Jman Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 <Thread drift on.> Question for todays modern warrior. Please keep in mind my service to our nation was spent under the North Atlantic. Targeting everything that wasn't under the North Atlantic. Obviously I don't know any better. Out of say five IED's, how many have to be actually approached and defused...by a dude...in a suit? Can you just blow the s#it out of them from a safe distance? Remember, this is a squid asking so... Jim <thread drift off> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corey Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 i think they use the robot thingy alot more than the suit...at least id hope so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokshwn Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 (edited) The Hurt Locker was not a documentary and wasn't meant to be. It is fiction, i.e. the characters do things that they wouldn't do "in real life". Or you mean everything the characters do isn't what happens in real life. The problem I have with movies like this is the disservice they do to the true professionals that they try to portray. I have had some very incredible opportunities to spend time with quiet professionals, and not a one of them portrays the antics that are so often attributed to them by Hollywood. Edited March 11, 2010 by smokshwn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rrflyer Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 This movie was painful to watch. Take all the classic horrible B action movie stereotypes and the TopGun cliches and roll them into one 1.5 hour movie and you have this show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disjointed Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 I enjoyed the movie for its intense action scenes, but I do think some of the scenes were purely for dramatic effect. Has anyone heard that the movie might be based on the real life of Master Sgt. Jeffery Sarver. I heard he filed a lawsuit claiming the writer of the movie essentially took events that occurred while the writer was embedded with the Sarver and wrote a script from it. And the ringer is that Sarver didn't get a dime for it. I thought some of you guys might find this interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpolans Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 If I have to say a good thing! You know like our Mothers told us! The Movie did show how the Enemy is. Making an IED out of a dead Boy. Locking a Bomb on that Man. It did show the true Character of the insurgency. What got me in the movie,, was not all of the big Boom short stories. It was when he was Standing in the Grocery Store. One day making life and death decisions the next thing you know ,, Holly crap, I'm a guy in the Grocery store! I have Been there and done that. Jim M ammo Interesting that you mention it, but the grocery store scene was the one scene that stood out to me as very real and well portrayed. Going back to a large grocery store for the first time and seeing all the choices available was surreal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoldasLions Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 I enjoyed this movie. Unlike most of the other war movies, it didn't seems to be anti war propaganda. Good character development. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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