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LaughingTarget wrote:Hurt Locker has been nominated for Academy Awards and won numerous independent awards. This just goes to show how far disconnected Hollywood, and film makers in general, are from reality. If a movie's problems are minor or infrequent, they can mostly be ignored and glossed over. That's suspension of disbelief. But when the entire plot is nothing but a massive "make it up as we go along" joke that uses every bad Army cliche in the book, it's hard to think of the film and those involved in its production as rank amateurs who shouldn't be given the opportunity to film again, let alone getting recognition as being a nominee for Best Picture of the Year.
You might as well be talking about Avatar. Who needs reality, or good stories, when well-packaged mindlessness sells more tickets? I don't get the appeal of The Hurt Locker, other than that it tries very hard to create a sense of tension scene-to-scene. That's pretty much all the movie was. No story, just a series of random "suspenseful" events, thinly strung together--none of which worked for me, but did for my wife and her best friend. They couldn't bare to watch some parts of this movie it got so tense for them. They loved it. So go figure.
I disagree about the half naked wrestling scene, though. I have no friends, but I'm told this is how über men enjoy bonding with each other. (Gordon, the super-soldier, if he weren't so short, might know more about this.) Top Gun, for instance, wouldn't be the respected classic it is without some shirtless, glistening bare-chested beach volleyball.
