Didn't see a thread for this movie yet. If there is one, mods please merge or delete if need be, sorry for the trouble. I'm trying desperately to keep my enthusiasm for this film. I read it's produced by the same lady who did The Hurt Locker. The Hurt Locker was so ridiculously far from reality that I have little faith for this movie.
Ehh, I thought The Hurt Locker was highly overrated... needles to say I don't have high hopes for this film.
I think it looks great and the reviews are calling it one of the best movies of the year. I enjoyed The Hurt Locker for the most part and I can't wait to see the big raid scene.
More 'MURRICA FUCK YEAH! fodder. Don't have to pay to see that. I don't know, I do like war/military movies...
It's fifty years too early for this film, and this is coming from a guy who's unit screams NAVY SEALs FUCK YEA every day at school. Also, we have severely low expectations for this, just like act of valor.
They're both "WE'RE NAVY SEALS WE'RE THE GUYS THAT KILLED OSAMA THIS IS WHAT WE DO EVERYDAY 'MURICA FUCK YEA" types of movies. I'm not going to watch either one of them.
As someone who has actually seen Zero Dark Thirty, this is far from the "AMERICA FUCK YEAH!!!" movie that you people are thinking it is. No fist bumps, ooh rahs, and Hans Zimmer music blaring in the background here.
I haven't seen the film yet, though I intend to, but from what I've read, it's less about the Navy SEALS and more about the detective-like story of how some CIA agents, in particular one young female operative, chase down faint clues to find the most wanted man in the world. (In a way this vague summary makes it sound similar to the TV show Homeland.) And the film makes the viewer think about whether the sometimes extreme methods--including torture--used in gaining those clues were in the end justified.
That's pretty much it. The seals don't even enter the movie until two hours into it. It's unfortunate that the tv marketing is making it look like a slam bang action picture, when it's not that at all.
Seriously? Wow stupid advertising, tricking me into avoiding another movie again. I love plot based movies! Still think it's a little early for a film about finding Bin Laden, though.
Bigelow had planned on making a fiction story based on killing Osama, and while in the middle of that, he was killed, so she took the realistic approach. I'm indifferent either way, but it wasn't like she just latched on to the idea after we got him.
Still, I shudder with disgust at how America seemed to eat up The Hurt Locker. I can't even begin to explain how outrageously unrealistic that movie was. I don't think there was a 5 minute span in that entire movie that could be called realistic. Then I watch a movie like Black Hawk Down, which took great care to at least put their events into subsequent order. I was never in Somalia, so I can't say one way or another. But that seems to be one of the more realistic movies of the past 20 years.
Yeah, it's supposed to be an intense thriller about how one agent is getting frustrated with her obsession of finding Osama while shedding light on how dark the secret intelligence world is. The bit where they do kill him is even supposed to be the complete opposite of Hurt Locker and be the first movie where actual Navy Seal tactics are shown in a realistic yet compelling way.
