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LTTP:American Sniper
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The guy he went to the gun range with was also a veteran who had intense PTSD. Something at the shooting range triggered it, I imagine.
the person that murdered him was a schizophrenic with PTSD, I don't think there was a reason.
This film is literally that nazi sniper flick from Inglourious Basterds.
Fuck Chris Kyle and Clint Eastwood.
Fuck Chris Kyle and Clint Eastwood.
Oh, oops.
Yeah, guy had mental issues apparently (presumably due to PTSD)and police tesitifed that he claimed it was Kyle not talking to him in the car on the way to the range that set him off.
Enjoyed the film too, never saw it in theaters but it was playing on tv and I ended up watching all of it. Cooper was amazing in the role.
Chris Kyle was a piece of shit and also a serial liar who fantasized about shooting looters in Hurricane Katrina.
Mediocre movie with a decent performance by Bradley Cooper. Clint Eastwood's recent output leaves a lot to be desired.
The movie lost me when the protagonist saw a terrorist attack in TV and his line of thought was literally "They attacked America! I need to go to the Army!". And then they unironically used the Punisher logo for their unit...
As european this movie felt like a low key propaganda movie. And not even a very entertaining one. The pacing was just off for a lot of long stretches.
As european this movie felt like a low key propaganda movie. And not even a very entertaining one. The pacing was just off for a lot of long stretches.
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movies that use actual footage of a subject's funeral are exploitative & gross and even if the rest of the movie weren't jingoistic propaganda, that scene would have killed any positive response to the movie. This was the highest grossing movie domestically in 2014 (grossing most of it in 2015) and it's just dancing around the issues at the core of his life story instead celebrating his toxically masculine diatribes on life. I'm ideologically opposite whatever this movie is, so my response to it is especially pronounced, but man what
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I mean that's how plenty of American felt after 9/11. Also the movie is called American sniper so I don't know what you were expecting.
I thought it was a harmful endorsement of the whole Brave Hero Killing The Brown People For America's Safety thing, lacking any self awareness. I'm sure many young people saw it and thought he was the coolest guy ever. Maybe I just can't stand anything resembling nationalism in today's climate.
How could you not? Its the most distracting thing ever and its so fucking weird they went with it. Made every scene it showed up in "??!??!??"
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Kyle reportedly described killing as "fun", something he "loved"; he was unwavering in his belief that everyone he shot was a "bad guy". "I hate the damn savages," he wrote. "I couldn't give a flying fuck about the Iraqis." He bragged about murdering looters during Hurricane Katrina, though that was never substantiated.
Like, I'm sure the movie was good, but it's a work of fiction.
Being illogical and hateful shouldn't be handwaved away with "that's just how Americans are". The movie did zero to make the audience emphasize with Kyle or reflect on what happened with him.
I still can't believe some of the most standard VFX work on that film was approved as final, all the digital blood looked silly compared to much older war films of the last two decades.
Everything about this movie - the people it represented; the people who made it; and the ideology it represents - is shit!
I've never understood the propaganda argument against this movie. The guy was your all American good guy that went to war for stupid patriotic reasons and came back an absolute wreck of a human being, almost completely destroying his mental health. He threw everyone he loved under the bus just for another "fix" of war.
I don't understand how anyone watches this and thinks to themselves "I wish I could be like him".
I understand the argument about the real person and the valid criticism of his real life persona, but not of the content in the movie... outside the clumsy ending.
I don't understand how anyone watches this and thinks to themselves "I wish I could be like him".
I understand the argument about the real person and the valid criticism of his real life persona, but not of the content in the movie... outside the clumsy ending.