Is The Hurt Locker going to get another run in cinemas?

No I wouldn't as I didnt like Avatar either. If you asked me which one was better I would say Avatar but I'm glad the hurt locker won over avatar because it was an underdog. The reason I don't like it is not because it won an Oscar, it is simply because I found it lacking direction. I have seen better films based on the same theme.
 
I found Hurt Locker so realistic and atmospheric that for a few brief moments after I came out of the cinema I found myself unintentionally scanning roof tops for possible snipers. SounRAB funny I know!
 
It was never boring, it did get ridiculously unrealistic at times, notably the sniper incident. All sorts of really bad soldiering and absurdity.
 
I just want to add after reading all the posts hating on THL, that I as a non military expert I can't comment on realism, but THL was as tense, slow, and really really nerve jangling as I imagine war really is. For me there were no gungho heroics that I could tell. I can't compare re other modern war films because I usually avoid them. I also think you need to see it on the big screen.
 
If there were a group of British Soldiers least likely to be bumped off one at a time by a sniper I'd be safe putting my money on the SAS. I think the director of this movie thought that the SAS were part of some front line Naafi squad.
 
Private Contractors don't usually go native :confused:

The Daily Telegraph seems to think they are mercenaries:

"At one point, they collide with a group of British mercenaries, led by Fiennes, and are immediately pinned down by Iraqi snipers. The British, true to Hollywood convention, prove to be useless and are bumped off one by one, including Fiennes. The Americans, of course, survive. What they are doing there, pinned down in the middle of a desert, is not really clear. One has the feeling that Bigelow, worried that the slow, tense bomb-disposal scenes might exhaust the patience of an attention-deficit-suffering American audience, decided to insert a good old firefight to wake everyone up."
 
Private contractor, mercenary. Potato, Potato. Certainly not SAS anyway, as the film is clear not to point out.

Disguising yourself in the local attire to capture high value targets hardly going native.
 
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