Thanks Nik for that wonderful clip!!!! I think I will let Katherine see it first and rely on her if the violence is too graphic- I need to be able to sleep at
night.
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Posts: 2088 (06/26/09 01:53) |
The film is currently getting an impressive 97% rating over at Rotten Tomatoes
Even A.O Scott and David Denby........who are usually tough reviewers have given the film raves. The film was enthusiastically received in Toronto last fall and so I am not at all surprised with the good reviews. I always thought it should have gotten a better release date.
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Posts: 1075 (06/26/09 05:36) The North Face |
What a rave party! And it's opening here in September |
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Posts: 2331 (06/26/09 06:57) Rasko Leader |
97% is indeed impressing. Expect the number to fall a bit when more reviews come in. I have no idea when we'll see that here.
E.xxx
"You won't like me when I am... hungry!"
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Actually that beard is delicious!!!!!! binky |
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Posts: 883 (06/27/09 13:17) |
Fantastic review from the NY Times.
Kathryn Bigelow did an interesting, articulate interview with Charlie Rose last night. If Charlie has her on, then you know that The Hurt Locker is doing well. She said 'ambiguity' at least three times. No surprise that RF likes working with her. 
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Posts: 806 (06/27/09 23:36) Am I K in your book? |
I just saw today! VERY VERY GOOD!
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Posts: 365 (06/28/09 01:45) |
Thanks for your heads- up Katherine. Glad you enjoyed it and now I will go see it too!!
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Posts: 810 (06/28/09 22:34) Am I K in your book? |
Yes, Mama, Definitely you have to see it!
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Posts: 366 (06/29/09 02:59) |
Yes, you are right- I suppose "enjoy " wasn't the right word. "and we are so priviledged living in free, safe country!" Amen to that
Katherine!!! How easily we forget what freedom means. They say you really only know what it means when you don't have it!!!
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Posts: 884 (06/29/09 16:20) |
The Hurt Locker was written by Mark Boal, who also wrote the original story that In the Valley of Elah, one of several Iraq war movies that
have been overlooked (unfairly, IMO), was based on. It starred Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, and Susan Sarandon, and featured Josh Brolin.
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Posts: 812 (06/30/09 02:08) Am I K in your book? |
Yes, BLUE, you are absolutely reight Mark Boal wrote originl story In the valley or Elah, which I missed and definitely overlooked, and I meant to say he is
Journalist! not reporter!
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Posts: 887 (07/01/09 10:20) |
Katherine, thanks for your review of The Hurt Locker. I'd really like to see it, but it isn't showing in my part of the country yet. |
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Posts: 2090 (07/01/09 17:21) |
KatherineY wrote:Katherine: Oh....I am so glad you liked it. It's quite a tense experience and she really did a good job IMO to try to capture as best she could the experience of what its like for these men in combat. Like you....I recognized RF the moment he spoke before he took off his gear. I too also think Renner reminds me of a young Russell Crowe....very intense and masculine. Steve McQueen also comes to mind. It also looks like its maintaining its 90% plus critic rating at Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic....thats good news. I also caught Charlie Rose with Bigelow. I am impressed with her intelligence and vision. It was interesting to learn about some of her bio.....that she started off as an artist (like RF). With this film......I think she definitely demonstrates she is truly an artist in every sense of the word. BTW...it was really great that they chose RF's clip on Charlie Rose. For anyone who missed it...its up on Charlies Website here and Bigelow appears at about 31:35 in the broadcast. |
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Posts: 9289 (09/07/09 11:50) |
This has just opened here, to great reviews - it's top of the Guardian's best five. Must see it soon.
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Posts: 1122 (09/07/09 20:49) The North Face |
THL opened here Friday to deserved raves. I saw it tonight - it's such a raw and tense film. It's a film about any war, and it's a film about an
addiction and its consequences: without it life looses its attraction - and those who are close to the addict will eventually suffer, much like in Strange
Days. Favourite scene: James and Sanborn drinking and fighting after the shoot-out in the desert.
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Posts: 9292 (09/08/09 09:11) |
I saw it last night too. Very good. Ralph is so butch! and runs! My favourite scene was the one with the cereals, and how surreal that seemed to James after
living on a knife-edge. And it is: we're all mad.
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Posts: 4806 (09/08/09 09:38) in her beautiful balloon |
Ralph is so butch! and runs!
Wow, I must see it. 
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Posts: 1124 (09/08/09 16:28) The North Face |
Indeed, he is über butch - a truely rare sight |
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Posts: 976 (09/08/09 16:44) |
Ralph is so butch! and runs! And after seeing him run in In Bruges, I had hoped that he would give it up... |
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It's good to be able to experience it vicariously.
Jeremy Renner's acting reminded me of John Wayne.
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