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

I was thinking of war movies as in dramas, not documentaries. And sure, I have watched a lot of them, movies and documentaries, WW2 mostly, some Nam. I like history and war. Was just trying to draw a parallel with how this Iraq movie has been treated versus how some Nam movies have been portrayed.

I shall return you all to your debate. This is interrupting my drinking and snow obsession.

 

To answer your other question, it's a fair rebuttal. But I think the movie could have done more in that regard; if there are shades of gray in the Iraqi depiction, they are faint and fleeting. (Disclaimer I should post 600 times: I didn't think this was a bad movie; it's just not a movie beyond criticism).

And while I wouldn't go as far as this author, I think this article presents a good summation of the critiques of the film: Every movie rewrites history. What American Sniper did is much, much worse. - Vox

 

Interesting take:
‘American Sniper’ exemplifies a new kind of war film: The professional procedural - The Washington Post
That “American Sniper” has been greeted with such different interpretations is a testament to a movie that never hews to obvious ideological lines. But the wildly divergent readings are also typical of an emerging genre of war film that “American Sniper” exemplifies, one that strikes a different focus and tone than its predecessors.

 

Blah blah blah.

Handles come. Handles go. Somethings never change.

 

Definite lyric right there.

 

You say hello and I say goodbye

 

Some things, although when I use it in a song, "somethings" will work as artistic license and makes for more ambiguous phrasing.

 

Analysis from always interesting Tyler Cowen: "American Sniper is one of the best anti-war movies I have seen, ever. . . . By making the attractions of war palpable, this film disturbs and confuses people and also occasions some of the worst critical reviews I have read. It also, by understanding and then dissecting the attractions of blood lust, becomes a quite convincing anti-war movie, if you doubt this spend a few months studying The Iliad. (By the way, Clint Eastwood, the director and producer, describes the movie as anti-war.)"

Two misunderstood movies, two Rorschach tests (not too many spoilers here)

 

Seriously, what the fuck are you even talking about? As a member of the left, I am perfectly capable of separating the two. I don't give a shit what led to the war ... the soldiers sent to fight it don't have a choice in the matter. And no matter the race/religion of the people he is killing, a soldier like Kyle is a hero in my mind for keeping his fellow soldiers alive. Personally, when I watch a war movie, the events that led to that war don't even enter my mind. Why would it? The issues are completely separate.

 

I want to go on the record again that I don't think that soldiers should be completely separated, from a moral culpability standpoint, from the conflict they are fighting in.

 

Why? They don't choose where they are sent.