Saw it last night. ..great movie...and one of the most crowded i can recall.
My ticket helped those numbers and the movie was well worth the price.
I’ve been reading various media reports about what a terrible year 2014 was for the film industry and how this must be due to home entertainment centers, changing viewing habits and young people’s fascination with their smart phones.
The grosses that “American Sniper” is getting confirm my belief that last year’s low take was due mostly to the fact that the movies all sucked.
Pulled in around $50 million world wide on Friday. Budget was $59 million. It’s a Clint Eastwood Malpaso Productions picture, so Clint is going to make a lot of money since he owns the production rights.
I saw this...it is good!
I bet this Sniper movie beat Orca’s movie “Selma” too
Leaving to go see it now.
Who needs the Oscars when you have this kind of success.
I haven’t been to a movie house in years but will make an exception for this. The wife...who does not do action or war flicks...will be in voluntary attendence also.
MountainSon tells me he served with Kyle in Fallujah, 2004.
What will make the Leftists’ heads explode will be when some patriotic Texas school district names a school after this hero. It should be Odessa, Texas, his birthplace.
He will join the illustrious ranks of Texas men who have served this nation proudly: Admiral Chester Nimitz (who headed the Pacific fleet in WW II), Audie Murphy (the most decorated soldier in WW II, Doris Miller (the most decorated sailor in WW II, a Black man from Dallas), Vice Admiral Wm McRaven, who commanded the Navy Seal team that killed Bin Laden, and many others. These men are one of the reasons that Texas is proud.
So which idiot judge will be handing Jessie “The Fraudie” Venture a portion of the profits to soothe his bruised ego this time?
My cousin who claims to be to the right of me texted
to see if I wanted to join him in seeing the movie. The
3:45pm show worked for both of us. It was very well attended
and the next showing was shaping up to be packed by the
looks of the lobby crowd and ticket line.
My cousin had read the book and deemed the movie OK
although the long range Carlos Adcock style hit was
not in the book. I thought Brad Cooper played a
credible role. We went for beer and clam chowda after
and it was then that cuz told it was opening day. I
hardly ever go to movies and especially on opening days.
Saw it last Thursday night “sneak peek” with my oldest son. (college age) Very powerful and moving. Wife has heard so many good things about it she now wants to see it.
If the movie is so good, why didn’t Eastwood get a “Best Director” nomination?
Talk about an amazing entertainment career, still making movies of this caliber in his mid 80s.
He’s anything but an empty chair. Just saying.
We need more Kyles, less Kennedys and Kerrys