Movie was really good despite being what could be considered the biggest movie fuck-up in 2014 in the fake baby. I find it interesting to see all the debate sparked about it, one of the interesting things I found about the movie is that it showcased soldiers who, while still doing their jobs, questioned the war in Iraq which is a bit comforting to see because the Iraq War was very black and white during this time to so many. It's our modern day Vietnam and Chris Kyle has certainly become the poster boy of that in so many ways. I wish the movie pressed on the issue of Kyle bringing someone suffering from PTSD to a gun range being his downfall because it's an important lesson to learn from.

As for the movie, it was really good, despite several flaws. I'm a little surprised to see it so well, not because of the subject matter, but because films don't typically do that great this time of the year. It's a pretty rare thing, but I think the combination of being an Oscar nominated film and having big names like Bradley Cooper and Clint Eastwood helped it along.

Actually most of his movies have been pretty profitable.  Plus he has a long relationship with Warner Brothers that goes back to the first Dirty Harry movie almost 45 years ago.  At this point the only thing that can stop that is him finally retiring for good or dying.  I can't think of another actor/director that I would mostly associate with mainly one studio as Clint Eastwood and Warner Brothers.  Which is pretty amazing since he started acting after studios had the power to have exclusive rights to one actor.

Not my type of movie personally, but will probably watch it when it lands on Netflix. Eastwood movies are hit/miss.

At best, his movies barely break even, judging by their budget and gross.

Yeah, American Sniper.... I saw it yesterday, in the end, i bought Sniper Elite 3.

No pretty much all his movies have been profitable at the box office.  The only one that bombed hard was Bird but it was still a pretty good movie.  Jersey Boys also bombed but not as bad as Bird despite being his worst movie he ever directed pretty much all critics hated it.

Im still neutral of this movie so yeah...

I'm thinking the final domestic box office total will be just a bit more then 300 million dollars which will make it the second highest grossing R rated movie domestically behind The Passion of the Christ.

its going to fly past that, it will probably land near 400 when its all said and done

Nope its legs aren't that good compare it to Mockinjay part one and its already way behind and that is only comparing the days both films where in full release.  After 15 days of it full release Mockinjay made $242 million and American Sniper is only at $223 million.  World wide it will easily make over $400 million dollars but not that much more since its not nearly as popular overseas as it is domestically since it really doesn't have world wide appeal.  As far as war movies go pretty much only WWII movies have world wide appeal and can easily make more money overseas then domestically.