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Purplehood wrote:I was simply appalled at the complete disconnect between reality and the screen in the movie, "Hurt Locker". The movie was good if you could overlook everything that happened that had absolutely nothing to do with SOP.
If I had to define the most telling defect of the movie story-line in a simple phrase, it would be "lack of Security". I could go on all day.

We watched "Hurt Locker" last night. I'm too old to speak of the on the ground reality of that mindless situation and I do thank you for your service.

While there were a couple of pretty good "blow-up" scenes, I think the movie reinforced my belief that an invading army has little, if any, chance of "winning the hearts and minds" of any people whose country has been invaded by foreigners.

The Annoyed Man wrote:Unforgiven
Saving Private Ryan
Tombstone
Outlaw Josie Wales

These are all good. Add the first spaghetti western, "Once Upon a Time in the West" to the list. There's a Henry Fonda in this one that you didn't see very often.

Add "Platoon" to your list while you're at it and for a real shoot out at the end, don't leave out "Open Range".

We think NetFlix is the dillberries. We've seen some really great movies that we've never heard of. OTOH, we've seen some that "They" said were great that we thought were in smellovision. Don't be afraid to look at the oldies unless you just have to have a lot of cussin' and semi-nekid people in your movies.

One other thing: we thoroughly enjoyed and could hardy wait for the next segments of the TV series "Boston Legal" and "West Wing". We wouldn't even try to watch these series on TV because of all of the commercials.

We gave up on the "Sopranos" because of the profanity. There are times when the profanity is appropriate but not being from New Jersey, we thought every other word to be excessive.

Good viewing! Don't be afraid to rate your viewing either.

Anything with Denzel Washington will be good. Gene Hackman is good and by all means, don't pass up Hopalong Cassidy or Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall for westerns.