American Sniper

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Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

Is there no possibility that there's some ironic angle or something on this movie? Hard to believe that the guy who made Letters from Iwo Jima, a movie humanizing enemy combatants, would make a straight jingoistic war propaganda movie.

edit: I mean, seriously, LFIJ was more sympathetic to the Japanese soldiers than any American WW2 movie I can recall.

Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 19:41 on Jan 20, 2015

# ¿ Jan 20, 2015 19:32

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Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

Slugworth posted:

The movie fails because it doesn't show him shooting looters from the roof of the astrodome, doesn't show him beating up Jesse Ventura, and doesn't show him killing two carjackers and then having the responding officers call the Pentagon on a secret phone number to explain that everything is cool.

mugrim posted:

He never beat Ventura up. He pretty much made it up whole clothe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xECUrlnXCqk

# ¿ Jan 21, 2015 00:20

Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

Hurt Locker goes into the category of films that say "look what war does to our soldiers" which is fine as far as anti-war films go, but I prefer the films that say "look what war does to everyone"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJNNzbWM4F8

# ¿ Feb 27, 2015 01:42

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