About The Hurt Locker: am I missing something? The film has garnered awards and acclaim, but when I rented it a few weeks ago, I had to stop watching halfway through, due to a combination of boredom and discomfort. It seems paradoxical that I could have felt both these things at the same time, and I don’t know which of them finally made me stop watching. The movie is basically a series of tension-filled set pieces in which an American soldier slowly defuses bombs in Iraq; there’s not much plot. If I’d been more interested, I guess I might have endured the tension.
Instead I stopped watching and then went to Wikipedia to read the summary.
I wish I had liked it more, since everyone seems to be calling it the best movie of 2009.
Well, 2009 was a pretty crappy year all around, so perhaps it’s fitting not to like the “best movie” of the year.
What about “Avatar?” I thought that was supposed to be the bestest movie ever made, so much so that sad pathetic losers were becoming suicidal when the movie ended and they had to go back to their dreary and meaningless existence? Shouldn’t that be the “best movie of the year?”
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