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Zero Dark Thirty
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The Hurt Locker is a 2008 drama thriller war film, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, starring Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie and Brian Geraghty.
- 151 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy
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60 of 179 · most liked firstThe Hurt Locker lady made a movie about NC3 and application of deterrence theory written by the NBC News guy that covered for Harvey Weinstein and Matt Lauer
neutral · AI labelView post →What are examples of anachronisms you've seen from movies depicting historical settings?. I remember watching The Hurt Locker (starring Jeremy Renner), the movie is meant to depict the Iraq War in 2004 but for some reason there's a scene where an iPod Touch (releases in 2007), XBOX 360 (releases in 2005) and Gears of War (releases in 2006) present in the barracks even though these did not exist yet. Another anachronism from this movie is when a American soldier spots an Iraqi recording him…
neutral · AI labelView post →Only if it's cereal reviews or to discuss the film THE HURT LOCKER
neutral · AI labelView post →THE HURT LOCKER is, in my opinion, not half-bad. letterboxd.com/andrewmoxon/...
positive · AI labelView post →Yeah, I saw The Hurt Locker. It’s a good film, well directed and acted. I don’t know why someone would want to do that as a job, but people have all kinds of motivations. 1/4
positive · AI labelView post →Today in 2010, Kathryn Bigelow won the Academy Award for Best Director for her film The Hurt Locker. She was the first woman to win the award. Happy Women's History Month 🫶
neutral · AI labelView post →These movies are not exactly subtle about which side is the "good guys" and which side is the "bad guys". Who do you side with in a much more ambiguous movie like *Apocalyspe Now* or *Sicario*? Or, if you're like most movie watchers, you watched *Zero Dark Thirty* and sided with the American commandos. You watched *The Hurt Locker* and sided with the American bomb disposal experts. You watched *Argo* and sided with the CIA. I'd guess there are a lot more pro-American movies where the…
neutral · AI labelView post →15 years ago today Kathryn Bigelow made history by becoming the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director, for her film THE HURT LOCKER #Oscars
neutral · AI labelView post →There are a lot of things to worry about in the world today. The acclaimed director Kathryn Bigelow (“Zero Dark Thirty,” “The Hurt Locker”) has made a new film — “House of Dynamite” — warning of a danger that most of us would sooner forget. wapo.st/4pMJuDL
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching the Hurt Locker and developing a theory that the reason why there’s so few movies about the Iraq war is that it’s hard to make a compelling movie about being part of an occupying army of an evil empire
neutral · AI labelView post →At least Munich tries to grapple with the questions. ZDT is the pinnacle of pretending to be deep. The helicopter raid is wild film making, but you have to slog through 90+ minutes of Girl Bosses Can Do War on Terror Too first. If you want a more honest post 9/11 Bigelow film, it’s The Hurt Locker.
neutral · AI labelView post →TWOAPW #256: THE HURT LOCKER @patrickwyman.bsky.social helps us dissect the classic Iraq War shoot-and-cry film, and we discover why it is just like Paddington
neutral · AI labelView post →I wish I would have asked when I interviewed her for THE HURT LOCKER, but I have to think Kathryn Bigelow was heavily influenced by this film for the you-know-what scene in STRANGE DAYS. #MutantFam #TheLastDriveIn #SavageSummer #ISpitOnYourGrave - SMF
neutral · AI labelView post →a movie called The Hurt Locker where there's a sad locker
neutral · AI labelView post →Five days left until annual leave. Feel like I’m in that film The Hurt Locker but it’s just me receiving emails saying “Quick favour…”
neutral · AI labelView post →The director of The Hurt Locker at one point was spending half of what she made from the movie on takedown costs. Yes, she blew a huge amount of money on the off chance that someone watching it without permission would pay if she made that hard enough. 😆
neutral · AI labelView post →i have a lot of holes in my film history. ive never seen -Pretty Woman -Top Gun -Avatar (2009) -The Hurt Locker -Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (i saw Super 8 tho! thats basically the same thing, right?)
neutral · AI labelView post →6. The Hurt Locker Do you hate the Iraq War veteran in your life? Tell him you enjoyed the Oscar-award winning film The Hurt Locker. Watch the subtle emotions in their face as they remember.
neutral · AI labelView post →Crazy that Kathryn Bigelow can make movies like Near Dark (perfect movie) or classics like Point Blank, but also US propaganda trash like Zero Dark Thirty and The Hurt Locker Of Alex Garland making bangers like Ex Machina and Annihilation and then trash like Civil War and Warfare
negative · AI labelView post →There are no villains. Everyone is acting out their assigned roles, adhering to established procedures. As she did in her hit film, The Hurt Locker, Bigelow grounds this extraordinary situation in the mundane drama of relationships, the humdrum of a White House job and the grind of military duty.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's eight years since Kathryn Bigelow's last film & she hasn't missed a beat. A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE is a crackling thriller, precision-tooled, viscerally immersive, very much of a piece with THE HURT LOCKER and ZERO DARK THIRTY. Great stuff. #Venezia2025 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
neutral · AI labelView post →*gets up from chair briefly* Cat, immediately: I claim this territory for the Klingon Empire Me: okay time to scoop you up Cat: are you familiar with the film The Hurt Locker?
