Controversy Surronds American Sniper, Iraqui Movie Goers Response

[Grimbold21]

Honestly i found the movie a bit boring.

[HAcoreRD]

I heard it was pretty anti war and said a lot about how pointless it was to be in the war

if thats true

why do so many people think its pro war propaganda?

the movie showed the horrors of war through PTS, and the heroes' nationalistic views destroying his personal life.

[Deleted]

His own words show he didn't think anyone at the end of the barrel was innocent. He'd rationalize it otherwise.

So this somehow means he killed innocent civilians? Keep making shit up, buddy.

[namelessone]

When I first saw trailer of that movie, I thought of that video of Stephen Colbert fist-bumping eagle. And "America, fuck yeah!" of course. My actual question is: I'm not american. Should I even bother?

[rhackin]

You're kidding right? The dude never had pause about killing people, in fact he derived pleasure from it. He described it as "fun" and "the time of [his] life" in his book and even lied about killing more people (post Katrina).

His job was to kill war enemies. Of course he liked it. That doesn't mean he was psychotic or a danger to innocent people. He was killing people that he observed torturing and murdering their own innocent countrymen. I'd enjoy removing savages from the planet too.

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Saving those men and killing dozens of innocent civilians. But that's alright their lives clearly don't matter as much, it's not like they are also humans or anything.

They're savages. They, and the government they were supporting were guilty of crimes against humanity. And their leader was convicted and sentenced as such by the Iraqi people on December 30th, 2006. Enemy combatants are not innocent civilians, and you have zero evidence that Chris Kyle ever killed an innocent civilian.

[Crissi]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politi...per/ar-AA8NrtG

fucking hell... I hate Greg Abbot and all the idiots that are glorifying him.

[Gsara]

I thought the movie was ok although it was full of sensationalism as expected from a Clint Eastwood movie. Reading the book gives you a different feel about Chris Kyle. He was the stereotypical Texas redneck, nothing more nothing less, and just happened to be very very good at shooting long ranges. It also takes a lot of mental and physical fortitude to be a navy seal which says a lot about someone that can make the program.

[Independent voter]

Chris Kyle was more the working man type, don't think he graduated from college. With that in mind he probably was a bit racist, like a lot of working class people everywhere.

[NYC17]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politi...per/ar-AA8NrtG

fucking hell... I hate Greg Abbot and all the idiots that are glorifying him.

Yea my brother lives in TX and can't stand the dude. There seems to be something seriously wrong with Abbot's thought process in general.

[Deleted]

His job was to kill war enemies. Of course he liked it. That doesn't mean he was psychotic or a danger to innocent people. He was killing people that he observed torturing and murdering their own innocent countrymen. I'd enjoy removing savages from the planet too.

Killing people, no matter how evil they are, should never be fun, it only shows lack of empathy. People who find killing fun, in my opinion, should never be allowed to own a gun or join military.

[Orbitus]

Pretty kooky statement, there. Sounds like the shit liberals talk about there being no real left wing in this country which is objectively false.

edit: Also doesn't refute or challenge a thing I said.

edit: I also get the feeling you're saying I'm liberal. I mean, what

Unless you are making up your own version of the "left wing", there really isn't a left wing with any kind of political power in this country. Kinda like how people claim that Democrats are socialists but evidence proves them wrong. Much like there isn't real "Libertarians" in power either.

[Captain N]

Chris Kyle was more the working man type, don't think he graduated from college. With that in mind he probably was a bit racist, like a lot of working class people everywhere.

Painting with an awfully broad brush there aren't ya?

Unless you are making up your own version of the "left wing", there really isn't a left wing with any kind of political power in this country. Kinda like how people claim that Democrats are socialists but evidence proves them wrong. Much like there isn't real "Libertarians" in power either.

Dammit do we have to bring out the Graph on political alignments again?

[Orbitus]

Painting with an awfully broad brush there aren't ya?



Dammit do we have to bring out the Graph on political alignments again?

Yes, every time someone makes up their own definition of parties we do.

[Captain N]

Yes, every time someone makes up their own definition of parties we do.

Wonder if we can get a mod to sticky it with a Note: Before making any references to Left/Right political alignments please view this and see where our current politicians lie.

[Gumboy]

There's a reason why he lost the lawsuit Ventura brought against him. He lied about that incident, and there is no evidence whatsoever to back up his claims regarding the people he killed in Louisiana or Texas. Never mind the lie about how much of the proceeds from the book/movie that is donated to support vets.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...lgado/page/0/2

I agree with Ventura fully on this matter, about the war and about Chris Kyle; I don't really think he was the worst person on the planet or anything, or even in the millitary. I realize I can never say that in some places in the country without getting my ass kicked, but opinions are opinions.

[Polyxo]

This is just an aside, but you can be reasonably certain that Kyle killed civilians, and meant to. He said he shot any male he saw.

[Orbitus]

Wonder if we can get a mod to sticky it with a Note: Before making any references to Left/Right political alignments please view this and see where our current politicians lie.

We could ask but you have people like Vyxn, Hooked, and The Penguin to name a few that casually ignore the evidence in front of their face and call everyone left of the Republicans FAR LEFT.

[Kurioxan]

When I first saw trailer of that movie, I thought of that video of Stephen Colbert fist-bumping eagle. And "America, fuck yeah!" of course. My actual question is: I'm not american. Should I even bother?

I enjoyed the movie, it describes a reality, to be offended by a movie based on what is the truth to a lot of people seems idiotic, if anything is wrong with it (didnt see anything wrong tbh) its with the real events, not with their depiction.
Its not a great movie by itself, theme isnt very interesting to me but it was worth watching, if you find yourself with nothing to do, give it a try, why not.

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Lessons to be learned from the movie:

Only a fool will take a movie as absolute truth and accept all its implications, while ignoring its based of someones perception of something and not "reality".

[Realsykes]

Lessons to be learned from the movie:

The complete and utter irony that you out of all people would post that.