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The Hurt Locker

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During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work. From TMDB

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  • Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 2, 2025

    The Hurt Locker lady made a movie about NC3 and application of deterrence theory written by the NBC News guy that covered for Harvey Weinstein and Matt Lauer

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  • NightOps @[email protected]Lemmy · Aug 19, 2026

    What are examples of anachronisms you've seen from movies depicting historical settings?. I remember watching The Hurt Locker (starring Jeremy Renner), the movie is meant to depict the Iraq War in 2004 but for some reason there's a scene where an iPod Touch (releases in 2007), XBOX 360 (releases in 2005) and Gears of War (releases in 2006) present in the barracks even though these did not exist yet. Another anachronism from this movie is when a American soldier spots an Iraqi recording him…

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  • 🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 30, 2024

    Only if it's cereal reviews or to discuss the film THE HURT LOCKER

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  • A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 22, 2026

    THE HURT LOCKER is, in my opinion, not half-bad. letterboxd.com/andrewmoxon/...

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  • Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 27, 2026

    Yeah, I saw The Hurt Locker. It’s a good film, well directed and acted. I don’t know why someone would want to do that as a job, but people have all kinds of motivations. 1/4

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  • The Movie Theater Lobby @themovielobby.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 8, 2025

    Today in 2010, Kathryn Bigelow won the Academy Award for Best Director for her film The Hurt Locker. She was the first woman to win the award. Happy Women's History Month 🫶

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  • merc @[email protected]Lemmy · May 4, 2026

    These movies are not exactly subtle about which side is the "good guys" and which side is the "bad guys". Who do you side with in a much more ambiguous movie like *Apocalyspe Now* or *Sicario*? Or, if you're like most movie watchers, you watched *Zero Dark Thirty* and sided with the American commandos. You watched *The Hurt Locker* and sided with the American bomb disposal experts. You watched *Argo* and sided with the CIA. I'd guess there are a lot more pro-American movies where the…

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  • Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 7, 2025

    15 years ago today Kathryn Bigelow made history by becoming the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director, for her film THE HURT LOCKER #Oscars

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  • Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 2, 2025

    There are a lot of things to worry about in the world today. The acclaimed director Kathryn Bigelow (“Zero Dark Thirty,” “The Hurt Locker”) has made a new film — “House of Dynamite” — warning of a danger that most of us would sooner forget. wapo.st/4pMJuDL

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  • Conor @ernekid.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 15, 2024

    Watching the Hurt Locker and developing a theory that the reason why there’s so few movies about the Iraq war is that it’s hard to make a compelling movie about being part of an occupying army of an evil empire

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  • Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 12, 2024

    At least Munich tries to grapple with the questions. ZDT is the pinnacle of pretending to be deep. The helicopter raid is wild film making, but you have to slog through 90+ minutes of Girl Bosses Can Do War on Terror Too first. If you want a more honest post 9/11 Bigelow film, it’s The Hurt Locker.

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  • the worst of all possible worlds @worstpossible.worldBluesky · Sep 3, 2026

    TWOAPW #256: THE HURT LOCKER @patrickwyman.bsky.social helps us dissect the classic Iraq War shoot-and-cry film, and we discover why it is just like Paddington

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  • The Mutant Fam @themutantfam.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 11, 2026

    I wish I would have asked when I interviewed her for THE HURT LOCKER, but I have to think Kathryn Bigelow was heavily influenced by this film for the you-know-what scene in STRANGE DAYS. #MutantFam #TheLastDriveIn #SavageSummer #ISpitOnYourGrave - SMF

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  • dillo saint dillo @dillo.mediaBluesky · Sep 18, 2023

    a movie called The Hurt Locker where there's a sad locker

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  • Oli @oliaworth96.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 1, 2026

    Five days left until annual leave. Feel like I’m in that film The Hurt Locker but it’s just me receiving emails saying “Quick favour…”

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  • Death will not release you!𓅽 @7leaguebootdisk.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 3, 2026

    The director of The Hurt Locker at one point was spending half of what she made from the movie on takedown costs. Yes, she blew a huge amount of money on the off chance that someone watching it without permission would pay if she made that hard enough. 😆

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  • jessica BONEStown @newfoundgloryhole.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 7, 2024

    i have a lot of holes in my film history. ive never seen -Pretty Woman -Top Gun -Avatar (2009) -The Hurt Locker -Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (i saw Super 8 tho! thats basically the same thing, right?)

