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

Have they already forgotten Lone Survivor?

Also, too, a big part of the appeal of this movie is the sniper thing. Every yahoo who owns a tactical rig dreams of being one. They are seen as the elite of the elite.

 

Paula Cole is still asking 'where have all the cowboys gone"?

 

I saw where Clint Eastwood called it an anti-war movie.

Seems like we may have a "Born in the U.S.A." situation on our hands, where the political right embraces a work of art as a fist-pumping anthem celebrating its beliefs, when it actually does the opposite.

 

Also reminds me of stories about high school teachers having students write "What's Your Green Light?" essays about "The Great Gatsby" or college students holding Gatsby parties celebrating the excesses of the novel.

"Wolf of Wall Street" also comes to mind.

 

Having seen the movie, Dick, could you expand on what you believe it to be?

 

I've seen it and I don't think it's anti-war at all. But it doesn't glorify war either and it shows the emotional toll that multiple tours can take on a person and a family, not to mention how difficult the adjustment is when they go back to the states.

At least that was what I took away from it. I can't sit here and say it's a realistic portrayal of the life of a sniper, because I don't know too much about that other than what I've read.

 

Where have you gone Mark McGwire ? A Nations turns it's lonely eyes to you.

 

Haha. Conservatives are so dumb.

They liked an anti-war movie. They thought it was "pro-war" and glorified the war fighters.

 

And liberals thought it was an anti war movie until they read the book. No winners here.

 

Regardless of their political affiliation, the people who walked away from the movie thinking that the message was that "it makes me want to go kill some ragheads" are kind of dumb.

 

LOL. Who, besides a few knuckleheads on twitter, responded in this manner?

Give me names!

 

Where is the evidence of that? I've not heard or read that anywhere.
Anyhow you don't need to go to the movies to come away with that idea. You just have to watch the nightly news.
A beheading or two or perhaps a slaughter at a magazine office will rev up even the level headed of folks.