American Sniper
U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle takes his sole mission—protect his comrades—to heart and becomes one of the most lethal snipers in American history. His pinpoint accuracy not only saves countless lives but also makes him a prime target of insurgents. Despite grave danger and his struggle to be a good husband and father to his family back in the States, Kyle serves four tours of duty in Iraq. However, when he finally… From TMDB
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60 of 139 · most liked firstI've seen some takes that are like "the right is unable to produce important cultural works" and I don't think that's really true — they have like one mega-hit movie ever decade, and these works THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST and AMERICAN SNIPER are both really important to understanding today's right
unlabelledView post →More recently, AMERICAN SNIPER was nomianted for Best Picture and was a huge hit, even though it's more or less identical to the nazi propaganda movie from INGLORIOUS BASTERDS with the flags changed around
unlabelledView post →My feeling about Eastwood is I like him in like exactly inverse proportion with how political his work is. AMERICAN SNIPER is maybe the worst movie he ever did bsky.app/profile/prin...
unlabelledView post →I'd wager the most common responses to "Name a movie about the GWOT" would be 'American Sniper', 'Lone Survivor', and 'Zero Dark Thirty'. This will not be useful to the American memory of these wars, not to plans and policy for the next low intensity conflict in which we find ourselves.
unlabelledView post →Now even that caricture is foreign to the modern war hero movie. It feels downright documentarian compared to something like American Sniper. Also the fetishization of the kill has metastasized alongside this whole thing.
unlabelledView post →1) the outlaw josey wales was written by a neo-confederate, fun fact. 2) if you watch the actual movie AMERICAN SNIPER and take it on its own term then you’ll find that it isn’t an exercise in jingoism
unlabelledView post →Anyway it’s cool that we’re just redoing the American Sniper news cycle, where they make a movie that’s a hagiography of a notorious liar and people post photos of your house if you don’t like it
unlabelledView post →Military and cop propaganda is a huge part of the US entertainment industry. I don’t think enough Americans get how horrific it seems to non-USians: the shooting/crying. Any industry that produced that monstrous film American Sniper will happily produce something that empathizes with ICE agents
unlabelledView post →I mean, we know that Sniper guy was a lying asshole who might have also been a murder andnthe movie was all about how good and noble he was and how sad the Iraq war made him so yeah, they're Bradley Cooper As American Sniper in their minds.
unlabelledView post →The irony is, that infantry movie could only get made because it’s about SEALs. Hat off to the former SEALs who made it happen. We have two feature movies about SEALs in Ramadi in 2006 now, “Warfare” and “American Sniper.” “Warfare” is the anti-“American Sniper.”
unlabelledView post →Clint Eastwood's AMERICAN SNIPER. Distasteful subject in whitewashing its "hero" into someone deserving of empathy. But as Oscar completist, it's on my list...being the only film in history with major nominations that I have not watched. #filmsky 📽
unlabelledView post →American Sniper is a shit movie. It's full of lies & half truths that tells a largely uncritical & one sided story about the Iraq war, wrapped around a pretense of honoring veterans and soaked in toxic masculinity. Which is why I skipped it 10 years ago.
unlabelledView post →Only one on one I’ve had in person with Biden was also when he was Vp. It was while we were both pissing and urinals that were next to each other. He was taking a bathroom break from seeing American Sniper and we walked briefly about veterans and how much he liked the “intense” movie
unlabelledView post →Terrible news that we'll have to endure some American Sniper style propaganda movie about this man's escape within the next few years
unlabelledView post →Man, furry Chris Kyle reminded me of how much I fucking hate American Sniper. What a stupid, vapid propaganda film. Just like “let’s celebrate this guy for killing lots of people and go out of our way to NOT talk about the war. Also, isn’t PTSD bad or whatever? Again, not talking about the war!”
unlabelledView post →American Sniper is a film about the joys of homeownership
unlabelledView post →The only lasting impression this movie has had for me is when playing games with friends including sniper rifles, we make jokes about being CHRIS KYLE, AMERICAN SNIPER until one of us shoots the other, making it lore accurate.