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  • Lum @brokentoys.socialBluesky · May 15, 2026

    6. The Hurt Locker Do you hate the Iraq War veteran in your life? Tell him you enjoyed the Oscar-award winning film The Hurt Locker. Watch the subtle emotions in their face as they remember.

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  • Joe Cirincione @joecirin.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 24, 2025

    There are no villains. Everyone is acting out their assigned roles, adhering to established procedures. As she did in her hit film, The Hurt Locker, Bigelow grounds this extraordinary situation in the mundane drama of relationships, the humdrum of a White House job and the grind of military duty.

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  • David Rooney @david-rooney.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 2, 2025

    It's eight years since Kathryn Bigelow's last film & she hasn't missed a beat. A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE is a crackling thriller, precision-tooled, viscerally immersive, very much of a piece with THE HURT LOCKER and ZERO DARK THIRTY. Great stuff. #Venezia2025 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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  • Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 7, 2026

    *gets up from chair briefly* Cat, immediately: I claim this territory for the Klingon Empire Me: okay time to scoop you up Cat: are you familiar with the film The Hurt Locker?

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  • DD @gingergray.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 28, 2025

    Happy 74th birthday to #KathrynBigelow ❤️FIRST WOMAN to win an OSCAR for Beat Director-THE HURT LOCKER. Also won a second Oscar for best film. Has 2 BAFTAS for THE HURT LOCKER. & a Primetime Emmy. Directed ZERO DARK THIRTY (Oscar Nom/best film), POINT BREAK & DETROIT. #TCMParty #FilmSky #MovieSky

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  • Jay Kirell @jasonkirell.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 20, 2025

    I’m sure it says something that the only two war films are American Sniper, which was a bad movie and bullshit; and The Hurt Locker, which was a good movie, but completely unrealistic.

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  • ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contactBluesky · Mar 26, 2025

    It’s like The Hurt Locker II, a hypothetical film where Sgt. James is promoted to Secretary of Defense and finally finds a crowd that accepts and understands him

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  • ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contactBluesky · Sep 19, 2024

    even if you're like "man I hate all soldiers and especially ones who did war crimes" or something like that, I still don't get how you see a movie like THE HURT LOCKER which is about how at the very least US soldiers as portrayed as terrifying, and go "this is a straight up endorsement"

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  • Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.socialBluesky · May 3, 2025

    OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Crunched the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Here are the top 1,461 presented as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration. #Film #Resist #MovieSky #Movies #1,358 -- The Hurt Locker (2009) dir. Kathryn Bigelow

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  • alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 6, 2024

    dressing like i'm going to see Wicked but instead going to watch the 2008 academy award winning film The Hurt Locker

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  • Marc McKenzie @marcmck.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 19, 2024

    Didn't Glenn Greenwald give Kathryn Bigelow s#@t by claiming that THE HURT LOCKER was pro-Iraq and how dare a woman direct a film like that?

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  • Doctor Lexus @dblexus.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 15, 2026

    Reminds me of the opening scenes in the movie The Hurt Locker "Think he was a terrorist?" "He is now." They screamed about "radical left" when that's barely a thing in thing in the US, and now they're pushing people in that direction.

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  • 🎃HunkyKarras🎃/♑🇮🇪🇬🇧 @hunkykubrick.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 6, 2025

    Today's Film Article: An interview with Kathryn Bigelow in this month's S&S mag (Dec' 25, Vol 35, # 10) - discussing her past films (The Loveless, Near Dark, Blue Steel, Point Break, Strange Days, K-19, The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty, Detroit, her latest, A House of Dynamite & more...) 1/2

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  • James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 13, 2025

    Looking at his Wikipedia, no wonder the junior producer had to pretend she loved The Hurt Locker, a movie that came out when she was 12

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  • Therefore Horror 📀🎃🍿 @thereforereview.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 26, 2024

    Folks who think Guy Pearce's biggest best movies are The Hurt Locker, The King's Speech & Iron Man 3....educate yourselves before The Brutalist, please! Read Our Essential Guy Pearce with @insessionfilm.bsky.social: insessionfilm.com/op-ed-the-in... #filmsky #moviesky #movies🎬🎥🎬

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  • Conor @ernekid.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 15, 2024

    In the Hurt Locker a film set in 2004 a character can be seen playing Gears of War. A video game not released until 2006. Boy I sure hope someone got fired for that blunder!

