rush be a bomb disposal expert in Iraq. I dunno. Or maybe why bother being a bomb disposal expert in Iraq when you can watch the Hurt Locker and get the adrenalin rush from that?
Though, one things for sure, if they make a sequel I’d really like to see the Jeremy Renner character die, an explosive death, in the first 5 minutes.
IT IS NOT LIKE THE MOVIE IN IRAQ!—-
Sure, it’s a movie. The country muscians in Crazy Heart aren’t like real country musicians, either. The soldiers in Inglorious Basterds certainly aren’t realistic . . . we can pretty much do this for every movie, every book, etc.
I was really expecting something special from all this damn hype. i mean it was alright had some good scenes and acting buut alot of it just seemed like the smoke bomb he sets off.Just more shiny distractions from the films having very little to say about war or any subject. At least Avatar didn’t win Best Picture that would have been silly.
I was really expecting something special from all this damn hype. i mean it was alright had some good scenes and acting buut alot of it just seemed like the smoke bomb he sets off.Just more shiny distractions from the films having very little to say about war or any subject. At least Avatar didn’t win Best Picture that would have been silly.
About as routine and cliched as a war film can get. Nothing special at all.
BSEA
I guess if you are AVATAR you say…check the ticket sales because that is all the world voting……and the AVATAR votes are stil being counted……go James Cameron……….