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Anyway, my grade for the Hurt Locker was above average. (spoils)

Posted by CQ (aka CQ) Nov 16 '10, 08:09

maybe it just didn't capture me. I think the best part of the movie was the sniper vs. sniper part. It did a great job of capturing the waiting period and the exhaustion. Also, that dude hit a moving target from how far away? shady

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I grade on normal curve and in no way would I ever put Hurt Locker on the average level - Will Hunting Nov 16, 08:18 6
- I totally agree. I was so tense by the time the movie ended, my body actually hurt a little. -- nm - Jim Nov 16, 08:40 1
  - Thank god we had it on DVD so we could pause and decompress. I couldn't imagine it in a theatre. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 16, 08:44
- I really disagree with your IM. - con_carne Nov 16, 08:24
- not nearly as intense as Children of Men -- nm - CQ Nov 16, 08:21 2
  - CoM was strong, but not nearly to this degree imo. I don't have the love for CoM some do. - Will Hunting Nov 16, 08:23 1
    - Indeed. Also, HL had a touch more tension than CoM, I thought. - Beryllium Nov 16, 08:35
C is only an average if you give out a lot of Ds and Fs. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 08:16 6
- I think we assume there are bunches of Ds and Fs we haven't seen and take those into account. -- nm - mara Nov 16, 08:27 1
  - Plus we all know what an F is like. -- nm - Reagen Nov 16, 08:35
- I think this is true of Roger Ebert, but not regular people. We tend to avoid movies that look like they would be D/F movies to us. - ty97 Nov 16, 08:27
- I tend to. C is right on my average. -- nm - Reagen Nov 16, 08:26
- If you watched everything, you'd see a lot more Ds & Fs....but we watch stuff that's at least supposedly competent and interesting. - Will Hunting Nov 16, 08:24
- If that's true, then why even bother posting movie grades on ST? - con_carne Nov 16, 08:22
C+ is a thumbs down in my book, fwiw. (B- vs C+ is the cut-point.) -- nm - Don Homer Nov 16, 08:14 4
- Is it possible I've been misinterpreting ST movie grades all this time? - con_carne Nov 16, 08:20 3
  - When it comes to movies, "meh" equals "thumbs down" to me. Why would I want to waste my time watching 2 hours of meh? -- nm - mara Nov 16, 08:36 2
    - Well yeah, it's not like you're going to go around recommending such a movie -- nm - con_carne Nov 16, 08:38
    - If I see some C's and B's, and I wanted to see it, I'll take the chance. If I see C's and D's and/or F's, that's a skip for me. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 16, 08:38
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- My grading is: A: Great, B: Good, C: Average/meh, D: Bad, and F: WTFHDTMIOF? -- nmea - JaxSean Nov 16, 08:18 5
  - WTF has Dano told me is outright fantastic? -- nm - Roger More Nov 16, 08:53
  - yup. - znufrii Nov 16, 08:26 1
    - D's and F's are usually accidental. - JaxSean Nov 16, 08:31
  - This is pretty much how I grade movies. -- nm - con_carne Nov 16, 08:25
  - this is how I do it as well. -- nm - decline Nov 16, 08:21

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