unlabelledView post →Man, American Sniper was wild. Like, Clint Eastwood really just unironically made that movie from the climax of Inglorious Bastards, didn’t he?
unlabelledView post →American Sniper It's more than just a war movie. It does a great job showing the weight of service, the sacrifices made on & off the battlefield, and the lasting impact combat can have on a soldier and their family. One that stays with you long after the credits roll. 🇺🇸🎬 youtu.be/99k3u9ay1gs?...
unlabelledView post →I’m sure it says something that the only two war films are American Sniper, which was a bad movie and bullshit; and The Hurt Locker, which was a good movie, but completely unrealistic.
unlabelledView post →It’s Friday so time for my #LastFourWatched. Hannibal - 3 and a half stars American Sniper - 3 and a half stars Prom Dates - 3 and a half stars Beetlejuice Beetlejuice - 4 and a half stars My Letterboxd profile: boxd.it/609Jz #LetterboxdFriday #FilmSky
unlabelledView post →ever think about Chris Kyle & the huge success of 'American Sniper'(the book & the film) and just get instantly mad? cuz i do
unlabelledView post →Being 19-21 was such odd years for me. There was this one Mormon guy I realllly wanted to fuck so I tried to be friends with him and we even shared an apartment. But then we watched American Sniper and that movie like broke the horny brainwashing lmaooo.
unlabelledView post →I was in Iraq, spent two years there at the height of the war, and Hurt Locker may be a good movie as a film, but as an even remotely realistic portrayal of serving in Iraq, it was stupid as fucking shit. But is was only the second stupidest Iraq war movie, obviously American Sniper is # 1.
unlabelledView post →Sorry @huwroscience.bsky.social it’s not American Sniper, the film that does the exact same thing but with a massive RKG-3 anti-tank grenade launcher a good foot larger than the child youtu.be/JHMYQIAlntI?...
unlabelledView post →Bring back the executive producer of such hits as “The Lego Movie,” “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “American Sniper,” and “Wonder Woman” to save the US film industry Mr. Trump
unlabelledView post →It kind of reminds me when people wouldn't shut up about American Sniper, a film so bad that I found myself doing MST3K riffs during my *first* watch-through.
unlabelledView post →Absolutely. What all the people freaking out about "American Sniper" missed is that it's that singular beast, a conservative anti-war movie.
unlabelledView post →laura. there are methods you can use to avoid breaking under torture. think back to the breathing technique you may remember, used in the famous movie "American Sniper"
unlabelledView post →Thread about the film ‘American Sniper’
unlabelledView post →(They’re also showing American Sniper on Saturday but fuck that movie)
unlabelledView post →Hands down as a shit film it was Independence day. Although watching American Sniper in a room full of Americans whooping and hollering every time someone got shot was the shittiest experience.
unlabelledView post →I know no one should take these films at face value... but a lot of people do. Like the movie American Sniper was pretty much historical fiction, but I remember conservatives taking everything in that film at face value.
unlabelledView post →The complete failure of the film American Sniper to interact with Chris Kyle being a profligate liar is such a missed opportunity. That movie should have been almost Naked Lunch-esque for how unreliable the protagonist's narrative was.
unlabelledView post →back with another Late Eastwood review of American Sniper, a good movie with great elements held back by a narrow view of humanity
unlabelledView post →I don't know why we do prompts like this just to fight amongst ourselves, when you talk to non-movie people they're all "The best movie I've seen is American Sniper" or some crap
unlabelledView post →It’s not always the case but like Top Gun: Maverick? Action movie 1917? War movie Dunkirk? War movie Hacksaw Ridge? War movie Mad Max: Fury Road? Action movie American Sniper? War movie
unlabelledView post →And praise it, given that the “American Sniper” guy claimed to have shot 30 “looters” in New Orleans and that didn’t stop the movie or any of the other celebration of him from happening. He apparently made it up but that’s…also obviously bad… en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_K...
