All you serving our country - God Bless you. Truly. I served 8 years OIF / OEF, nothing as dangerous as your world.
HOWEVER, Mark Boal's character (Renner) was CLEARLY supposed to be the best - bar none - EOD tech in the United States. EVERY OTHER character in the film reminds me of by-the-book personnel. But Renner is supposed to be the best. THAT's WHY he has EARNED the liberty to be a cowboy. Don't hate on Kat. This film didn't shove any political agenda - and brought attention to EOD.
"The guys that are out there doing that right now, those are the guys that deserve that Oscar" ...erm which Oscar would you like them to win pal? Best Actress?
I have all respect for our troops, but so what? It's a movie. It never claimed to be 100% Authentic. That's like astronauts getting pissed off over apollo 18.
That's a negative on that. Intel confirms that the HVI has indeed been killed in action serving in past productions. Intel identifies some of these productions as named 28 Weeks Later and SWAT.
Its a movie.........a good one as well. But it seems that war is glorified to much with these awesome movies and call of duty which I love. In a way its wrong but I still love it
The whole point of the movie was that the character that Renner played was reckless... everyone knows that no one in EOD is like that, if he was a regular EOD member the film would have been shite.
Im not in the EOD, and I haven't been deployed to Iraq. And apart from the technical stuff, the characters feel completely real. Which is most important because otherwise it would have been a documentary.
But its a movie, a good movie. And the only reason as to why the guys at EOD claim it to be as highly inaccurate is because none of them had the honor to meet Staff Sgt. James yet.
@commandro You are wrong. I WISH I could meet SSG James so I could smile in welcome, hold out my hand for him to shake and then kick him in the nuts.
His actions could have sent others back home in bags...period.
If you want to get yourself killed? Be a man about it and put a bullet in your brain-pan. Don't put other Sons and Daughters at risk because you had some bad times and have a death wish.
The Men & Women who are REAL E.O.D. understand this.
look i dont know why so many people are all hyping. not all soilders are reckless but you do get one or two. you need watch what the film is about there basically just trying to say what EOD team does and how important their roles are when it comes to front line.The film is also about a guy thats abit crazy and reckless but cares for other soilders safety more then himself and how he tried to live a normal life after but he couldnt so he went back into the EOD team. that bold guy was just hating
The whole point was that James didn't act responsible like the original team leader. Also it is a movie, it shows some of the brutality of war that doesn't mean its 100% accurate so yes although I can sympathise with the reception of the movie i think it has to be remembered those 2 points I've mentioned above.
Very few war films are accurate. EOD are the front line when it comes to the war on terror. IEDs are the enemies weapon of chice because they cannot beat us in a stand up fight. No disrespect to the Special Forces but EOD own the nerves of steel. The film worked as an entertainment medium but this is not how these heroes are. If the movie only draws attention to their job and its challenges then it cant be all bad. I trust any mavericks would be weeded out by training and unit operations.
@crazyindian8 in my opinion the writing was poor and so was the acting, the main actor was a douchebag in the movie, i wish he died, he didnt, didnt know what was incredible about the directing... Sucker Punch had much better directing, but it still turned out as a bad movie because of its terrible storyline. This movie depicts the bravery of many of our troops? alright? people really take this too seriously. it doesnt mean shit if u hated this movie. doesnt mean you dont support the military.
Well they didn't show the 99th Ord Det (EOD) doing the "Dance of the Flaming Ass Hole" in Vietnam in 1972. I can put a face on each one of those guys in the movie.
@mandrke2004 while I understand your statement and even agree to some extent, my point remains. Did they win the academy award for the accurate dipiction of the duties performed, or for the acting? "The whole world" hasn't changed a bit since this movie came out, people with experience still know how these things work and people without still don't. This movie changes nothing. It remains at it's core and in it's value the same as every other holywood film ever shot: entertainment.
@Consequence13 No it doesnt buddy. Yeah, thats my whole point. They won the academy award for wrong reasons. They claimed authenticity due to the fact that they supposedly heaviliy based their movie on the experiences they had when following an EOD squad in Iraq. Turned out to be complete bullshit. Either they lied on purpose to hype their bullshit movie or they were too stupid to realize how far off base they actually were. Neither type should be rewarded the academy award...
