Anytime I run into actual EOD personnel, I ask them if their favorite movie is The Hurt Locker and I am always sure to mention how accurate and realistic the movie is. You should try it. The rage in their eyes is pretty entertaining.
Nope, wouldn't "admit" that at all because it's not at all true... I guess if you're a civie and have no clue how terrible stupid everything is then it might be ok, but even then...
Talking Hands Alright to each there own, idk I really liked the way the movie was shot and the way that it took a stance on war and the modern military. From a cinematic standpoint, I felt that the movie was filmed in a very captivating way with tension created through angles. Plot wise the idea that war is addicting was interesting as it was an idea that I never thought would have been fleshed out at that time. Besides all of that I have to say that I loved Renners performance as his capability as an actor showed through the inaccuracies of the movie giving (at least for me) a good sense of suspension of disbelief. But again to each their own.
@@aarnavpanchal646 But that's the thing, the way she tried to portray the military, the military command structure, the whole "war is addicting" crap, all of it is also completely wrong. She basically was trying to push her own preconceived opinions about the military in the movie and it was complete garbage as a result because she obviously has absolutely no clue. Even the "tension" you speak of is created with these really forced situations that would never happen, which is just lazy writing in my opinion...
Talking Hands I get where you’re coming from, I can see your point and while there is some laziness in the writing I can say that it wasn’t enough for me to not enjoy the movie, but still I get your point
@@aarnavpanchal646 I know it's subjective and everyone will have their opinions, but it's just so aggravating for me how this movie got a bunch of awards and all of this accolade and I watched it and went "WTF???"
Things you didn't know about the Hurt Locker: despite its completely unrealistic and inaccurate portrayal of bomb defusal specialists, it won an oscar.
PurpleIsALetter So... It gives EOD techs the same treatment as the show House did with doctors. Most morons didn't even know the real guys existed before this movie. Your point is?
I'm sorry but when a film is going for gritty realism and then the "bomb defusal expert" is so completely incompetent that it's a miracle he didn't accidentally blow himself up during training, it creates a giant disconnect as well as plot hole.
How they treat each other, the tactics they use, how reckless they are. it is a constant example of what not to do if you don't want to get someone killed.
Renaissance MarineTV You know what, you should contact Everything Wrong With... and make a hurt locker episode with your knowledge That would make it a really interesting episode.
Speaking of Jeremy Renner, I wouldn't mind seeing a Things You Didn't Know about The Town. I love how 5'9" Jeremy Renner stands next to 6'3" Ben Affleck and still comes off as intimidating. That's a good performance.
This movie is now in that wonderful stage of life where it's been called overrated so often that it's now underrated and I feel more special for thinking it's a masterpiece.
aR0ttenBANANA96 Again, waiting for a reason as to what actually sucks about it. I'm not even saying it was Oscar-worthy. There is plenty to say as far as valid criticism, but you'd rather just state your subjective view of it as fact. In reality, you're just backing up what Henry said.
I currently live in Amman, Jordan so it was interesting to hear that this movie was filmed here. Lawrence of Arabia was filmed in the desert of Wadi Rum, also in Jordan.
the sanitation was less "not working" and more didn't exist. you can not imagine the headache we had trying to pay Iraqi's to clean up their own country. also gotta tell you, the look of the film was about the only thing they got right. anybody who actually went to Iraq hates the movie with a passion
Billy Blazes there's an old British tv show called Bomb disposal I think. It's about the first bomb squad in England during the Blitz. My father, an army EOD tech, says it's accurate with the bomb disposal stuff.
It's not just its inaccuracy. I enjoy some really cheesy stupidly inaccurate war movies. The problem is the message this movie tries to push about the military. About how the film tries to portray how things were done. And yes, then pile on the heaping piles of total and utter bullshit that they try to pass off as accurate and it just seals the deal on how terrible this movie is. Seriously, I know you're a civilian who have never served (I make this assumption only because you enjoyed the movie, it's not meant to be an insult toward you, but there's absolutely ZERO chance of you liking this film if you have any knowledge of the military what-so-ever) but even you should recognize when film-makers actually spend the time to make sure they represent something accurately or at least make the attempt at authenticity. The only thing done in this movie was the setting and making the surroundings look good. Other than that everything was a total disregard for accuracy... And a lot of the movie relied on really forced drama that really shouldn't have happened in order to keep the tension. That kind of artificially forced drama is just lazy writing regardless of the film's overall accuracy...