unlabelledView post →Paul Verhoeven directing American Sniper (or basically any Client Eastman directed film)
unlabelledView post →@davidjroth.bsky.social Finally, a movie more ontologically evil than American Sniper
unlabelledView post →Black Hawk Down, American Sniper, Lone Survivor, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, and the Postal Movie.
unlabelledView post →American Made (2017) American Movie (1999) American Psycho (2000) American Sniper (2014) American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally (2021) American Ultra (2015) An American Werewolf in London (1981) Amistad (1997) The Amityville Horror (1979) Amsterdam (2022)
unlabelledView post →I threw on American Sniper just to see if it's as bad as I remember, and it starts off with ominous chants of Allahu Akbar. lol This movie is a real symptom of American sickness. In what world is Chris Kyle a hero?
unlabelledView post →Imperial movie that's an American Sniper style shooting and crying flick specifically from the perspective of handlers who feel kinda bad about it
unlabelledView post →To be fair Fujimoto misunderstands every western movie he talks about. American Sniper makes sense since it's rooted in 9/11 and gwot climate that he couldn't have experienced, but even if you don't know raymond chandler lebowski should be pretty self explanatory.
unlabelledView post →Watched this movie the other day and I realized its effect on the Chuds we have today. American Sniper or American Propaganda? youtu.be/pQjj21uCJ-Q
unlabelledView post →At least it's not as bad as American Sniper, which is just a sincere version of the Nazi sniper movie-within-a-movie from Inglorious Basterds
unlabelledView post →And AMERICAN SNIPER also in 2014 - although it's based on a memoir, it's hard to see it as an IP movie
unlabelledView post →Though this also reminds me of the time I went to see American Sniper, a movie I had been told was actually nuanced and interesting by IRL people whose opinions I previously trusted, and saw the main character unironically refer to the dozens of people he killed as savages.
unlabelledView post →My letterboxd #LastFourWatched 15:17 was such a fascinating movie. Spencer Stone's normal military guy story was a great counterpoint to the American Sniper story. I loved all the mundane stuff leading up to an out of the blue incident and an act of heroism that was as much dumb luck as heroic
unlabelledView post →Fair enough. Which was actually directed by a professed liberal (Don Siegel). It's a more complex film that they can grasp. Even more so, American Sniper, a profoundly anti-war film.
unlabelledView post →Inglorious Basterds came out in 2009. That movie featured a fake movie about a Nazi sniper war hero. American Sniper came out in 2014. 🤷🏻♂️
unlabelledView post →i dont really begrudge anyone from feeling that way about a movie because of its bad or missing-the-point politics (i certainly feel that way about e.g. AMERICAN SNIPER) but don't really that way myself about HURT LOCKER or the imo unfairly maligned ZERO DARK THIRTY
unlabelledView post →It's funny, all of them love the AMERICAN SNIPER movie, I'm sure less so when one turns their head into a fine mist of cranapple cocktail from half a mile away.
unlabelledView post →He’s enough of an artist to have made conservatives mad because they were confused by the ambiguity in Million Dollar Baby as a statement in support of assisted suicide. If American Sniper wasn’t based on a real guy it would be more readily seen as an anti-war film etc
unlabelledView post →Oh I see what you mean, but it’s still rare for film to make Muslims not look like they’re asking for it. American Sniper has this element inserted more strongly than even in the pro Iraq War book
unlabelledView post →People love applying the joke about "Americans bomb countries before treating themselves like the victim in a film" to Vietnam but that doesn't fit at all. Most Vietnam films are heavily critical. It was the War On Terror that gave us stuff like Zero Dark Thirty & American Sniper
unlabelledView post →She was great as Chris Kyle's wife in American Sniper. Now there's a movie we should do. #hatm
unlabelledView post →I hadn't considered that distinction before posting. I am interested mainly in the vast discrepancy in reactions to a movie like, say, Starship Troopers, Taxi Driver, or American Sniper.
unlabelledView post →I think it's because that demographic really liked the movie American Sniper
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