Maybe this film will get a limited re-release, even though it's coming to DVD in a week. It's been cleaning up various awards!
Los Angeles Critics Association - New York Film Critics Circle - Boston Society Of Film Critics - The National Society Of Film Critics...
They have all named it Best Picture Of The Year. 👆
And the Golden Globes have yet to be handed out. It looks like a strong contender there.
Irony of ironies: If James Cameron and his 'Avatar' goes head-to-head with this film, directed by his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow... 😄
^ Oh agree totally. Special effects it deserves to be in the nominations/win, but nominated for overall best film at the Oscars and so on... please.
As for The Hurt Locker. I watched half of it last night, enjoying everything about it apart from the camera work, I could only manage half of my blu ray last night because of the film giving me motion sickness, I tried to carry on but was just feeling terrible... so got the rest of it to watch tonight.
So far, it's not the masterpiece everyone is making it out to be, but it's still a good film.
Originally posted by MildPossession
^ Oh agree totally. Special effects it deserves to be in the nominations/win, but nominated for overall best film at the Oscars and so on... please.As for The Hurt Locker. I watched half of it last night, enjoying everything about it apart from the camera work, I could only manage half of my blu ray last night because of the film giving me motion sickness, I tried to carry on but was just feeling terrible... so got the rest of it to watch tonight.
So far, it's not the masterpiece everyone is making it out to be, but it's still a good film.
Hand held cameras aren't a big part of Kathryn Bigelow's other films. I believe this was part of keeping the budget down on this film, shooting hand held with 16mm cameras - but it does add an immediacy to the scenes and tension.
It won Best Picture at the Producer's Guild of America awards this week, out of a group of ten films that look like the ten that could be nominated for the Oscars. It's chances are getting even better; 12 of the last 20 films that have won this award have won the Best Picture Oscar.
Originally posted by MildPossession
I've been told Generation Kill was more or less like The Hurt Locker and made before it. So The Hurt Locker is nothing original? anyone.
Generation Kill is similar in that it's more focused on the characters than the actual war. Because it's the marines they hardly saw any action in the opening days of the war because they were almost always a step behind the armoured divisions and the air bombardment. So for the most part it's them doing shitty recce missions and cracking jokes.
I thought "Over there" was a far better series that GK.
I don't think that either are particularly like HL though.