Posted on 01/16/2015 3:04:02 PM PST by Kaslin
Not much spatter.
I didn’t realize that Timothy Mcveigh worked for the US government.
Wow what a privilege to have known him. We just returned from a matinee and the time just flew by. There wasn’t a sound in the theatre when the movie ended. Very well made and Bradley Cooper was terrific. Makes you realize what a special breed these American heroes are.
Good movie overall. The parts showing his time in Iraq were fascinating, though I question the reality of the way some things were depicted (talking to his wife on sat phone while on a mission, as an example). Also his wife was portrayed as a nearly insufferable narcissist, but I suspect that was the usual Hollywood need to present the hero in a challenging relationship in order to gin up drama for the lady viewers and justify the inclusion of a female character.
“hold on a second baby, we can’t have phone sex I have one finger on the trigger and another on my gun, but Command is calling on the other line”
Back in a tick...
The wife made me insane.
Who’s on the phone?
“Ummm it’s Jake from Gieco”....
State Farm
Not sure what the point of your comment is... Doubt that you are either.
You’re annoying in the extreme. I guess you would call that success here.
Yes they are heros and what sacrifices the people that love them make when they are gone as well as when they return home.
Sorry, I thought that was Mcgowan again. You’re fine.
I doubt it will win many awards. They’ll make a movie like this because it’s Eastwood and he puts “butts in the seat”. But I don’t see Hollywood honoring it. I hope I’m wrong. I’ll gag if BOYHOOD wins.
I agree —that short part was totally ridiculous.
I spent much time wondering where and how they filmed some sequences. Certainly looked like Iraq cities and U.S. military bases.
A sequence showing the sniper talking with his wife by cell phone during combat did not seem realistic, but maybe things have changed. My war was long ago.
There was also what I consider excessive profanity, but maybe that is what is expected from Hollywood today.
Don’t want to pan it to hard.
It largely focused on how deployment effects familys.
Still, the wife irritated the crap out of me.
For you torrent buffs, there are DVD Screeners of it out there already...
“Just quit and take me dancing....”
I have always thought it strange that Hollywood puts too much muzzle flash in films with modern weapons, yet not enough in films portraying say, the Civil War or the Old West. Having owned and fired dozens of different types of pre-1898 guns using black powder, I have noted that they give off huge muzzle flashes and tons of smoke, yet that is rarely seen in period films.
Lone Survivor was good.
To slow for most
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