5 August 2024

The Hurt Locker

 

The Hurt Locker 2008

  • Director: Kathryn Bigelow
  • Seen by this director: Homicide Life on the Street, Strange Days
  • Based on novel: no
  • Cast: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie
  • Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in
    • Jeremy Renner – Arrival, American Hustle, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, 28 Weeks Later, North Country
    • Anthony Mackie – Antman, Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, Half Nelson, Million Dollar Baby, 8 Mile
  • Why? The cast
  • Seen: Once before (maybe). Now 24 July 2024   

War is a drug and these US soldiers in Bagdad are addicted, but if this doesn’t stop being just a macho war film, I’m going to fast forward, 6 Oscars be damned.

So far, so bad. War is stupid. Please stop making films pretending that war is in anyway acceptable, or natural, or necessary or cool, or normal, or run by heroes or whatever this stupid film is about.

War is stupid. Don’t waste your skill, Bigelow! Giving this film an Oscar for Best Film is an insult to humanity. 

0* of 5

 

 

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