I just happened to catch Shooter on DVD today. I remember it occurring to me that this is the insane mental image that the Left has of us. It's all complete BS, but that's what they believe.
So ridiculous in the propaganda department was Shooter that one of the few good guys in the FBI wore a Che Guevara T-shirt when he was off duty.
Ned Beatty's character differs from Che chiefly in the fact that Che was a real murdering thug.
I had to wear hip waders to get through the insane lefty propaganda- but I enjoyed the movie all the same. I enjoyed it mainly because they got the firearms stuff mostly right, for a change, and portrayed a Marine in a positive light.
I watched Shooter the other day, too. I give it a B+ for technical accuracy (although why does Hollywood insist that the view through binoculars is a figure-eight on its side?), D- for plausibility, and A for entertainment value. The movie had a lot of product placement for Remington, Leupold, and Barrett.
Since when does two dozen of the world's best mercenaries, with air support, get their collective asses kicked by one Marine and a Junior G-Man? And with privately-owned guns, too.