The Hurt Locker (Nerd Vice)

Back in 2010 there was a war brewing at the OSCARS between a former married couple in the form of the billion dollar movie director James Cameron and his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow. Both of their movies, Avatar and The Hurt Locker, were going head-to-head in many categories such as best film and best director, and many people were predicting that Avatar was going to dominate. Yet what happened was that substance won over style, as The Hurt Locker took home 6 OSCARs, including Best Director and Best Film of 2010 to Avatar’s 3 OSCARS.

The Hurt Locker follows a team of US soldiers who have one of the most dangerous jobs for any solider: bomb disposal. This team is a small unit whose sole task it is to go and locate I.E.D’s (Improvised Explosive Devices) and then deliberately put themselves by the device in an effort to make it safe for other people. In this team we find that we have a mixture of soldiers played by Jeremy Renner (Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, The Avengers, 28 Weeks Later), Anthony Mackie (The Adjustment Bureau, Man on a Ledge, Million Dollar Baby), and Brian Geraghty (Jarhead, The Guardian) all of whom are fearless in the face of these challenges.