Just one quick oversight. Overpressure doesn’t cause expansion, it IS expansion. The blast creates a powerful wave of super compressed air, followed by a vacuum, followed by a tertiary reverse-direction overpressure as the vacuum is filled again by air. The primary overpressure compresses you, the vacuum pulls the air from you, and the back blast compresses you again. When strong enough this process can cause lung collapse, brain damage, and internal hemorrhaging. Side note, when a blast happens in a rigid hollow structure or an enclosed space, this process repeats thousands of times in an instant, greatly increasing the risk of injury.
My 2nd Cousin DIED on his 4th tour in Afghanistan...4weeks before I was to go over & work in the Role 3 Trauma Hospital (2009) You can’t even imagine the horrifying shit I saw in that hospital.😐
Ahh I remember 12B Combat Engineer School, started day 1 when they throw inert dynamite at your feet to see who jumps away, I was emotionally dead inside so I just sat and waited for the death blast but alas it was not real.
You can't shoot out a front windshield on a car like they did in this film. It is a multilayered laminate of glass sandwiched between polymer sheets. Boom, another thing YOU didn't know.
It may be true of modern day modern vehicles, but is it also true for the older and poorer countries and the wrecks people drive there? Have we not progressed in glass production in 100 years in any way?
Yah, I guess it's sometimes cool to watch a funny movie that is a complete joke when it comes to representing how the military works and how real warfare is. Except this wasn't intended to be comedic... Might as well have been a modern Hot Shots movie.
Bonus fact, at one point Renner wears his sleeves rolled up. Soldiers weren't allowed to wear their sleeves rolled up until just last year (if I'm not mistaken).
The car scene is actually quite unrealistic. Multiple tests and accounts show that taking out the gas tank of a car doesn't make it spontaneously ignite, it just leaks and then stops.
most explosions are almost invisible, except for the initial flash which is actually plasma, a little smoke, and the rest is dirt/dust. Even simple hand grenades also have a kill radius the size of Nuketown, not that 6ft bullshit, but they did at least get the animation right. The trash was not only accurate to the period it was shot in, but being a movie about IED's, trash is actually a terrifying obstacle because it's a common hiding place for IED's. Especially after you find an obvious one that could just be a dummy to lure you in or make you stop right in front of the real trap.
Here's a thing: that windshield explosion in #3...that doesn't happen. All other windows on cars are tempered glass so they shatter in full all at once, just like that. Windshields though are actually two pieces of glass sandwiched around a flexible middle layer. That's why sometimes you see people kicking or peeling off whole windshields in movies...and why a rock on the highway doesn't cause you to get a face full of tiny glass chunks
The suit that Jeremy Renner wears is an actual EOD 9 bomb suit purchased from Med-Eng Especially for the film. I've worn one when I worked for them and it was thoroughly unpleasant even on a cool day. It is slightly better than being blown up,though.
Even though this TH-cam video is 2 years old now... Yes, it has inspired me to watch the movie again. As for accuracy, I don't care cause where I'm at, I get to watch drone IED's go off trying to blow me up or scud missiles.
Yeah, they should have made that one of the things, instead of telling us about lining the street with rubbish. Filmmakers alter street to make film more authentic shocker! Tell us the gossip Cinefix! Was Renner a dick? I bet he was a dick.
This movie was one of the most pirated movies of all times. So much so that thousands of people were sued for downloading it. Most never paid and tossed the suit letters in the trash.
okay guys, 99 out of 100 people aren't gonna know whether everything in this movie was "technically accurate." Who cares? It's just a God-damn movie. Would you watch a Hitchcock suspense thriller and bitch about the bomb not being "realistic?" Get a fucking grip.
I hate that the gun they used was a Beretta 92s instead of the 92fs, or M9. You can tell by the trigger guard, it's rounded instead of having a flat front.
What I want to know is, whose idea was it for Renner's character to take off on a one-man mission into the heart of Baghdad AT NIGHT to save some kid? The film wasn't at all bad up to that point but then completely jumps the shark. Was it really written that way? No one thought to question whether an American soldier running around Baghdad in the middle of the night on his own (and not getting lynched within about 3 mins) might not possibly be the most authentic depiction of life in Iraq during the war?
