The Hurt Locker

[floridaorange]

I was really taken by this movie, it was filmed excellently well...SEE THIS MOVIE!

[feather]

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Yup good show.

[coleby761]

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Yup good movie but was REALLY slow in some parts. Not sure if it lived up to the hype imo

[floridaorange]

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^prolly why I liked it so much...I hadn't heard too much about it before going to see it....the filming / cinematography was noticeably superb.

[nick007]

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Excellent movie 7/10

[maddlingo]

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This is my netflix "Q" hopefully will be delivered today.

[rainman]

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agree. excellent film.

[Homskillet]

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Saw this last night!!! Incredible movie!

[res0nat0r]

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watched this a while back, good movie. kathryn bigelow is a very good action movie director, i wish she got more credit. strange days is a freaking awesome action movie and the handcam stuff she did in the opening scene was groundbreaking back in the 90s when they did it.

[runningman]

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another horrible movie. This one and Inglorious bastards are nothing more than propaganda.

[jackdaniels]

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Overrated.

[Highsteppa]

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It deserves the recognition it's getting - Katheryn Bigelow really put together a very stylish, very suspenseful and very passionate film that puts a lot of the other films that were set in Iraq to shame. It's not really making a statement about the Iraq war, nor about the reasons behind the war - it's looking at the motivations of the players that are involved and how they can interact with each other. Anthony Mackie did a great supporting job as a by the book, procedure adhering soldier who's got to keep lookout for the bomb disposal handler. Jeremy Renner gave in a much more complex performance than what would have been portrayed as an adrenaline junkie - examining his conflicted nature between the family he loves and should want to get back to, but his inability to do figure out what to do with himself if he goes back to civilian life.

The opening scene, the UN bomb disarmament sequence, the sniper battle and the interactions btwn the soldiers during their downtime (including the beating up on each other while drunk), all are a lot more show than tell. There's a lot more going on underneath with minimal dialogue to tell us what the director is capable of showing us, just by showing a little skill behind the camera.

[Localizer]

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another horrible movie. This one and Inglorious bastards are nothing more than propaganda.

you're nothing more than propaganda. go kick around some more rocks.

[runningman]

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It's crazy to think that 1 million Iraqis have died since the Invasion. Boy that number sure makes Saddams 20,000 he gassed as almost insignificant.

[maddlingo]

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I enjoyed this movie. Similar to Black Hawk Down, but with more suspense.