@Consequence13 ...especially when portraying something so present and delicate like a war and you completely fail to get the facts right, but draw an entirely idiotic picture of the army and army personnel. Thats nothing short of libel
I really never even gave a backward thought to real soldiers when watching the movie. It's understood that hollywood is going to take some artistic liberty when they make a movie of any kind. I don't hear firefighters or cops crying every time a movie about them comes out. suck it up.
Then that's a plus. If I'm going to watch a movie about something that is happening or did happen, I want the truth of what happened and I want to feel what the writer felt. Not some hyped up main character that is a cowboy running around being the hero, that's not how stories like those are meant to be. Now I'm not bashing anyone in this, the actors and producers in this movie were great. It just needed to show how things really are, not the opposite.
To be honest I agree with everything the soldiers and people in EOD are actually saying. I mean if you think back on or look at every old war movie from the different theaters of war, only very few have been shot and performed as the story actually happened. For example Oliver Stone's "Platoon" Was his actual experience on what he went through during the Vietnam Conflict. My father is a Vietnam Veteran, if he can sit down and be stunned at the fact that yeah this is as real as it gets...
It was a a film to show that there are some men who fight in wars primarily for the thrill of danger. And EOD work looks about as dangerous as it gets. If an actual EOD specialist says this film is not accurate, who am I to argue? Their word is final.
Anyone who saw "Million Dollar Baby" and is a boxing fan knows that the film was WAY off the mark when it showed how the fight game worked behind the scenes. But it didn't make it any less great of a film or less Oscar worthy.
And as for other Oscar winners, look at "Titanic". They took one of the most epic disasters in history which would have stood on its own with just the facts, and they turned it into the Jack and Rose show with a BS-factor as high as the number of Oscars it won and the money it made. Still a great film but in that case the BS-factor (and that damn Celine Dion song) is a huge turn off.
It was a good movie nonetheless because it was about what happens overseas not these humungous battle scenes day after day with people dying left and right, but the movie did have some flaws. But one thing they missed was that it was a good pro-American movie, unlike films such as: Jarhead, Platoon, and Apocalypse Now.
these veterans are upset because the film is unaccurate, and misrepresents the armed forces. when the general public sees the film, they will think that soldiers are like that in real life. sure it's just a movie, but it's a movie that insults the very people that it tries to support
i don't see infantry complaining about all the other war movies or the navy seals complaining about behind enemy lines (which was the shittiest movie i have ever seen) what they seem to not realize is that it is a movie not a documentary on EOD plus it would be boring it would pretty much be moving enemy munitions and blowing them up and maybe a ied defusing here and there. the job is exciting when your doing it but not when your watching it
Agreed it's a movie. A crappy portrayal, but the public need to know nothing and that is what it gave them. As for the rest of my brothers watching this crap take a breather we all know this is not us, but a bad portrayal of what we do. A movie a shitty one at that. Statement of the times if you ask me. I can count on the we didn't ask you comment soon to come.
Im in the army and I found this film one of the most credible out there.
There are cowboys serving in the armed forces, there is no doubt about that. And they are not liked whether they do their job or not, but just for the way they are. One thing you must remember, the militairy is very sensitive about its image. But just like in the movies, the reality is sometimes different.
Its a personal story, not a promotional add for the EOD
I get why they are disappointed but geeze, it's a movie... I wouldn't think most people would think EOD is actually THAT wreck-less. CALM DOWN, It's a Hollywood movie.
@yellowlabhooper well said. There is a reason why they are movies, nobody said that movies have to be or are exactly how it is in real life. You are right about cop movies, I hate how most of the time they make cops look like idiots who dont know what to do when in real life is different.
its a movie not reality tv! its suppose to show you a little of what they do but mostly to entertain. if they really showed the way they do things by the book the majority of people wouldnt watch. its exciting to see the cowboy living on the edge. the guy everyone wants to be. i think most people with common sense know alot of the movie was exagerated. keep up the good work brothers semper fi usmc 98-02
@evitts78 im sorry but you're an idiot. for the sole reason that you tried to compare and contrast "a movie and reality tv" hahaha in case you didn't know this, but all "reality tv" is scripted just like a movie. other than that, i agree with the majority of what you're saying.
