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

YF, I don't know what you are arguing here any more. It feels like this is the first movie you've ever paid attention to, and you're shocked that movies get analyzed.

The thread was started under the premise that "Hollywood" is "pushing back" against the movie, and this was, of course, no "big surprise."

Yet the movie is Oscar-nominated many times over, and the only person even tenuously connected to Hollywood who has said something objectionable is Michael Moore.

 

Regardless of your political affiliation, the people who were offended by the President playing golf right after he held a press conference regarding the beheading of a journalist, but who otherwise mocked anyone who complained about the President's golf schedule, are kind of dumb.

 

This is the first biopic ever in which critics and others analyze whether the historical figure was accurately portrayed.

Sorry, the second one ever.

Malcolm X: The Facts, the Fictions, the Film

 

When a biopic is about a liberal icon, you don't see anything from critics questioning its accuracy. Not a word.

Harvey Milk Deserved A Better Film Than Van Sant's Low-fat Biopic | Nancy Goldstein

 

What did you think after seeing the movie?

 

I would like to hear that as well. Dick what was the reaction as folks left the theater? At mine there was
dead silence for the most part. I did hear one lady say that she was not aware that it was a true story.

 

At bottom, YF, your argument seems to be: Liberals do not want to celebrate a soldier fighting in a war that they consider objectionable.

I guess I basically find it uninteresting - futile, really - to argue about their deep-down motivations for advancing the arguments they are advancing. You care deeply about their motives, and you often care about motives. I don't care at all. And that's not unique to this topic - whether it's a law that's been proposed or a legal position taken in a divisive Supreme Court case, sussing out motivations don't do anything for me. I think I've made that pretty clear through the years here. And so we're going to keep talking right past each other on this topic.

 

Starting to really have my doubts if Dick actually saw the movie. Be disappointing if he didn't.

 

Let's water board him until he admits to not having seen the movie.

 

Oh, I get it ... "low-fat biopit" ... low-fat ... low-fat milk. Brilliant!

 

Boom, I watched it this weekend, but not at a theater.

If you'll recall, I also read the Chris Kyle longform piece in The New Yorker on a holiday weekend and posted a thread about it here to draw attention to both the piece itself and the cause of armed services members battling PTSD - and, relatedly, their own government.

It has garnered eight responses, I believe, in the nearly two years it has been posted here. By me.

 

So what did you think of it?