Hurt Locker = war propaganda film or fair & balanced?

[rocketpig]

sad.man.loves.vgc said:

rocketpig said:

It's been awhile since I watched the film but weren't the mercenaries pretty bad guys?

It's been a while here too but I don't rememeber bad guys at all!maybe I'll have to watch it again sometime becuase I do admit I am emotional when it comes to Iraq.

I just don't think the movie delievered how real war is and it felt unreal to me and it's an opinion you may agree or not, let's leave it at that

Also, I didn't like blade runner for many reasons but certainly not for being vague. I like vague movies

Damn, I feel like watching a moive right now lol.

Fair enough. After working in a field dominated by military and ex-military guys, I've been shown a different side of soldiers that movies rarely represent accurately and I appreciate Bigelow for attempting to bring both the good and bad of that to a film.

In my opinion, it's far too easy and cheap to just write off all military personnel as blood-thirsty maniacs driven to kill. Just like any other segment of society, reality is far more diverse than that and to tell a story that truly makes people think, that quality needs to be featured and welcomed, not just ignored and labeled as "pro war propaganda".

If you guys want to bitch about a movie that was turned pro war and destroyed its source material, start a thread about Rambo. It's a travesty what was done to that novel.