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Post by Stew on Jul 28, 2009 17:11:07 GMT
Saw this last night at a preview screening. I think it's out in the UK and Ireland in a couple of weeks. It is brilliant. Comfortably the best movie made about the war in Iraq. One of the reviews I've read said the best war movie since Full Metal Jacket. It just might be. Honestly check it out when it's released. It's about a bomb disposal unit and is incredibly tense almost from the start. It's out in the States now so Red yank and Raisin Hell should go. NOW!!
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Post by soapy481 on Jul 28, 2009 20:34:04 GMT
I quite fancy seeing this but not sure about the best war movie since Full Metal Jacket. It will take a monumental effort to prise my Saving Private Ryan Blu ray out of the machine
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Post by Stew on Jul 28, 2009 22:04:59 GMT
Saving Private Ryan was excellent in fairness. Particularly the opening and closing scenes. But Hurt Locker is damned good.
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Post by united4lyf on Jul 28, 2009 22:10:18 GMT
I loved Full Metal Jacket; might check this one out.
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Post by Stew on Aug 4, 2009 20:37:52 GMT
5 star review in Empire this month.
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Post by BenW_23 on Aug 18, 2009 0:48:17 GMT
saw the trailer for this one today, looks worth a trip to the cinema
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Post by Dizzy on Aug 25, 2009 11:28:55 GMT
Yeah I saw the trailer before Inglorious Basterds, looks alright. Just a very shit title.
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Post by Stew on Mar 8, 2010 7:44:45 GMT
See, I told you it was good! Won best picture Oscar last night.
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Post by Rais.n.Hell on Mar 8, 2010 8:08:04 GMT
Yep! I watched it before it was released. My roommate worked for the Summit Entertainment at the time and got passes to the pre-release screening. Quite easily one of Jeremy Renner's best performances. He's an under appreciated actor... who watched him in The Unusuals? Sucks that the show was canceled. It was brilliant!
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Post by peejay80 on Mar 9, 2010 21:30:40 GMT
Brilliantly shot, Brilliantly acted, great atmosphere created, but yet for the majority of the movie i was bored to tears.
very little depth in story and therefore for me didnt deserve the oscar. i totally understand what they were trying to do here with this film and it was successfuly achieved. but that if this is the best we can up with on a yearly basis to actually win best picture, then im sorry but its a sorry state of affairs for the industry, there wasd nothing new here, seen it all before, cant remember the last film that won this accolade that i watched and thought, 'you know what? that was excellent, it deserves its victory'.
I watched Avatar in 3D the other week, didnt fancy it. was blown away at the work and effort gone into it. bit of a sloppy generic - ish sort of story line but a far better all round experiance for me.
4/5 overall for hurt locker. as far as war films go, i prefered 'black hawk down' to be honest. and private ryan, and platoon.
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Post by Stew on Mar 9, 2010 21:49:58 GMT
I genuinely don't know how anyone could be bored watching a movie about a bomb disposal unit!! The reason the Hurt Locker worked so well was because it wasn't a traditional narrative. It centred on the day to day lives of the soldiers. There wasn't any great mission, there wasn't any great shoot out with the heroes dying in glorious slo mo. It's skips any politics. It's dis-jointed, fractured because presumably that's what war is like. It is in complete contrast to Black Hawk Down which was more like a video game than a movie for me. notice how any time an American soldier is killed in Black Hawk Down the music swells, we hear poignant last words, the camera lingers over him as the life drains slowly away. Then compare it to the carnage as a couple of hundred natives are turned into cannon fodder every ten minutes. It was like a re-make of Zulu with helicopters. The Hurt Locker was far, far superior to the likes of Black Hawk Down. I mean., one won both an Oscar and a Bafta. The other has Josh Hartnet in it.
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Post by peejay80 on Mar 9, 2010 22:30:48 GMT
I genuinely don't know how anyone could be bored watching a movie about a bomb disposal unit!! The reason the Hurt Locker worked so well was because it wasn't a traditional narrative. It centred on the day to day lives of the soldiers. There wasn't any great mission, there wasn't any great shoot out with the heroes dying in glorious slo mo. It's skips any politics. It's dis-jointed, fractured because presumably that's what war is like. It is in complete contrast to Black Hawk Down which was more like a video game than a movie for me. notice how any time an American soldier is killed in Black Hawk Down the music swells, we hear poignant last words, the camera lingers over him as the life drains slowly away. Then compare it to the carnage as a couple of hundred natives are turned into cannon fodder every ten minutes. It was like a re-make of Zulu with helicopters. The Hurt Locker was far, far superior to the likes of Black Hawk Down. I mean., one won both an Oscar and a Bafta. The other has Josh Hartnet in it. i agree with everything you say stew, completey 'get' and understand the hurt locker. but was at times bored with parts of it. prefer a bit of depth in story in my films, and yeah, josh harnett.......what was i thinking, lol. just got more actual enjoyment out of that film than i did from this one though. although a different subject entirely, i got a similar experiance from another recent oscar winner. 'crash' again i could see what they were trying to do and what message was being put across, it was well made etc etc, but ultimately bored the life out of me. i liken the experiance to the hurt locker like i said, didnt see any originality in it, plus there is little to no story. it relied heavily on being shot and told in a different way. |
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Post by Stew on Mar 9, 2010 22:45:17 GMT
Until they start to include foreign movies in best picture they'll continue to miss out on some of the best stuff there is. The best movies I've seen in the last 5 years have been Downfall, Pan's Labyrinth and the Lives of Others. I'm not being a snob but genuinely they have been better than any American films I've seen in a similar time. I also think that cinema now almost pales at times in comparision to the quality tv that is being made. A show has say, 12 episodes per season so the story has the time to breathe without being condensed into 2 and a half hours. The Sopranos, Mad Men being prime examples. And I sincerly doubt I'll ever see a movie as utterly goddamned brilliant as The Wire. Doubt I'll ever see a play, hear an album or read a book as good as The Wire for that matter!
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Post by peejay80 on Mar 9, 2010 22:56:31 GMT
you meant you like 'the wire' so much that you posted it twice^^  lol. 'no country for old men' was another oscar winning film in this vain. good but not a lot really going on. you get where im going with it, and my comments regarding the hurt locker? |
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Post by Stew on Mar 9, 2010 23:05:38 GMT
I do indeed. About 6 months ago I predicted to my friend that Bigelow would win Best Director but hand on heart I didn't think it would win best picture. I think this year was pretty good for movies but no real stand-out for me. I liked No Country but it wasn't the best the Coens have made by a long shot. I was blown away by There will be blood....until that utterly fucking terrible final scene in the bowling alley! Seriously, who thought that was a good idea? Day Lewis was superb in that movie but was let off the leash in that scene to thhe point where it became silly. All this nonsense about milkshakes.
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