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  • ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contactBluesky · Sep 19, 2024

    wait, okay so again, just saw The Hurt Locker for the first time and... did Joss Whedon basically try to imply that Hawkeye actually was this guy, from this movie, in the Avengers movies he directed? cuz it kind of feels like that's what he did

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  • 🏳️‍⚧️ Samara, The Werewolf Deer says ACAB 🏳️‍⚧️ @samarathedeer.bsky.socialBluesky · May 3, 2026

    The Hurt Locker is a shite film and the academy is made up of absolute troglodytes for giving it one of their awards.

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  • Shin Megami Tension Headache @chakacant.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 26, 2026

    The best vampire movie you've never seen, criminally underappreciated, they gave Bigelow the Oscar for the Hurt Locker but she deserved it for this. Hands down Bill Paxton's best performance

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  • Wren @[email protected]Lemmy · Feb 14, 2026

    Trapped Between Thrill and Shame: The Soldiers Addicted to War. >War is not always hell. One of its sharpest paradoxes is its allure, the way it traps men in its siren song, a chorus of myth-making qualities it often does possess. History teems with variations on this leitmotif: The ancient Greeks adopted the Homeric concept of aristeia, or martial excellence, from The Iliad, going as far as to order much of their culture around it. Centuries later, Confederate soldiers wrote of charging Union…

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  • James Corck 🦅 ❤️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jamescorck.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 9, 2025

    So I just re-watched "The Hurt Locker" - www.imdb.com/title/tt0887... I think I get it a little better. But I still don't get it. It's boring and overrated. Looks good tho. 5/10. #Movie #Review #TheHurtLocker

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  • Anders Holmes @andersfholmes.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 18, 2025

    Before Jeremy Renner got his big break with The Hurt Locker, Marvel & becoming a 2 time Oscar nominated actor, I referred to him as the bad guy from the S.W.A.T movie when I first saw this. #28WeeksLater really is a worthy & good sequel. A morbid, but entertaining & frightening follow up. #filmsky

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  • Renata S Pumpkins @renatasnacks.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 28, 2025

    I've never seen the movie the Hurt Locker but I think about "When Love Explodes (Love Theme from Hurt Locker the Musical)" like once a week. It goes SO HARD for being a song from a musical that does not exist. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT6v...

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  • ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contactBluesky · Sep 19, 2024

    ok after seeing The Hurt Locker for the first time i now realize that the casting of Anthony Mackie as Captain America and Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye is like, entirely referential to this movie like didn’t they literally quote the “you think i got what it takes to put on the suit”

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  • Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 11, 2026

    Speaking of 9/11 and the war on terror, it’s crazy how The Hurt Locker was this critical smash hit, it won Best Picture and turned Jeremy Renner into a big name actor. And, it kinda doesn’t matter? Like it’s fine as a movie, but it feels totally like a time capsule, in a bad way.

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  • Dean @deanrmarsh.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 22, 2026

    Just an outstanding film. Lost count how many times I've watched it in the last 15 years or so... The Hurt Locker

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  • Mutual I'm Sure @mutualimsure.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 13, 2026

    Tonight's late movie is The Hurt Locker (2008) 🍿

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  • Kelechi Ehenulo @ LFF @kehenulo.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 5, 2025

    Good film. Does suffer from repetitive moments as it joins each segment together. But the authenticity Bigalow presents makes this worth the watch, complimenting her previous war films in Zero Dark Thirty and The Hurt Locker. And occasionally, it was tense. #AHouseofDynamite

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  • saxtonpope.bsky.social @saxtonpope.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 25, 2025

    My hot take: Miami Vice over Collateral. Also, we pretty clearly need more women in film, yeah? The Hurt Locker Past Lives Nomadland White Material Away From Her Marie Antoinette Aftersun We Need to Talk About Kevin Meek's Cutoff Portrait of a Lady on Fire

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  • Donovan Santiago🍉🌻💎 @thepeoplesdilf.bsky.socialBluesky · May 29, 2025

    It's funny how my off-duty life while I was still a pararescueman was so "PJ coded".... My favorite game was Halo ODST My favorite movie and show were The Hurt Locker and Generation Kill My favorite go-to drinks were (still are) damn near frozen shot of Jagermeister and a simple whiskey sour.

