Can't believe I never saw The Hurt Locker before yesterday

One of my favorite movies ever.

I enjoy the movie but every veteran I know says it’s one of the most unrealistic military movies out there.

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I enjoy the movie but every veteran I know says it’s one of the most unrealistic military movies out there.

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Kind of figured that may be the case. Cowboys don’t do well in real life

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liked all of the actors in it.


I'm curious if at any time you thought, "Hey, that's the Avengers' Hawkeye...and the Falcon!"

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I mean I knew Mackie and Renner were the leads. I meant they had good performances.

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arhead the night before and that's so much more of slow burn.

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I remember watching this in the theatre and the guy in front of me stood up during the scene they were playing football and started yellow how the movie was bullshite and it wasn't anything like that. He immediately stormed out. Hopefully he came back around to watch the rest.

I ran route clearance with a combat engineer platoon in 04 and 05, think EOD but without any of the gear. The only thing they got right were the IEDs and V-BEDs.

Oh, and the drinking…

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I hate Jeremy Renner as an actor though.

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I’m with you on that I think.

Isn’t this the movie everybody jizzed themselves over because it was directed by a woman?

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Isn’t this the movie everybody jizzed themselves over because it was directed by a woman?

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No
People liked it because it’s a good movie.

Zero dark thirty is also good
Point Break is a fricking masterpiece

I think the “people only like that movie, because a female directed it” ship sailed long ago with Bigelow, even if she has made some trash.

I have heard that Hurt Locker is full of shite, and I believe that is probably the case. Still puckered up my butthole.

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how realistic it may have been

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EOD drops C4 and hits it with a .50 cal. Doesn't make for great cinema

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Best, recent, war movie?

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The Outpost is about as good and accurate of a war movie as you'll ever see. Didn't have much expectations either way when I flipped it on, and it blew me away. Trailer is a lot different than the movie, too. It helps that they had several of the guys who were actually at Keating on as advisors for the movie.

I am an Iraq vet, and it just seems like the Iraq War has never really gotten its due when it comes to good movies, either fiction or documentary or re-creations. Generation Kill is great, but that only covers the first few weeks of the war, which is an experience that was way, way different than what the war was like for most people who went there. Otherwise, it's a bunch of bleh. Hurt Locker is a good movie from a technical and story-telling perspective, but it's about as close to what Iraq was actually like as Ted Lasso. American Sniper is interesting, I guess.

Also, it drives me crazy that almost no movie about Iraq actually bothers with depicting the terrain of the place accurately. The people there don't live in the barren desert (and subsequently, the war wasn't fought there). They live in ratty cities or in the lush areas near the major rivers. Much of the area close to the Tigris and Diyala Rivers (where I spent most of my time) and the Triangle of Death south of Baghdad looks and feels more like Florida than Nevada. And the northern part of the country - also where a lot of fighting was - is pretty damn rugged, not flat.