Film Review (Partial)

[Menelaus]

I went to see "The Hurt Locker" this evening and have just arrived home; I didn't get to the end for reasons that those of you I care enough about to have told, will know.

The film starts with a bang (no cliche here, naturally) and brings up the question of some of the more questionable actions of the US in Iraq in the recent past. It also deals with the type of US jingoism last seen in such works of cinematic one-dimensionalism as "Air Force One" and "Saving Private Ryan".

Lead actor appears to display symptoms of hypomania and is a straight-from-central-casting US anti-hero. As for the quality of the soldiering displayed: as Churchill might attest to there are a lot of very high quality American soldiers but my God their over-enthusiasm and over-optimism can be grating and this film plays heavily on it.

My experience of this film is based on only seeing the first 58 minutes before I had to leave. On that basis, if bangs, flashes and "all soldiers are good" / "killing the enemy is noble" are your thing, you'll love it.

[Zippy]

Change your sig

[Menelaus]

Change your sig

Ta very much - done.

[Zippy]

Better

[Menelaus]

Better

As for your sig ... say it again!

[Zippy]

As for your sig ... say it again!

Woah, whoa whoa woah. Good God

[Menelaus]

Woah, whoa whoa woah. Good God

Or, as Einstein said (Mein Weltbild (1931)):

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilisation should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

[HairyArsedBloke]

Or, as Einstein said (Mein Weltbild (1931)):

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilisation should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But sometimes, you've just got to give the frakers a good smacking.

[d000hg]

I went to see "The Hurt Locker" this evening and have just arrived home; I didn't get to the end for reasons that those of you I care enough about to have told, will know.

Can those of us who you don't care about start a guessing game?

[Zippy]

Or, as Einstein said (Mein Weltbild (1931)):

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilisation should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

I don't think Parliament did that one but I'll check the Bootsie Collins back catalogue too.

I agree with the statement but probably must confess some guilt and say I haven't always behaved according to it.