Comments on: Will Kathryn Bigelow’s Osama Bin Laden Movie ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Find Its Target Or Miss The Mark?

By: Dingo Bongo

Dingo Bongo — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:39:01 +0000

I think the trailer does a great job illustrating the plot of this movie. I'm going to be very surprised if the film is not primarily about the female analyst that tracked bin Laden down. Her frustrations, dead-ends, puzzle-solving, and briefings with her male superiors and the male warriors sent to kill bin Laden. Jessica Chastain plays the woman who proves the American macho-millitary mindset is as baseless and outdated as bin Laden's fundamentalist beliefs about gender roles. The most amazing part about this whole chapter in history is that it was a dedicated, talented, and brilliant woman who found him. Bigelow and Boal would be fools to not have not made this a central part of the movie.

Well, those are my predictions anyway. If the movie doesn't offer a strong critique of gender roles I'll be surprised.

By: Kilo Bravo

Kilo Bravo — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:39:01 +0000

I don't know why people are speculating so much on the monologue at the begninning of the trailer. That soliloquoy is much more indicative of a standard interrogation than of so called torture techniques. The number of assshole terrorists that were actually "tortured" during the hunt for UBL is less than 20 according to all sourced information, and that is on the high end. While I wouldn't want to be kept awake for days on end with music blaring or forced to stand, that is not real torture. Shit, if that's torture than every recruit in boot camp is tortured, and every guy that's ever worked a manual labor job is tortured.

Besides the point, Boal says he tried to get the persepctive of the boots on the ground that put in all the hours tracking, tracing, and connecting the millions of pieces of info that went into finding this asshole, and I hope that is the aim of the movie. That's the really incredible part that ppl need to understand so the regular everyday head up their ass standing in line at Starbucks American can get an idea of the kind of lifestyle and commitment it takes to find one man that doesn't want to be found, in a region and country that regards him as a hero, and hunted by the same kind of guys we all grew up with….After reading all of the books put out about the raid and the decade leading up to it, Boal and Bigelow would ruin an otherwise epic story if they followed the Hollywood groupthink of trying to demonize operators that follow orders to protect out country. 'Act of Valor' was criticized by some limp-wrist media types that it is a Pro-American film. Well whiskey tango foxtrot is wrong with that? If you don't believe that a movie showing the skill, courage, and sacrifice of servicemen in a realistic portrait, then you should cash in your citizenship and move the fuck out.

By: AW

AW — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:39:01 +0000

Bigelow was originally going to release this movie in October right before the U.S. presidential election, leading to speculation that the film was designed to help re-elect Barack Obama. I don't know whether Bigelow ever confirmed that or not.

By: JD

JD — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:39:01 +0000

The Hurt Locker is two hundred times better then anything else on Bigelow's resume? Really? Remember Strange Days? Point Break, one of the greatest action movies ever made? Near Dark, one of the best horror films of all time? And Weight Of Water's not a bad movie either.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:39:01 +0000

I'm looking forward to this film the cast looks
awesome! When I watched the two trailer I was like
WOW THIS MOVIE LOOKS SO COOL! I had to shear it with
a few of my twitter friends.
I can't wait intill ZDT comes out this December.

By: Mijo

Mijo — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:39:01 +0000

Hurt Locker was soooooooo overrated.

By: Fred

Fred — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:39:01 +0000

"but we're not sure how much the film is going to condemn it or at least present it in a moral grey zone" By that should we assume you hope for the sort of THIS IS ALL SO WRONG histrionics that "Green Zone" adapted? Messages are fine until they suck the life out of your movie. Among the many reasons that "The Hurt Locker" worked well was its refusal to let the left or the right hang their politics comfortably on its back. Do we really hope for the subtle messaging stylings of a Rocky Mountain Pictures project for the left for this one?

By: CC

CC — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:39:01 +0000

The case against? Another piece of jingoistic American propaganda?

By: Glass

Glass — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:39:01 +0000

I'm excited for it, but as a completely uninitiated audience member, that trailer really didn't get the plot across. You CAN piece together that it's about the Seal Team 6 raid in the end, but I understood why people in my theater were like "wat." when the trailer ended.