rocketpig said:
Or maybe you just missed the point of the movie. I only Googled and read that line from Bigelow two minutes before I posted it. I gathered that entire feeling from the movie and so did my movie buff friends who watched it. I never read a review of the movie or anything about it; I went in cold. I knew it was about the war and soldiers who disarm IEDs and that was it. But you go ahead and keep on holding that line that the movie is pro-war. You're in the vast minority who feel that way about it, at least among the people I know who have seen it and according to Bigelow herself. And you're the one who has an obvious bias if you feel the soldiers have no right to complain. I'm starting to believe that unless every soldier in that film died horrifically, you'd be hell-bent on believing that it advocates war. Many of the people over there have been stuck there far past their agreed upon service time and are not provided adequate materials, weaponry, and armor to properly succeed in their tasks. They may have joined up because they felt it was the right thing to do in service of their country and found something entirely different once they arrived in the actual warzone. Frankly, I find your attitude sickening and demeaning to people who feel it's their duty to serve their country, no matter how misguided their attempts to do so may be. At the very least, they deserve some respect and sympathy from those of us (you included, obviously) who are sitting in their cozy chair at home bitching and moaning about the job they're doing. |
Sorry if I came off as someone who thinks soldiers have to be brutally murdered on scren for a movie to be anti-war. I just think that the movie was too much action and didn't do a very good job of making war seem grousome, scary, and in the case of this particular war... pointless.
And I feel about the guy who signed up to be a soldier the same way I feel about the Catholic priest who can't have sex. You knew what you signed up for, you knew the risks, you knew it wasn't gonna be a trip to Disneyland. And there are lots of ways you can serve your country. From what I know your country has lots of internal problems that need fixing. Sad you Americans seem to forget about that.
I also believe it's my right to moan and bitch about whatever I please. Freedom of speech is a very important right in my country, and I'm not in any way breaching it's limitations. Don't know how things are in America though.
Our conversation is getting way too off-topic though so... I think we should just stick to predictiong the winners from now on.
Best Picture:
will win: Avatar or The Hurt Locker (or Inglorious Basterds if the Actors go crazy for it)
should win: Up (at least they nominated it, I;m still sad WALL-E wasn't nominated least year 
)
Best Director:
will win: Katheryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker (damn, the first ever female winner in this category wins for a teststeron-filled manly action packed war movie).
Should win: Bigelow or Cameron, but guess a it's about time a woman won this.
Best Actor in a Leading Role:
will win: Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart (overdue facor)
should win: Colin irth - A Single Man (superb performance, but Sean Penn won for playing gay lasty year and Bridges is overdue)
Best Actress in a Leading Role:
will win: Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side (please no!!!) or Meryl Street - Julie & Julia (they better damn give Meryl her third!!!)
should win: anyone but Bullock (though I haven't seen Mirren's film yet)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role:
will win: Christopher Waltz - Inglorious Basterds
should win: Christopher Waltz
Best Actress in a Supporting Role:
will/should win: Mo'Nique (girl had it in the bag even before her movie was released)
Best Animated Film:
will/should win: Up (can't beat a Best Picture nominee)
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