hurt locker any good?

Thought it was okay but surprised it won an Oscar. Lots of good (some very good ie the sniper bit) set pieces cobbled together.
 
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And it costs them 9 million to make the film. now give me 4 million and i could make a film 10 times better than that.
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The budget was $15 million, not $9 million. And of course, you're a professional film producer, so we all agree that you could "make a film 10 times better." ;) :rolleyes:

I haven't seen it yet, but the reviews tell me that THL is highly inaccurate in parts. I hvae read that it's been panned by real bomb disposal teams who complain about the unrealistic depiction of the team leader and his increasingly reckless actions, which would simply not be permitted in a genuine combat situation. So although I expect a reasonably good war movie, I don't expect it to be accuate.

I just wish film producers would at least try to get it right for once.
 
The sniper scene is terrible. It just makes no sense. (Spoiler ahead)

Enemy sniper is deadly accurate, kills first 3 or so with first shots. Then proceeds to miss the main characters even though they are in the same spot that the previous guy just got killed in. He continues to miss them while they have a drink. But of course we have a crazy dude as the hero, bullets can't hit him can they? Where is the enemy hiding? In the only building you can see for miles. He doesn't move, waits for them to reload their rifle, have a drink, clean their bullets, miss a bunch of times, until they finally hit him. Meanwhile, the noob guy (noob guy, serious guy and crazy guy,, no stereotypes there). Cuts loose on semi automatic, and is deadly accurate, even though he barely aimed. Kills a guy in the middle of a bunch of animals without hitting any of the animals.

You could drive a truck through the holes in the logic of most of the scenes in it.
 
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Indeed that whole scene was laughable, and I like how no-one radio'd in for support. OK the mercs did but considering it seemed they were lying there for an hour or longer the Americans would have levelled that building and the surrounding area.
 
Frankly it just felt like the same scene over and over. There was really very little in terms of character progression, dialogue or intrigue, it was one pretty boring "will it or won't it go off" bomb scene after another.

I thought the acting wasn't terrible, but they didn't have much to work with. The boring "bonding/drinking" scene they have in every film with US Army in was incredibly cliched and dull. They got drunk and had a bit of a play fight while playing loud music and being stupid....

Cinemtography wise I also wasn't impressed, the usual spread of extreme close ups and slow mo bullets hitting the dirt, dirt being sent into the air, well shot, ok, high def, whoopdedoo, choice of shots, cliched, dull, done before?

If it was the same film with the same actors but it was, the Canadian army disposing of bombs in, Korea, obviously set decades ago, it wouldn't have had the same appeal or have been rated as highly. Its the tragedy angle, the world trade centre film was rated WAY higher than it should have been because it was about a recent tragedy, this was rated highly because its an emotional situation with near constant reports of death of soldiers dying over there for years and ongoing.

I thought it was even worse that they didn't even really manage to do the "you have to difuse it, theres loads of people trapped in the building" type situations, somehow that last group of people in the building with the car outside it, came out minutes later, and despite being a huge building they went out the main exit right by the bomb.
 
I think this may end up being another Rocky from the Oscars perspective. They will look back on it in a couple of years time and then just think to themselves, "hmm why they hell did this get an oscar?". It's pretty obvious it only got so many because it's playing close to home to US audience. Similar thing happened with Rocky which was a film that happened to be released just at the right time when things were just that little bit depressing and it gave people the American dream underdog story that they craved and took it to heart.
 
I believed the hype, watched it and thought it was very uneven. Parts of it were very, very gripping but the story was all over the place and I didn't like the sniper bit at all.

+1 for "it's good but not six oscars good"
 
I watched this last night via xbox live & feel i wasted the points. :(
Wait for it to come on telly i say.
 
Yeah it's ok. Felt the end was just rushed and very poor. They spent most of the film going into a lot of detail in the early days then towards the end it was massive leaps and very little explanation, actually was left wanting more from the ending.
 
It's one of the most inaccurate films EVER made.

I didn't realise that the U.S Army had an EOD Sniper closer quarters evasion driving squad. Oh wait no they don't...

Also WHY FOR THE LOVE OF ******* GOD do they make ready (****) their rifles when they have been out of the gate for what seems like a long time. Rifles are made ready (cocked) the second you step outside of the gate - NO MATTER WHAT

OHHH and another thing... why are they ALWAYS driving around alone? This would never happen

argh stupid film.
 
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