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

Probably not. But, trends do develop on social media, and they don't need to be part of an orchestrated campaign.

As far as media failings go, heaving a guy write an article about the movie who had only seen the trailer is a pretty big one, but as Dick points out, the New Republic barely qualifies as professional media at this point.

 

Don't everyone chime in at once.

 

You can always count on Vox:

Every movie rewrites history. What American Sniper did is much, much worse.

Every movie rewrites history. What American Sniper did is much, much worse. - Vox

 

Definite character assassination here:

In real life, Chris Kyle argued that America owed its troops support because those troops did not get to choose the wars they fought, or the strategy they followed: they wrote the government a blank check for their lives and waited to see if it would get cashed. There's a very interesting movie to be made about that idea, and about what it means to be heroic during a misguided war. American Sniper isn't it.

 

What kind of review does a critic have to give the movie in order to avoid character assassination? Are only four-star reviews good enough to properly honor the memory of Chris Kyle? What about a three-star review? What if a critic gives it a three-star review, but explicitly only because Chris Kyle didn't blow away nearly enough ragheads?

 

You liberals really love to use those slurs. You and Cranberry are becoming more like Starman. How does that make you feel?

 

Added to the list, though:

• Vox.com movie critic who wrote a lengthy deconstruction of the movie's moral message in which he noted that, in his opinon, the thoughts that Chris Kyle had articulated about what the government's debt to its soliders should be wasn't represented.

 

Can we please put to rest the fucking idea that there is some widespread liberal Hollywood smear campaign going on against the memory of Chris Kyle?

 

Why in 2015 are we still (morally?) outraged by acts within war?

It's called the "fog of war" for a reason.

Way too many writerlies writering about it as if they think it makes a difference.

 

What is your alternative proposition?

Anything goes?

 

No, we can be more understanding war practicioners. We just have to get in touch with our true feelings and realize that our enemies are people, too.

 

It's war, dick.

Maybe we can decide wars with thumb wrestling and then all will be well and no one wakes up dead.