I'm glad you have sense of humor. ;)

uh, nevermind.

Haha. Maybe I took your statement a little wrong there to start. Might have to check this movie out after this thread, but war movies generally ain't my thing.

If you are a Ken Follett fan you should check out Lie Down With Lions. It is about the Russian invasion of Afghanistan.

lay off there, he's no christian okoye.

Oregon Chief, I'm sure you've seen 'Hurt Locker' by now, what's your take on that. I thought it was great. I was in the Army but that was a long time ago, got out 38 years ago to be exact. So I have no knowledge of the current situation.

Over on the movie site IMDB, some Iraq vet has camped out on the Hurt Locker message board and wants to let everyone in the world know that HL is a terrible film. That it's not worthy of an Academy Award nomination or much less even viewing. I don't know if you want to get into that conversation, his latest thread is 17 pages called "Not enjoyable movie for military folks".

Believe it or not I have not seen it. I really want to though because I have heard good things. HL deals with guys that are EOD (explosive ordinance disposal) and we had some with us on our team. They were a great bunch of guys (and girls) that had a really tough job.

I had some friends that were vets and they went to see it and told me that it was a great film. It obviously had its Hollywood moments but overall realistic and entertaining which is a tuff combo.

I have a picutre of Matt and I hanging out at the humvee. I'll try to attach it but I am pretty novice with this stuff.

I enjoyed the Hurt Locker, it was a blast.

So Brian, what is your over all take on working on a movie set? Good food? Any nice eye candy to watch? Was it all business all the time or did they party some?

Do you think Matt would piss his pants if someone shot at him?

Haha.

Party was a big part of it. The acting and advising really didn't require huge effort except for the scenes of running around and stuff like that.

As for eye candy there is not much of that in Iraq so there really was not much on the film either....that said we made do

I loved Hurt Locker. The only fault i had with it was:

You shot the film here in the USA right?

There must have been some cute little Hollywood types hanging around.

I can't remember the title offhand, but Matt Damon made a war movie about 1996 before he was famous. I believe he played a helicopter crewman and a female pilot was killed, I believe Meg Ryan, and Denzel Washington lead an investigation. It was a good film, but what I remember most was reading an article where Matt Damon said he had lost 40 pounds to play the role and then became very sick. He had some health issues and it rolled over into his next role, Good Will Hunting. This is all from memory, but maybe he mentioned it to you, or you might want to check out that film as well.

Courage Under Fire. Good flick.

Damon made a few good movies in the early 90's before he got really big.

Geronimo
Rainmaker
School Ties
Plus the above mentioned flick.

Hey OC did you happen to know a Master Sergeant Nebeker ?