Anytime I run into actual EOD personnel, I ask them if their favorite movie is The Hurt Locker and I am always sure to mention how accurate and realistic the movie is. You should try it. The rage in their eyes is pretty entertaining.
"How to Get Your Ass Kicked" step 1:
(Legit though, this movie is a steaming pile of donkey shit.)
That is funny to do
Nick Maclachlan Ahahaha
Doesn't even need to be someone in EOD. Ask ANY who is in the military or have ever been in the military...
@@unfortunately_fortunate2000 LOL, oh damn, now it's settled.
You know what tho, even though this movie wasn’t entirely realistic or accurate you gotta admit that it was really damn good to watch
Nope, wouldn't "admit" that at all because it's not at all true... I guess if you're a civie and have no clue how terrible stupid everything is then it might be ok, but even then...
Talking Hands Alright to each there own, idk I really liked the way the movie was shot and the way that it took a stance on war and the modern military. From a cinematic standpoint, I felt that the movie was filmed in a very captivating way with tension created through angles. Plot wise the idea that war is addicting was interesting as it was an idea that I never thought would have been fleshed out at that time. Besides all of that I have to say that I loved Renners performance as his capability as an actor showed through the inaccuracies of the movie giving (at least for me) a good sense of suspension of disbelief. But again to each their own.
@@aarnavpanchal646 But that's the thing, the way she tried to portray the military, the military command structure, the whole "war is addicting" crap, all of it is also completely wrong. She basically was trying to push her own preconceived opinions about the military in the movie and it was complete garbage as a result because she obviously has absolutely no clue. Even the "tension" you speak of is created with these really forced situations that would never happen, which is just lazy writing in my opinion...
Talking Hands I get where you’re coming from, I can see your point and while there is some laziness in the writing I can say that it wasn’t enough for me to not enjoy the movie, but still I get your point
@@aarnavpanchal646 I know it's subjective and everyone will have their opinions, but it's just so aggravating for me how this movie got a bunch of awards and all of this accolade and I watched it and went "WTF???"
Things you didn't know about the Hurt Locker: despite its completely unrealistic and inaccurate portrayal of bomb defusal specialists, it won an oscar.
I wouldn't have had a problem with it if it didn't try to portray itself as being so authentic.
PurpleIsALetter
So... It gives EOD techs the same treatment as the show House did with doctors. Most morons didn't even know the real guys existed before this movie. Your point is?
I'm sorry but when a film is going for gritty realism and then the "bomb defusal expert" is so completely incompetent that it's a miracle he didn't accidentally blow himself up during training, it creates a giant disconnect as well as plot hole.
RogueBishop89 House wasnt that bad. actually made doctors look more competent. who lets a doctor into a lab?
Alistair Shaw Also don't forget that he manages to get a headshot,800 metres away,on a moving target, with a Barret, despite being an EOD specialist
i was Marine E.O.D. Everyone in the community found this movie to be an unbelievable embarrassment.
Renaissance MarineTV what's wrong with it?
How they treat each other, the tactics they use, how reckless they are. it is a constant example of what not to do if you don't want to get someone killed.
Alex Campe now I feel stupid for thinking it is realistic
there are a lot of things wrong with it. I would have to watch it again to give you a blow by blow. many of the tactics are unrealistic.
Renaissance MarineTV You know what, you should contact Everything Wrong With... and make a hurt locker episode with your knowledge That would make it a really interesting episode.
This film tells a story where Aldrich Killian died and Hawkeye replaced him to team up with Falcon.
@@ashwink.n.5812 Exactly
@@ashwink.n.5812 Exactly
Speaking of Jeremy Renner, I wouldn't mind seeing a Things You Didn't Know about The Town. I love how 5'9" Jeremy Renner stands next to 6'3" Ben Affleck and still comes off as intimidating. That's a good performance.
Austin's OP not hard to look tough in front of beta Ben
Played a bit of a wild man in that too
@@nicholasdavis5393 a bit?!!?!
This movie is now in that wonderful stage of life where it's been called overrated so often that it's now underrated and I feel more special for thinking it's a masterpiece.
Yes it was amazing
The sniper scene in this movie alone is better than the entirety of American Sniper
Things you probably didn't know about Cinefix
A combat vet friend described The Hurt Locker as militarily accurate as Star Wars.