@projectf90 Were you in the Army? People like that do not progress in rank. They are usually beaten. In wars of high casualties, they always die. Every single fellow OIF veteran I've talked to has hated this film in just about every way. Its not so much the content, but rather the perception that people will think thats how things are done, and the marketing of the film as an "accurate portrayal"
@PaleHorseWC2 No doubt they risk their careers and futures with that attitude, but that does not mean they don't exist. Yes, I was in the Army, deployed to Iraq. Opinion in my company is mixed. I watched the movie with the attitude of not whether this usually exists, but rather whether it's possible for this to happen.
I think there is some fundamental 'dis'engagement with not only this film (ie. it hardly addresses the fact that it is a U.S. lead coalition of the 'willing' that is at war with a hostile enemy that doesn't 'enjoy' being invaded for freedom or whatever), but with the ideas that the film presents implicitly - is not the 'invading force' not completely 'un'ideological in that the lead character seeks adrenaline rather than the beautiful 'American' life? Is 'war' an 'American' imperialist ideal?
Hurt locker is an OK film but it is very over rated and doesn't even deserve half those oscars. Am currently reading a book called "8 lives down" which is about a British Army EOD team leader (Army ATO) and his expirences in Southern Iraq....Although I am just halfway through, I highly recommend it ^_^.
The last guy interviewed stated "those are the guys who deserve that oscar, not Hollywood." During the director's acceptance speech, Elizabeth Bigelow did acknowledge the service men and women in Iraq. If they're that upset over their portrayal, then I guess her speech was all in vain.
I think people tend to forget that The Hurt Locker IS a movie. It is fiction based on fact. And although I am not an Iraq vet, I think they portrayed it as realistic as they could and were allowed to. 'Cause it is still filmmaking... And as regards the last comment from the EOD about the Oscar should reward the soldiers, I don't know if he realizes that this movie DOES recognize and honor the work they doing...and thanks to the movie, now a lot more people know about their work.
The point the soldiers are making is they don't knowingly "risk their lives" as much as the filmmakers portray, but it fits into the national narrative of people "deliberately risking their lives every day in service". This goes back to many of you Americans loving to put all of your soldiers on a massive pedestal just so that you can have and send many more recruits as yet more cannon fodder. With a better process of conduct there wouldn't have been all of these explosives in the first place.
While I understand that this is a film, isn't is based on a screenplay written by a journalist who spent time in Iraq? And therefore it's based on his observations? I think it's likely an embellishment on what he saw.
Still, I think films should be more conscious and respectful of soldiers instead of just making things for "entertainment."
And I agree with the statement at the end of this clip -- soldiers deserve MUCH more respect than MANY people give them. They're over their putting their lives on their lives so that we can be safe and so that people can say the sometimes stupid things they say. And many are there regardless of whether they agree with the war or not. That's sacrifice.
no you do not understand the human mind and how hollyweird controls us.
Liberals do not respect the military. They take the failings that are in deed REAL PROBLEMS in the military and instead of offering truth to the issues they attack out of weakness and preconceived hate.
They are a Godless bunch in the southland and the TBN 'christian' crap isn't much better!
To show that our well trained and honorable men and women to be careless idiots - breeds hate subconsciously
oh I'm sorry Ho0di I thought you had a brain - you have 'fred' as your friend which reveals your IQ at around 60 so nothing I just explained to you would be understandable to you.
Please consider castration so you can't curse another generation with your stupidity
All you serving our country - God Bless you. Truly. I served 8 years OIF / OEF, nothing as dangerous as your world.
HOWEVER, Mark Boal's character (Renner) was CLEARLY supposed to be the best - bar none - EOD tech in the United States. EVERY OTHER character in the film reminds me of by-the-book personnel. But Renner is supposed to be the best. THAT's WHY he has EARNED the liberty to be a cowboy. Don't hate on Kat. This film didn't shove any political agenda - and brought attention to EOD.
jordancc1980 2 days ago
Semper Gumby my Brothers. (Raises a beverage in salute to all)
We will NEVER be understood, but we will all ALWAYS understand each other.
Please come home safe.
(For the rest of you...the beatings will continue until morale improves)
Prometheus1st 5 days ago
Don't you kind have to be a little crazy to chose a job that requires disabling bombs?
goofoffproductions 1 week ago
It's just a movie
whitemexican97 3 weeks ago
@whitemexican97 yeah but is it just a public impression?
N64isgreat 3 weeks ago
All due respect to the Soldiers interviewed for this video. Now you can understand how Italian people feel when everyone loves the Soprano's.
Relax Gentlemen, it is just a movie............
