Entertainment For Lively Minds
'The Hurt Locker'
Posted by lisbon on 4 September 2009 - 9:54am.
Saw 'The Hurt Locker' last night - incrediby good, adult, unsensational, utterly gripping, thought provoking...
(After '80s vampire/Western/lovestory 'Near Dark', ridiculous but ever enjoyable 'Point Break', underrated 'Blue Steel', SF 'Strange Days' and now the full blown maturity of this, was thinking, is Kathryn Bigelow the best female director ever to come out of Hollywood?)
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Was surprised by how good it(The Hurt Locker) was.
cool will see it
this weekend then.
let us know
what you thought of it.
Ida Lupino
Born in Camberwell (!!) became a Hollywood actress in the 40s then a director (but also producer and screenplay-writer) on a series of tough noirish films. Described herself as amn actress as "the poor man's Belle Davis" and as a director "the poor man's Don Siegel" but was actually quite brilliant as both.
Any you'd especially recommend
looking out for?
Not
that the telly's likely to show 'em. (moan, groan, miss the days when you could be a cineaste for free...now it's 'Total Recall' repeated five times a month...)
it's not the same but
google video do old flms in bits (basically out of copyright films) so you can watch old stuff in 6-9 min sections.
http://video.google.co.uk/videosearch?q=Ida+Lupino&hl=en-GB&emb=0&aq=f#q...
Whoops! 'cineaste's not the right word...
serves me right for being pretentious!
The Hitch-Hiker
I think it turned up on daytime BBC2 recently, though that may have been a 70s flashback.
on iplayer at the moment if anyone's interested
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0078k9q/The_HitchHiker/
went to see Hurt Locker (Possible spoiler)
just now and it's ad good as people have reported. Immensely and involving, brilliant shot and didn't have that lull that many modern films have.
Only thing I have a small problem with was the ending it sort felt like they didn't how to tie it up. But that being said it's an excellent film.
ps:
Came out of film with our heads spinning only to find in middle of town the film being replayed. A group of young men where shouting and one of them was rolling on the floor in full on "Wire" mode. There was even some claret on the pavement, I think it was just an existing injury on the guys leg but it was full on for a minute there. A Nice peaceful stroll by the river in the moonlight restored our calm.
Glad you enjoyed it
Wish it were the hit it deserves to be, but then 'Apocalypse Now' took years to make any money too... I think people are put off serious films about 'War', consider it too heavy for A Good Night Out, especially when they're seeing it on the news and front pages every day and night. (Saying that, serious films about anything probably struggle these days. Odd that TV, via series like 'the Wire', now where adult issues do at well nowadays.)
Hopefully it'll get some Oscar heat next year, and get re-released, finally find a bigger audience.
...
: )
Bigelow beats Cameron
how's that for sticking it to your ex?
maybe he can put his disappointment inside HIS
hurt locker??
Alongside 'Alice In Wonderland' beating 'Avatar''s opening weekend figures http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2010/mar/08/alice-in-wonderland-...
The Hurt Locker is OK
but it is more like a string of well executed cliches than a great movie. I don't want to put any spoilers in here but the maverick soldier who can't relate to his wife, who doesn't play by the rules... We've seen all this a million times.