Anybody see THE HURT LOCKER??

It only did $10-15 Million at the box office - but is lauded as one of the finest movies from 2009.

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The name's Rockmore. Beef Rockmore

not yet I might go this week. It is still playing at Pipers Alley.If not then defiantly when it hits DVD.

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

If you are going to bitch the whole time, make sure to watch it alone.

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Alright, I hit this up at Blockbuster and finished it 10 minutes ago. Worth
a look. Probably the best Iraq movie out there. The critcs were drooling
all over it, but I am not sure why. It was definitely intense, I will give it
that. I never really cared what happened to the main character, maybe
that is why I was thrown off. Worth your time to see. Will be up for awards
this season, and deservedly so, but still not better than The Basterds IMO.
I will watch the rest running up to Oscar season. I'll wait for Zack's in depth
analysis.

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It's running on my OnDemand, and I've been wanting to check it out. Jeremy Renner was real good on Life On Mars.

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"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." ~ H.L. Mencken

He is also slated to be Hawkeye in the Avengers movie.

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

What part did he play on Life on Mars? Chas and I were two of couple hundred that watched
that entire series and he didn't seem familiar to me.

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I was thinking the same thing unless he was on the BBC version.

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

Chas, he was definitely hiding an accent which came through a few times in the film. I never bought
him as a true redneck American. Maybe I'll look him up on IMDB and see what the story is.

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He is a Cali kid , I think he was meaning the Unusuals , he stared in that short lived series.

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

After further review, Renner is an American actor, he just does kind of a strange job
in this movie. Great acting job but no way to tell exactly where he is trying to be from,
which maybe is the point. A7X, where have you seen this guy before? Doesn't show
anything about him from Life on Mars on the UK or US series. I hate to be a dick about
it but like I said, I was one of the few people the watched the entire US series and loved
it, and I would have recognized him. Anyone else see Hurt Locker yet?

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Just saw this last night. Very good movie, definitely one of the best of the year. But, keep in mind that this has been a really weak year for movies.

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Yep... he was the main guy in the Unusuals that wanted to bone the braaad. Third from the right in the picture.

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Saw it.

Enjoyed it. Good to see Kate from Lost actually do a 'big screen' movie, albeit her role was minimal to say the least. As was Guy Pearce's.

...but enjoyed Valley of Elah a bit more. More character development.

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My bad. It was The Unusuals. I knew it was a show I got into, but was cancelled. That seems to be any show I take a liking to. I did love Life On Mars. Gretchen Mol is quite fetching.

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saw it tonight on demand. well, pay per view on demand. $4.99. still beats renting a possibly scratched copy from blockbuster and possibly NOT getting a copy at all, since blockbuster is terrible with stocking good films.

OK, a little rant here.

If "Avatar" wins over this film for Best Picture, it just proves again how far apart from reality the academy voters are. It is the perfect yin and yang thing here: "Avatar" wins, it's a symbol of how we want aesthetic over a realistic depiction of what's going on in the real world. We want to escape...OK fine. That's what movies are for. Sometimes. Sometimes they can represent what we're missing in real life.

This could be "Platoon" for this generation. It's the first full-on *war* film about the Iraq invasion. And it pulls no punches, and it gets it right.

The film's three central characters represent three different perspectives of how war affects a person, and what war means to each of them. For some, it's just something they're not cut out for and they need psychiatric help even when they're in the field. For others, they have nothing to live for...and nothing to die for, either. And for the main character, Will James, war is all he feels he has...even though he has *everything* to live for (a wife, a son).

Some of the scenes are just downright nerve wracking. Whether it's a tense moment in disarming a bomb from a man who's got the thing literally bolted to him, or a standoff in the middle of the desert (featuring a nice little cameo by Ralph Feinnes), the film's pace is dictated by anxious intensity and nail biting suspense.

But the film's opening quote (taken from "War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning" by Chris Hedges) explains James' character and his motivations, and give meaning to the last scenes of the film, and the final scene in particular.

This film is not perfect, but i think it's important to see. and i think it's an important film to win Best Picture over something like "Avatar".

now watch fucking "the blind side" win...

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Congratulations to The Hurt Locker. Great film, although I feel a second viewing will be needed to get the entire grasp of the individual performances.

Hell, I'm just happy James Cameron didn't win.

haven't seen avatar and have no desire to but i thought this movie really sucked. i get all the different views of what the wars effect on people but i was looking for much much more. i think shutter island blows away this film and seen it before this movie so maybe i was spoiled. i don't get it. nothing special to me. I think i also saw it win best screenplay for the lines where sanborn(black guy) punches James for taking off his headset!? there was nothing better than that?

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i'm not a big fan of the way they do the screenplay segment, but your close minded approach to this film is pretty lame. sorry it couldn't live up to whatever standard you put inside your head before you saw it.

It didn't win for that specific dialogue exchange, the idea was they were showing how
it was typed out compared to how the director interpreted it.

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Entertaining but not a world beater. I get that its a good movie based on its relatively low budget. But as far as a really good movie? Not so much.

Havent seen you around here in awhile tmurf. I sorta agree with you. I thought it was a good movie though, just not great. And from the vast majority of feedback I've gotten, not nearly as realistic as it's portrayed to be. I thought it did a good job of showing the stress on EOD units though.-

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how realistic do you need a war movie to be?