Nelson: This movie is a look into the lives of an EOD Unit in Iraq. You get an inside look at how life in a high adrenaline job in Iraq really is. Very Realistic portayal. Not a really entertaining movie but I liked it. The best Iraqi War movie so far, best war movie since "Saving Private Ryan" but in a totally differnt way. "Saving Private Ryan" was a movie with a story, "The Hurt Locker" has no real entertaining story just a realistic look at the Iraqi War through those characters' experience together doing their jobs. I would give it 3 stars.
Pam: The feeling I got for the American soldiers in parts of this movie reminds me a lot of how I felt watching "Blackhawk Down." The soldiers are at the mercy of natives who obstruct their efforts to protect them. I kept asking "why? I just don't understand." Can you imagine how the soldiers feel who must face this every day for months, sometimes years at a time? How futile their jobs must seem?
The image of the general in charge of security on Pandora in the movie "Avatar" sprang to mind warning the soldiers about the natives and expressing his fervant hatred and mistrust of them. I, as an American, don't want to invision soldiers hating the natives they are trying to protect, but damn, when I see a movie like this, I'm thinking, hand me the gun and I will shoot the guy myself. That's the mark of a good movie, though, to get me emotionally involved at that level. It's powerful, intense and won't bring a smile to your face, but it'll get you thinking. I recommend it. 3.5 stars
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After Nelson and I discussed this movie further, we figured out that the "hurt locker" was a chest the main character kept under his bed of various items that inflicted pain. Pam
We watched this one last weekend. Jay, my boyfriend, is about to join an EOD unit out of Ft. Drum and will eventually deploy with them, so the initial interest in the movie was pretty high for us. We both liked the concept of the movie, but he was troubled by the deviation from anything resembling reality with some of the scenes. He felt that the story could have been told more realistically and made for a much better movie. Maybe it's just having a more insider's viewpoint that made this not one we wanted to purchase for our collection. Still not a horrible movie to watch.
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