All due respect to everyone of our Soldiers, Men and Women.
inilledra 4 weeks ago 2
"The guys that are out there doing that right now, those are the guys that deserve that Oscar" ...erm which Oscar would you like them to win pal? Best Actress?
TomMackio 1 month ago
I have all respect for our troops, but so what? It's a movie. It never claimed to be 100% Authentic. That's like astronauts getting pissed off over apollo 18.
awsomepossum1340 1 month ago
OUCH BIG TIME< WRONG DOOR HOLLYWOOD!
IWASONCEAPLEBE 1 month ago
From "We don't like this war, mr. Bush!" to "And the Oscar goes to...quite realistic warmovie!"
Tough nuggies, michael more! Watch "kurtlar vadisi" and weep!
perplacymp 2 months ago
@perplacymp
You clearly don't understand why the movie won. There are plenty of other war movies out there that are complete garbage, like Jarhead.
meric2 1 month ago
But the whole point of the movie was how reckless he was? He was the only reckless one in the movie. The key word is MOVIE.
BROFlacco5 2 months ago
@TheBlackLounge
That's a negative on that. Intel confirms that the HVI has indeed been killed in action serving in past productions. Intel identifies some of these productions as named 28 Weeks Later and SWAT.
Cayden1986 2 months ago
Its a movie.........a good one as well. But it seems that war is glorified to much with these awesome movies and call of duty which I love. In a way its wrong but I still love it
jaws553 2 months ago
yeah lets give an oscar to everyone to everyone in the military.. Oscar: movie award.
lilCaucasian 3 months ago
The guy in teh green digital camo was a MARINE
Marinesofairsoft1121 3 months ago
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It was still a good movie
JDPKRevolution 4 months ago
The whole point of the movie was that the character that Renner played was reckless... everyone knows that no one in EOD is like that, if he was a regular EOD member the film would have been shite.
ghillemh 4 months ago
I knew somone was going to say something about this one day
divinedvon 4 months ago
Im not in the EOD, and I haven't been deployed to Iraq. And apart from the technical stuff, the characters feel completely real. Which is most important because otherwise it would have been a documentary.
But its a movie, a good movie. And the only reason as to why the guys at EOD claim it to be as highly inaccurate is because none of them had the honor to meet Staff Sgt. James yet.
commandro 4 months ago
@commandro You are wrong. I WISH I could meet SSG James so I could smile in welcome, hold out my hand for him to shake and then kick him in the nuts.
His actions could have sent others back home in bags...period.
If you want to get yourself killed? Be a man about it and put a bullet in your brain-pan. Don't put other Sons and Daughters at risk because you had some bad times and have a death wish.
The Men & Women who are REAL E.O.D. understand this.
Prometheus1st 2 months ago
look i dont know why so many people are all hyping. not all soilders are reckless but you do get one or two. you need watch what the film is about there basically just trying to say what EOD team does and how important their roles are when it comes to front line.The film is also about a guy thats abit crazy and reckless but cares for other soilders safety more then himself and how he tried to live a normal life after but he couldnt so he went back into the EOD team. that bold guy was just hating
kinstar 5 months ago
The whole point was that James didn't act responsible like the original team leader. Also it is a movie, it shows some of the brutality of war that doesn't mean its 100% accurate so yes although I can sympathise with the reception of the movie i think it has to be remembered those 2 points I've mentioned above.
taddy671 5 months ago
it's a movie.
movies get oscars.
he's a soldier.
soldiers' wives gets flashy medals and a tin coffin...
that's how it works, you can't complain about that...
Ashmodai 5 months ago
Very few war films are accurate. EOD are the front line when it comes to the war on terror. IEDs are the enemies weapon of chice because they cannot beat us in a stand up fight. No disrespect to the Special Forces but EOD own the nerves of steel. The film worked as an entertainment medium but this is not how these heroes are. If the movie only draws attention to their job and its challenges then it cant be all bad. I trust any mavericks would be weeded out by training and unit operations.
michross70 6 months ago
@crazyindian8 in my opinion the writing was poor and so was the acting, the main actor was a douchebag in the movie, i wish he died, he didnt, didnt know what was incredible about the directing... Sucker Punch had much better directing, but it still turned out as a bad movie because of its terrible storyline. This movie depicts the bravery of many of our troops? alright? people really take this too seriously. it doesnt mean shit if u hated this movie. doesnt mean you dont support the military.
