The Hurt Locker

[neil_bolton]

Anyone else seen this?

Watched it last night and very much enjoyed a bloody excellent movie - tense, funny and very very poignant in places.

Plus, lots of big explosions and guns

[effkay]

Yeah enjoyed it too Recommend...

[Burnham]

Yeah, this was very good, especialy liked the counter sniper scene. Thought it would be a little more gory than it was though.

[paulshears]

saw it a while back...... best "war" film I've seen in age's

[zippy500]

Have seen it and thought it was pants. The sniper scene is laughable with the "Chocks away Ginger" British accents and the yanks coming to the rescue. Sterotypical nosence.

And I find it very unbelievable that an insurgent armed with an AK47 managed to snipe them with no scope from half a mile away, but they can't get him down first shot with a 50cal sniper rifle.

[Burnham]

zippy500 said:

And I find it very unbelievable that an insurgent armed with an AK47 managed to snipe them with no scope from half a mile away, but they can't get him down first shot with a 50cal sniper rifle.

I thought it was a Dragonov.

[zippy500]

Maybe, I'm no expert. The flash arrestor looked like the 50 cal thats what I was going off.
Whatever it was, they should have stood a much better chance at getting the bad guy.

[Lefty Guns]

zippy500 said:

Maybe, I'm no expert. The flash arrestor looked like the 50 cal thats what I was going off.
Whatever it was, they should have stood a much better chance at getting the bad guy.

Dragunov is a sniper rifle based on the skeleton of the AK with a longer and heavier barrel (not sure if it's a free floater though). Still chambered for 7.62 long round, semi-auto, hugely reliable, very accurate up to 1000 yards and there's a para version with a folding buttstock. Looks fking mean too.

[collateral]

The insurgent who ends up hanging out the window had an SVG. They shoot at him with a Barret Light 50

[stew-S160]

just back from seeing this. very good film.
thought the sniping bit was a bit odd, but wind directions could well have favoured the bad guys.

[Not Ideal]

collateral said:

The insurgent who ends up hanging out the window had an SVG. They shoot at him with a Barret Light 50

Yup + 1. They use the Barrett .50 cal - proper bit of kit.