American Sniper
Jan. 20th, 2015 09:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chris_gerribLast night, I went to see the new movie American Sniper. The theater on a Monday night at the 6:30 show was packed. Overall, I found the movie unflinching. Chris Kyle, the subject of the movie, was the deadliest US sniper ever at 165 confirmed kills. The snipers with higher kills were all on the Eastern Front in WWII.
The movie is very apolitical, which seems to match Kyle's leanings. It does a good job of showing Kyle's PTSD and the general cost of war. None of the soldiers are portrayed as superheros, and occasionally some of them express doubts about the mission. Overall, it's a very good movie, and is a nice factual entry in Jim Fallow's debate about the US military.
I'm told Michael Moore shot his mouth off about the movie. Not only do I not agree with him, I really wish he'd STFU. (Mom - that's Internet slang - Google it.) Moore seems to suffer from the same foot-in-mouth disease as some of the Hugo Sad Puppies, to wit saying something in a manner almost calculated not to advance the stated cause.
Rotary today, and Board of Directors week at work, so back to the salt mines I go.
The movie is very apolitical, which seems to match Kyle's leanings. It does a good job of showing Kyle's PTSD and the general cost of war. None of the soldiers are portrayed as superheros, and occasionally some of them express doubts about the mission. Overall, it's a very good movie, and is a nice factual entry in Jim Fallow's debate about the US military.
I'm told Michael Moore shot his mouth off about the movie. Not only do I not agree with him, I really wish he'd STFU. (Mom - that's Internet slang - Google it.) Moore seems to suffer from the same foot-in-mouth disease as some of the Hugo Sad Puppies, to wit saying something in a manner almost calculated not to advance the stated cause.
Rotary today, and Board of Directors week at work, so back to the salt mines I go.
