What you thought of The Hurt Locker
Excellent - 40
Good - 16
Average - 2
Very Poor - 1
Overall Reaction 90%
More! WOW Magnificent F***ing Great Very powerful
Astonishingly grim. Visceral, terrifying, yet totally real. Very tense.
Brilliant – brutal but beautiful. Confusion and violence squared – CV2
Bleak, relentless though undeniably powerful. It was another war film.
The sheer power of the USA. Would they be that stupid to go looking for trouble?
Hand held – even the bomb trigger. On the balcony who got the video from the guy up there?
It certainly brings home what the troops have to cope with.
It’s all there, the devastation, the violence and the horror of war. The soldiers’ testosterone and adrenaline keeps them going. Brilliant acting – like a documentary. Superb acting.
Brilliant everything – acting, story, direction – 1st. class.
A powerful film reminding me of the horrors and futility of war.
Full of real feeling and utterly unsentimental. Oh the horrors of war.
The awfulness of it..... the waste of it…..the pity of it…………a brilliant film.
The horror! The horror! The futility of war.
Let’s hope it ends soon!
In substance a good film but oh the hysteria.
The Oscars were deserved – a great filmic team.
Deserves Oscars for gratuitous violence and tacky sentimentality. I am disappointed that the committee could choose such a dreadful film. The sound was also very loud (though not distorted) Ear plugs next week.
Well deserved accolades. (It was so hot in the hall: it added to the feel of the film!)
Powerful. Not my kind of film but I can understand why it won so many awards. What a f***ing world we have!
Fantastic film! I feel as if I’ve been right in the action for the last two hours! I’ve only just survived!
Palpable tension almost throughout – can’t imagine living it!
Glad I saw it but hard to watch.
A very good view of modern warfare but not good for peace of mind.
Draining – but well worth the experience.
A film not to be missed. I don’t think I enjoyed it but I’m glad I saw it.
[ Apologies to all those members who found Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘restless camera pinging frenetically’ nausea inducing. Several people were reluctant to disturb the film by leaving, so writhed silently]
The next film will be Nowhere Boy on January 20th at the new Blandford school hall.
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As a member, and a committee member too, of the Film Society, I enjoy seeing a diverse selection of films. All the committee do not see all of the films - there is a selection process, and a vote. I probably voted for this film, and that's not a problem. I thought that this was a very impressive film - powerful even, as others have suggested, but I had a big problem - which was that I couldn't see all of it. This was because of the Shaky Camera technique used freely - certainly in the hour that I watched. At that point I had to leave - I was feeling sick. Since Thursday I have discovered that others were affected by this. I am not alone. Also, it turns out that this problem is well known, and it is suggested that 'too much shaky camera motion can make the viewer feel dizzy or sick'. It has also been called 'Queasicam'. Some say that this technique is used to enhance the 'realism', to make it 'gritty'. Some say it's because hand held cameras are used. I don't go along with any of that. It's perfectly possible to achieve all of these things without making some of your viewers sick. It would be great if there was a button to 'Fully Stabilize' a film - so that those who were OK with the shaky technique could see it that way, and I could see the stabilized version at home. Better still, please Directors, don't use the technique at all.
ReplyDeleteBarrie Gordon, 16/1/2011