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

The book / movie Jarhead about another sniper was beloved by liberal critics because of it
anti war qualities.

 

I don't need for Chris Kyle to be a hero.

But the left damn sure doesn't want him to be.

 

I was a tad disappointed in the movie because Clint rounded off too many of the rough edges to Kyle.
I think his book legacy would have stood up perfectly fine.

When the movie about Obama is done will it be important to include his 4000 confirmed drone kills?

 

Indeed, the community of film critics, well-known for its right leanings, gave the movie a 73 percent fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes. And the West Coast chapter of the John Birch Society, aka the Academy of a motion Picture Arts and Science, nominated it for Best Picture.

 

Again, also, you are reducing thoughtful arguments to an inanity: is a movie character representation of a real-life soldier a "hero"?

 

The real question is are their lifts big enough for Kevin Hart so that he can play Obama?

 

Dick, if the movie wasn't so well received, the backlash against it would be as big. (Which of course has generated a backlash to the backlash, which has just propelled people to the theater to not only see the movie -- but to "support" it.)

Yes. Lot's of people liked the movie. Lots of people came away thinking Chris Kyle was an American hero.

And, that pisses of the anti-war left.

 

I'm not going to argue about the motivations you've assigned to people making arguments. I don't care about their motivations. I care about what is on the page.

 

Now that's a good factual conclusion pulled straight from your ass.

People talk about Oscar-nominated movies more than they talk about non-Oscar-nominated movies.

 

Red State America feels like Hollywood made a movie for them:

For Sniper, should it hold its estimate into tomorrow, this weekend would mark a mere 28-percent slip – the best second-week hold for a wide release ever for a film that debuted with more than $85M. Previous to this, the best big debuts to hold an audience were 2004’s Shrek 2 (down33 percent in its second frame) and 2002’s Spider-Man (down 38 percent). American Sniper is marching toward $300M, a mark only six Warner Bros. films have passed.

“Many exhibitors are hearing from their theater managers that the infrequent moviegoers who go only two to three times a year, are coming out to see this movie,” said Warner Bros. distribution chief Dan Fellman. “This a movie about patriotism, recognizing heroes, those who served; it’s about family. There are those who feel it’s anti-war movie. However, there are only 10 films in CinemaScore’s history that have done an A+ in every single category, and that’s telling, because no matter how one views American Sniper, everybody ends up in the same place.”

Box Office: ‘Boy Next Door’ Rings $500,000 Thursday; ‘American Sniper’ No. 1 | Deadline

 

But much of the commentary isn't even about the movie. It's about the Iraq war.

 

And here we're delving into what you define as "much of the commentary."

You're going to find whatever you want to find, I guess, and extrapolate that to mean that's what EVERYONE thinks.