American Sniper making $90 mil this weekend...

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Movie was great and still woulda been if he had been any color. I'm kinda glad they didn't go over the top with trying to teach lessons or push a message. Just showed a guy that was born for war and wasn't comfortable in "normal" life. Makes me definitely wanna read the book now.

book was fantastic
 

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Because clint Eastwood did it for one... especially what happen a few years ago with eastwood and his pro gun stand with republicans... plus fox news was like interviewing everyone almost everyday, then u have texas up to north Dakota going in droves to see it
 

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but it looks pretty good and i have heard good things from friends who have seen it but i fukking hate the idol worship of military people its weird and creepy. ive actually heard people say "well my opinion means more bc i served."

i realize that many make sacrifices but i hate the people who think they deserve to be bowed down to just because they flunked outta college and had to become some desk jockey for the armed forces. my good friend is an officer in the marines and did boot between summers of school. i respect the hell out of him and he doesnt think he automatically deserves praise just for being a military member. that's the kind of people i respect

dont mean to insult any military guys on here. but respect is earned, not given
 

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Why would it not do good America had a whole generation of young white males that can relate to the movie.
 

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Bradley Cooper is the only reason why I finished watching the movie. Like most people itt I watched the screener because I wasn't going to pay for a possible propaganda film. The movie wasn't 100% pro-war pro-america but it did spend 100% of the time making Chris Kyle look like a super hero. I think the word "legendary" was used about 50 times in this movie. Btw for those who saw the screener did y'all see anything that was going on during the sand storm? I was looking at the screen like :stopitslime: Chris Kyle gonna shoot his way out of this one. Besides the horrible Hollywood'd out film it does help bring up the major topic of PTSD but that will most likely be ignored. To those complaining that Selma didn't get a lot of buzz blame the zero advertisements it has gotten. People aren't going to watch a movie that they don't even know exists.
 

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It's fap material for "patriots" and conservatives and what not.
 

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“We went back for a few days to work with the Marines when they took down a hospital north of the city on the river. The insurgents were using the hospital as a gathering point. As the Marines came in, a teenager, I’d guess about fifteen, sixteen, appeared on the street and squared up with an AK-47 to fire at them. I dropped him. A minute or two later, an Iraqi woman came running up, saw him on the ground, and tore off her clothes. She was obviously his mother. I’d see the families of the insurgents display their grief, tear off clothes, even rub the blood on themselves. If you loved them, I thought, you should have kept them away from the war. You should have kept them from joining the insurgency. You let them try and kill us—what did you think would happen to them?”
Chris Kyle, American Sniper: Memorial Edition

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Clint Eastwood is a corner-stone of what it means to be an American. So is the military (and it's might). And so is any man capable of carrying out whatever his duty is for America (Mr. Kyle). With that in mind, the real question is: How did this movie not make more numbers than a mere $90 mill? Granted, it's guaranteed to do even more numbers this week.

I say all of the above as a man born in a sub-saharan African country at a time where television barely had any entertainment in it and yet a Clint Eastwood flick was on TV seemingly every month. Can you even grasp that? I've lived an entirely different reality from American children and yet we both have felt the weight of Mr. Eastwood's acting.
 

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Bradley Cooper might have inadvertedly started a new Rambo series. :beli:

I'm always really curious as to whether there are Middle Eastern films where villainous cacs get mowed down in their droves by an Arabic hero. Because at this point there totally should be.

In the interest of fairness and all :mjpls:
They had that Syrian dude in the movie that was offing cacs left and right. So I'm sure them Ali Akbar fukks were cheering everytime he'd get a kill.

Those fukks don't like westerners which is us so fukk them for reals.
 
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