Am I the only person who says the movie is good despite the inaccuracy of bomb technicians?
That’s the thing.
Yes
Yes
Yep.
Not at all. The movie was a blast.
i know that most people think that this movie is overrated and highly unrealistic but i think it's one of the best war movie ever.
Henry Rahardja
If this movie is overrated and unrealistic, what does that make American Sniper?
+RogueBishop89 also bad
+RogueBishop89 you don't get a pass for being less shitty than something else.
aR0ttenBANANA96
Again, waiting for a reason as to what actually sucks about it. I'm not even saying it was Oscar-worthy. There is plenty to say as far as valid criticism, but you'd rather just state your subjective view of it as fact. In reality, you're just backing up what Henry said.
Fake baby^
One of my all time favorite movies. The movie put it characters in danger, making the movie so good.
This video really did make me wanna revisit the hurt locker. It's an amazing movie.
Birdman / The Truman Show / Seven Samurai / Schindler's List / Whiplash
Schindler's List.
Harrison Clark Birdman was really not very good.
The World Is Logic yes it fucking was!
The World Is Logic Birdman was very good
Citizen Kane
Definitely giving the Hurt Locker a rewatch
I currently live in Amman, Jordan so it was interesting to hear that this movie was filmed here. Lawrence of Arabia was filmed in the desert of Wadi Rum, also in Jordan.
Excellent delivery! Now I gotta watch it, again. Love for Renner.
the sanitation was less "not working" and more didn't exist. you can not imagine the headache we had trying to pay Iraqi's to clean up their own country.
also gotta tell you, the look of the film was about the only thing they got right. anybody who actually went to Iraq hates the movie with a passion
I was never deployed to Iraq but hated it just the same. Pretty much anyone with any knowledge of the military should hate this movie...
This was a really good video please use this one to set the bar for the rest. Cheers.
you don't know how long I've been waiting for this video.
big fan cinefix your are awesome! keep making your videos!
Things you didn't know about Being John Malkovich?
MALKOVICH!!
Malkovich Malkovich
+1 to this
Looks like you just directed garabage.
i love your profile 👌🏼👌🏼
I loved this movie but I'm seeing lots of comments about its inaccuracy, what movies are there that actually portray accuracy in bomb defusal?
Billy Blazes there's an old British tv show called Bomb disposal I think. It's about the first bomb squad in England during the Blitz. My father, an army EOD tech, says it's accurate with the bomb disposal stuff.
Billy Blazes just remembered, is called UXB(I believe)
It's not just its inaccuracy. I enjoy some really cheesy stupidly inaccurate war movies. The problem is the message this movie tries to push about the military. About how the film tries to portray how things were done. And yes, then pile on the heaping piles of total and utter bullshit that they try to pass off as accurate and it just seals the deal on how terrible this movie is. Seriously, I know you're a civilian who have never served (I make this assumption only because you enjoyed the movie, it's not meant to be an insult toward you, but there's absolutely ZERO chance of you liking this film if you have any knowledge of the military what-so-ever) but even you should recognize when film-makers actually spend the time to make sure they represent something accurately or at least make the attempt at authenticity. The only thing done in this movie was the setting and making the surroundings look good. Other than that everything was a total disregard for accuracy... And a lot of the movie relied on really forced drama that really shouldn't have happened in order to keep the tension. That kind of artificially forced drama is just lazy writing regardless of the film's overall accuracy...
We need one for Napoleon Dynamite
Just one quick oversight. Overpressure doesn’t cause expansion, it IS expansion. The blast creates a powerful wave of super compressed air, followed by a vacuum, followed by a tertiary reverse-direction overpressure as the vacuum is filled again by air.
The primary overpressure compresses you, the vacuum pulls the air from you, and the back blast compresses you again. When strong enough this process can cause lung collapse, brain damage, and internal hemorrhaging.
Side note, when a blast happens in a rigid hollow structure or an enclosed space, this process repeats thousands of times in an instant, greatly increasing the risk of injury.
My 2nd Cousin DIED on his 4th tour in Afghanistan...4weeks before I was to go over & work in the Role 3 Trauma Hospital (2009)
You can’t even imagine the horrifying shit I saw in that hospital.😐
Ahh I remember 12B Combat Engineer School, started day 1 when they throw inert dynamite at your feet to see who jumps away, I was emotionally dead inside so I just sat and waited for the death blast but alas it was not real.
