What a shock: Hollywood pushing back at "The Sniper"

No, he's not right. We haven't just decided that we're done, as a species, examining the moral implications of an exercise in which human beings kill each other en masse, typically in some form of land dispute. Maybe the answer we arrive at is your John Wayne, shoot 'em up video game fantasy of what war is when the United States gets into the fray, but we should at least continue to think about it.

 

Yes, let's think away evil.

 

12 Years a Slave: true story? Fact and fiction in mostly accurate movie about Solomon Northup.

 

Isn't it pretty to think so.

This makes me sound pessimistic in a bad way, but JFC, the killer in me is the killer in you.

Nobodies evolving any time soon, Dick.

 

The Dallas Buyers Club: don't buy this history | Film | The Guardian

 

History and the Decline of Human Violence - Scientific American

 

WHY ARE CRITICS ONLY QUESTIONING THE HISTORICAL INACCURACIES OF THIS MOVIE AND NOT OTHERS????!!!!!

 

Should we not, then, have a continuing conversation about the use of drones?

What about a nuclear bomb?

All's fair?

 

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Dick, you're being silly.

Yes, every historical film receives some scrutiny for it's truthiness. And, any deviation from the facts will upset some, even if it's done mostly for the purposes of telling the story on film in a more effective manner, and is not an attempt to mislead anyone about history.

We've seen composite characters and altered (or compressed) timelines in countless movies.

What upsets folks about this movie is that the inaccuracies of this movie help to make an American Sniper, serving in a unpopular war, into an unambiguous hero.

And, some of the Selma criticism is similar, and political. It's "inaccuracies" don't make LBJ out to be an unambiguous hero of the civil rights movement.

 

I'm on your team in discussions like these. I just don't see the greater good. I mean, I see the good in people. Reality says something different.

 

When Obama eventually passes away, in what paragraph of his obit does the moral question of his drone war come up?