American Sniper — Page 2

If the producers had any hand into making this boring film into a national litmus test on patriotism, they are geniuses.

"A real effin disaster that I'm sorry I paid for because my wife, and now I'm more pissed."

Perhaps next time she can make it a girls trip. To ask your husband to take you to a movie so you can feel tingly is a dick move.

I attended a screening with a veteran, and he thought it was kind of ridiculous. Americans love America (AMERICA! F*CK YEAH!), so I'm not surprised this made a ton of money. The Hurt Locker, a far more superior film in every capacity, was a complete bomb at the box office. Perhaps because Americans love the hatred of these people? No idea.

Updated On: 1/27/15 at 04:44 PM

Sorry, I meant to say a domestic bomb.

Fox News contributor and radio host Todd Starnes put out a video dispatch that can help us all see where the Roxys of the world are getting this notion that "American Sniper" is a litmus test for patriotism of the citizenry.

Starnes said that he longed for the days when Hollywood “stood in solidarity with our fighting men and women.”

“Those days are long gone, and our sweet land of liberty has been soiled by the stinking stench of Michael Moore and Howard Dean and their liberal minions,” he insisted.

But that's not even the good -- and I mean REALLY good part:

According to Starnes, filmmaker Michael Moore was wrong to suggest that Jesus would not “hide on top of a roof and shoot people in the back.”

“I’m no theologian,” Starnes opined. “But I suspect Jesus would tell that God-fearing, red-blooded American sniper, ‘Well done, thou good and faithful servant for dispatching another Godless jihadist to the lake of fire.’”

He's right! He's no theologian. Nor does he seem to understand Jesus' central message… give everything you have to the poor and LOVE your enemy. When your enemy strikes you, do not strike back, forgive him even if he hits you again.

I know that's hard, but THAT'S WHAT JESUS SAID TO DO.

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Updated On: 1/28/15 at 01:12 AM

Quite right Melissa.

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I finally got through my screener, and add only: the movie could've made its ultimate point by dramatizing the single most important event in Kyle's life: being shot by another Vet with PTSD. The ugly irony is not only the stuff of great storytelling, it's the important stuff of war tales. To sidestep the moment Kyle faced down a gun in the hands of someone damaged by the same illegal and immoral war would've turned the title and the trajectory into a complex examination of the cost of any war. But it's played as a footnote, an irrelevancy, as we cut to flags and crowds at his funeral. The omission -- and I don't buy the legal aspects of not showing it, since an actor was hired to play his killer -- is obscene.

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A title card that he was shot that day by another veteran on a shooting range did not seem like they were playing it off, or that it made it "an irrelevancy." I thought it stayed true to the rest of the movie the way it was presented.

Similarly, the title cards at the end of Imitation Game were also used very effectively as a gut punch after what you just watched. People disagreed on those, as well, though in the Imitation Game thread.

Another snipers viewpoint.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/28277-focus-the-american-sniper-you-didnt-hear-about

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I loved it