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Originally Posted by 42ndStreetFreak

Re: "Killer's Moon".

It's certainly a film that splits people and that's because it's actually unlike any other british exploitation film ever made. It's just a strange and warped creature. Has huge faults but also huge trashy, bizarre moments of mental genius.
Gotta love the 3 legged avenger dog.





"The Hurt Locker"

Superb war film making.

No treasonous propaganda, no false-liberal handwringing...all 'for or against' politics are left behind and at last Hollywood has made a film simply about the men in combat and how they face near-death every day.

The bomb squad aspect cranked up the tension to massive levels and you really got a sense of what it's like for one man to literally walk towards death and hold it in his hand...purely to protect civilians and property the supposed 'resistance' could not care less about.

The film also (maddeningly) shows how often troops needlessly face death because they are literally scared about firing their weapons in case they shoot at a civilian (whatever that means in a war where the enemy has no uniform, walks alongside the rest of the population and routinely blows that population up and shoots through them to kill the soldiers).
It was shocking to see the taxi scene where a man with obvious hostile intent faced nothing but shouts as he sped towards the soldiers. And even then no one shot and instead crowded around the car to drag the taxi driver out.
Guess it was lucky, as a whole crowd of American soldiers jumped on his car, he did not also have a bomb inside!

This ever questioning routine of whether or not you are allowed to shoot is shown time and time again in the movie, as soldiers die for no other reason than they don't want to be crucified in the weasel press and even hauled up in front of a court of law!
This 'one hand tied behind your back' way of fighting a war would be bad enough anyway, but when you are fighting some of the most fanatic, ruthless killers in the world...it can literally be suicide.

It also showed how these indiscriminate bombs are so hard to spot, defuse and keep track of (where bombers go so far as to use the corpses of children as bombs) and how these brave guys stay remotely sane is anyone's guess.
And as such Jeremy Renner's (as always) great character essay of a man addicted to conflict and risk is deserving of any and all awards.

Superb performances by all the main cast, nice 'giving death a face' cameos, spot on editing, directing and technical specs all add up to give us one of the most atmospheric and scary war films ever made and at last Hollywwod has honoured its soldiers instead of spitting at them while stroking their enemy's brow.

Totally agree with you there. You took the words right out of my mouth. Saw this at the cinema and I have never been so gripped by a film in my life. I literally spent the entire film on the edge of my seat. Incredibly powerful stuff.