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy 74th birthday to #KathrynBigelow ❤️FIRST WOMAN to win an OSCAR for Beat Director-THE HURT LOCKER. Also won a second Oscar for best film. Has 2 BAFTAS for THE HURT LOCKER. & a Primetime Emmy. Directed ZERO DARK THIRTY (Oscar Nom/best film), POINT BREAK & DETROIT. #TCMParty #FilmSky #MovieSky
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m sure it says something that the only two war films are American Sniper, which was a bad movie and bullshit; and The Hurt Locker, which was a good movie, but completely unrealistic.
positive · AI labelView post →It’s like The Hurt Locker II, a hypothetical film where Sgt. James is promoted to Secretary of Defense and finally finds a crowd that accepts and understands him
neutral · AI labelView post →even if you're like "man I hate all soldiers and especially ones who did war crimes" or something like that, I still don't get how you see a movie like THE HURT LOCKER which is about how at the very least US soldiers as portrayed as terrifying, and go "this is a straight up endorsement"
neutral · AI labelView post →OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Crunched the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Here are the top 1,461 presented as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration. #Film #Resist #MovieSky #Movies #1,358 -- The Hurt Locker (2009) dir. Kathryn Bigelow
neutral · AI labelView post →dressing like i'm going to see Wicked but instead going to watch the 2008 academy award winning film The Hurt Locker
neutral · AI labelView post →Didn't Glenn Greenwald give Kathryn Bigelow s#@t by claiming that THE HURT LOCKER was pro-Iraq and how dare a woman direct a film like that?
neutral · AI labelView post →Reminds me of the opening scenes in the movie The Hurt Locker "Think he was a terrorist?" "He is now." They screamed about "radical left" when that's barely a thing in thing in the US, and now they're pushing people in that direction.
neutral · AI labelView post →Today's Film Article: An interview with Kathryn Bigelow in this month's S&S mag (Dec' 25, Vol 35, # 10) - discussing her past films (The Loveless, Near Dark, Blue Steel, Point Break, Strange Days, K-19, The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty, Detroit, her latest, A House of Dynamite & more...) 1/2
neutral · AI labelView post →Looking at his Wikipedia, no wonder the junior producer had to pretend she loved The Hurt Locker, a movie that came out when she was 12
neutral · AI labelView post →Folks who think Guy Pearce's biggest best movies are The Hurt Locker, The King's Speech & Iron Man 3....educate yourselves before The Brutalist, please! Read Our Essential Guy Pearce with @insessionfilm.bsky.social: insessionfilm.com/op-ed-the-in... #filmsky #moviesky #movies🎬🎥🎬
neutral · AI labelView post →In the Hurt Locker a film set in 2004 a character can be seen playing Gears of War. A video game not released until 2006. Boy I sure hope someone got fired for that blunder!
neutral · AI labelView post →wait, okay so again, just saw The Hurt Locker for the first time and... did Joss Whedon basically try to imply that Hawkeye actually was this guy, from this movie, in the Avengers movies he directed? cuz it kind of feels like that's what he did
neutral · AI labelView post →Saturday morning film. The Hurt Locker. Why have I never seen this before?
positive · AI labelView post →The Hurt Locker is a shite film and the academy is made up of absolute troglodytes for giving it one of their awards.
