Anyone else see this movie, hands down best movie of 2009 imo. Absolutely incredible from start to finish.

Now but I saw Jimmy and Judy and it was epic!!

I really liked it. I saw it right when it first came out so some of the details are a little fuzzy now, but I remember thinking there was tons of not-very thinly veiled symbolism that worked surprisingly well for me. Two scenes that stuck out in this respect were:

1) the extended sequence where the main character leaves the base lone-wolf vigilante style and ends up in the iraqi neighborhood at the house of the college professor. Imo this entire sequence was meant as a mini-allegory for the entire post-9/11 american adventure in iraq.

2) the final scene of the dude who had bombs padlocked and chained to him in a tangled and ultimately totally unsolvable way. He seemed like a pretty obvious symbol for the entire iraqi situation. Same thing with the early scene how the initial bomb led to a larger and way scarier web of bombs that were buried just beneath the surface.

There were many other examples. Heavy-handed 1:1 type symbolism usually doesn't do it for me, but I thought it worked here.

One more thing though, the main reason I liked the movie so much didn't have to do with its subtext or political commentary. In the end I just thought it was super well-made; the director was completely in control of the tone and the pace, it looked great, acting was outstanding, etc. The gulf war-themed movies I've seen (e.g. Three Kings, Jarhead) were pretty over-stylized and pandering imo, but The Hurt Locker didn't seem that way, and I left the theater feeling like I understood a lot more about what it's like to be a soldier there, and that it also got me to think about the larger nature of war in a non-cliched/corny way. Though THL probably wasn't on my very top tier of war movies (Apocalypse Now, Band of Brothers, Dr Strangelove, others) I thought it was pretty awesome and I think all things considered is probably my favorite movie of the year so far.

It would be pretty badass if you were the real Ed Furlong.

One of the best movies I seen in a while.

I also like this movie and recommend it.

One of my favorite movies this year. I highly recommend it.

the real ed furlong capitalizes his names. FAKER

I'm going to have to ask you to rescind that comment good sir.

I'm waiting to see this legally assuming it gets nominated for a bunch of awards. That or if it comes out on bluray anytime soon.

Im curious, why do you have 2 Ed Furlong accounts? You have a Furlong fetish or something?

Too much chompchompchomp for one account.

I loved the ending sequence (basically from the cereal aisle onwards). One of the most subtle-yet-memorable movie endings in a long, long time.

I couldn't get into it to call it great. It felt like a 2 hour Generation Kill - which is good, but not great.

I liked this movie, but one thing I don't understand is how a soldier can run around putting peoples lives at risk and and basically going rogue. After watching Generation Kill, doesn't it seem like there is a pretty clear chain of command and soldiers follow orders as they are given? It just seemed to me like him running around Iraq looking for baddies and ordering the three of them to go off and find the bombers by themselves was a little far fetched. I loved the intensity and the pace of the movie though.

i thought the scene where he tugs the ropes and reveals several bombs was very kubrickesque

if you know anything about how the military works you know this movie is completly unrealistic and bull****, and it kind of ruins the experience. I mean a bomb squad suddenly becoming a sniper squad for no reason in the middle of the desert? And the guy running around and playing hero without consequences"? And a bunch more. But if you ignore that, relaly good movie.

semi spoiler

Ya this is what I was getting at.