Good observation......I got that feeling also. I never really understood the message or point of the movie. No doubt Hollyweird’s way of painting the war effort as futile and our military as knee-jerk drunken yahoos.
I have no idea why some claim it’s a “conservative” movie — Iraqi and Afghanistan troops were very much against it, because it’s highly inaccurate, according to those who fought in those wars.
Some Iraq, Afghanistan war veterans criticize movie ‘Hurt Locker’ as inaccurate
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/25/AR2010022506161.html?hpid=topnews
Time magazine called “The Hurt Locker” “a near-perfect war film,” but Ryan Gallucci, an Iraq war veteran, had to turn the movie off three times, he says, “or else I would have thrown my remote through the television.”
Many in the military say “Hurt Locker” is plagued by unforgivable inaccuracies that make the most critically acclaimed Iraq war film to date more a Hollywood fantasy than the searingly realistic rendition that civilians take it for.
You are correct. Hurt Locker was a mockery of all the EOD units I knew and worked with. They are professional troops, not cowboys.
I totally agree with you. Some lib argued with me about Hurt Locker. They felt it was the most realistic movie about the military they had ever seen. I told them there was nothing realistic about it. There was no way people that looney would be allowed on a demolition duty. Crazy as that loon was, he would never have made it out of boot camp with my drill sergeant dad.