My friend & her husband edited The Hurt Locker and are both nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing. When they filmed the movie in Jordan two summers ago, my friend said the Jordanian people were incredibly gracious. My friend also kept telling me to see this movie on the big screen (vs. DVD) and that it would win a lot of critic awards. THL is about an IED squad in Iraq.
Well, I finally saw it a few weeks ago on DVD (we don't get to the movie theatre as often these days), and my son really liked it. I liked what I saw, but I fell asleep 1/2 through (you shouldn't eat dinner and watch this movie at night, lol). I'll have to re-watch it now.
One thing I do remember, though, is how the soldiers in the movie weren't as "proactive" in getting the local citizens to put down their cell phones (which were used to activate the IEDs). That made me wonder if our soldiers are told to not shoot at citizens, even if it's obvious the citizen is about to detonate a bomb. (Very much like our Border Patrol agents here near the Mexico border - they're not allowed to shoot at the "coyotes" or illegals who are throwing rocks, etc., or even firing at the agents.)
Considering the liberal "Hollywood Agenda" that could have shown the movie soldiers just shoot the citizens in the movie, I thought this was interesting that THL did NOT show that. I'll have to ask my friend about this...AFTER the Academy Awards since I'm sure she's very busy right now, lol!