On this year's Oscar winner

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The Hurt Locker - about a U.S. Army demolitions team posted in Iraq - is such a male movie, it could only have been directed by a woman. Sort of like how it took a German director to make the most American movie of all time, Independence Day.

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[petronia]

I never got to see it and I really want to! I think it's because I imagine Katherine Bigelow to be one of the women who tell stories about men precisely because she's interested in the intricacies of male behaviour and socialization, like Minekura Kazuya and Ono Natsume and, uh, me. XD;

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XD. You'd like the movie, then. I spend a lot of time wondering how they'd managed to make it with like, no budget. (Apparently the producer was BANNED from the Oscars for sending around an email that went, Don't vote for the 500 million dollar movie, vote for us. That was "negative campaigning".)

[arboretum]

I agree, I liked the directing a lot in this film. the heavy-handedness about s-some aspects of the film nearly ruined it for me as a movie, but i thought she made a lot of good/cool choices as a director.

funnily i was telling my brother that what i thought was best about the film was how stressed out it made you, and he retorted that he was not stressed at all because he was too busy hating the main character and wondering why he could do everything including out-snipe british snipers kfjlgksdfg

too many war games or what :D;;;; i couldn't argue with that.

not sure it would have been my choice for best movie but am super glad it beat out avatar anyway lol

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But the British guys were mercenaries without any formal training! And it wasn't the main character who out-sniped them, it was Sanborn, the black guy who was in intelligence for eight years... I shouldn't argue this, should I. XD; I didn't think the main character was overpowered because he seemed to be lacking something as a HUMAN BEING, and what are mad war-making skillz compared to that? But then, I am not a boy.

Haven't seen Avatar, so I can't comment. But, maybe.

[uminohikari]

But the shrinking-cast assumes that they shot the film chronologically? I thought they usually didn't, so it might be a conscious decision?