American Made: Spoilers

The flying scenes were for sure pretty cool. Made we wanna learn to fly so I could bang my girl in the pilot seat too haha.

I thought it was okay. It was a fun movie, but there's just so much to cover to tell the full story that I think it's impossible to fit in two hours and still incorporate Barry's personality in it.

I wish HBO would do like a 3 or 4 season series on it.... And please include the time his son posted on the OT somehow.

Just watched it and hatttteeedd it

1.) they really went for a powderpuff version of the Barry seal story. There's so much political drama and entertaining parts they left on the table

2.) making Barry seal some sort of family man was fricking hilarious. Dude was a coke and whore addict. This movie made him out to be father of the year

3.) literally no character development. Barry never changes and no other character is given enough screen time to even get a sense of what character they are. I was laughing at the end when they gave a "where are they now" eulogy to the pilots that were in the movie for a whole 7 minutes like why would we give a frick where those characters went.

4.) everything about it was lazy and cheap. The voice over kind of explained plot holes that the actual movie stumbled over, almost like they made the movie and then added the voice over after wards. They added in some forced comedy and upbeat music to make you think you're having fun, when the actual scene has not been properly setup. They didn't even bother to update the cars a little. He died in the 90s but every car they showed was from the 1970s it felt like, as was everyone's clothes


Man that was such a missed oppurtunity for this movie to be fun. It could've been a wolf of wallstreet level crazy mixed in with some wild political drama, but they decided to make it a watered down lazy pieced together action movie that didn't have a lot of action. They even pussed out on the ending.

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I will add that I was not familiar with the Barry Seal story beforehand and realize why many Baton Rogue people would be much more invested in it being told right. From a mostly outsiders perspective (haven't lived I LA since I was 3), I found it entertaining, but I can definitely see where they can make a fantastic series out of this guy's life.

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This movie was like if John Hughes's less talented brother made a Wolf of Wall Street romantic comedy

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This just went down as an instant classic in my mind.

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INSTANT CLASSIC?? WTF ARE YOU SMOKING

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eta: so at the end when the CIA decides to deal guns with the Iraqis, this is pretty much how the taliban got so many of its weapons right?

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No. Completely different groups of sand people in different countries, at different times, in different wars.

I knew of the Barry Seal story, but didn't know details. Watched the movie, then did research. You just have to realize the they took a true story and made a fiction story based on it. There are some rumors and conspiracy theories around Seal because it is known he had CIA ties prior to his drug running, but apparently no released evidence. So to make it interesting, they made up a story of what they thought would be interesting if it were true. Once you realize thay, it's entertaining. Not groundbreaking, but entertaining.

I got bored, and I watched it on an airplane where I had absolutely nothing to do