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American Sniper Has Created a Cultural Moment: Here’s Why
National Review ^ | 01/20/2015 | David French

Posted on 01/20/2015 7:16:37 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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I saw the movie last weekend. Bradley Cooper's performance was just... brilliant.

Everytime a terrorist got blown away by Chris Kyle, the audience would erupt in applause.

I've seldom anything like this in a movie house.

1 posted on 01/20/2015 7:16:37 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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Anyone else disturbed by this liberal narrative, that it is racist to go see American Sniper instead of Selma? Or by liberal loudmouths such as Michael Moore saying snipers are cowards, but that he wasn’t saying that in regard to this movie??


2 posted on 01/20/2015 7:21:00 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: SeekAndFind

Look for it to get a few Oscars.


3 posted on 01/20/2015 7:21:09 AM PST by Biggirl (2014 MIdterms Were BOTH A Giant Wave And Restraining Order)
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To: SeekAndFind

I must see this movie.


4 posted on 01/20/2015 7:22:38 AM PST by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: SeekAndFind

And here will come Jesse Ventura in some sort of suit ....


5 posted on 01/20/2015 7:23:03 AM PST by SkyDancer
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Disturbed?

Wrong word.

Pissed off, is more like it.


6 posted on 01/20/2015 7:23:19 AM PST by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: SeekAndFind

If you missed this please head over to right scoop and give it a spin - priceless!

http://therightscoop.com/navy-seals-fantastic-response-to-michael-moore-caught-everyone-off-guard-at-cnn/


7 posted on 01/20/2015 7:24:29 AM PST by Lake Living
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I have never seen a movie review like this. I and the wife will be going see it as quickly as we can get tickets.

Since this is Texas, it may take a while.

I am thrilled to see an American soldier looked up to by youngsters as a hero. He was all of that.


8 posted on 01/20/2015 7:29:21 AM PST by buffaloguy
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Just testing the limits of white guilt.


9 posted on 01/20/2015 7:29:59 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Lake Living

nice!


10 posted on 01/20/2015 7:33:29 AM PST by Roscoe Karns
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RE: Michael Moore:

“His career is a really good confirmed kill”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO
HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE


11 posted on 01/20/2015 7:37:20 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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Nah, it's just what he does for attention. If Westboro Baptist had a morbid obese son...............
12 posted on 01/20/2015 7:43:32 AM PST by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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Mostly disgusted by their mentally ill filthy hate mongering.

I personally think that many of them would be quite comfortable with killing conservatives in the same way muzzies are happy to kill Christians and Jews.

The difference is that we would not stand by and let them do it. I daresay they would be hard pressed to decide whether they hate us or fear us more.


13 posted on 01/20/2015 7:46:11 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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"...I have never seen a movie review like this. I and the wife will be going see it as quickly as we can get tickets."

I may beat you to the box office for my second viewing. And not because seeing it a second or third time in the theater will fluster and tick off America hating liberals (though I can not deny, that's a bonus!!!);),but because the film is just that outstanding.

14 posted on 01/20/2015 7:46:56 AM PST by 444Flyer (How long O LORD?)
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As the credits rolled, some folks were filing out

I saw 'American Sniper' yesterday and no one left during the closing credits. And the audience applauded after the credits were done and the lights came up. I never seen that happen for a movie.
15 posted on 01/20/2015 7:47:09 AM PST by Ticonderoga34
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I saw it yesterday in a half filled theater.....at noon on a Monday. It was gripping and told a wonderful story of American patriots. Very rough language but well worth the effort to see it.


16 posted on 01/20/2015 7:50:31 AM PST by armydawg505
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17 posted on 01/20/2015 7:54:50 AM PST by 444Flyer (How long O LORD?)
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Do I smell a zeitgeist? I too thought it was culturally significant. I went this past Saturday at a 4:00 showing. It’s just as you read in some of the reports. Nobody said anything or displayed any outward emotion from start to finish and out the theater door. Not like that loud crowd mumble you hear in a packed theater when the credits hit the screen at the end. And my theater was packed. only 5 empty seats as reported by the manager after I asked.

The mood I felt afterwards was angry with little hope offered with profound sadness.. A sentiment I felt I may have picked up in the silent crowd milling towards the door.

The movie works on so many levels of thinnking But mainly I would like to point out:

Kyle represents America. The evil Muslims represent the well ... evil Muslims. We know what we have to do, and we can do it with a clear conscience. They are evil. We are not. We will fight this evil forever. Too bad for most the wages are any combination of loss of limbs, darkened souls, abandonment and outcast from society, and your life.

We can do this. We can be as brutal as they are, but with a clear conscious.


18 posted on 01/20/2015 7:55:25 AM PST by Usagi_yo (It's not possible to give success. Only opportunity. Success is earned on it's own right.)
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I for one would be interested to see the audience broken down by demographics—more specifically, how many older (Xer/Boomer) viewers, and how many in the heartland as opposed to the coasts. I suspect there is a lesson Hollywood doesn’t want to learn, that there is a massive audience who would go to the movies regularly, if there were movies such as this one that regularly represented their values, meaning American values.


19 posted on 01/20/2015 7:59:11 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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When I see this movie, it will be the first Oscar nominated movie that I will have been to in a very, very long time. Can’t wait!


20 posted on 01/20/2015 8:00:10 AM PST by halo66
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