Thank you Ouroborus, for clarifying that Avatar and Hurt Locker are actually movies, finally I figured this out.

What Hollywood does brilliantly is suppress the truth about America’s assaults. These are not wars, but the export of a gun-addicted, homicidal “culture”. And when the notion of psychopaths as heroes wears thin, the bloodbath becomes an “American tragedy” with a soundtrack of pure angst.

Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker is in this tradition. A favourite for multiple Oscars, her film is “better than any documentary I’ve seen on the Iraq war. It’s so real it’s scary” (Paul Chambers CNN). Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian reckons it has “unpretentious clarity” and is “about the long and painful endgame in Iraq” that “says more about the agony and wrong and tragedy of war than all those earnest well-meaning movies”.

What nonsense. Her film offers a vicarious thrill via yet another standard-issue psychopath high on violence in somebody else’s country where the deaths of a million people are consigned to cinematic oblivion. The hype around Bigelow is that she may be the first female director to win an Oscar. How insulting that a woman is celebrated for a typically violent all-male war movie.

The accolades echo those for The Deer Hunter (1978) which critics acclaimed as “the film that could purge a nation’s guilt!” The Deer Hunter lauded those who had caused the deaths of more than three million Vietnamese while reducing those who resisted to barbaric commie stick figures. In 2001, Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down provided a similar, if less subtle catharsis for another American “noble failure” in Somalia while airbrushing the heroes’ massacre of up to 10,000 Somalis.

They are movies (hurt locker and avitar)!
Any comparison to real life is just plain ignorant.
Avatar was horrible and even the visuals couldn’t save it. The Hurt Locker? Just stupid!
For most of us reality is a tenuous grip at just the point of snap!

Have any of you, who sing praises to this shallowness of a movie, seen HBO’s miniseries “Generation Kill”? I guess not. Hurt Locker,whatever the hell this means, seems like Harry Potter in comparison to these miniseries. By the way, those of you who only saw special effects in Avatar, which by the way should get the Oscar this year,had missed the point completely. Somewhere along the way we had a chance to develop the Na’vi-like relationship with our Mother-Earth but instead we had chosen to become Colonel Quaritch, serving greedy corporations.

A tepid movie set in a pseudo-documentary style, war-play vigniettes that don’t go anyhwere.  The standard for awards is approaching new lows. If it has any instructive value, it’s that it shows the the brutal paranoia of the US military to some degree, and suggests (rightfully) that the reason US soldiers are getting killed there is because they’re there.  In toto, it more nearly resembles a feature-length episode of exploitation TV, like “COPS in the Middle East”.  They should have kept the locker locked.

Hurt Locker was a pretty timid war movie. It had little to say and the Arab characters were basically cartoons. It personifies that current form of American filmmaking which plays it safe, careful not to rock the boat too hard.

hurt locker hired blackwater to protect and train them.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100125/scahill5

that’s bad enough, but this movie, like a majority of war movies that are
supposedly critical of war, beneath the surface is actually a glorification of war.
there are scenes of great violence, but we are always meant to empathize with the
American soldiers and the killing.

fantastic movie. avatar’s visuals are great, but can’t compare to the story, social commentary and flow of hurt locker.