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"Given that The Hurt Locker is set in Iraq and [director] Kathryn Bigelow has been a bit off the radar of late, journos and industryites mostly had a 'show me' attitude about it," senior Variety critic Todd McCarthy wrote yesterday. "For the majority, Bigelow delivered, with a strong charge of visceral, stops-out action cinema.
Hurt Locker star Jeremy Renner
"I'm apparently not the only one to have noticed this, but it didn't take long for me to realize that the film is a very cleverly disguised real-world remake of Bigelow's ex-husband James Cameron's Aliens. (McCarthy may have been referring to my 9.9 review, but has anyone else made this observation?)
"The Hurt Locker is about a bomb-defusing squad of U.S. soldiers; as in Aliens, death can strike you from anywhere, anytime, and Jeremy Renner's risk junkie is Sigourney Weaver's Ripley, right down to the outer space outfit he sometimes has to wear."
Aliens' Sigourney Weaver at controls of powerloader
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on September 12, 2008 at 9:02 AM
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p.Vice
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I say we take off and nuke the sight from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Posted by p.Vice
at September 12, 2008 10:06 AM
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gruver1
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Wells to P. Vice: Nuke the "sight"? Does that mean everyone should simultaenously pick up knives and stab themselves in both eyes?
Posted by gruver1
at September 12, 2008 10:21 AM
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p.Vice
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Haha, good catch. If only I had the ability to edit my previous comments like you do your reviews.
Posted by p.Vice
at September 12, 2008 10:37 AM
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p.Vice
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Oh, and by the way, since when was Ripley considered a "risk junkie"? She had to be bribed to go on the mission in Aliens with the promise her flight status would be re-activated, and never advocated any position other then getting the fuck out of there and nuking the SITE.
Posted by p.Vice
at September 12, 2008 10:40 AM
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Josh
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Ripley was a very reluctant heroine
Posted by Josh
at September 12, 2008 11:22 AM
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the sordid sentinel
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So long as Bill Paxton's character is nowhere to be seen in "The Hurt Locker" I'm there.
Posted by the sordid sentinel
at September 12, 2008 11:40 AM
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storymark
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"Game over, man. Game over!"
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at September 12, 2008 12:20 PM
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Markj74
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at September 12, 2008 12:30 PM
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DavidF
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I don't see the Ripley comparison. Sure, she uses the loader at the end but there's no "space outfit."
Fer crissakes, she wears coveralls for most of the movie and strips down to a tank top when she takes on the Queen on the planet.
Between that and what other people have already pointed out (Ripley is anything but a "risk junkie") I really have no idea where the Aliens comparisons come from.
Still, I want to see this. In all the praise people have lavished upon Bigelow here, no one has mentioned one hell of an intense season finale for Homicide: Life on the Street.
Posted by DavidF
at September 12, 2008 12:50 PM
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