muxmedia7 6 months ago
Well they didn't show the 99th Ord Det (EOD) doing the "Dance of the Flaming Ass Hole" in Vietnam in 1972. I can put a face on each one of those guys in the movie.
yoyoofloco 6 months ago
@mandrke2004 while I understand your statement and even agree to some extent, my point remains. Did they win the academy award for the accurate dipiction of the duties performed, or for the acting? "The whole world" hasn't changed a bit since this movie came out, people with experience still know how these things work and people without still don't. This movie changes nothing. It remains at it's core and in it's value the same as every other holywood film ever shot: entertainment.
Consequence13 7 months ago
@Consequence13 No it doesnt buddy. Yeah, thats my whole point. They won the academy award for wrong reasons. They claimed authenticity due to the fact that they supposedly heaviliy based their movie on the experiences they had when following an EOD squad in Iraq. Turned out to be complete bullshit. Either they lied on purpose to hype their bullshit movie or they were too stupid to realize how far off base they actually were. Neither type should be rewarded the academy award...
mandrke2004 7 months ago
@Consequence13 ...especially when portraying something so present and delicate like a war and you completely fail to get the facts right, but draw an entirely idiotic picture of the army and army personnel. Thats nothing short of libel
mandrke2004 7 months ago
I really never even gave a backward thought to real soldiers when watching the movie. It's understood that hollywood is going to take some artistic liberty when they make a movie of any kind. I don't hear firefighters or cops crying every time a movie about them comes out. suck it up.
Consequence13 7 months ago 4
@Consequence13 what do you mean they have a right to be pissed off
TheTyrell415 1 week ago
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@Consequence13 what do you mean they have a right to be pissed off
TheTyrell415 1 week ago
The guy at 1:17 (guy pearce) has an accent in real life
nintendeon 7 months ago
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nintendeon 7 months ago
Then that's a plus. If I'm going to watch a movie about something that is happening or did happen, I want the truth of what happened and I want to feel what the writer felt. Not some hyped up main character that is a cowboy running around being the hero, that's not how stories like those are meant to be. Now I'm not bashing anyone in this, the actors and producers in this movie were great. It just needed to show how things really are, not the opposite.
jplayaj1983 8 months ago
To be honest I agree with everything the soldiers and people in EOD are actually saying. I mean if you think back on or look at every old war movie from the different theaters of war, only very few have been shot and performed as the story actually happened. For example Oliver Stone's "Platoon" Was his actual experience on what he went through during the Vietnam Conflict. My father is a Vietnam Veteran, if he can sit down and be stunned at the fact that yeah this is as real as it gets...
jplayaj1983 8 months ago
I think the Marine is confused about what they give oscars for.
resullivan 8 months ago
this is a movie. its never meant to be exactly like real life...if it was, it would be a documentary...
xxoBOMaxx 8 months ago
It was a a film to show that there are some men who fight in wars primarily for the thrill of danger. And EOD work looks about as dangerous as it gets. If an actual EOD specialist says this film is not accurate, who am I to argue? Their word is final.
Anyone who saw "Million Dollar Baby" and is a boxing fan knows that the film was WAY off the mark when it showed how the fight game worked behind the scenes. But it didn't make it any less great of a film or less Oscar worthy.
jacktheripoff1888 8 months ago
@jacktheripoff1888
And as for other Oscar winners, look at "Titanic". They took one of the most epic disasters in history which would have stood on its own with just the facts, and they turned it into the Jack and Rose show with a BS-factor as high as the number of Oscars it won and the money it made. Still a great film but in that case the BS-factor (and that damn Celine Dion song) is a huge turn off.
jacktheripoff1888 8 months ago
It was a good movie nonetheless because it was about what happens overseas not these humungous battle scenes day after day with people dying left and right, but the movie did have some flaws. But one thing they missed was that it was a good pro-American movie, unlike films such as: Jarhead, Platoon, and Apocalypse Now.
