{"id":3331,"date":"2009-07-26T22:13:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T02:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=3331"},"modified":"2009-07-26T22:13:43","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T02:13:43","slug":"the-hurt-locker-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2009\/07\/26\/the-hurt-locker-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hurt Locker&#8211;Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/image\/stars\/4o5.gif\" alt=\"4 Stars\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0887912\/\"><em>The Hurt Locker<\/em><\/a> is a riveting film, thoughtful and realistic. It is a slice-of-life (and death) story about a bomb squad stationed in Baghdad in 2004, about the time that the insurgency was really starting to ratchet up.<\/p>\n<p>The movie centers on Staff Sergeant William James (Jeremy Renner), who is more than a little crazy. He&#8217;s extremely capable; he&#8217;s defused an incredible number of bombs and the brass adore him. However he takes unnecessary risks and sometimes puts his teammates in danger. Basically he&#8217;s an adrenaline junkie&#8211;and I&#8217;m using that term literally, since the movie seems be be making the explicit point that adrenaline is an addictive drug.<\/p>\n<p>The film is shot using hand-held cameras, giving it the gritty immediacy of a documentary. It is refreshingly free of any political message; though it does take the point of view that people who plant bombs to blow up random victims are scum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hurt Locker is a riveting film, thoughtful and realistic. It is a slice-of-life (and death) story about a bomb squad stationed in Baghdad in 2004, about the time that&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2009\/07\/26\/the-hurt-locker-movie-review\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[301],"class_list":["post-3331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-the-hurt-locker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3331"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3334,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331\/revisions\/3334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}