The Hurt Locker/Trivia

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  • 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."
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  • Star-Making Role: For Jeremy Renner and Anthony Mackie.