The Hurt Locker

Dude disarms a lot of bombs. Finds it stressful.

Nominated for:
Best Actor - Jeremy Renner
Cinematography - Barry Ackroyd
Directing - Kathryn Bigelow
Best Picture
Writing Original Screenplay - Mark Boal

Also nominated for:
Film Editing - Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
Music Original Score - Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
Sound Editing - Paul N.J. Ottosson
Sound Mixing - Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett

This movie is solid. I wasn't sure while I was watching it, but its got its meaty claws hooked into my brain. I'm haunted.

There is barely a narrative in this film, and its brilliant. Its relentless. Its banal and its horrifying simultaneously, and I'm not really sure how that works.

I doubt this movie will win as many awards as it should, but I would be totally ok if it picked up the award for directing, cinematography, and original screenplay. And since it probably won't, I'll settle instead for directing. Bigelow needs to stick it to the man... Particularly this man.

Eli