Am I the only one who thinks "The Hurt Locker" is overrated?

Am I the only one who thinks "The Hurt Locker" is a little overrated? I mean don't get me wrong, it's a great movie and it helps give the average citizen a glimpse at what our soldiers are currently going through in Iraq and Afghanistan but come on! I mean it's good but it's not 6 academy awards and best movie of the decade good .
 
Seriously films like Saving Private Ryan, Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, Casualties of war, Gettysburg, Gods and Generals, We were Soldiers, and Hamburger Hill were all far better movies than "The Hurt Locker". Am I missing something? Is The Hurt Locker only so critically acclaimed because it's the first decent Iraq War theatrical film we currently have, or am I just a guy with bad taste in war films.

No, you are not.

Maybe a little over-rated but it's a great movie still.

I didn't even think the movie was that great.

It's alright but that's about it. 
Not a movie I would waste my time watching again though.

I enjoyed it but i didn't really get it. 

Yes

" @JB16:   It was a good film that was topical... "

No you're not i've heard that before. 
I'm not one of em though i thought it was really friggin good. To each his own though.

Its ok. I don't find it a particularly good war movie. And I don't feel like it really gives you a sense of how rough war is for the people involved in it, even though everyone harps on about how it does just that.

" Its overrated but I think Avatar is as well. I think Up should of one. Why are we talking about this now this was months ago. "

"Am I the only one" is a stupid phrase.

A lot of those war movies are better, but they didn't come out last year.

I thought it was fine, nothing special though.

I didn't even hear about the Hurt Locker till the oscars. after watching it, it's not that bad.

I was really surprised to find out that it was a complete mess narrative-wise. I didn't get attached to any of the characters and it was hard to follow the plot because of the huge cuts in between the scenes. Action scenes were pretty good though. There was a lot of tension and the effects were realistic. Also I'm wery confused about the topical thing. Weren't there any other movies about modern warfare before? And there was a pretty successful mini-series Generation Kill not a while back... I don't know. I'm not American so I guess I'm not supposed to get it.

" No, you are not. "

" I was really surprised to find out that it was a complete mess narrative-wise. I didn't get attached to any of the characters and it was hard to follow the plot because of the huge cuts in between the scenes. Action scenes were pretty good though. There was a lot of tension and the effects were realistic. Also I'm wery confused about the topical thing. Weren't there any other movies about modern warfare before? And there was a pretty successful mini-series Generation Kill not a while back... I don't know. I'm not American so I guess I'm not supposed to get it. "

My friend didn't like it because it wasn't believable, I thought it was pretty good.

The film did very little for me. Its a good film, but its entirely overrated and some of the scenes trying to be "realistic" was actually pretty unrealistic. The sniper scene was stupid since the insurgents could one shot every British mercenary in the team without missing but the Marines couldn't do jackshit with their .50 cal sniper rifle with missing a few times. Then there was the time where the EOD team of three men decides to split up and go check out the dark alleyways on their own. I wouldn't mind nearly as much if this was more of a action film, but since it tried to portray the daily life of a soldier then this makes no sense. 
 
Oh and the characters were completely un-attachable for me.

It's the best movie I personally have seen in quite a long time.  I like it many times over more than all those movies you listed.  :P

I think any time a movie wins a lot of awards it is immediately considered overrated by most. 
It was a good movie, worth seeing, and recommendable for others to watch. I don't think I'd count a movie overrated unless I wouldn't recommend it to others, since rating is far too subjective and incredibly relative. Don't complain about the good movies getting good press, save it for movies that you genuinely dislike.

It's biggest competition was Avatar dude. Do you not agree it was better than Avatar?

I liked it, but I was honestly shocked to hear how much praise it got. It's good, but not as amazing as most people make it out to be.

I thought the actual story was pretty balls.

" No, you are not. "

It was meh beyond belief.

I remember when that movie came out and I was like idunno it's alright but kinda eh, and everyone was mad at me.

Wonderful CHARACTER movie.  Doesn't feel so much like a war movie that it's often compared to.  And it's only really the protagonist that's greatly interesting.  Whereas traditional war movie usually has at least two or three really good characters.  *shrug*  It doesn't feel like a standard war movie to me at all, but more a single character drama with great depth.  I dunno, at my most cynical I think it was just a weak year for standard old school Hollywood flare.  I'd say something about Avatar and comparison of greatness, but haha I still haven't seen it.

I watched it and thought it was a good b movie, than I looked it up and saw it won last year for best picture...

i know some friends that fell asleep during that movie...  
i personally like it alot, altough its not that "oscar worthy"

i never heard of it. i must be living under a house.

It was better then all the other Oscar nominees except for two, District 9 and Inglorious Basterds.  Personally I liked the movie a lot but it was not Kathryn Bigelow's best work because that would be Point Break.  

If there are two things I hate it's the phrase 'am I the only one' and the term 'overrated'.

I thought it was watchable but broke absolutely no new ground whatsoever.

" Maybe a little over-rated but it's a great movie still. "

Nope, I thought it was boring as hell.

Never seen it. I probably should watch it.

I agree.  It's terribly overrated and toward the end they do some terribly unrealistic thing that just sours the movie, along with the actual ending in of itself.

" I didn't even think the movie was that great. "

It was better than Avatar, and Jeremy Renner delivered a fantastic performance.
 
I liked it a lot. I'd say it was deserving.
 
More deserving than some other Best Picture winners I could name (coughcrashcough)

I thought it was kinda crappy, the whole idea of a rebel in the military is dumb, this was the Rambo of 2009 without the cheesy action that made rambo awesome. Also why the hell is a bomb specialist with no sniper training(or very little) a better sniper then the sniper that brought the rifle in the first place?

ugh, complaining about the realism of the hurt locker is like complaining about the medical verity of frankenstein

Some people would say The Hurt Locker is one of the best war movies ever made. 
 
BAM MOTHERFUCKERS!