LITTERally directing garbage
Levi Peterson Hahahahahaha.
I smiled...
this joke is trash
You are garbage
About sums up this movie.
The three Ministry songs played in this movie were from the album Rio Grande Blood, which was released in 2006. The movie is set in 2004.
Khyber's Pass is a fucking epic song to use for the end credits👌🏻🤘🏻
Things you probably didn't know about Pineapple Express
Great video guys. Haven't seen this movie since 2009 back when it first came out.
gotta watch out for those dangerous assault smoke grenades, eh?
You can't shoot out a front windshield on a car like they did in this film. It is a multilayered laminate of glass sandwiched between polymer sheets. Boom, another thing YOU didn't know.
It may be true of modern day modern vehicles, but is it also true for the older and poorer countries and the wrecks people drive there?
Have we not progressed in glass production in 100 years in any way?
@@MrGrooved Yes, laws of Physics still apply.
How damn serendipitous that I literally watched this movie for the first time to day and about 6 hours later this video is recommended on TH-cam.
My condolences to you man, hope you didn't lose too many braincells from watching this load of garbage...
Elaborate
4:37 Hawk-Eye and Falcon were in this together, totally forgot
Such a great movie. I love Bigelow's work.
Yah, I guess it's sometimes cool to watch a funny movie that is a complete joke when it comes to representing how the military works and how real warfare is. Except this wasn't intended to be comedic... Might as well have been a modern Hot Shots movie.
i thought this was chrisfix and im like wtf
Things you didn't know about
Shawshank Redemption/The Good the Bad the Ugly/ or Lord of the rings.
Bonus fact, at one point Renner wears his sleeves rolled up. Soldiers weren't allowed to wear their sleeves rolled up until just last year (if I'm not mistaken).
My dad who was EoD for 22 years and was in Baghdad as a contractor hated this movie.
I swear I think about that "We're done!" quote every time I finish something complicated.
The car scene is actually quite unrealistic. Multiple tests and accounts show that taking out the gas tank of a car doesn't make it spontaneously ignite, it just leaks and then stops.
Also just in general, anyone in the marines or who has seen action says it was fucking garbage, which I'm more enclosed to believe than the director.
aR0ttenBANANA96 take a break and enjoy the movie for once okay?
Never stop doing these video's !!
"Conny Lingus" was worth a chuckle.
going to watch again right now. Nice vid. Those 2 worked together b4 avengers.
One of my fav movies♥️
I am going to rewatch this now tbh. I wasn't super impressed the first time around but I don't think I gave it the attention it deserves.
Jeremy Renner always knows what he's doing.
Anyone else just go back and replay 2:45 for the "ohmygaaahhh"?
"moving on"
Why doesn't the title say how many things I (probably) didn't know?
At least mashable hasnt ruined these yet... so theres one reason still to come back to CineFix
Is it true that it was shot in 16mm film?
love how its so well received its cool to hate it
The Kingdom? Did he do a episode on that? I'm too lazy to look it up.
most explosions are almost invisible, except for the initial flash which is actually plasma, a little smoke, and the rest is dirt/dust. Even simple hand grenades also have a kill radius the size of Nuketown, not that 6ft bullshit, but they did at least get the animation right.
The trash was not only accurate to the period it was shot in, but being a movie about IED's, trash is actually a terrifying obstacle because it's a common hiding place for IED's. Especially after you find an obvious one that could just be a dummy to lure you in or make you stop right in front of the real trap.
And BOOM!
That's not another bonus fact. That was Guy Pierce getting blown up!
Kathryn Bigelow is a really great director.
I never really understood why he died in that first explosion scene so that first fact was really interesting
I love these videos lol.
very underrated movie. And Jeremy Renner is true movie hero
Here's a thing: that windshield explosion in #3...that doesn't happen. All other windows on cars are tempered glass so they shatter in full all at once, just like that. Windshields though are actually two pieces of glass sandwiched around a flexible middle layer. That's why sometimes you see people kicking or peeling off whole windshields in movies...and why a rock on the highway doesn't cause you to get a face full of tiny glass chunks
The suit that Jeremy Renner wears is an actual EOD 9 bomb suit purchased from Med-Eng Especially for the film. I've worn one when I worked for them and it was thoroughly unpleasant even on a cool day. It is slightly better than being blown up,though.
this has made me want to go home and watch it
Even though this TH-cam video is 2 years old now... Yes, it has inspired me to watch the movie again. As for accuracy, I don't care cause where I'm at, I get to watch drone IED's go off trying to blow me up or scud missiles.
