The Hurt Locker/Trivia

• Acclaimed Flop: It barely made money, but was among the best reviewed movies of 2009 and won several awards.
• Dueling Movies: With Avatar, of all things. The media talk of the movies dueling was fueled, in part, by the fact that Kathryn Bigelow is James Cameron's ex-wife. There seemed to be a bit of behind-the-scenes drama going on in the fight to declare one of them Best Picture of 2009 (The Hurt Locker won). Mostly over who'd grab the most Oscars. All that drama was just speculation, though, and Cameron is on record as praising The Hurt Locker, calling it "this generation's Platoon."
• Hey, It's That Guy:
  • The squad's first tech has a weird memory problem. Lord Voldemort is a British merc. Eldridge is getting counseling from Brian Moser. Tritter congratulates James' work, being one of the few people to think his "wild man" behavior is bad ass. And James is married to Kate.
  • And people who saw The Notorious B.I.G.'s biopic will recognize 2Pac as Sgt. Sanborn.
    • He was also beat up by Morgan Freeman in Million Dollar Baby.
• Star-Making Role: For Jeremy Renner and Anthony Mackie.