Hurt Locker

[DM_rider]

Favorite scene was the cereal isle. Those 2 shots showing the long isle of endless choices said so much.

Hurt locker is a place you go metaphorically when you're in pain or going to be in pain. My guess would have been that a "hurt locker" is a suicide vest that the man was wearing in the film, being that it was the most emotionally intense scene, it would make sense that that's what the movie would be called.

 

[Mattykins]

I saw a screener of this a long while ago. And I was blown away. It made it onto my favorite films list.

 

[Sad Max]

Favorite scene was the cereal isle. Those 2 shots showing the long isle of endless choices said so much.

Hurt locker is a place you go metaphorically when you're in pain or going to be in pain. My guess would have been that a "hurt locker" is a suicide vest that the man was wearing in the film, being that it was the most emotionally intense scene, it would make sense that that's what the movie would be called.

Perhaps that interpretation could also mean that the armored bomb suit is the Hurt Locker. I mean, the suit is almost a character.

 

[KyleProhaska]

I actually thought the hurt locker was the war itself, and the mental hold it can have on you. Hence him returning at the end regardless of all the crap he went through, he's back at it like it never even happened.

 

[Sad Max]

A good title works on many levels at once...

 

[Steve Laramie]

I talked to my friend who is an EOD bomb disposer in the Army and he said that they refer to I.E.Ds as hurt lockers. He said he cant explain why.

 

[cerati]

First 20 min of the movie your are on the edge of your seat and it does not let up...

 

[Sad Max]

I talked to my friend who is an EOD bomb disposer in the Army and he said that they refer to I.E.Ds as hurt lockers. He said he cant explain why.

They're made from metal and they're full of hurt?

 

[Stephen Mick]

Saw this last night. Wow. A powerful film, one I wish more people would see.

 

[Sad Max]

Just got to design a strap-on-lock-down bomb vest for the show I'm presently on. Hooah!

 

[Scott F]

Bump. See it if you haven't already.

(sometimes I wonder why I pay for Netflix..... it took this long to get the DVD)

 

[Sad Max]

For some reason this has been a lousy year for screeners, but at least the studio sent us a copy of Hurt Locker...

 

[Batutta]

For some reason this has been a lousy year for screeners, but at least the studio sent us a copy of Hurt Locker...

I think it has to do with the studios realizing their screeners end up as torrents within hours after sending them out.

 

[VGurcu]

I thought it was good if not entirely realistic to how EOD guys operate over in the sandbox.

Well I think one doesnt need to be a bomb expert to see how some parts were unrealistic. I am okay with that, it is fiction.
However I have to agree with Tara McKelvey when she wrote that "For all the graphic violence, bloody explosions and, literally, human butchery that is shown in the film, The Hurt Locker is one of the most effective recruiting vehicles for the U.S. Army that I have seen"

 

[Sad Max]

I think it has to do with the studios realizing their screeners end up as torrents within hours after sending them out.

Maybe. Although the image is periodically overlaid with 'THIS DISC PROPERTY OF ETC ETC ETC' and the talk for the last several years has been that the screeners are individually coded so that leakers can be prosecuted (which I think has happened once or twice already...)

Far as I can recall Hurt Locker is just about the only thing we got this year that I think most anybody would even want to bother pirating...

...theoretically we're supposed to destroy them after viewing.

Theoretically.

 

[Brandon Rice]

Saw this recently, very good film, though depressing...

 

[Sad Max]

Most every really good war movie is.

 

[Christopher Blake]

Brought home on DVD tonight. Very good film, though I am not sure it deserved an Oscar. Little too much shaky cam for me, but the story does draw you in. First ten minutes were electrifying. Strong characters.

Watch it if you get the chance.

 

[Sad Max]

Watched it again tonight and found that it might be improved with the omission of the solo-night-excursion sequence. In and of itself it's all right but it does not appear to set up or pay off anything else in the story. I'm also a little troubled by the post-Green Zone bomb night run; it's so off-doctrine and I suspect that the order could have been refused and the refusal defended if charges were brought (persons with military or military legal knowledge please share). I noticed more details in the cinematography and edit which were rewarding. I think it's still a good movie.

 

[Batutta]

Maybe. Although the image is periodically overlaid with 'THIS DISC PROPERTY OF ETC ETC ETC' and the talk for the last several years has been that the screeners are individually coded so that leakers can be prosecuted (which I think has happened once or twice already...)

Far as I can recall Hurt Locker is just about the only thing we got this year that I think most anybody would even want to bother pirating...

...theoretically we're supposed to destroy them after viewing.

Theoretically.

Yeah, right. I remember seeing screeners for sale at Rockaway Records...When my friend worked at William Morris I used to get armloads of them from clients that were no longer at the agency. I also remember working at a low level post house in Burbank and record companies would send us screeners to dub for themselves. Needless to say additional copies were made.