|
Post by Lefty on Jan 17, 2013 14:14:02 GMT -7
Meh. Better than the other propaganda film, Seal Team Six.
|
|
|
Post by The Bad Poodle Experience on Jan 17, 2013 15:05:47 GMT -7
that's a pretty non-committal endorsement......
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2013 16:07:26 GMT -7
Felt the same, MEH. Can't understand the decent reviews it's getting. Fast forward to the compound raid and save yourself the boredom. Seal Team Six was horrible.
|
|
|
Post by tjstrat on Jan 17, 2013 16:15:49 GMT -7
All information is propaganda. Leftist or rightist in this case, gentlemen?
|
|
|
Post by Lefty on Jan 17, 2013 18:59:18 GMT -7
All information is propaganda. Leftist or rightist in this case, gentlemen? It's all in the eyes of the beholder.
|
|
|
Post by tjstrat on Jan 18, 2013 6:55:13 GMT -7
Did anyone enjoy "The Hurt Locker"? Same director.
|
|
|
Post by Lefty on Jan 18, 2013 14:48:50 GMT -7
Hurt locker was ok, a little weird but OK.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2013 15:19:24 GMT -7
I read "No Easy Day". It was written by the Seal they called Preacher. It was a pretty good book.
I imagine "Zero Dark Thirty" to be much different from the book. The movie seems to be more about the actual CIA hunt for UBL. The book was more about Preacher and his involvement in the hunt and as an Operator.
I'll wait until the movie comes out on video to see it.
I liked "Hurt Locker". I also thought it was kind of strange.
|
|
|
Post by tjstrat on Jan 19, 2013 17:06:03 GMT -7
I got a sense that "Hurt Locker" was about the impact of stress, war, the desire to push so close to the edge and beat death that it becomes a kind of PTSD in and of itself. The lead character's need to go back in country at the end and confront certain death again was kind of the point of the movie, to me. Like Hemingway's "Soldier's Home", in which the lead character, even have seen the war and all it's horror, just can't readjust to normal quiet home life again.
"ZDT" was a little iffier. I thought that the torture stuff was far less than the press suggested, and that it was more Maya's leap of intuition than any actual physical torture that brought UBL down. Although if you drill deeper and realize that those torture scenes were repeated hundreds of times at dozens of black sites you realize that there was a LOT of stuff happening to a lot of people. And I never got a sense that Maya was anything but a willing participant once she's negotiated the learning curve. I didn't sense that she'd changed like "The Hurt Locker"'s protagonist obviously had.
|
|
|
Post by Shannon on Jan 28, 2013 20:33:54 GMT -7
I read "No Easy Day". It was written by the Seal they called Preacher. It was a pretty good book. I imagine "Zero Dark Thirty" to be much different from the book. The movie seems to be more about the actual CIA hunt for UBL. The book was more about Preacher and his involvement in the hunt and as an Operator. I'll wait until the movie comes out on video to see it. I liked "Hurt Locker". I also thought it was kind of strange. My brother got me that book for Christmas and I finally got around to reading it a couple of weeks ago. Great read. Maybe it's because my brother got to work with the Seals a lot, especially in the begining of the was, but I couldn't put it down. Sad to hear the movie isn't just as good.
|
|