Bouhammer.com’s review of The Hurt Locker mentioned in USA Today
Posted By Bouhammer on February 16, 2010
After just writing the last blog posting about the inaccuracies of MSM reporters, I am glad to counter that and say at least one has gotten everything correct. The link below will take you to the story that the USA Today is publishing in tomorrow’s paper about The Hurt Locker and the different views about the movie.
I gave Gregg a heck of a lot more content than this one quote (about 30 minutes of interview, plus 4-5 follow up questions), but at least the quotes and the description of me was accurate. I knew he was talking to a lot of people to put this story together and I am glad to see that he did a fair amount of research and made the story fair and balanced.
So Gregg is doing right where so many other reporters have done wrong.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2010-02-17-hurtlocker17_CV_N.htm
Hey, just read that article and followed the link here to check out your blog!
Is your full review of “The Hurt Locker” posted here? I’m curious to read/hear your thoughts about the movie, especially after what the USAToday article quoted.
Also, this blog looks fantastic. Got her bookmarked to check out more tomorrow. Regards!
You can read my entire review at http://www.bouhammer.com/2010/01/bouhammer-review-of-the-hurt-locker/
Very gracious of you Bou, but I still don’t get how everything got misconstrued. This was a total kumbaya of Milbloggers, and I thought that was the story. I told my side, but also referenced the other work. How he construed that as “my volunteers” is completely beyond me.
TSO´s last blog ..Jimmy Carter once again
I second his integrity. He emailed several times to check, recheck and triple check facts and to make sure quotes were accurate. Fact checking in the media? Well I never!
[...] Bouhammer gives one USA Today reporter a more than positive review. (Bouhammer) [...]
This article naturally made me think of Bouhammer – sounds about the same as your review. You’ve probably seen this report already, but thought I would post anyway.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/24/AR2010022400140.html
Despite Hollywood’s protests that a truly authentic film about warfare can’t be made because of plot necessities, it has indeed been done, but under very special circumstances. “Band of Brothers” was based on three levels of research: (1) the Richard Winters documents and oral interviews of Easy Company survivors from WWII; (2) Steve Ambrose’s additional oral interviews for the “Band of Brothers” book; (3) the scriptwriters’ additional interviews made for the TV minisieries; (4) the vetting of the script for each episode by E Co. survivors; (5) the fact that the military advisor, Dale Dye (USMC Ret.) played a major role in the series (Colonel Sink); (6) three years were devoted to the making of the miniseries. The only criticism I’ve seen of the authenticity question was Winters’s discomfort with the scene in Paris where he has a flashback to the moment when he unaccountably shoots a very young German soldier who seems on the verge of happily surrendering. Anyhow, the point is that Hollywood can do it if it devotes the correct resources, in the proper amounts, to the project. “Band of Brothers” is a true masterpiece.