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Wright said:
Zackasaurus-rex said:
This is both disgusting and sad.

If you want to learn a little bit about this hateful, lying propaganda, start here:

http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/american-sniper-is-dangerous-propaganda-that-sanitizes-a-mass-killer-and-rewrites-the-iraq-war/


Do you realize this movie is based on a novel, right?

 

There's no point in calling the movie lying propaganda. It should be redirected to the original material.

So how about a novel of my kampf, would that be propaganda free?



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Ruler said:
Wright said:


Do you realize this movie is based on a novel, right?

 

There's no point in calling the movie lying propaganda. It should be redirected to the original material.

So how about a novel of my kampf, would that be propaganda free?

 

Well, if someone makes a movie about Mein Kampf, you can't really blame the movie for how its content is displayed to the general public, can you?



Wright said:

Unless you're being sarcastic in a very subtle, clever way, I do agree with you. In fact, I also consider Unforgiven the best western ever. Million Dollar Baby left me devastated when I watched it as a kid. And Gran Torino is just awesome.

 

I've yet to see Letters from Iwo Jima (and Flags of our Fathers) to see if they dethrone Saving Private Ryan of my favourite war-related movie.

Definitely not being sarcastic!

War movies aren't really my thing, andI've never really seen Saving Private Ryan except for bits and pieces. But Letters and Flags are both great, especially Clint's treatment of Ira Hayes in the latter.



Zackasaurus-rex said:
This is both disgusting and sad.

If you want to learn a little bit about this hateful, lying propaganda, start here:

http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/american-sniper-is-dangerous-propaganda-that-sanitizes-a-mass-killer-and-rewrites-the-iraq-war/

Lol, I'm just loving how this movie is driving the left out of their minds.  Spreading FUD about a movie that I know most of them didn't even watch.



badgenome said:

Definitely not being sarcastic!

War movies aren't really my thing, andI've never really seen Saving Private Ryan except for bits and pieces. But Letters and Flags are both great, especially Clint's treatment of Ira Hayes in the latter.


Also, The Bridges of Madison County is one of the greatest romance movies I've seen (and I don't really like the genre much) on the sense that it's never boring or unrealistic at all.

 

I don't know if you have, but you should definitively watch Mystic River.



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roborad said:
for an r-rated flick, that's pretty impressive.
I just think it's sad that I saw a whole crew of kids in the front row at my theater...with their parents at their side!
I was like....wtf, seriously?


There was one particular scene that was definitely NOT for kids, and I too was concerned at the children in the theater,

I am referring to when the kid got his skull drilled in by the terrorist.

Parents are way too relaxed and uncaring what content their kids absorb. It won't make them violent per se, but they end up growing up too fast and it messes with brain development. I get not every kid is the same, but I still turn my head everytime I see a kid in an R rated flick. I saw a kid in Gone Girl! The least child-friendly movie I saw in a long time.



RCTjunkie said:


There was one particular scene that was definitely NOT for kids, and I too was concerned at the children in the theater,

I am referring to when the kid got his skull drilled in by the terrorist.

Parents are way too relaxed and uncaring what content their kids absorb. It won't make them violent per se, but they end up growing up too fast and it messes with brain development. I get not every kid is the same, but I still turn my head everytime I see a kid in an R rated flick. I saw a kid in Gone Girl! The least child-friendly movie I saw in a long time.


Gone Girl is the perfect movie to teach children why women are dangerous.



Wright said:


Also, The Bridges of Madison County is one of the greatest romance movies I've seen (and I don't really like the genre much) on the sense that it's never boring or unrealistic at all.

 

I don't know if you have, but you should definitively watch Mystic River.

Bridges of Madison County? AHAHAHAHA!!! You girl!

I've been meaning to watch Mystic River for years now. They just put it up on Netflix a week or two ago, so I will get on that shortly. Do I need to watch Mystic Pizza first?



thismeintiel said:
Zackasaurus-rex said:
This is both disgusting and sad.

If you want to learn a little bit about this hateful, lying propaganda, start here:

http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/american-sniper-is-dangerous-propaganda-that-sanitizes-a-mass-killer-and-rewrites-the-iraq-war/

Lol, I'm just loving how this movie is driving the left out of their minds.  Spreading FUD about a movie that I know most of them didn't even watch.

Folks would call this guy a coward if he had fought for the other side, at any rate.

The problem is that first of all, the real Chris Kyle was more than a bit of a douchebag in his conduct, and secondly that folks are taking the movie as an "America fuck yeah" statement and ignoring the very real costs that this somewhat fictionalized version of Kyle undertake. We're meant to question why we have to put our armed personnel through these horrific experiences, not to simply be presented with their actions and cheer for them.



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