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The Hurt Locker
David_Dovey:
On that note, let's all read this essay too:
Overthinking It: The Lethal Weapon in the Hurt Locker
As you can probably guess, points out a lot of the parallels between Hurt Locker and the Lethal Weapon films (and popcorn action flicks in general) and makes some intriguing points about why THL is lauded while other films with many of the same themes are snubbed. Make sure to read all three pages.
It's also worth nothing that Kathryn Bigelow directed Point Break, for fuck's sake.
RallyMonkey:
--- Quote ---The script for The Hurt Locker is solid, but it’s nothing spectacular. It’s episodic, and very little holds the episodes together. The characters are written a bit flat and erratic, but that makes sense, because this is an action movie. It has an uneasy relationship with plausibility that betrays that it was written by an embedded journalist – our culture’s fishmonger of hyper-real wartime fantasy passed off as truth. The dialogue is kind of cliché a lot of the time. The framing devices are a bit clunky.
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That, minus the word "Solid", and a lot of the modifiers, is basically the reason people should dislike this movie.
It's also worth noting that Shane Black directed Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, which isn't important to this topic, I just really like that movie.
pilsner:
--- Quote from: David_Dovey on 03 Mar 2010, 03:39 ---As you can probably guess, points out a lot of the parallels between Hurt Locker and the Lethal Weapon films (and popcorn action flicks in general) and makes some intriguing points about why THL is lauded while other films with many of the same themes are snubbed. Make sure to read all three pages.
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--- Quote from: The crap Dovey linked --- For the old school D&D fan – in the 80s, drugs were chaotic evil, madness was chaotic neutral. Whereas now, alignment doesn’t work the same way, and drugs and madness are just in some chic, morose vampire thing or something.
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You've... to to be kidding me.
David_Dovey:
OK so the guy obviously isn't a professional journalist/is just some dude tapping out shit off the top of his head (the website is called Overthinking It, after all) but the points are still valid.
KvP:
Yeah Avatar's pretty much gonna win this year. The Hurt Locker is the Juno of '09. Most people thought it would be Precious, but that movie didn't have the white people needed to gain traction enough for a backlash.
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