Posted on 01/19/2015 10:16:53 AM PST by w1n1
Ok, I know there's other take on American Sniper reviews, but here's our take from a Clint Eastwood fan. There’s not a whole lot of Zero Dark Thirty strategy room stuff in this film. This isn’t a Big Picture look at things; it’s a close-up view of some fiery corners of an insane battle.
Even when Eastwood is focusing on Kyle’s pursuit of two main targets – a former Olympic sharpshooter turned Iraqi insurgent sniper, and the heinous “Butcher of Fallujah” – what it comes down to is brutally simple: If the bad guys aren’t taken out, more American soldiers will die. And Chris Kyle is obsessed with not letting that happen. Read the rest of American Sniper Review here.
Clint’s success must really be putting a hole in the lib strategy to portray him as “doddering old fool” for his “empty chair” stunt.
Talk about a guy living a fairy tale life, it’s Clint Eastwood, even his military plane crash where he had to swim to shore, was off the California coast where he can point it out from his home state, and the state where he has lived his incredible and golden life.
Now here he is at 84 and he is hitting his peak success as a director, and in an action movie about a young war hero and current characters and a current war no less.
I can’t help but marvel at how effortless he makes his accomplishments seem, and how he seems to preserve his own personality throughout all these decades of being such a Hollywood giant.
Eastwood is....his own man.
Clint Eastwood is THE BEST moviemaker in Hollyweird.
Liberals are outraged. It's Martin Luther King Jr. weekend for crying out loud and a film about a sniper is breaking records while a film about MLK himself is in a box-office death spiral.
And those who go to see “Selma” are largely paid to go:
“WASHINGTON — I WENT Friday morning to see “Selma” and found myself watching it in a theater full of black teenagers.
Thanks to donations, D.C. public school kids got free tickets to the first Hollywood movie about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on his birthday weekend — an effort that was duplicated for students around the country.”
Maureen Dowd
How long until “Selma” is deemed Mandatory by school districts?
Old lady here.
He’ll always be that gorgeous Rowdy Yates to me. :-)
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and Louise
I wish I could get paid to go to the movies. The last movie I saw downtown was “300: Rise Of An Empire.” One of my professors at school at that time insisted that we go see the movie and show him the movie ticket for extra credit, just so that we could understand his lecture about the “wooden wall at Salamis” that united the Greek Empire.
Cost me sixteen bucks, because I dragged my husband along. And another ten bucks for sweet munchies.
If you’re a born warrior, then you will get it. If you just wanna pass the class and make some money in the Real World, then it’s just useless Strategy & Tactics.
Entertaining flick though, with the silliest sex scene I’ve ever seen in a movie. The Greek general is trying his best to rape the Persian Warrior queen, and she’s trying her best to kill him. While her armed guards are standing outside her chambers listening to the screams and crashings and wondering WTF. That was the funniest scene in the movie.
Is it true what the conspiracy theorists say, that Chris Kyle was assassinated by Obama’s CIA? Just wonderin’.
“Is it true what the conspiracy theorists say, that Chris Kyle was assassinated by Obama’s CIA? Just wonderin’.”
He certainly had the potential to be a “John Conner” during a revolution.
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