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  • Cptn Jake’s Amity Boat Tour @thatjakekid91.dissky.comBluesky · Mar 3, 2025

    In 2009/10, Avatar lost Best Picture and The Hurt Locker won. I’ll die on the hill that The Hurt Locker is a better movie, but that doesn’t mean it’s as culturally relevant. With that being said, the Academy wanted a movie that was anti war to represent them in the Obama Era.

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  • ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contactBluesky · Sep 27, 2024

    also just, I can't believe I slept on watching The Hurt Locker for so long that movie is... IMO a pretty accurate portrait of what multiple male relatives of mine are like

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  • mother @fatnudes.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 18, 2023

    a movie called the Hurt Locker about a high school locker that mysteriously plays Nine Inch Nails' Hurt 24/7

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  • Space Camembert @spacecamembert.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 4, 2026

    Movie is "The Hurt Locker", if you were wondering, Good movie.

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  • The Paris Theater - NYC @paristheaternyc.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 17, 2025

    Kathryn Bigelow made history when she won the Academy Award for Best Director for THE HURT LOCKER, her 2008 Iraq War thriller starring Jeremy Renner & Anthony Mackie. See it Mon Dec 22 in our series Right Here Right Now!: The Films of Kathryn Bigelow. paristheaternyc.com/film/the-hur...

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  • Dirty D @akgrl33.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 14, 2025

    I haven’t seen a lot of the years of best picture wins but The Hurt Locker was a stupid movie

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  • Abolish ICE! aftiej 🗽 @aftiej.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 11, 2025

    happy Veterans Day and my gratitude to all who’ve honorably served. war is stupid. we stand on the shoulders of the brave. 🇺🇸 my Veterans Day film recommendations: - 1917 - Saving Private Ryan - Glory - My Dead Friend Zoe - Fury - The Hurt Locker - Dunkirk - All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)

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  • Autistic Science Person @autsciperson.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 24, 2025

    In high school I did 2 presentations that I was highly interested in: 1. The origin of ping pong 2. A presentation about how the same movie studio that made The Hurt Locker made the Twilight movies purely as a way to bail them out of financial ruin. I was most proud of this one tbh.

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  • Strife / Petra @csstrife.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 3, 2025

    the only movie by Bigelow i've ever watched is The Hurt Locker and that movie is genuinely one of the most putrid pieces of dogshit to ever be considered in the realm of "art" so im very excited to watch this

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  • Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 5, 2025

    BBC Culture list (selected by film critics) – 10 best films, directed by women – including countries financing the production. [7] The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow, dir., 2008 (USA) 📽️🎬

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  • Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 2, 2025

    2. The Hurt Locker- Bigelow creates the ultimate film about modern war. Equal parts impersonal and deeply human, each set piece is perfectly tuned for maximum heart pounding, breathtaking action and tension. A 5-star masterpiece that just keeps improving year to year.

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  • In the Footsteps of Robert Pattinson @robsfootsteps.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 21, 2025

    FLASHBACK: On a day like today exactly fifteen years ago, February 21st 2010, Robert Pattinson attended the BAFTA Awards ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London, UK, where he presented the Award for Best Original Screenplay to Mark Boal for the movie 'The Hurt Locker'.

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  • Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 20, 2025

    as always, I ask where are the Vietnam War-themed sitcoms and breakfast cereals, though at this point I should also ask where are the Iraq War-themed sitcoms and breakfast cereals. "THE HURT LOCKER but funny!" "what's THE HURT LOCKER? oh TikTok and ChatGPT say it's a movie. so second millennium."

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