Timboslice475 9 months ago
these veterans are upset because the film is unaccurate, and misrepresents the armed forces. when the general public sees the film, they will think that soldiers are like that in real life. sure it's just a movie, but it's a movie that insults the very people that it tries to support
videotapereturner24 10 months ago
i don't see infantry complaining about all the other war movies or the navy seals complaining about behind enemy lines (which was the shittiest movie i have ever seen) what they seem to not realize is that it is a movie not a documentary on EOD plus it would be boring it would pretty much be moving enemy munitions and blowing them up and maybe a ied defusing here and there. the job is exciting when your doing it but not when your watching it
TaskrHD 10 months ago
"those are the guys who deserve that OOOscaaar" what a moron lol
laikiunreal 11 months ago
If they made a movie about the real EOD teams, it would be boring and nobody would go see it.
Three1Bravo 11 months ago
Agreed it's a movie. A crappy portrayal, but the public need to know nothing and that is what it gave them. As for the rest of my brothers watching this crap take a breather we all know this is not us, but a bad portrayal of what we do. A movie a shitty one at that. Statement of the times if you ask me. I can count on the we didn't ask you comment soon to come.
ViewerBee79 11 months ago
Im in the army and I found this film one of the most credible out there.
There are cowboys serving in the armed forces, there is no doubt about that. And they are not liked whether they do their job or not, but just for the way they are. One thing you must remember, the militairy is very sensitive about its image. But just like in the movies, the reality is sometimes different.
Its a personal story, not a promotional add for the EOD
commandro 1 year ago
I get why they are disappointed but geeze, it's a movie... I wouldn't think most people would think EOD is actually THAT wreck-less. CALM DOWN, It's a Hollywood movie.
ERAUPRCWA 1 year ago
KILLS THE MAGIC!
pentacampeaoful 1 year ago
those guys are pissed
radiocrash 1 year ago
These guys are so whiny. It's fiction. Get over it.
YourLittleAmpersand 1 year ago
Its BullShit with a Capital B
spinaway 1 year ago
@yellowlabhooper well said. There is a reason why they are movies, nobody said that movies have to be or are exactly how it is in real life. You are right about cop movies, I hate how most of the time they make cops look like idiots who dont know what to do when in real life is different.
sidharta5809 1 year ago
Sounds like EOD stealing valor from the Engineers to me.
usmcdisabledvet 1 year ago
It's Hollywood- Though there are some very similar particulars.
There is no point in "suiting up" in 138 degree weather- That is for damn sure. Trust me , I know.
E.O.D. Rules!
Wulf
gundpwdrnlace 1 year ago
before i seen it I knew it was put too far
CaptainCombat01 1 year ago
And Rambo didn't kill 5000 people its a movie.
FXThug 1 year ago
These guys are the real deal so they win by default in my opinion. I enjoyed the movie but I can see why they feel that way.
go0fy11137 1 year ago
Thank god these EOD dudes straighened things out. The hurt locker is the stupidest war movie ever made..
kuzinebranko 1 year ago
its a movie not reality tv! its suppose to show you a little of what they do but mostly to entertain. if they really showed the way they do things by the book the majority of people wouldnt watch. its exciting to see the cowboy living on the edge. the guy everyone wants to be. i think most people with common sense know alot of the movie was exagerated. keep up the good work brothers semper fi usmc 98-02
evitts78 1 year ago
@evitts78 im sorry but you're an idiot. for the sole reason that you tried to compare and contrast "a movie and reality tv" hahaha in case you didn't know this, but all "reality tv" is scripted just like a movie. other than that, i agree with the majority of what you're saying.
Zeppelinkix66 1 year ago
Kathryn Bigelow has the biggest balls of any Hollywood director. All the praise is well earned. Props to her for a job well done.
libertarianjury 1 year ago
They're right most people aren't like that guy, but the movie wasn't portraying most soldiers they were portraying ONE team.
I'm not EOD, but I have seen that soldier in the Army many times.
projectf90 1 year ago
@projectf90 Were you in the Army? People like that do not progress in rank. They are usually beaten. In wars of high casualties, they always die. Every single fellow OIF veteran I've talked to has hated this film in just about every way. Its not so much the content, but rather the perception that people will think thats how things are done, and the marketing of the film as an "accurate portrayal"
PaleHorseWC2 1 year ago
@PaleHorseWC2 No doubt they risk their careers and futures with that attitude, but that does not mean they don't exist. Yes, I was in the Army, deployed to Iraq. Opinion in my company is mixed. I watched the movie with the attitude of not whether this usually exists, but rather whether it's possible for this to happen.
