[PapaNew]

Anybody seen it and like it/not like it and why?

[dware]

AMAZING movie...God bless the Kyle family - Cooper is Best Actor, hands down, and Eastwood did a fine job. I’ll be seeing this one several more times.

[Man from Oz]

The Mrs and I went last night. The movie is pretty true to his book. The theatre was packed with young soldiers (we live @ 10 miles from Ft. Riley). You could have heard a pin drop as folks were leaving. We liked it very much.

MFO

[mylife]

It’s OK
I did not like the phone calls from wifey during the fire fights.
Found it hugely irritating and unrealistic from an OPSEC position.

[max americana]

Excellent. Cooper says the right things off camera that this is not a political movie and he nails the role. Like cmon, it’s Eastwood and not a tin-foil Oliver Stone movie, what else do you want?

[jyro]

I viewed it with a academy award voter and producer. All there liked it.

[Buffalo Head]

I saw the movie last evening, enjoyed it and recommend it. For the most part it was technically excellent, except for the Hollywood excessive muzzle flashes from our weapons.

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.