AMERICAN SNIPER Movie Review: Nobody Tries Less Than Clint
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From: "Bhairitu [email protected] [FairfieldLife]"
<[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Eastwood Rise from the Sepulchre
Or maybe wanted to see a movie that wasn't about comic book heroes or
talking pandas. ;-)
But for the record I like Eastwood's films so I'll probably watch this one too.
On 05/21/2015 11:35 AM, Mike Dixon [email protected] [FairfieldLife] wrote:
90.2 million dollars opening weekend. I guess somebody liked it.
From: "Michael Jackson [email protected] [FairfieldLife]"
<[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 1:24 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Eastwood Rise from the Sepulchre
Couldn't disagree more. All the politics and war this and that
aside, just considering the movie as a movie, the film is very poorly made.
The first 30 minutes or so of back story is trite, formulaic and boringly
predictable. From the point at which the protagonist, Chris Kyle is shown
beginning his Iraq tour the movie devolves into a repetitive cycle of fight,
kill, go home, fight with wife, go back to Iraq, fight, kill, go home, fight
with wife, and so on.
The first time I saw the two evil doers, the antagonists of the film, I knew
they and the situations the filmmakers were showing were made up bullshit.
Subsequent research into the differences between Kyle's book and the film
confirmed that.
Far from the film being great and it not being PC to say so, the film makes
a joke out of the Iraq war and turns the soldiers into caricatures of the real
men and women who served and serve there.
The reason the film is so popular is the kind of cult mentality we have often
discussed here on FFL, where a point of view is so obsessively adhered to one
cannot think or perceive reality clearly. In this case the point of view is
that all US soldiers are good and whatever they do makes them heroes, and that
the Iraqis are all evil (which is pretty much what Kyle himself believed - read
his book and you'll see.)
This is absurd. I have known more than a few men and women who have served in
both the 1st Gulf war and the current conflict. What people who think this film
is fine fail to recognize is that a soldier can do their job in combat, even
become heroic at times and still be an ass or even a criminal in their day to
day life.
How do you think so many thousands of sexual assaults occur in the military,
especially in war zones every year? Combat soldier by day, rapist by night. It
happens all too frequently. About 20,000 cases a year are actually reported and
one estimate showed that only one in five assaults get reported. Put that
together and you have about 100,000 cases of sexual assault occurring in the
military every year! And this is being done by heroes???
I knew of one instance here in SC - the man, Army officer literally died a
hero, jumping on the grenade to save his buddies scenario and man was he ever
praised and lionized all over the place with the Governor herself, and many
state dignitaries praising this guy to high heaven in any number of memorial
services.
I have known his widow since she was born, and I know that her husband before
his death had been cheating on her. She found out and asked him to stop and
start being a husband and a father to their 3 year old and 5 year old. He
refused and she began divorce proceedings. Part of her angst was over the fact
that while in Iraq, he was sending money that should have gone to her and their
kids to pay the mortgage to his girlfriend here so she could buy a new truck.
After he was killed his wife discovered that after his last leave when she
told him to shape up or she would divorce him, not only did he stop sending
her any money at all, he took her name off his life insurance policy and put
his mother's name on it. She was a real honey too. The mother came up to the
widow at the freaking memorial service and told her to her face in front of
others that she (the mother) would see to it that she (the wife) would not
collect a penny in his military benefits. Hero on the battlefield, ass in real
life.
Many of the scenes in the movie were made up, fictional including the butcher
character and mustafa, the scene where Kyle's brother was complaining on the
tarmac and especially the scenes where Kyle was shown getting tired and
uncomfortable with what he was doing. That was complete bullshit. Read his
book. He states without question that he loved killing and loved the war. He
not only loved it, he said it was fun more than once in the book. Anyone who
thinks that war and killing is fun is mentally unbalanced.
The fact that he himself was killed by another Iraq war vet is one of the
most telling things about his life and the movie barely mentions. As one
reviewer put it, they made a movie about a killing machine with a heart of
gold.
Which is bs too. If you read anything about the real Kyle it is obvious that
he was a self centered braggart and liar. The Jesse Ventura incident - bs. The
story of himself and two other SEALS killing 30 looters in New Orleans from
atop the Superdome - bs. And his tale of killing two carjackers and the cops
turning him loose when they realized who he was - total bs.
If he had to fabricate such stories to make himself look good, how accurate
can his war record be? And before you go to squalling about it, the kill
record of the snipers rely a good deal on the testimony of the snipers
themselves. And none of the records are considered official by the army. its
just a bragging rights thing.
If you read the book, you will find some of the most telling aspects of
Kyle's mentality revolve around him competing with other US snipers to see who
would rack up the highest body count. When one of his "competitors" gets close
to surpassing his record, he talks about how so many more insurgents suddenly
began to appear in front of his scope, heavily implying that he went out and
killed whoever he had to to keep up his record.
The truth is generally much more sordid than the Clint Eastwoods of the world
make it seem in their films and I guess all his years of TM have finally
caught up with him, cause his latest film is pitiful on all levels.
From: "Mike Dixon [email protected] [FairfieldLife]"
<[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Eastwood Rise from the Sepulchre
Yeah, I watched it last night... again. It's a great film but it
isn't chic(sheik) or PC to admit it. Actually, it's fashionable among libs to
ridicule it. Got to get that Muslim vote! Of course American Muslims hate it
because they say it's anti-Muslim. Anti-Muslim because it shows the greatest
American sniper killing Terrorists( who happen to be Muslims) in order to
prevent the deaths of Marines taking Fallujah and Sadr City in order to
stabilize Iraq. I guess they wanted him to talk the terrorists out of their
attacks. Hmmm... all that effort and all those lives and limbs for nothing.
American Sniper got good reviews in Baghdad with cheers for each kill from
many in the audience. However, it had to be closed down the first week due to
terroristic threats.
From: "Michael Jackson [email protected]
[FairfieldLife]"<[email protected]>
To: FairfieldLife <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 11:11 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Eastwood Rise from the Sepulchre
Anyone see Dinosaur TM'er Clint's latest film?
I watched American Sniper last night and was duly unimpressed. The worst
film Eastwood has ever made and that includes such bombs as Bronco Billy
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