american sniper

[ThatRandomGuy]

He didn't pull a 720 Noscope while drinking dewritoes and yelling at people calling them cunts

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[Machinima]

Movie was longer then needed. cliche iraq war movie like really the hurt locker or that desert storm movie were better then this I was bored out of my mind like half way through me and my friends were pulling cod jokes and stuff because of boredom forget the movie didn't even have music like where was the soundtrack? Fury was a million times better seen it twice and would watch it again.

[johnny tylenol]

objectively speaking from a film critic standpoint- no its not good at all, aside from bradley coopers acting performance and some of the shootout scenes.
other than that the directing is all over the place and they repeatedly shove the notion that "war ruins ur psyche!!" down your throat over and over to the point of it being clumsy and annoying

[blockguy™]

that desert storm movie

jarhead?

[Strovbe]

American propaganda at work. :)

War movies are supposed to be made to show the gruesome effects of war (i.e. Saving Private Ryan, Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, etc.) not glorify a single soldier because he was a "true american hero".

[Kimon²]

everything that wasnt an action scene was pretty bad

[ZombiLoin]

the makers of the film managed to put in enough pitiful moments into the film to call it an "anti-war film" without investigating how the civilians or opposing side felt. they made a film that appeals to people who get patriotism boners without alienating them by showing that the people in the middle or the "bad guys" are actually human too.

i'll agree that we treat veterans like stuff though. on the surface we say "thank you for your service" and other jingoistic platitudes but when veterans actually need help they're treated like crap.

i found the movie weird because i thought that flags of our fathers and letters from iwo jima (both directed by clint eastwood) when viewed together made a much better anti-war statement because hey presto it actually showed that the opposing side was indeed made up of other people.

in addition platoon (oliver stone) portrays the civilians stuck in the middle of it as actual human beings. full metal jacket (the second-half, the first half of the film is a more general statement on authority and the military specifically) does this through it's use of pacing and visual style

[Machinima]

jarhead?

Yes that was a good movie lots of comedy.

[blockguy™]

Yes that was a good movie lots of comedy.

it wasn't really the comedic type of movie but there was some funny parts

[Alyx Vance]

American propaganda at work. :)

War movies are supposed to be made to show the gruesome effects of war (i.e. Saving Private Ryan, Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, etc.) not glorify a single soldier because he was a "true american hero".

War games should as well. Not many actually show the blood and guts of war.

[Donro98]

This movie was straight up American Anti-Iraqi Propaganda.

[tnatsissA]

He's not as good as the Australian Sniper!