"The Hurt Locker"

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST. NOT THE FULL REVIEW. Please check out the full podcast review on our Patreon Page by subscribing over at - https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Our 2009 retrospective has come to an end with our final review, that year's Best Picture Oscar winner, Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" starring Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Evangeline Lilly, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse & Guy Pearce. The film received a massive wave of critical support after its long film festival run, which led to industry recognition, a historic Best Director win for Bigelow, making her the first female winner of the category, and Best Picture itself. The film follows an Iraq War Explosive Ordnance Disposal team who are targeted by insurgents and shows their psychological reactions to the stress of combat. Oscar-winning screenwriter Marc Boal drew on his experience during embedded access to write the screenplay. How does it hold up 16 years later? Please join Lauren LaMagna, Dan Bayer, Alyssa Christian, Giovanni Lago, and me as we discuss the performances, direction, writing, craftsmanship, its awards season run, and more in our SPOILER-FILLED review. You can view the winners of the 2009 NBP Film Community Awards here, and we'll announce our internal winners next week. Thank you so much for your support through this entire retrospective. Please check out our past reviews for "Crazy Heart," "The Blind Side," "A Serious Man," "An Education," "Up," "Inglourious Basterds," "District 9," "Star Trek," "Precious," "Up In The Air," and "The Secret In Their Eyes." We appreciate your support and hope you enjoy our review! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast and this is our review of the Hurl.
0:05.8	Welcome to Camp Victory.
0:07.6	Camp Victory.
0:08.6	This was Camp Liberty.
0:10.3	Oh no, they changed that about a week ago.
0:13.1	Victory sound better.
0:14.9	All right.
0:16.1	So what do you got?
0:18.1	The car has been parked illegally. The suspension is sagging.
0:22.6	There's definitely something heavy in the trunk.
0:24.6	Interesting.
0:26.6	What's he doing?
0:29.6	I'm gonna die.
0:30.6	I'm gonna die comfortable.
0:32.6	How many bombs have you disarmed?
0:34.6	873.
0:35.6	800 is 73.
0:36.6	You're a wild man, you know that?
0:39.3	Oh!
0:40.3	That was so bad.
0:42.3	First time working together.
0:43.3	What do you think?
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