"Niederlage" New Netflix series

[DetCord12B]

 Zero Dark Thirty, The Hurt Locker.

 

Zero Dark Thirty isn't bad but The Hurt Locker is just so awful, so cliched, just craptastic garbage.

[Cybermat47]

Zero Dark Thirty isn't bad but The Hurt Locker is just so awful, so cliched, just craptastic garbage.

Well, it's about the sort of stuff you lived through, so I'll take your word for it and steer clear of it.

[ZachariasX]

Well, if you can emotionally handle someone keeping parts of IEDs as memorabilia instead of handing them in for analysis, things like that, then it less bad. It is good entertainment for people who have no idea about how these things are done. Especially as it is one of the rare movies that surprises the audience with snuffing the roles of profilic actors early. Just think entertainment and you‘re ok.

[Gambit21]

Zero Dark Thirty isn't bad but The Hurt Locker is just so awful, so cliched, just craptastic garbage.

Never saw Hurt Locker but have been curious - thanks for the feedback.

[Danziger]

Yeah I steer clear of any movies about the recent wars. Unless they are comedy and not supposed to be taken very seriously. Which is weird because the most accurate depiction I've seen so far is a comedy called Bluestone 42. That one I could actually watch without getting angry or dismissing as outright garbage.

[DetCord12B]

Well, it's about the sort of stuff you lived through, so I'll take your word for it and steer clear of it.

 

Not saying you shouldn't watch it, matey. It tells an entertaining story and all, but you've seen it elsewhere time and again in other films. As an ex-pat Kiwi that immigrated to the States after 9/11 to enlist, there is no denying I had my preconceptions about to the US Military thanks to Hollywood. Of course they were all dashed, most. 

 

Instead of reiterating them I'll just post what I said back in 2012 on another forum.

 

 

It's a overtly obnoxious, ignorant, and an inaccurate piece of Hollywood shlock that loves to continue the time honored Hollywood tradition of portraying members of the Armed Forces as psychopathic lunatics in the company of the intellectually inept. In furtherance of her (Bigelow) impression of our men and women in uniform, we're punched in the face with comments like; "Going to war is a once in a lifetime opportunity. It could be fun." "I don't know man, they all look the same." Which of course references an Iraqi.

 

Hollywood's stereotyped depiction of unstable vets is in full swing in Hurt Locker, with an increasingly reckless adrenaline junkie and his disregard for safety and communication SOP puts everyone around him in danger. Ya know, technical discrepancies can easily be forgiven if its a good film. If.

 

When the men in the ranks display cold, casual racism, an American Colonel savagely orders that an Iraqi be left to bleed to death and a profoundly unprofessional protagonist, so demented by war he can no longer love his own son, repeatedly endangers himself and the men in 

his charge, I don't see nuance or depth or complicated characters. I see overt political subtext that only undermines the film as a whole.

 

If you wanna see something accurate then I'd suggest War Machine with Brad Pitt that focuses on a fictionalized McChrystal. While it is a comedy and I can't attest as to its veracity with regards to the events and his inner circle as I wasn't there, it does highlight the abysmal, atypical strategy with regards to COIN that continues to this day. There are others as well. Most notably Lone Survivor. However, quite a few personnel who were there in the TOC and JOC have a lot of issues with the movie and the book. 

 

[A-E-Hartmann]

For starters, he could have refrained from putting a real director and a real date on those posters.

 

If he had written "A series by Rick Sanchez C-137" and a release date of "1st of april 1945", then the artwork would still be presented without as much risk of misinterpretation.

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