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Just got home from town and seeing this movie. Excellent! Unlike a similar movie, "Seal Team Six", this one did NOT have much pro BO propaganda in it.

How did they deal with they bigger than life Oberry BS?

Just got back from it as well, they did conveniently leave the part out where the Seals were bashing Obama but over all a good movie. I thought the book was better though.

Not sure I understand the reference? If you mean Obammy, he was shown giving a TV address about how America doesn't torture people but I don't recall that he was mentioned other than it would be harder to get good intel. Other than that there wasn't much of anything about him at all.

The main storyline of the movie revolved around Agent Maya of the CIA, played by Jessica Chastain, and her dedication to hunting down OBL. There really weren't a lot of political references in the movie except for a few comments necessary to the story.

Again, this was not a propaganda flick either pro or con anybody or anything, at least I didn't see it as such. It was just a hell of a well made movie about the hunt for OBL and what it took to find him.

In the dark days in Bagdad the old Task Force 20, 121 or whatever was rumored to have used more than a few charges out of a good ol 12 volt car battery to encourage a free flow of dialogue.

Of course this was when the �gloves were off� and a whole lot of evil doers were sent to their virgins.

A whole lot of evil doers.

The wife and I saw it last night. Very good movie indeed.

I don't want to think too much about what I could come up with.

Just seen it, great movie, along the lines of Blackhawk Down.

Well I was not going to bother, but when they started screaming about it. I when, saw it yesterday. As far as the turds go in real life, do what you have to do, then shoot them. To much catch and release in this war, just to find them on the field again. That is BS!

Great movie. A must see for the big screen. The explosions kinda unnerved my wife and they caught me off guard a couple of times. My only complaint is with James Gandolfini. The SOB made Leon Panetta into a likeable guy.

I have the exact opposite opinion.

It's the driest, most boring, and unbelievable (in the literal sense) piece of propaganda in recent memory.

The last half hour is what I was told was 'the good part,' prior to watching. It was... neat to see the equipment. It was not exciting. It wasn't a shootout. It was just them putting people down, which was boring and disappointing.

Yeah. 2/10

New kinda theater setup 1/2 hour or so from here. Every other row of seats was removed, tables replacing the seats, No one under 21 after 6 PM. Pizza, burgers, etc. along with various brews and or wine is also served.
Once this flick makes it there, we'll go for sure.

Interesting review of the movie.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/schaeffersghost/2013/01/justice-at-zero-dark-thirty/

That�s an excellent review, he hit it spot on. It�s not a war movie, it�s not a shoot�em up, it�s not a revenge film (per se).

To quote from his review, and speaking of the interrogation techniques and other issues presented in the movie: �Bigelow�s film, by refusing to editorialize or tell its audience what to think about these questions, compels us to ask and answer them ourselves.�

That�s what I most liked about it.

Excellent review. There are many many things the filmakers were not given access to and many people were folded into a single character to make it watchable but it is as well done as anything this complex and classified can be.

I enjoyed the movie. But I wish that it contained more Seal Team and less CIA. In all the previews, you get the impression that the movie is about the Seal Team mission. Whereas the actual movie is 80-90% about the CIA work that led to the Seal's mission. Kind of misleading...

I enjoyed it though, and thought it was well made.

Ugh.

Please not two hours of shaky hand held camera "effects" and quick shot editing ?

Nope.

I don't go to a lot of movies but I did make it to this one and it was very worthwhile.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/jan/14/ben-affleck-argo

Misleading that the bulk of behind the scenes work and breakthroughs were CIA too. Just saying.