projectf90 1 year ago
if he wasn´t a cowboy and just behave like a real eod, would be 2 hours of nothing to think about. movies aren´t supossed to be real
borrachoconpiojos100 1 year ago
I think there is some fundamental 'dis'engagement with not only this film (ie. it hardly addresses the fact that it is a U.S. lead coalition of the 'willing' that is at war with a hostile enemy that doesn't 'enjoy' being invaded for freedom or whatever), but with the ideas that the film presents implicitly - is not the 'invading force' not completely 'un'ideological in that the lead character seeks adrenaline rather than the beautiful 'American' life? Is 'war' an 'American' imperialist ideal?
goodrogering 1 year ago
female director...
anteracmacash 1 year ago
Hurt locker is an OK film but it is very over rated and doesn't even deserve half those oscars. Am currently reading a book called "8 lives down" which is about a British Army EOD team leader (Army ATO) and his expirences in Southern Iraq....Although I am just halfway through, I highly recommend it ^_^.
steelgear 1 year ago
The last guy interviewed stated "those are the guys who deserve that oscar, not Hollywood." During the director's acceptance speech, Elizabeth Bigelow did acknowledge the service men and women in Iraq. If they're that upset over their portrayal, then I guess her speech was all in vain.
raymesquite 1 year ago 6
its a hollywood movie.. no shit its not realistic. their not allowed to film actual military tactics...
jtbc11 1 year ago
IM from texas whats wrong with being a cowboy some times its what the job calls for. but only when its called for.
ffhaynes 1 year ago
I think people tend to forget that The Hurt Locker IS a movie. It is fiction based on fact. And although I am not an Iraq vet, I think they portrayed it as realistic as they could and were allowed to. 'Cause it is still filmmaking... And as regards the last comment from the EOD about the Oscar should reward the soldiers, I don't know if he realizes that this movie DOES recognize and honor the work they doing...and thanks to the movie, now a lot more people know about their work.
alpholicyanistrell 1 year ago
as an iraq vet this film is insulting how innacurate it is!
bigbizable 2 years ago
The point the soldiers are making is they don't knowingly "risk their lives" as much as the filmmakers portray, but it fits into the national narrative of people "deliberately risking their lives every day in service". This goes back to many of you Americans loving to put all of your soldiers on a massive pedestal just so that you can have and send many more recruits as yet more cannon fodder. With a better process of conduct there wouldn't have been all of these explosives in the first place.
TheNavigateur 2 years ago
While I understand that this is a film, isn't is based on a screenplay written by a journalist who spent time in Iraq? And therefore it's based on his observations? I think it's likely an embellishment on what he saw.
Still, I think films should be more conscious and respectful of soldiers instead of just making things for "entertainment."
idealisthopes 2 years ago
And I agree with the statement at the end of this clip -- soldiers deserve MUCH more respect than MANY people give them. They're over their putting their lives on their lives so that we can be safe and so that people can say the sometimes stupid things they say. And many are there regardless of whether they agree with the war or not. That's sacrifice.
idealisthopes 2 years ago
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orangeloser10 2 years ago
Nice to hear these guys tell it how it really is. The move does them no honour, but worse than that it's so bloody boring.
swinkyuk 2 years ago
the Marine seems to know exactly what he is talking about!!! Plus, he's cute!!!! GO EOD!!!
adeforge82 2 years ago
OMG get over it! Its a movie! The main character is the only one who acts reckless!
Potterfan89 2 years ago 4
Thanks to those who serve with Honor.
BlessedONE333returnz 2 years ago 2
It is just a movie. For entertainment.
Ho0di 2 years ago 31
no you do not understand the human mind and how hollyweird controls us.
Liberals do not respect the military. They take the failings that are in deed REAL PROBLEMS in the military and instead of offering truth to the issues they attack out of weakness and preconceived hate.
They are a Godless bunch in the southland and the TBN 'christian' crap isn't much better!
To show that our well trained and honorable men and women to be careless idiots - breeds hate subconsciously
BlessedONE333returnz 2 years ago
oh I'm sorry Ho0di I thought you had a brain - you have 'fred' as your friend which reveals your IQ at around 60 so nothing I just explained to you would be understandable to you.
Please consider castration so you can't curse another generation with your stupidity
BlessedONE333returnz 2 years ago
@Ho0di I don't think it is just a movie. I think it is ART
wafelbysio 1 year ago
@Ho0di It wasn't very entertaining.
nvshd 4 months ago