The Hurt Locker ~ Set to Sweep the Awards?
Thursday, February 18th, 2010Anyone who knows me, knows I love movies. The movie has to be pretty awful or creep me out for me to walk out of it. In my entire life, I’ve not been able to watch two movies: American Werewolf in London (that was when they were first developing the morphing technique and the change from man to wolf just was too realistic back then) and the original Night of the Living Dead which I tried to watch late at night in the basement of my parents’ house when I was a youngster.
Flash forward ten years. I’ve gotten braver, so much that I even saw Halloween at the midnight show in Los Angeles while I was student teaching. Movie scared me, but I kept on til the bloody end.
So, it should come now, as no surprise that I see just about everything I’m interested in. And that’s a lot.
But, well, The Hurt Locker with Guy Pearce (whom I adore), Jeremy Renner and a list of excellent actors, was something that just didn’t pique my interest. I originally thought it was a cop movie, about a rogue cop ruining the lives of other cops trying to make a difference in their city.
I couldn’t have been more wrong. (more…)