I normally wouldn’t post eight minute clips of movies, but The Hurt Locker is still in limited release and I loved it, so I want to tell everyone about it, like the time I touched my first boob (thanks, mom).   As you’ll see in this clip, The Hurt Locker is a great movie for the same reason Public Enemies was a disappointment: details.  Hurt Locker has them, Public Enemies tries to skip them.  There’s nothing too complex about Hurt‘s plot and it doesn’t have some brilliant insight into the horrors of war or the human condition, but it takes you into the world of guys who defuse bombs for a living and makes you feel the tension right along with them.  And it’s not that phony, bullsh-t tension where they shake the camera around and keep cutting between a foot on the gas pedal and Vin Diesel grimacing. It comes from simple, fully fleshed-out scenes.  Every hack director and editor in Hollywood should watch The Hurt Locker with their notebooks out and their Axe bodyspray in the off position. Best non-bukkake-related movie I’ve seen all year.

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The Hurt Locker is an Iraq war movie from Point Break director Kathryn Bigelow, starring Guy Pearce and Papa Doc from 8 Mile.  The accompanying music sounds a little Let the Bodies Hit the Floorsie for my tastes, but it looks like it’ll at least be better than Stop Loss.  Besides, The Hurt Locker is a totally sweet name.  It should not be confused, however, with Bill Hurt’s locker, which contains some rather disparaging drawings of Ed Asner.