Marv Gandall wrote:
My wife and I saw the Hurt Locker on cable last night. I must
have missed Louis P's review on it, but amidst all the glowing
tributes, dug up this obscure short review on Rotten Tomatoes
which exactly mirrors our own responses. Anyone see any
redeeming qualities in the film?
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The Hurt Locker Movie Review: Cowboys And Insurgents By Prairie
Miller Daily Blaze December 3, 2009
A kind of 'Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And
Love The Bomb' - but for real, The Hurt Locker is basically
about a military explosives expert in Baghdad who gets a huge
rush out of his job, and he's not kidding. Which is to say that
The Hurt Locker and its war is fun mantra - move over
videogames and those second hand vicarious thrills a minute -
is just about as irresponsible as can be.
Prairie Miller is my best friend from NYFCO who I agree with 99
percent of the time and who has interviewed me a number of times
on her WBAI arts show.
Frankly, I wouldn't have minded the reactionary politics of this
movie if it was simply entertaining. It takes all the cliches of
those 1950s movies about defusing bombs that have been recycled
hundreds of times over the years and puts an "edgy" indie patina
over it. The worst thing about it is its use of an epigraph by the
saintly Chris Hedges.
My review is here, which has a link to Jay Rothermel's nonpareil
review:
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/in-the-loop-hurt-locker/
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