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The Hurt Locker

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H8CH
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Searchbarred and only found a thread about the trailer for this movie...

I watched it last night, in Full HD glory at home and thought it was awesome... not the usual Hollywood war movie BS... but properly tense, and not even that gory - just kinda nail biting tension and the main character is ballsy as f***

I saw it was a reasonable hit at the golden globes too (didn't watch - as i was watching the movie - but heard it was nominated....)

Anyone else seen it....? Like it / Dislike it? The main dude is crazy nuts!!?!

New found utter respect for all Military bomb disposal guys - totally on their own. I'd give it 8/10.

Jan 18 2010 2:05PM
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factory81
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awesome movie. the guy is apeshit crazy. end of the movie blew me away when hes right be in again.
Jan 18 2010 2:08PM
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H8CH
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Totally - with 365 days to go....   Epic...
Jan 18 2010 2:10PM
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[BRI]noceros
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looks like a really good movie, definitely wanna see it

speaking of the golden globes, i was so happy that Christoph Waltz won for Inglourious Basterds. he totally deserved it, he was fantastic

Jan 18 2010 2:13PM
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nipples-the-cat
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indeed, he was amaizing in inglorious basterds
Jan 18 2010 2:19PM
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connory998
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same. and (claim) my dad designed the controling unit for the robots they use in that movie (claim)
Jan 18 2010 4:10PM
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Half-Blood
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This was one of the best films I have seen in a long time, I think it should have taken best picture at the globes, but I was also pulling for Joseph Gordon-Levitt to win as well.
Jan 18 2010 4:15PM
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bryanw
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yo saw this movie last night it was pretty sick and had awesome filming/editing.. defntly recommend it
Jan 18 2010 4:26PM
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M+M
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good movie i think i made a thread on it
Jan 18 2010 5:05PM
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BC.
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I have seen it. Thought it was well done.

And I am in the ROTC for the US Army. I am going into Ranger training and I could never do EOD (explosive ordinance disposal). Shits nuts.
Jan 18 2010 5:26PM
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DJohnson
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over all, great mvie, deffinately worth seeing
Jan 18 2010 10:39PM
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Leveroni
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Saw it yesterday,

I highly recommend it. Its not a normal war movie so its a nice change.

Jan 18 2010 10:47PM
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skier_boy26
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saw that shit in august. better on the big screen. Solid.
Jan 18 2010 10:51PM
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smooticus
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Yea i watched it a couple days ago. Its good. At first i thought it was just going to be a nail biter all the way through but not at all. Very good balance of action, drama, and suspense.
Jan 18 2010 10:56PM
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C-Burg
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good movie but after watching it a second time and hearing accounts from people I know who have been over there. It wasn't that realistic
Jan 18 2010 11:01PM
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skier_boy26
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considering its fiction... it seems to have that liberty
Jan 18 2010 11:38PM
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BikeMlatt69
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just watched it. i thoroughly enjoyed it. worth the $4 price for renting it on Itunes
Jan 19 2010 1:22AM
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winterparksuks
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the part where he is talking to his kid then Khyber Pass starts playing is just too fucking good. Katherin Bigelow has alot of movies where the ending just leaves your jaw on the floor, Point Break being one
Jan 19 2010 1:28AM
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C-Burg
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yeah but sometimes it sounded like the makers of the film were pushing that it wasnt fiction
Jan 19 2010 10:26PM
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Nathn
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Such a good movie.
Jan 19 2010 10:31PM
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TheQuailman
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overrated

I enjoyed it but I thought it was too simplistic.  I thought the quote at the beginning of the movie about war being a drug ruined the movie because it just summed up everything before I saw the movie.  Basically rather then finding out that the main character is 'addicted to war' you just watch it unfold.  It was like reading sparknotes and then reading the book.  Every piece of the puzzle fit in the right spot. 

It was hardly suspenseful becasue I had no reason to feel for the characters.  Unlike other excellent war movies in which they develop the characters so well that by the time they go to war you are praying they don't get killed, the hurt locker didn't do this at all. 

The stories behind the characters that do unfold are so fucking typical.

Another thing that pissed me off was the filming, way too much zooming in and out and the angles were so base and boring and ugggggg.  Special effects were way below par.

Saving grace of the movie was the main character's acting and the ending was good.

Jan 20 2010 7:05PM
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IHOP
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I liked it, but the shaky cam made me really really nauseous. And that was the first time I've ever been nauseous from a movie before.

And Guy Peirce died too soon.
Jan 20 2010 7:24PM
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PhaedeD
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i watched it 2 nights ago, sicckkk movie.
Jan 20 2010 7:25PM
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g.rich
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I disagree with most of the things you said but I think we just have completely different taste in movies. I really don't like special effects/CGI because when you watch them you can tell they are special effects and it takes you out of the realism. The fact that huge overly dramatic and unrealistic explosions and shoot outs weren't used in The Hurt Locker made it much more realistic for me. I thought Bigelow did an incredible job building suspense. It was more of suspense for the entire unit in danger than just the main character and the fact that at any time something could go wrong and a bomb could go off made it all seem that much more scary. Yes there was a lot of zooming in and out/shaky cam for the purpose of putting you that much more into the bodies/eyes of the group. Keeping that perspective was crucial for the overall tone that she was going for.
Jan 20 2010 7:44PM
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no_steeze
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i just watched it in hd on a rather large screen (one of the benefits of missing class because you're sick) and it was absolutely ridiculous, it got me so stoked

i loved how it wasn't a run gun and die movie yet it was more insane than most of the glorified war movies. the sniper scene was super intense

also james is just fucking insane, probably a main reason why the movie is so awesome
Jan 22 2010 4:56PM
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