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I never saw The Hurt Locker because I had the whole movie spoiled for me.
Posted on 6/23/26 at 3:35 pm
Posted on 6/23/26 at 3:35 pm
Long story short basically a week after it came out two friends could’ve stop talking and essentially talked me through the whole film. Since then I never bothered seeing it, I feel like I missed out, should I watch it now?
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Posted on 6/23/26 at 3:39 pm to Tiger1242
Yeah it's good.
Posted on 6/23/26 at 3:54 pm to Tiger1242
I liked it, but then I think Jeremy Renner is pretty decent in most stuff.
Damn, movie came out in 2008.
Damn, movie came out in 2008.
Posted on 6/23/26 at 4:37 pm to SouthEasternKaiju
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Damn, movie came out in 2008.
I didn't come out until the summer of '09 in the United States.
It was directed by Kathryn Bigelow, who won best picture and best director. She beat out her ex husband, James Cameron (Avatar) for both awards.
Posted on 6/23/26 at 4:41 pm to TigerintheNO
The Hurt Locker premiered at the 2008 Venice International Film Festival and was released in the United States on June 26, 2009, by Summit Entertainment.
Very well.
I still liked it.
Very well.
I still liked it.
Posted on 6/23/26 at 5:45 pm to Easy
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You didn’t miss much.
It's a bad movie.
Turned EOD guys into cowboys. Seemed like more of a formulaic Hollywood movie instead of really having much to say about soldiers in Iraq.
Generation Kill was way better IMO.
Posted on 6/23/26 at 6:01 pm to Tiger1242
It's probably entertaining enough if you don't know much about the military. It's not a bad movie but it's laughably inaccurate when it comes to portraying what it's like.
Posted on 6/23/26 at 6:47 pm to TigerintheNO
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It was directed by Kathryn Bigelow, who won best picture and best director. She beat out her ex husband, James Cameron (Avatar) for both awards.
I thought you had to be wrong but I don't keep up with that stuff. Freaking movie won 6 Oscars. That's .... odd.
Posted on 6/23/26 at 7:38 pm to Tiger1242
If you served in Iraq, avoid it. It’s all kinds of absurdities.
Posted on 6/23/26 at 8:06 pm to Philzilla2k
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If you served in Iraq, avoid it. It’s all kinds of absurdities.
For those of us that didn't go to Iraq, care to expand on some of the absurdities? I have 0 doubt there are absurdities, but I'm always curious what battlefield life is actually like.
Have a buddy that served in Iraq and some of the stories he tells are pretty nuts. Apparently he was one of the first marines to cruise into Iraq.
Posted on 6/24/26 at 7:16 am to TigerintheNO
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I didn't come out until the summer of '09 in the United States.
When did you come out in other countires?
Posted on 6/24/26 at 7:41 am to WhiskeyThrottle
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For those of us who didn't go to Iraq, care to expand on some of the absurdities?
I didn't serve in Iraq either, but from previous conversations its the little nuances that make it frustrating. Its kinda like when I see a deer hunting scene in a movie or a show set in South Louisiana.
Posted on 6/24/26 at 7:52 am to Tiger1242
The place where they filmed all the village scenes is a Jordanian military base that I was deployed to for a year.
That's all I got.
Oh, and the King of Jordan is pretty cool and his wife is a smoke show.
That's all I got.
Oh, and the King of Jordan is pretty cool and his wife is a smoke show.
This post was edited on 6/24/26 at 7:54 am
Posted on 6/24/26 at 8:34 am to Centinel
I don't remember specifically why, but I remember watching this movie years ago and absolutely hating it.
Posted on 6/24/26 at 8:55 am to Tiger1242
Veterans hate it because apparently it's highly unrealistic.
But us non-veterans loved it because it's intense as shite and very entertaining. Cinematography is good and Renner is a good actor.
So if you can handle the plot, then you'll like it. Turn up the volume and watch in a dark room.
But us non-veterans loved it because it's intense as shite and very entertaining. Cinematography is good and Renner is a good actor.
So if you can handle the plot, then you'll like it. Turn up the volume and watch in a dark room.
Posted on 6/24/26 at 9:00 am to Tiger1242
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Since then I never bothered seeing it
Well, that's just hot shite. You're a wild man, you know that?
Posted on 6/24/26 at 9:05 am to WhiskeyThrottle
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For those of us that didn't go to Iraq
Uniform wear.
Wrong uniform.
Sleeves rolled up.
Incorrect patch wear.
Popped collar, what the frick?
No overwatch or support during route clearance missions.
EOD aren’t snipers or infantry.
3 man EOD team doesn’t do presence patrols/force projection.
James is reckless and would be pulled from that unit immediately.
Lack of safety procedures putting his whole team at risk.
Assaulting your NCO.
I can go on if you want.
Posted on 6/24/26 at 10:17 am to Flats
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It's probably entertaining enough if you don't know much about the military. It's not a bad movie but it's laughably inaccurate when it comes to portraying what it's like.
and at the time it was heralded as this super accurate War on Terror film. i remember watching it as a lieutenant, even before i went on my first ME deployment, and thinking "no way it's like this". turns out i was right.
that said, a lot of it was filmed at the JTC in Jordan and does a pretty good job of capturing the overall feel of the middle east and Iraq, so that was cool.
Posted on 6/24/26 at 10:23 am to WhiskeyThrottle
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For those of us that didn't go to Iraq, care to expand on some of the absurdities? I have 0 doubt there are absurdities, but I'm always curious what battlefield life is actually like.
it's been years since i saw it, but the thing that sticks out in my memory was a scene where Renner is out by himself running around in the town for some reason. that is unrealistic to an absurd level.
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