negative · AI labelView post →The best vampire movie you've never seen, criminally underappreciated, they gave Bigelow the Oscar for the Hurt Locker but she deserved it for this. Hands down Bill Paxton's best performance
neutral · AI labelView post →Trapped Between Thrill and Shame: The Soldiers Addicted to War. >War is not always hell. One of its sharpest paradoxes is its allure, the way it traps men in its siren song, a chorus of myth-making qualities it often does possess. History teems with variations on this leitmotif: The ancient Greeks adopted the Homeric concept of aristeia, or martial excellence, from The Iliad, going as far as to order much of their culture around it. Centuries later, Confederate soldiers wrote of charging Union…
neutral · AI labelView post →So I just re-watched "The Hurt Locker" - www.imdb.com/title/tt0887... I think I get it a little better. But I still don't get it. It's boring and overrated. Looks good tho. 5/10. #Movie #Review #TheHurtLocker
negative · AI labelView post →Before Jeremy Renner got his big break with The Hurt Locker, Marvel & becoming a 2 time Oscar nominated actor, I referred to him as the bad guy from the S.W.A.T movie when I first saw this. #28WeeksLater really is a worthy & good sequel. A morbid, but entertaining & frightening follow up. #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →I've never seen the movie the Hurt Locker but I think about "When Love Explodes (Love Theme from Hurt Locker the Musical)" like once a week. It goes SO HARD for being a song from a musical that does not exist. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT6v...
neutral · AI labelView post →ok after seeing The Hurt Locker for the first time i now realize that the casting of Anthony Mackie as Captain America and Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye is like, entirely referential to this movie like didn’t they literally quote the “you think i got what it takes to put on the suit”
neutral · AI labelView post →Speaking of 9/11 and the war on terror, it’s crazy how The Hurt Locker was this critical smash hit, it won Best Picture and turned Jeremy Renner into a big name actor. And, it kinda doesn’t matter? Like it’s fine as a movie, but it feels totally like a time capsule, in a bad way.
neutral · AI labelView post →Just an outstanding film. Lost count how many times I've watched it in the last 15 years or so... The Hurt Locker
positive · AI labelView post →Tonight's late movie is The Hurt Locker (2008) 🍿
neutral · AI labelView post →Also her new movie seems like it's up there with Zero Dark Thirty and The Hurt Locker but idk much about it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Good film. Does suffer from repetitive moments as it joins each segment together. But the authenticity Bigalow presents makes this worth the watch, complimenting her previous war films in Zero Dark Thirty and The Hurt Locker. And occasionally, it was tense. #AHouseofDynamite
positive · AI labelView post →My hot take: Miami Vice over Collateral. Also, we pretty clearly need more women in film, yeah? The Hurt Locker Past Lives Nomadland White Material Away From Her Marie Antoinette Aftersun We Need to Talk About Kevin Meek's Cutoff Portrait of a Lady on Fire
neutral · AI labelView post →It's funny how my off-duty life while I was still a pararescueman was so "PJ coded".... My favorite game was Halo ODST My favorite movie and show were The Hurt Locker and Generation Kill My favorite go-to drinks were (still are) damn near frozen shot of Jagermeister and a simple whiskey sour.
neutral · AI labelView post →In 2009/10, Avatar lost Best Picture and The Hurt Locker won. I’ll die on the hill that The Hurt Locker is a better movie, but that doesn’t mean it’s as culturally relevant. With that being said, the Academy wanted a movie that was anti war to represent them in the Obama Era.
positive · AI labelView post →also just, I can't believe I slept on watching The Hurt Locker for so long that movie is... IMO a pretty accurate portrait of what multiple male relatives of mine are like
positive · AI labelView post →a movie called the Hurt Locker about a high school locker that mysteriously plays Nine Inch Nails' Hurt 24/7
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie is "The Hurt Locker", if you were wondering, Good movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Kathryn Bigelow made history when she won the Academy Award for Best Director for THE HURT LOCKER, her 2008 Iraq War thriller starring Jeremy Renner & Anthony Mackie. See it Mon Dec 22 in our series Right Here Right Now!: The Films of Kathryn Bigelow. paristheaternyc.com/film/the-hur...
neutral · AI labelView post →I haven’t seen a lot of the years of best picture wins but The Hurt Locker was a stupid movie
negative · AI labelView post →happy Veterans Day and my gratitude to all who’ve honorably served. war is stupid. we stand on the shoulders of the brave. 🇺🇸 my Veterans Day film recommendations: - 1917 - Saving Private Ryan - Glory - My Dead Friend Zoe - Fury - The Hurt Locker - Dunkirk - All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
neutral · AI labelView post →In high school I did 2 presentations that I was highly interested in: 1. The origin of ping pong 2. A presentation about how the same movie studio that made The Hurt Locker made the Twilight movies purely as a way to bail them out of financial ruin. I was most proud of this one tbh.
neutral · AI labelView post →the only movie by Bigelow i've ever watched is The Hurt Locker and that movie is genuinely one of the most putrid pieces of dogshit to ever be considered in the realm of "art" so im very excited to watch this
negative · AI labelView post →BBC Culture list (selected by film critics) – 10 best films, directed by women – including countries financing the production. [7] The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow, dir., 2008 (USA) 📽️🎬
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