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eSale-Accounts - The Hurt Locker [Blu-ray]
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List Price: $34.99
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Manufacturer: Summit Entertainment
Starring: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Ralph Fiennes, Evangeline Lilly
Directed By: Kathryn Bigelow
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: Universal
EAN: 0025192048562
Format: AC-3
Label: Summit Entertainment
Manufacturer: Summit Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Summit Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2010-01-12
Running Time: 130
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2009-06-26
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Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (summit) Release Date: 01/12/2010 Run time: 131 minutes Rating: R
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Summary: The Hurt Locker...hurts!
Comment: This undeservedly overly hyped out-of-all-proportion movie is a vast disappointment. While successful in its depiction of the old adage that War is Hell, this movie really doesn't show us anything new that we haven't seen before in war movies equally well-done if not better done than this one. It is a well-enough made pic about the hell that is (or was) Iraq since the movie is set in 2004. But that is all it is. There are some well-done action sequences and there is a requisite amount of tension since we are primarily dealing with a bomb squad...but there is no script worth mentioning, no great acting worth waxing ecstatic about, no profoundities to ponder, no characters we ever truly come to like and care about. It is very akin in parts to "Full Metal Jacket" and "Black Hawk Down." It owes alot to "Platoon" and "Apocalpyse Now." (The movies just mentioned, by the way, are all far better than this one.) It's main character is a descendant of Steve McQueen's war-loving, isolated characters in "The War Lover" and "Hell is for Heroes." Why it won Best Picture is not because it is a great movie, but because it was the PC thing to do to help boost morale amongst today's military - and to break the male-dominated Best Director award by giving it to the Academy's first-ever female director. And, as mentioned by many others on Amazon, there are several unrealistic sequences and a cliched death that I could see coming an hour before. Now, I have not seen "Avatar" and have no desire to see so - the blue aliens just look very odious and unrealistic to me and James Cameron writes awful scripts. ("Titanic" was a silly little love story riddled with lousy dialogue and a soap opera plot.) Having said that, maybe "Avatar" did get the shaft on Oscar night. If "The Hurt Locker" is what the Academy deems a "Best Picture" then, well, it is no wonder they forgot to include not just Farrah Fawcet in the sequence remembering those persons affiliated with the film industry who have passed over - but also Edward Woodward and Patrick McGoohan were ignored. Anyway, as to "The Hurt Locker"...it hurt knowing I wasted the money buying the DVD and not awaiting its arrival on cable.
Customer Rating:
Summary: No plot, no point
Comment: I was very disappointed with this film. If you enjoy watching people disarm bombs, then you may enjoy the movie. However there was no plot, it was very slow and boring, and not realistic to true life. (The things the main character "Will" does would never be tolerated--he's so out of control I wouldn't be surprised if he was court martialed for his actions if he did it in real life) This film pretty much takes you from one scene to another with no explanation as to where they are, how they got there, why they are there, and what they are doing. Also, was it really necessary to have the F word in every other sentence? I realize some soldiers can get a little graphic with their language at times, but it really wasn't needed in the film--especially with the frequency they used the F word in particular. If you like war pictures, but like for them to have a plot and make sense, then I would suggest you pass this one up and look elsewhere. Big hype over nothing and a major waste of time.
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Summary: Good but not the best
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Avatar was hosed! No way was this as good, and did not deserve the Oscar.
Other than that, the movie was interesting and vivid. I thought the "flow" was not that good. But, I enjoyed it enough to watch ONCE - Avatar will be on my "rewatch" list forever! That's the proof of a good movie.
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Summary: An action movie where you dread the action.
Comment: "The Hurt Locker" has just won the Academy Award for Best Motion Picture and it truly earns it. Here is a war movie that takes no real position on war, and especially no position on the Iraq War, and simply shows the mental and physical brutality and beauty of conflict.
You know the story by now. It centers around a bomb disposal and disarmament team in Iraq who throw themselves into harm's way on a regular basis in order to make life safer for their fellow soldiers and civilians. The team receives a new member, played by the fantastic Jeremy Renner, who is something of a wild card. Soon he and everyone else are pulled into his own personal brand of insanity as he comes to realize that without the war, he's nothing.
It's a simple concept and wonderfully executed by Kathryn Bigelow and her team. It was filmed on location in the Middle East and you really get a sense of what life is like that part of the world for our soldiers and the civilians who live there. You bear witness to some of the day-to-day tragedies that happen (admittedly not as much now as they did in 2004 when this movie is apparently set), like a man forced into a suicide bombing. It's a harrowing look at an unpleasant reality.
I mention in the title of the review that it's an action movie where you dread the action. This is entirely true. You really start to become quite fond of the three bomb techs, and when the bullets start flying and things start exploding, you worry about them. You want nothing more than for them to go back to their base, nice and safe, and not venture out into the dangerous world. It's something I've not come across in an action-type film, and I'm glad to see it here.
Was this actually the best movie of 2009? Well, yes. It won't have the long-term influence of "Avatar", but it is overall better than that film. I'm glad it won and I'm glad I've seen it.
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Summary: Philosophical question, gritty answer
Comment: The movie starts with a quote from Chris Hedges about why men go to war : "...War is a drug"
War has a way of refueling itself, no wonder it's much harder to prevent a war than starting it.
The movie is an intricate kaleidoscope of possibilities, nothing is what it seems, friends/ foes, in the rush of the ticking clock when onlookers can be either, appearances mingle and shift, and there's no time for deep thinking, death is at your throat all the time.
Stg. James is not a regular soldier, he is a skilled technician and great at what he's doing!
Rarely the mess of Iraq war has been analyzed so deeply with so much honesty and depth. The script is brilliant!
This is not a feel bad movie (In the Valley of Elah is a great movie but you feel you need depression meds after watching it!). It's about these kids that we send there, trying their best to stay alive in a hostile and culturally incomprehensible environment.
The question is how are they going to find their way back into the "civilized" society?
It's shot like a documentary, you are there with them making life/death choices every second.
There are a lot of great details and nuances you can read into, as the love/hate relationship of the general population, can't decide if they want to take their dollars or kill them at any moment! There are quick gems of acting from Ralph Fiennes, David Morse and Guy Pearce.
It did remind me of an old movie with Jeff Bridges and Tommy Lee Jones, "Blown Away" where they tried to analyze the relationship bomber/bomb defuser. I'm not sure if there is a Stockholm syndrome in the bomber/defuser relationship but for sure the defuser has to learn to think as a bomber in order to stay alive.
In the larger order of things, if you don't understand where the terrorists come from, you'll never stop them.
The quote is thrown in as a riddle, the viewer is challenged. What would you do? Which wire would you cut? Which one is the bad guy? The enraged bomb defuser that risks his life to stop the ticking, the "by the book soldier" that only does what he was told, the insurgents that plant the bombs because they don't want americans there in the first place?
The characters are all as complex as life, there is not one dimension to any of them, and the climax of the movie comes when an innocent gets dragged against his will into the insurgents' fight. It's a tragic and powerful moment!
What about the masterminds of this war? the people that send in these kids where they are not wanted, the insurgents that don't shy away from spilling their people's innocent blood?
Whose addiction is it?!
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