Did Renner mouth off on set?
Well in high temperatures wearing all that army gear, It'd be more unbelievable if he didn't
Yeah, they should have made that one of the things, instead of telling us about lining the street with rubbish. Filmmakers alter street to make film more authentic shocker! Tell us the gossip Cinefix! Was Renner a dick? I bet he was a dick.
I met him, he actually seems really nice and genuine.
I look just like him. If I dropped about 50 pounds and 50 years.
I lowkey thought this said "ChrisFix" and was confused why a car channel put this video out lmao
thing you probably know about the hurt locker
1: it didnt deserve that many oscars
things you didn't know about the TH-cam comments section: no one cares about your opinion
BIGxBOSSxx1 you do care
why else would you reply?
Thing you didn't know about the Oscars:
Its an industry award designed for Hollywood to suck everyone's dicks than makes normies fight over products
Hywel masaki true, but sometimes the movies they choose are actually good
the chair is back, but renji won
ea, and sometimes I make a great joke. Still doesn't justify a 3 hour award ceremony
I don't understand, (well, I kinda do) why this film isn't in more people's war film list. Because it damned sure is in mine.
Things you (probably) didn't know about Meteor man
Yes I want to revisit.
It certainly deserved its Oscars. Renner should've won for Best Actor.
This movie was one of the most pirated movies of all times. So much so that thousands of people were sued for downloading it. Most never paid and tossed the suit letters in the trash.
1:18 when is this seen I’ve watched the movie 4-5 times and have never seen that part
before jeremy renner’s character defuses the bomb in the car i think
You've seen this pile of garbage how many times? Are you some kind of masochist or something? Wow.
Rewatched it.
Yes, I do want to watch The Hurt Locker again. We're dun!
Bro this was uploaded on my birthday 4 years ago
3:37 what did he say
1st guy: “He’s a rowdy boy”
2nd guy: “He’s reckless”
@@mrwortharead2631 what is rowdy
@@supermutant9920 being noisy and messing about, but he’s using it as a compliment
For me the one Oscar this movie really should've won was Jeremy Renners nomination for best actor...
For anyone who hated this movie, go into it with an open mind, don't think too much about how realistic it is, and I can bet you'll enjoy it.
okay guys, 99 out of 100 people aren't gonna know whether everything in this movie was "technically accurate." Who cares? It's just a God-damn movie. Would you watch a Hitchcock suspense thriller and bitch about the bomb not being "realistic?" Get a fucking grip.
I feel bad for the Army General that loaned them the gun.
Yes It make we wanna watch it again.
I hate that the gun they used was a Beretta 92s instead of the 92fs, or M9. You can tell by the trigger guard, it's rounded instead of having a flat front.
Love that movie. Someone tell Amazon Prime it needs to be free to watch.
Good film. Can you do Ronin and Midnight Run please.
Never really got what all the hype over this movie was, I mean it's fine but really overrated.
You guys have got to do the Warriors
What's the name of the cat actors
Wow, Jeremy Renner walked around in a suit and put out a small controlled fire? Holy shit that's amazing.
Love this.
good movie
What I want to know is, whose idea was it for Renner's character to take off on a one-man mission into the heart of Baghdad AT NIGHT to save some kid? The film wasn't at all bad up to that point but then completely jumps the shark. Was it really written that way? No one thought to question whether an American soldier running around Baghdad in the middle of the night on his own (and not getting lynched within about 3 mins) might not possibly be the most authentic depiction of life in Iraq during the war?
Things you didnt know about Hurt Locker:
"If you did this job, you're probably dead"
*Roll Credits*
I really want to see this movie.
That's a damn nice thumbnail
0:10 worst fucking scene. “Are you fucking kidding me! What are you doing!!!?”
So that is why I like this movie.
tfw your bullets gets jammed in the magazine by someones blood.
What did he say at the start to colonel reed?