Comments on: Cast and crew

By: simon

simon — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:33:23 +0000

I’ll tell you next week over a coffee….But it’s a lot!

By: Shawn Slovo

Shawn Slovo — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:19:29 +0000

Ha ha, that’s an evasive answer if I ever heard one.

By: simon

simon — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:37:38 +0000

Financially or to reputations?

By: Shawn Slovo

Shawn Slovo — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:17:18 +0000

Let us into a secret – how much did it cost?

By: simon

simon — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:13:07 +0000

Shawn You should have come! I enjoyed it plenty of running about, big explosions and lots of quick cutting just what you’d expect from Greengrass.

Baghdad is done is very well, you get a real sense of the post war chaos and looting. The politics are a bit simplistic and the plot suffers from trying a bit too hard to combine lots of different Iraq war themes but doesn’t do too bad a job all the same.

Nice touch for the nerdy among us, the WSJ journalist character is obviously based on the NYT journalist Judith Miller (who went to jail for refusing to give up her conatct Scotter Libby) but they couldn’t use her so Greengrass calls the Matt Damon character Miller. Coincidence I think not!

7 out of 10 .. ‘The Hurt Locker’ it ain’t!

By: Shawn Slovo

Shawn Slovo — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:47:17 +0000

So, Simon, what’s your verdict? Unbiased, non partisan – as if….

By: simon

simon — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:28:44 +0000

Paul- You’re going to love it!

By: Paul B

Paul B — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:34:53 +0000

Anything by Greengrass is usually more than worth watching. I’m Looking forward to the film