Reply #7: I saw the Movie

[Daveparts still]

and as war films go it is closer to John Wayne's Flying Leathernecks than Saving Private Ryan. Too much Ooh Rah, macho let's get drunk and fight.
War is hell, gosh darn it.

There is no other point in making a war film other than mindless violence but to illustrate the futility and insanity of war. Hollywood is an industry not an art form and winning an academy award is like winning the Heisman trophy you don't just win it by playing football.

"The Hurt Locker" was made for $15 million dollars and has barely made back it's cost of production. It's not a bad film but it won the Best Picture due to weak competition.

There was a war picture made that did not win the Best Picture Oscar it was only nominated for best screen play but didn't win. It has become iconic and is considered a classic film. all I have to say is "Me love you long time" and you know the picture as Full Metal Jacket. There is a scene in FMJ where Private Joker writing for Stars and Stripes questions his editor.

"Joker you know we only do two kinds of stories here. Stories about grunts who give up half their pay to buy the Vietnamese toothbrushes and deodorant and stories that end with a Viet Cong body count"

That's "The Hurt Locker" in a nut shell