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American Sniper: best war movie of all time? I think so.....
self | jan 18 2015 | beebuster2000

Posted on 01/18/2015 10:37:10 AM PST by beebuster2000

and i don't say that lightly. Patton, Gettysburgh, Das Boot, Run Silent Run Deep, Fury, and on and on.

But Sniper is absolutely riveting in its portrayal of combat and the people in combat, i can't say more, except that when the movie ended in a packed theatre, a few people, me included, were drying eyes, but the theatre was absolutely silent and stayed that way. no one moved for a while then the whole theatre silently filed out.


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: americansniper; bradleycooper; clinteastwood; eastwood; moviereview; movies; sniper; warnerbros
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To: Hot Tabasco

Well for one thing “the top” was not quite what it has become, and the gentleman hadn’t written his book and gotten famous. At the time he was just another recently-discharged veteran.

It’d be like trying to blame the Cubans or the Mafia if JFK had been shot in Boston in 1946.


61 posted on 01/18/2015 3:37:57 PM PST by ExGeeEye (The enemy's gate is down....and to the left.)
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To: ExGeeEye
Well for one thing “the top” was not quite what it has become,

Lets cut to the chase, there ain't no "top" that authorized the killing of Kyle nor was there any "top" that ordered the scrubbing of Kyle's alleged killing of two thugs back in 2009........

I'm not surprised that the two individuals I posted those claims to have quietly ignored them..........

62 posted on 01/18/2015 3:55:31 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (I'm a man of no-color and proud of it.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

I’m sure you’re right.


63 posted on 01/18/2015 4:50:23 PM PST by ExGeeEye (The enemy's gate is down....and to the left.)
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To: beebuster2000
he theatre was absolutely silent and stayed that way. no one moved for a while then the whole theatre silently filed out.

I'm not trying to make a comparison between the two movies, especially since I haven't yet seen SNIPER, but I observed (and felt) the same reaction at the end of the original version of RED DAWN. My daughter and I walked over a mile home without saying a word, we found the movie so emotional. There are some movies that do that to you.

I'm looking forward to seeing SNIPER.

64 posted on 01/18/2015 5:49:47 PM PST by JoeFromSidney (Book RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY, available from Amazon.)
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To: ifinnegan

We are all Americans,this man gave all he had to give,don’t be ashamed,be Proud


65 posted on 01/18/2015 7:44:04 PM PST by ballplayer
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To: JoeFromSidney

Another movie that caused that dead-silent reaction was 2016: Obama’s America. I saw it in the theater and everyone who left the theater was stunned. De’Souza had connected the dots for us and we couldn’t believe what “we” had done to our country.


66 posted on 01/18/2015 7:49:21 PM PST by rabidralph
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To: Hot Tabasco

Or when he claimed he and another person, sent by the govt, shot looters in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina?


67 posted on 01/18/2015 8:21:59 PM PST by coop71
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To: beebuster2000

My standard is “Twelve O’Clock High”.


68 posted on 01/18/2015 8:30:15 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg (You're either in or in the way.)
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To: Colonel_Flagg

The BEST??? Clint COOL-AID!!!


69 posted on 01/19/2015 5:14:32 AM PST by mason-dixon (As Mason said to Dixon, you have to draw the line somewhere.)
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