Anyone already saw "Zero Dark Thirty" ?

[Catfish]

Should one see it ?

I did not yet but planned to, some people tell me it's the most atrocious film they ever saw, others find it a great action movie, others say hey it's well know there is torture and of course only the guilty are at the receiving end.
I still wonder if Mr. Laden and his attempts have not been hidden in smoke and mirrors, with this film just adding to the legend ?

[Ducimus]

Isn't that the film thats supposed to be about OBL's take down? Offhand, I don't think ill rush out to see it. Any move made about that, this early after the fact, will most assuredly be a big heaping pile of Hollywood manure.

Download the vids from in theater recordings.
It's like watching a recreation of other real life stuff that Hollywood gambles on making bucks off of.
A load of crap mostly.
Take the money you'd spend going to the Movie place,
get drunk and you'll have a better time.

[MH]

Originally Posted by Catfish

Should one see it ?

I did not yet but planned to, some people tell me it's the most atrocious film they ever saw, others find it a great action movie, others say hey it's well know there is torture and of course only the guilty are at the receiving end.
I still wonder if Mr. Laden and his attempts have not been hidden in smoke and mirrors, with this film just adding to the legend ?

This film is not worth watching for free.
It is about nothing and second rate at this.

[geetrue]

I had to leave after I saw a guy in the back wearing sunglasses ...

nothing too strange about that, except it was a drive-in theater

[kiwi_2005]

I thought the directors were out to make this film as anti american as possibe after seeing the water torture then putting a dog collar round the neck of the prisoner and making him sit in a kennel or box. A bit over done and why did they film that. The last half hour was probably the best part.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

Any move made about that, this early after the fact, will most assuredly be a big heaping pile of Hollywood manure.

Precisely.

[Tchocky]

Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

I thought the directors were out to make this film as anti american as possibe after seeing the water torture then putting a dog collar round the neck of the prisoner and making him sit in a kennel or box. A bit over done and why did they film that. The last half hour was probably the best part.

From what I understand those things happened during the hunt for Bin Laden. It's not anti-American to show them.

I've yet to see it as it's not out over here yet.

[Bilge_Rat]

I have not seen it, but the director and writer are the same ones who did "The Hurt Locker", which is one of the best war movie I ever saw, so I am definitely planning to see "Zero Dark Thirty" as soon as it is available on DVD.

Bigelow also directed "K-19: the widowmaker" which IMHO is the second best submarine movie ever made, after "Das Boot".

[Skybird]

The film seems to be very polarizing, although the debate in the US and in germany could not be any more different.

From what I read, in the Us it seems more about senators complaining about too much revelations about CIA methods given int he film, which maybe is a wanted distraction from the content of torture in it. In Germany, the discussion is about right this: the role of torture in the whole story.

German critics are also apparently very split. I read two pieces today, one complained about the movie being very bad because "being too successful" in displaying torture - but refusing to combine a moral statement (the author implies it must be a negative moral statement under all circumstances) with it. The other author hails the movie for right this: refusing to distract with emotional or moral statements, being sober, unsentimental, and at the same time being self-reflective not only on the story told, but the nature of the movie itself: that we will never know the details, can never trust what we are being told ands thus even the movie should not be trusted.

It indeed seems as if the movie is met with only two very extreme polarized kinds of opinions, with different grades of liking and not-liking inbetween being spared from most opinion-forming so far. The German debate on the movie imo indeed is a very typically German debate for sure. Which I do not mean as a compliment this time.

[u crank]

Saw it. As Hollywood movies go it was okay. In other words it was reasonably well made. Was it accurate? How would you know? I don't think Hollywood cares.

I will say that I almost walked out during the torture scenes. Disturbing.