re: just watched American sniper

From that article...

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West wrote of the film, “If [Eastwood], intentionally or not, makes a hero out of Kyle – who, bare minimum, was a racist who took pleasure in dehumanizing and killing brown people – is he responsible for validating racism, murder, and dehumanization?”

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That's some infuriating bullshite right there. I have no doubt the thought that preceded it was, "damn, how can I get a bunch of clicks? What's the most inciteful, ridiculous sounding, Skip Bayless level of shock thing I can come up with."

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a war movie that is true of one American’s experience can be utterly false to the experience of millions of Iraqis and to the historical record,” he wrote. “Further, it’s no act of patriotism to celebrate, without context or discussion, a grunt’s view

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Yup, nailed it. American Sniper is the first war movie ever to show one particular story/point view. Ever. Every war movie henceforth should be careful to include a ten part, Discovery Channel type of information drop about every aspect of the conflict.

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Clint Eastwood knows how to make a film

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True and he did a damn fine job acting in a military movie as well. Heartbreak Ridge is a classic.

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They should have told the rest of the story. I am now googling exactly what happened with the Marine on the 2 hour ride.

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Movie was long enough. Use your imagination.

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Well.... This thread went to crap

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Agree. The political argument continues on Poli Board.

Quick question, help appreciated:

I'm going to see the movie tonight. Do you recommend I see it in IMAX or reuglar format?

I've already read the book FWIW

I saw it in regular...It really isn't the type of movie that is built for IMAX.

While there are cool action sequences, the movie is more about what he went through internally.

I would not spend the extra on IMAX but that's me.

Loved the movie btw.

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It really isn't the type of movie that is built for IMAX.

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Disagree. Saw it in IMAX and the sound was

That wounded vet at the end that went shooting with Kyle was a Bossier City native and was in my platoon in Iraq. He actually adlibbed that line "Who's the legend now?"

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That's some infuriating bull shite right there. I have no doubt the thought that preceded it was, "damn, how can I get a bunch of clicks? What's the most inciteful, ridiculous sounding, Skip Bayless level of shock thing I can come up with."

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Have you read Chris Kyle's book? I'm not saying that the person who wrote this may not have wanted attention. But Kyle definitely had a few screws loose.

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Well this thread fricking sucks. Saw it last night and was hoping to see people discussing the movie and not their BS agendas but nope.

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I started a new thread for that purpose, though I'm not all that confident that the trolls won't frick it up also.