Comments (14)

• I saw the Hurt Locker. I am also a huge Kathryn Bigelow fan ever since I watched “Blue Steel”. I am so not into war films and avoid them like the plague. Yet I went to the theatre and watched it. I cannot begin to sing the praises of this film. It deserves all Oscars and any other awards.

  Comment by Watcher — November 30, 2009 @ 9:08 pm  Reply to this post

• Fantastic! Props to the filmmakers for making an inspired pic…

  Comment by Danzig By Dinner — November 30, 2009 @ 9:11 pm  Reply to this post

• Yep. Good calls on the films.

  Comment by Anita Busch — November 30, 2009 @ 9:14 pm  Reply to this post

• “Anvil” is getting hosed…

  Comment by acadmem — November 30, 2009 @ 9:26 pm  Reply to this post

• yes, in a year of shitty film making all around, The Hurt Locker deserves Best Picture, instead of the usual BS. It is a war movie that is intelligent and isn’t red/blue binary film making, actors were all great, it was a cool gimmick that any famous person who showed up onscreen got blowed up (good)…why not nominate Bigelow for best director?

  Comment by PaulKael — November 30, 2009 @ 9:36 pm  Reply to this post

• Yes this is a great film. Nothing flashy…just great acting depicting human conditions in a war torn Iraq and war torn soldiers. Yes it should be an Oscar contender indeed.

  Comment by Ben of Vancouver — November 30, 2009 @ 9:42 pm  Reply to this post

• I am really rooting for Kathryn Bigelow.

  Comment by rockstar awesome — November 30, 2009 @ 11:18 pm  Reply to this post

• Fingers crossed everybody else gets this right and The Hurt Locker takes the Oscar!!!! This was not just another preachy film about war, it was a suspenseful action film, that made you think.

  Comment by BEST DIRECTOR TOO!!! — December 1, 2009 @ 12:13 am  Reply to this post

• I’m getting so sick of all these praises for “The Hurt Locker”. To me it was an average movie made of incoherent episodes. But Bigelow’s attempt to show everyone what “tough heroic guys” these soldiers are was so blunt … when they started punching each other in the stomach just to show how tough they are, I had to leave the theater. But seems like that’s what the American audience wants to see, after ignoring such great Iraq war films like “In the Valley of Elah”.

  Comment by The Not-American — December 1, 2009 @ 7:31 am  Reply to this post

• This film stays with you. It was nice to see some big names with very little screen time. Speaks volumes of the writing. Barry Ackroyd should get a nod. Renner’s performance is inspired. And YES, Bigelow has arrived, even though she’s been around for years. Unfortunately, most people don’t know the film exists.

  Comment by Tato — December 1, 2009 @ 7:55 am  Reply to this post

• Not sure if the Oscar will go to a movie nobody really saw. and as for acting , there was better acting this year than in Hurt Locker.

  Comment by Rob — December 1, 2009 @ 8:08 am  Reply to this post

• I saw The Hurt Locker over the summer and thought it was a well done film shining light on an area of war we often don’t think about (those that need to take apart bombs). I recall this being touched on in The English Patient.

  Comment by sp — December 1, 2009 @ 8:10 am  Reply to this post

• I hope people will see “The Maid.” I caught this twice at Sundance, and it remains one of my favorite movies of 2009. Catalina Saavedra’s performance is as strong as any actress’s I’ve seen this year.

  Comment by Webster — December 1, 2009 @ 2:26 pm  Reply to this post

• Saw Hurt Locker in NYC with the director and screenwriter present. I love war movies and this one was pretty good. However, the story was weak. The acting was good. Jeremy Renner is excellent. I loved him in 28 weeks later. I’m a military buff and it bugged me that they were wearing the wrong uniforms (ACUs)for the time period. I’m not sure why Precious was left out of these awards. Hurt Locker is not better than Precious. Period.

  Comment by peggy — December 2, 2009 @ 7:05 pm  Reply to this post