sheepshead
03-07-2010, 11:26 AM
Every year I want to enjoy this show, but it gets more and more difficult. All the politics is rather sickening. I still have the image of several limousine liberals telling us to walk and ride our bikes to work.
Here's a review of "hurt locker" i happen to agree with. I thought the thing sucked. I have never served or even been in the middle east, but knew it was bullshit and not very entertaining.
The Hurt Locker is a gripping and frightening film if the audience suspends disbelief and disabuses themselves of critical plot lines. However, I think a believable plot and adherence to certain details are important elements of films that portray war, which is why The Hurt Locker should be shut out of the Oscars. Notwithstanding the criticism heaped on the producer by current military personnel and EOD specialists (who say they laugh at the film), the producers and directors employ nothing original in their presentation and often revert to tired clichés (mainifested by the reflexive Hollywood Mỹ Lai meme in this movie) such as officers condoning field executions, NCO's conducting unapproved vigilante expeditions and a complete disregard for the very real and onerous rules of engagement that our military operates under in Iraq.
Here's a review of "hurt locker" i happen to agree with. I thought the thing sucked. I have never served or even been in the middle east, but knew it was bullshit and not very entertaining.
The Hurt Locker is a gripping and frightening film if the audience suspends disbelief and disabuses themselves of critical plot lines. However, I think a believable plot and adherence to certain details are important elements of films that portray war, which is why The Hurt Locker should be shut out of the Oscars. Notwithstanding the criticism heaped on the producer by current military personnel and EOD specialists (who say they laugh at the film), the producers and directors employ nothing original in their presentation and often revert to tired clichés (mainifested by the reflexive Hollywood Mỹ Lai meme in this movie) such as officers condoning field executions, NCO's conducting unapproved vigilante expeditions and a complete disregard for the very real and onerous rules of engagement that our military operates under in Iraq.