Via Roger Ebert’s twitter feed:
Kathryn Bigelow wins the [Directors Guild] Award for “The Hurt Locker!” That makes Locker the favorite for Best Picture in the Oscars.
Now that is good news.
I loved Hurt Locker when I saw it last summer; if you haven’t seen it, by all means do. It is one fantastic movie, and I’m hoping it hits the Oscars like a 152mm shell wired to a homemade detonator.
Rhetorically speaking.
I don’t know, Mitch, a 152 is a pretty big round. How would they get that in the Oscars?
Oh, wait, is Michael Moore up for anything this year?
It was a good movie, but the “war is a drug” message was troubling. After the spate of anti-military movies of the 90s I tend to distrust messages from Hollywood.
I would be delighted to hear the opinions of your veteran readers.
How would they get that in the Oscars?
They used to have these things called “howitzers”…
Rhetorically speaking, of course.
It was a good movie, but the “war is a drug” message was troubling. After the spate of anti-military movies of the 90s I tend to distrust messages from Hollywood.
As a rule I’m with ya, but “War is a drug” is pretty non-partisan.
True, but Hollywood has proven time and again that it is completely partisan. That’s why I would appreciate the POV of people who’ve actually had boots on the ground.