The Hollywood left (Michael Moore, Bill Maher et al) are pissed that American Sniper is such a huge box office success. Any day now expect the Hollywood lefties to release a movie titled "ISIS Beheader" where the hero wears a mask and cut off kidnapped people's heads.
American Sniper
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I hate to see how both sides have politicized this movie, even Eastwood says it's silly. Excellent film in my opinion, very enjoyable and not your average military story. I am not a Bradley Cooper fan and did not expect to like it much.
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Of course he thinks it's silly. He's the one who made the jingoistic pile of shit. A movie about a failed war where thousands of Americans died for no reason, and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, only to leave the region orders of magnitude worse off than it was under a madman dictator. A movie that throws historical revision at you fast and furious, pretending that motherfucking Al Qaeda was actually anywhere near Iraq early in the war. And that it was right and good for US troops to be there in the first place because they were fighting for MAH FREEDOMS! Yeah. The left is politicising it. The bastards!
Oscar nods to the plastic baby though. Brilliant part.
I thought it was a good movie, that is, for anyone who likes that genre and obviously a lot of people do. In terms of pace, intensity and realism it reminded me a lot of The Hurt Locker.
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This film wouldn't have been bad if it showed Kyle as a flawed human being instead of a superhero. This is a dude who is quoted in his biography in awesome ways such as " I couldn't give a flying fuck about the Iraqis" and " I hate the damn savages" bragging about looting houses in Fallujah, shooting looters in New Orleans and my personal favourite supposedly fighting Jessie Ventura. Yeah seems like a real role model awesome dude.
Is there going to be a sequel to complete the story of Chris Kyle
from his days of glory to the day he faced his doom? I imagine the
scene of Kyle selflessly offering a gun to some mentally unstable
within shooting range will be amusing. A fitting title for the film
could be "Path from sniper hero to Darwin award candidate" would
be offensive to some people. "Bad karma" should be more innocuous.
from his days of glory to the day he faced his doom? I imagine the
scene of Kyle selflessly offering a gun to some mentally unstable
within shooting range will be amusing. A fitting title for the film
could be "Path from sniper hero to Darwin award candidate" would
be offensive to some people. "Bad karma" should be more innocuous.
That's the great thing about TERB, not hard to find a leftist douchbag....
Good article describing why their panties are in a bunch:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/american-sniper-freakout_824298.html?nopager=1
Good article describing why their panties are in a bunch:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/american-sniper-freakout_824298.html?nopager=1
But they showed him as a flawed human being, they showed him troubled killing some targets, he said how fucked up the war is, its the others that kept calling him a legend at the end he breaks down and wants to go home. Good movie. Cooper did a good job.
Micheal is pro hard working every day American and anti capitalist greed. Only a matter of time before Hollywood has an American vs. ISIS type movie.
All in all, I think it was a good movie taken from one soldier's point of view. So it was not meant to delve into the broader political context of the war. I'm now quite sure how a movie can accurately capture how someone deals with PTSD, but the movie did a reasonable job with scenes before he takes the shot, and scenes at home with his family. Real life is very nuanced so I don't think it would translate well to the screen.
IMO Michael Moore is just a wind bag. Sure he sounds like he cares for the every day working American, yet it's all for himself. He's established his gravy train so he needs to milk it as long as possible because 'Merica. Why be a "mainstream" film-maker when controversy sells movie tickets and books.
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