As many of you know by now, the film The Hurt Locker won the Oscar for film of the year, and that makes me very angry. My civilian friends keep asking me why I'm so angry, because most of them enjoyed watching it. Simply put, it's because the movie is full of lies, exaggerations, and ugly people. “But it's a movie,” they say, “it's obviously not realistic.” It's weird... because on the back of the box for The Hurt Locker it says "Powerfully Realistic". Yet this film is the furthest from realism a film can be (this statement includes all time travel and vampire films, but excludes any film starring the Wayans brothers). Don't get me wrong here: I'm not a stickler for all military realism. The Transformers' military uniforms are a ridiculous mish-mash of different branches, but no one cares because America is fighting evil giant alien robots, and nerds like Shia Labeouf get it on with incredibly hot women like Megan Fox (still not convinced she doesn't be an evil alien robot here to destroy monogamous relationships). The point is that it's not the realism, it's the claim to be real that disturbs me. Although I will say that occasionally there are fantasy films that also break the rules of realism. X-Men 3 is a great example of what I like to call fantastic stupidity. In the film's climactic scene Magneto tears apart the entire Golden Gate Bridge and repositions it so that his minions can cross the bay to Alcatraz and capture the mutant boy. wears a Livestrong bracelet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKc4BWvWtuM. Let's assume for a moment that Magneto developed his power over metallic elements enough to move a 4,200-foot-long, 746-foot-high steel bridge a couple of miles. Also the bridge was... middle of paper... Arine's brain is not functioning properly and should not be limited to just head trauma. For example: drugs, abused as a child, hit by a train, licked too many envelopes, crack baby, gas fight, former or current Texas resident, Nickleback, AIDS, watched JEM and the Holograms as a child, shot in the face, molested from a priest, American Idol finalist, terrible sunburn, peanut allergy, testicular cancer, Yankees fan, or just plain stupid.) I guess the most troubling thing about The Hurt Locker is how little the general public knows about the war and implementations. This begs the question: If that movie can fool millions of Americans while we are currently engaged in two conflicts, what else can Hollywood do? Next thing you know, someone will claim that not all vampires are beautiful high schoolers whose skin glows in the sunlight (I found you, Libby Presnell).